Day 4 round-up
What do you do when your twin sister runs a PR? Monday morning, within the 400h semi-final, Lina Nielsen ran 54.43 for second place to qualify for the ultimate, saying, “I can lastly eliminate that 54.7.” A couple of hours later, Laviai lined up within the 400 flat ultimate and ran her personal PR of fifty.71. She was sixth however solely 5/one thousandth of a second from fifth. It was Laviai’s second PR of the championship.
Speaking of 400m PRs, Charlie Dobson took silver within the males’s 400 along with his personal PR of 44.38. It was a outstanding achievement by an inexperienced athlete with big potential, Dobson stated “I’ve big respect for Alexander (Doom) and it’s implausible to race him. That is the eighth particular person 400m of my profession, and most of them I’ve completed have been uncontested, so it was nice to have somebody to drag me round. It paid off, I bought a tenth off my greatest and a silver medal”.
The one factor that spoilt it was found afterward that the Belgian athlete calls himself “Dome,” not “Doom,” nevertheless it gained’t cease the headlines about his brilliance resulting in Dobson’s doom!
Within the ladies’s 400, Natalia Kaczmarek wanted a Polish document of 48.98 to edge Eire’s Rhasidat Adeleke (49.07) for gold. The earlier Polish document had been set by breaking Irina Szewinska in 1976.
France’s Alexis Miellet was a shock winner of the boys’s 3000m steeplechase in 8:14, explaining: “I used to be a 1500m runner for 11 years, and after being disqualified final 12 months, my dad and my coach prompt to me to modify to the steeple. So, I’ve been coaching for steeple races since September. We do a technical session as soon as per week. 5 weeks in the past, I did my very first steeple race, and I’ve run solely 5 steeple races within the final 5 weeks earlier than coming right here. It’s unbelievable to get a gold medal on the European championships right here. I’d not have believed you in case you had advised me a 12 months in the past about this gold medal”.
Italy’s outstanding championship continued within the ladies’s hammer, the place Italy’s Sara Fantini threw 74.18m to take gold forward of Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk (72.92m). Fantini commented: “I dreamt of this success, however I didn’t anticipate it to return this season: previously months, there have been so many difficulties. Behind this medal is a number of work and coaching, even on a psychological stage. This 12 months, I began a journey with a psychologist that allowed me to discover a new stability with myself and a brand new tranquillity with my coach. I imagine realizing what I’ve completed will take a while”.
Switzerland took two of the three medals within the 200m, with Timothe Mumenthaler successful in 20.28.
Italy tops the medal desk with 17 (8 gold), with Britain and France every on 9.