Vitezlav Vesely, photo by PhotoRun.net

For Vitezlav, this Euro gold in the javelin was for him, and his coach, WR and javelin god, Jan Zelezny. Zelezny, who some may remember, was given a try out for the Atlanta Braves after the 1996 Summer Olympics, never won a gold at the Europeans in the javelin. I can still close my eyes and see Zelezny throw the javelin. Sublime…..

HELSINKI SECOND SESSION – THURSDAY

QUOTE
OF THE SESSION

â€žI would
give the gold medal to my coach, but I know he would not want it,” javelin
winner Vitezslav Vesely about his coach legendary Jan Zelezny, who never won
European gold.

RESULT
OF THE SESSION

Pascal
Behrenbruch third European lead of the Championships and PB 8558. Best German
winning score, first German winning since 1971, second best mark in the World
2012.

SURPRISE
OF THE SESSION

Russian
Golovkina winning the 5000 m when Moreira did not expect her. Improving from
11th in Barcelona.

FAVORITE
FALLS

Long
jump title defender Radevica 6th, Javelin title defender Thorkildsen 4th and
stopped after 3 throws due to cramp, former world champ PitkamÃ¤ki 11th, and
another title defender Sailer 6th in the 100 m.

OTHERS

LEMAITRE:
After Borzov and Christie could win two titles in a 100 m in a row.
He is not running here the 200 m, but the relay. His next races: Paris 100 m
against Gay, London 200 m against Spearmon.

SEBRLE:
His last Eurochamps outdoor (he says maybe Goteborg indoor still a possibility)
and qualifies to London with 8052, his 51st 8000 decathlon, what is a special
â€žworld record”, second best also Czech Tomas Dvorak has 35.

HIGH
JUMP: First 3-way tie in history of Eurochamps in HJ women for bronze.

SPECTATORS

THURSDAY:
12 999 morning, 22 825 evening (official figures)

MEDALS (8 events)

FRA
2-1-0, RUS 1-1-2, GER 1-1-0, already 15
countries with medals.

POINTS (8
events)

FRA and
UKR 35, RUS 33, already 24 countries with points.

AGENTS
BY GOLD MEDALS

Ricky
Simms 1-0-0

Alfonz
Juck 1-0-0

Rene
Auguin 1-0-0

Linda
Ferga-Khodadin 1-0-0

Chris
Layne 1-0-0

Tonje
Angelsen and Pascal Behrenbruch without agent

EME NEWS
is trying to find out who is the agent of Olga Golovkina.

STATS

5000 m:
It was first gold medal for RUS at W5000m in European Championships. 0.35 sec
is the smallest difference between gold and bronze.

100
m: Lalova became only the second
European Junior Champion to win European Championships at W100m.

Long
Jump: It was first medal for FRA in this event at European Championships.

High
Jump: Spain and Norway had their first medals in this event from European
Champs.

Javelin
Throw: It was first gold medal for CZE in this event at the European
Championships. 49cm ties the smallest winning margin at JT in European
Championships, Backley had 49 cm back in 2000.

100m:
Second France 1-2 after Piquemal and Delecour in 1962 after 50 years

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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