by Alfonz Juck
Men’s 60m: Marcell Jacobs vs Chrisitan Coleman and Marvin Bracy, photo by Getty Image for World Athletics
This is the behind the scene details from EME News on the second day of the 2022 World Indoor Championships.
WORLD INDOORS DAY 2
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Marcell Jacobs: “It’s amazing to have the European record. I can’t wait to go to the outdoors with the Americans. They are great athletes. We will try to compete fast again outdoors.”
RESULT OF THE DAY
The top two in the 60 m were separated by 0.003: Jacobs 6.407 WL, ER, and Coleman 6.410.
Jereem Richards’s first world indoor gold for TTO in any event 45.00 MR and Shaunae Miller-Uibo 50.31 greatly tactically paced, both coached by Lance Braumann. Gudaf Tsegay in the big solo new meet record clearly under 4 minutes in the 1500 m.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
Ryan Crouser beat in the shot put by Darlan Romani MR and WL and Area record. Warner second-best ever performer in the heptathlon. Samba-Mayela NR, EL and in the top ten all-time Europe. Danielle Williams going out in the heats of the 60m hurdles.
MEDALS
ETH 2-1-2, USA 1-7-7, BAH, POR, SUI 1-1-0, so far 24 countries.
POINTS
USA 133, ETH 39, SUI 24,SWE 22, JAM 21, AUS+CAN+NED 19, so far 48 countries.
Interestingly all 10 gold medals of Saturday were won by different countries.
AGENT RANKINGS (by individual gold medals)
Juan Pineda 3, Paul Doyle 2, Mark Wetmore 2, Alberto Suarez, Alfons Juck, Marc Corstjens, Federico Rosa, Aivar Karotamm, Miguel Mostaza, Rene Auguin, Marcello Magnani.
No agent for Damian Warner.
STATS
World leads (10): Men 60 m twice, long jump, triple jump, shot put, heptathlon, women 60m, high jump, shot put, pentathlon.
Area Indoor records: Oceania (4), South America (3), North America (1), Asia (1), Europe (1).
Meet records (3): Men 400m, Men shot put, Women 1500 m.
BELGRADE NEWS
BELGRADE (SRB): Yaroslava Mahuchikh not surprisingly dedicated her popular gold medal to her home country of Ukraine. She said after high jump gold today: “I didn’t think I was doing it for myself or my medal, I was doing it for all the Ukrainian nation, to show that we are the strongest in the world. I want to show Ukrainian people are strong people. They never give up. Our military protect our country at home and today I protect my country on the track. Before we went to the field, the only thought in my mind was about Ukraine because too many terrible things have happened there. I even doubted that I could jump at all, but my coach said I must go out and perform with the shape and fitness I had before the start of the Russian invasion.” From AW.
BELGRADE (SRB): Ash Maloney, who would go on to win bronze, explained a pre-existing knee problem held him back, particularly in the high jump where he retired after clearing 2.02m. He told Athletics Australia: “The decision to stop jumping was more so I could make it to the next World Championships in Oregon later this year. I’m conscious that it’s a big year for me, with Oregon and also Birmingham and I don’t want to destroy myself, so it’s a safety precaution for me.”
BELGRADE (SRB): Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson said she was being cautious with the outdoor season in mind when pulling out ahead of today’s 800m heats. “I did everything I could do to put myself in the best position to be on the start line today but it just wasn’t meant to be,” she said. “There may be a weakness there [with my quads] that we need to sort out and going into the summer it’s just too big to risk anything at this stage.” From AW.
BELGRADE (SRB): A background in parkour helped Miltiadis Tentoglou to his Olympic gold and now world indoor title, says his coach. Georgi Pomaski, who took over as coach from Evangelos Papanikos, who spotted him as a youngster doing parkour in the stands of a stadium, said: “In parkour, everything has to be exact and he got this focus from this sport,” he says. “This has helped to make him exact in his movement.” Tentoglou added: “It makes me feel free. The coach saw me doing (parkour) and said I have some very nice abilities, so maybe come to training. I was not doing any sports at the time and was like, ‘yeah, maybe I want to try.'” From World Athletics.
BELGRADE (POR): New Cuban world indoor triple jump champion Lazaro Martinez says he could easily have given up the sport on numerous occasions before his career highlight yesterday. “To be honest, if I hadn’t come to the World Indoor Championships, I probably would have given up,” he said. “There were so many years with injury and disappointments that I almost gave up. Then I managed to qualify for here, I managed to compete here, and I managed to win here.” He added: “Everybody gave up on me. No one had faith in me coming back. He (coach Yoelbi Quesada) was the only one who told me I could do it. Thanks to him, I kept training. Day after day, month after month and year after year, and look where we are now.” From World Athletics.
BELGRADE (SRB): “I always try to save as much energy as I can in the heats, staying behind and responding. It’s a safe way to do it but it’s all about tomorrow. I can’t hide behind things like world records and Olympic titles,” says Jakob Ingebrigtsen after going through to the 1500m final.
