by Alfonz Juck
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Jakub Szymanski: “The next stop is Nanjing and I think I am going to get a medal at the world indoors. I would love to fight with Grant Holloway and the mission will be completed.I have a very good PB indoors 7.39, but for outdoors I have not had such a good race yet. But I think I am able torun around 13.10 and it would be a good PB for me.”
Jakob Ingebrigtsen: “You need to do a lot of good things. Not only in the preparations, but also in the race. I decided to stay a little bit relaxed the first half, and then go past the field when the pace is usually at its slowest. There was never any doubt in my mind, but there is always a game of chance. I was hoping that the pace would not be too hard if I wouldn’t be in front early on, which was somewhat correct. That is just the risk you have to take. I always try to maximizemy chances of winning.”
Ana Peleteiro Compaore: “My knee is painful, and I felt my hamstring during all the competition. So showing another time I’m the best in this continent, with all I’ve been through, is a real honour for me. Now I’m going to celebrate.”
Ditaji Kambundji: “I set myself a goal and I knew what I had to do. Bringing it home is not always easy. I’m being proud of myself that I was able to achieve that under pressure. Seeing my family in the crowd, seeing my mom and my dad waving at me… they’re always there for me. To celebrate this with them is amazing.”
RESULT OF THE DAY
Ditaji Kambundji stormed to 7.67 in the 60m hurdles final, improving her lifetime best by 0.13 sec. and clocking the European record, Championships record and season world lead. She also equalled the second best time ever and remained just 0.02 sec. behind the world record.
SURPRISE OF THE DAY
Bozhidar Saraboyukov won the long jump title, leaping to 813 in the final series and defeating Furlani by 1cm.
MEDALS (13 countries)
FRA 1-2-1; NED 1-1-0; ESP, POL 1-0-1
POINTS (22 countries)
FRA 35; ESP 34; GBR 22; POR 20; NED 19; POL 17
TITLE DEFENDERS
Yes (1): Ingebrigtsen
No (3): Danismaz, Hurske, Joseph
NC (2): Muir, Tentoglou
TOP MARKS
ER (1): 7.67 D.Kambundji
WL (2): 3:15.63 NEDmix, 7.67 D.Kambundji
EL (3): 3:15.63 NEDmix, 14.37 Peleteiro, 7.67 D.Kambundji
CR (2): 3:15.63 NEDmix, 7.67 D.Kambundji
AGENTS (individual titles)
1 – René Auguin, Florian Clivaz, Valentina Fedjushina, Daniel Wessfeldt, Alberto Suarez, Marcin Rosengarten.
STATS
Women’s 60m H: Ditaji Kambundji and Nadine Visser are now 1-2 in the Euro Indoors all-time lists, and Pia Skrzyszowska’s 7.83 is equalled best mark for place 3; first title for SUI.
Men’s 1500m: Jakob Ingebrigtsen won third gold (at 1500m), and moved to third in all-time medal ranking (3-1-0); Louis Gilavert’s 3:38.84 is the best mark for place 5 at Euro Indoors.
Women’s 1500m: 0.00sec. between 3rd and 4th place is the smallest difference at Euro Indoors.
Women’s TJ: Ana Peleteiro-Compaoré became first triple jumper to win second Euro Indoors title, she is now 2-1-0; first medal (bronze) for FIN; 19cm between 3rd and 4th place is the biggest difference at Euro Indoors.
Men’s PV: 575cm, cleared by 7 vaulters, is the best first round result at euro Indoors. Surprise out for Ersu Sasma, who improved this year to 590.
Men’s 400m: Maksymilian Szwed improved to 45.69 in his heat, and clocked the fastest first round time at Euro Indoors, previous best was by Bastian Swillims (46.08, 2007). Could be also European U23 indoor record as it is expected the mark of Brodie Young in USA did not had doping control. Fastest non qualifiers at Euroindoors in 400 m heats were Finland´s Mette Baas 52.25 NR and Oleksandr Pohorilko from Ukraine 46.32 NR.
Men’s 800m: Super-fast heats, Eliott Crestan won the second heat in 1:46.57, the fastest first round time at Euro Indoors. Two more runners behind him were also faster than previous best holder Antonio Manuel Reina (1:47.19, 2002). However Elvin Josué Canales won the fourth heat in 1:45.93, with two more finishing better than Crestan. And even five finishers were faster then previous best in the fifth heat. Also first non qualifier was the best ever, French Ouerret 1:46.60.
Women´s 800 m: Audrey Werro was fastest in the 800 m first round with 2:00.92, also European U23 short track record.
Heptathlon: Simon Ehammer leaped to 820, the best long jump result in Euro Indoors heptathlon, previous by Mikk Pahapill (797, 2009); Sander Skotheim equalled his own best high jump result with 219. The 820 is best heptathlon result in any championships ever.
APELDOORN NEWS
APELDOORN (NED): Jakob Ingebrigtsen won his third 1500m title and improved to 6-1-0 overall, now fourth in all-time medal ranking at Euro Indoors (behind Fibingerova, Borzov and Wessinghage), and he can move into second place on Sunday if he wins the 3000m.
APELDOORN (NED): Sander Skotheim leads the heptathlon after the first day with 3689 points, Simon Ehammer is 42 points behind and third Till Steinforth is 129 points behind. The attack on European indoor record is more than realistic.
APELDOORN (NED): In the women’s triple jump final, 25 of 48 attempts were failed.
APELDOORN (NED): Winner of the fastest 400m heat (51.01 would-be fastest first round time at Euro Indoors), Great Britain’s Amber Anning was disqualified for a lane infringement. Nikoleta Jíchová of Czechia, originally advancing to the semis (in 51.92 would-be PB), was also disqualified.
APELDOORN (NED): National records achieved during the second day. For Finland (400m, Mette Baas 52.25), Netherlands (60mH, Visser 7.72), Switzerland (60mH, D.Kambundji 7.67) and Ukraine (400m, Oleksandr Pohorilko 46.32).
APELDOORN (NED): Bartosz Kitliński and Cian McPhillips, both have been reinstated to the 800m semi-finals after an unintentional collision.
APELDOORN (NED): Ireland’s Sharlene Mawdsley was a late withdrawal from the women’s 400m heats, after clocking the fastest split in yesterday’s mixed 4x400m final, due to a hamstring strain picked up in the warm-up.
