Here is the Finnish team for the World Championships in Athletics – a historically large group | Sport

The Finnish Sports Federation has named the athletes for the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow from 1.–3. March. The races are shown on channels.

Finland participates with a team of ten athletes in the World Athletics Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. The competition will be held in Glasgow from 1st to 3rd. March.

Athletes who broke the result limit of the World Championships, or aturi, had already been selected for the team Reetta Hurske and pole vaulter Wilma Murtoas well as invited to the pentathlon Saga Vanninen.

In the second selection of the team, the athletes who received the right to compete in the Games through the ranking system of the International Athletics Federation were included.

Men joined the team Samuli Samuelsson for 60 meters and Elmo Lakka for the 60-meter hurdles. Women joined the team Lotta Kemppinen to 60 meters, Eveliina Määtänen to 800 meters, Nathalie Blomqvist 1Â for 500 meters, Nooralotta Neziri 60 meter hurdles as well Kristiina Mäkelä to triple jump.

At the beginning of February, Eveliina Määtänen was at top speed in Torun, Poland, when she ran the women’s 800-meter indoor SE in 2:01.57.

Nathalie Blomqvist, on the other hand, made waves at the Tampere SM halls last weekend, when she broke the Finnish record of 8:49.25 in the 3,000 meters of the indoor track. Sports expert Tuomas Raja described Blomqvist’s bet as “so hard†.

Last year, Reetta Hurske won the EC gold in indoor swimming, but now the indoor season has been difficult because of the wild fall that happened in Torun.

– Of course, I go to the World Cup with very high goals, but I have to be kind in a certain way. Hall season has not gone as we planned. The most important thing is to stay healthy and in shape so that I can train properly for the summer, Hurske told after the SM halls.

Suffering from the flu, Nooralotta Neziri was still thinking after the WC halls, whether to go to the World Championships or not.

– I was still wondering if I should go. If I leave, I want to pursue further positions. Now I want to see first if I can get one going, Neziri stated at the time.

Breaking into the medal hunt

The top figure of the Finnish World Cup indoor team is Wilma Murto, who is fourth in the current season’s pole vault world statistics with a total of 481. Murto has stated that she will aim for a medal in every competition of the season.

– In the World Cup halls, the goal of every athlete is the best performance of the season. The top-level competition and the renewed performance venues of the Glasgow arena offer an excellent framework for that, says the GM of the Finnish Sports Confederation (SUL). Jani Tanskanen.

The ten-athlete team is the biggest Finnish team ever in the indoor World Championships in terms of athletes, together with the team that competed in the 1989 World Indoor Championships in Budapest.

In the previous World Cup halls, in Belgrade 2022, the Finnish team had seven athletes.

The only medal in Finland’s WC indoor history is Mika Halvarin gold in shot put in Barcelona 1995.

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