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Vanessa Kamga made her big breakthrough in 2024.
Now she comes with a highly unexpected message.
She wants to compete in a completely different sport.
2024 became a very brilliant year for the Swedish discus thrower Vanessa Kamba. She set a new Swedish record in discus with 65.09 meters and reached her very first summer Olympics.
Kamga’s success
Once in Paris, the 26-year-old impressed even more by raising the Swedish record to 65.14 in the Olympic qualifier and reaching the final in his Olympic debut. There, Kamba finished in a very impressive fifth place.
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Over the past week, she has been greatly praised for her fine efforts during the past year. During the Sports Gala, Vanessa received the “Sports Mirror’s award” and at the athletics gala she was honored with “This year’s performance in the national team”.
Compete in new sport
Now she has her eyes set on the future and already in November, training began for the coming season. But waiting for disco competitions to start, she comes with a highly unexpected message.
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Vanessa Kamga now wants to compete in a completely different sport.
– I realized one day that I am actually not so far from the Swedish record in another Olympic branch. So then I thought it might be fun to try to beat it, she says with a smile in an interview with Dagens Nyheter.
Vanessa’s words
What it is about is weightlifting and above all jerk moments, where the Swedish record is currently 105 kg. Kamga can handle as much as 102.5 kg at present.
-If it comes, it will come, and since the training flows well it could be rattled to which would be super fun, the 26-year-old admits for the daily newspaper.
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But she lacks the discus most of all and is already longing for new competitions.
– It is far too far between the outdoor seasons I think. Because even though some of me appreciate this sweaty and hard part of the year, it is something magical to be in an athletics arena, says Vanessa in the interview.
-This year, the outdoor World Cup is also decided relatively late (September in Tokyo) which makes this year a little special.
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