The European Champion had not celebrated the first adult value race of his career. Training and preparing for the World Cup will begin on Tuesday.
15: 49 • Updated 15:55
A recent European gold medalist Saga Vanninen arrived in Finland on Monday. The medal at his neck to the airport was immediately received by a warm welcome: Vanninen heard he had received an official congratulatory letter President Alexander from Stubb.
– It’s great. He follows a lot of sports and sports will certainly become more visible, a fresh gold medalist sighing in an interview with Sports.
On Sunday, Vanninen won the 5th match of the Interior Championships in the European Championships with a new Finnish record of 4,922. He left behind the Dutch Sofie Docter and Irish Kate O’Connor. At the same time, the result was the top -level of the world statistics.
Vanninen missed a triple Olympic champion Nafissatou thiam From a world record two years ago, only 133 points.
Although the new Finnish record was fierce, Vanninen does not describe his series as particularly successful.
– As a whole, really successful. It wasn’t a button -up, but in the match, steady assurance is important, the athlete recalled.
The record series for the European Championships was very strong and smooth for the vaninen. A new record of 8.19 was born in the 60 meters fences. In the high jump, Vanninen exceeded his record height in 181.
The length also went strongly when Vanninen jumped in the longest jump of his longest jump in 652. In the closing species of 800 meters, 2.12,20 was the second best for the Finnish career.
All in all, Vanninen has improved his 800 meters run, as the record has improved by more than nine seconds in the last two years.
Vanninen has not yet had time to go through his new coach Erki Noolin with.
– It was said that the technology was not quite right, but a good performance, Vanninen said.
The Hall World Championships will be held in two weeks in China. Vanninen is also one of the championship favorites at the World Cup. Last year, Vanninen celebrated silver at the World Cup.
– You have to try to recover and reset this. This is a great moment for yourself when the first adult value race came. It has to be reset so that you can charge again. Let’s hope it succeeds.
The gold medal was not celebrated at the race venue, even though the Finnish team sprayed the sparkling drink in honor of the achievement.
– Small -scale celebrated, then to eat and quite quickly to sleep. No bigger celebration, Vanninen described.
What are the first festive steps in Finland?
– Tomorrow we start training again, so let’s not get back to everyday life, Vanninen laughed.