Mikkeli’s international competitions started on Friday with three domestic top results of the season.
Mikkeli’s international athletics competition Samuel Purola ran 200 meters 20.79, Jessica Kähärä jumped a length of 645 and Anni-Linnea Alanen threw the javelin 60.40. The results are the top domestic quotations of the season.
In the women’s 100-meter hurdles Saara Keskitalo and Vilma Mäki ran the fifth and sixth best times in Finland’s all-time statistics, 13.05 and 13.07.
EC bronze medalist selected for the Paris Olympics Oliver Helander and last summer’s World Cup representative Toni Kuusela had to miss the men’s javelin throw, planned as the main event of the evening.
Helander’s coach Tero Pitkämäki said before the competitions in an interview session that Helander has a flu and there is no risking the preparation for the Paris Olympics.
– Oliver would have liked to come and throw in Mikkeli, but this was the decision made. It is believed that the javelin will fly well in Paris, Pitkämäki, who threw the opening throw, told the Länsi-Savo newspaper.
The decision to leave was made on Wednesday evening. Helander threw bronze in the European Championships in Rome with a result of 85.75, and third in the Kaleva Games with a result of 81.53.
– Oliver is now on a training break, but the intention is to throw Joensuu in the Motonet GP.
For his part, Toni Kuusela said that the season is over and he will go to the operating table today.
– Next summer’s World Cup in Tokyo has now been set as the goal. Otherwise, I wouldn’t go for surgery if they weren’t a goal. It’s a shame that this summer was a bit short, Kuusela said in Mikkeli.