Finnish athletics is trying to return to the medals in Munich after a six-year break. At least the company is not caught up in the number of medal candidates.
The Finnish track and field athlete has not reached medals in outdoor track competitions for six years. The last Finn to reach a medal is Antti Ruuskanen Amsterdam 2016 with his javelin bronze. It has been 16 years since the last outdoor track championship medal won by a non-Finnish javelin thrower. Heli Kruger was born in Koivula achieved European triple jump silver in Munich in 2002.
When there is competition in Munich again this week under the banner of the European Athletics Championships, there is a good chance that the streak without a medal will end. Urheilu presents Finland’s nine medal hopefuls.
Kristiina Mäkelä, 3rd grade
Kristiina Mäkelä is the most successful seam of his career so far. The athlete is in the shape of his life, and besides, there is not terribly much competition at the sharpest peak in Europe at the moment. The medal may come off with a result starting with 14.3. In the prize competitions, Mäkelä’s big challenge has been to find his best in the finals after a good qualifying. Would it be different after all?
Age: 29 years
Record: 14.48 (2022)
Women’s 3-jump qualifying: 17.8. at 1:25 p.m
Final: 19.8. at 21:55
Kristiina Mäkelä jumped her record in qualifying for the World Championships
Lassi Etelätalo, spear
This season, too, he proved his talent as a fierce competitor A glass of Etelätaloa the Czech Republic can be considered the third favorite in the javelin competition by Jakub Vadlejch and Germany Julian Weber after. The level of Europe has not been very amazing this summer, which favors a man who throws consistently in prestigious competitions. Etelätalo threw his season’s best 84.62 at the Kaleva Games. The eight-year-old record of 84.98 is in danger of being broken. It would know the medal.
Age: 34 years
Record: 84.98 (2014)
Season’s best: 84.62
Javelin qualification: 19.8. at 11:00 a.m
Final: 21.8. 20.50
Lassi Etelälätalo raced his best of the season at the Kaleva Games in Joensuu
Krista Tervo, miller
24 years old Krista Tervo defeated the world championships in Oregon by making it to the finals for the first time in his career. Tervo’s 73.83 throw in the qualification was the best European result of the Games. He belongs to the small group that has the capacity to fight for the European championship. In terms of Tervo’s medal chances, the opening rounds of the final are the most critical. He needs to get a good basic throw right away to find relaxation.
Age: 24 years
Record: 74.40 (2022)
Moukari qualifier: 16.8. at 1:15 p.m
Final: 17.8. at 22:05
Krista Tervo dazzled in qualifying for the World Championships
Topi Raitanen, 3,000 m above sea level
Top Raitanen gave a storm warning to the statistical favorites of Europe with his hard solo run of the Kaleva Games 8:21,10. Last year’s Olympian is in such a condition that he can meet a possible speed run. However, Raitanen’s biggest trump card is a tough long streak, which offers the keys to the European championship. The toughest opponents come from Spain and Italy.
Age: 26 years
Record: 8:16.57 (2020)
Best of the season: 8.21,10
Preliminaries of the steeplechase: 16.8. at 12:40 p.m
Final: 19.9. at 22:00
Wilma Murto, staff
Lassi Etelätalonja pot thrower Silja Kosonen I meet too Wilma Murto has proven himself to be a great competitive athlete in recent years. The most recent example of this is the sixth place at the World Championships with a season’s best and the first time she exceeded 460. Murro’s final performances were so airy that 470-480 jumps can be afforded in the vaults. Murto is therefore a strong candidate for a medal in Munich. Slovenia’s WC indoor triple Tina Sutej as well as meritorious of Greece Katerina Stefanidi are champion favourites.
Age: 24 years
Record: 472
Season best: 460
Pole vault qualification: 15.8. at 11:25 a.m
Final: 17.8. at 21:00
Wilma Murto showed her love of the outdoors at the World Championships
Senni Salminen, 3-jump
Of the two Finnish jumpers, the absolute greatest potential may still be SE’s 14.63 jumper last summer At Senni Salmi. This season, he has consistently jumped between 14.20 and 14.32, but the pole vault is missing. If Salminen can get his bumpy speed running right for the time being, he will even fight for the gold medal. The favorite to win the race is the summer’s statistical number one and in the winter 14.74 jumped Ukraine Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk. For the Finns, a difficult opponent is also Tokyo’s Olympic silver medalist, Portugal Patricia Mamona.
Age: 26 years
Record: 14.63 (2022)
Season’s best: 14.32
Women’s 3-jump qualifying: 17.8. at 1:25 p.m
Final: 19.8. at 21:55
Silja Kosonen, moukari
Silja Kosonen, who is only 19 years old, has a great time in competition circles. Last summer, he won the youth EC and WC gold with good results for a young thrower of 71.06 and 71.64. He was 14th at the Olympics and seventh at the World Championships in Oregon. In light of the statistics, Kosonen is not a medal favorite, but a fierce competition can lead to a very hard blow.
Age: 19 years
Record: 73.43 (2002)
Season’s best: 72.22
Moukari qualifier: 16.8. at 1:15 p.m
Final: 17.8. at 22:05
Viivi Lehikoinen, 400 m aj
Holland’s Femke Bol is in a class of its own among European 400m paddlers, but then there is an even bunch. This group also includes the SE woman Viivi Lehikoinen, who was only 36 hundredths away from the second best European at the World Championships. Statistical runner-up Line Kloster has run 53.91 at his best, but the rest of his times pale in comparison to Lehikoinen’s record time of 54.60. A place in the final is realistic, but if the button is successful, the Finn is close to a medal. Lehikoinen gets an automatic semi-final spot based on statistical times.
Age: 22 years
Record: 54.60
400 meter hurdles semi-finals: 18.8. at 12:25 p.m
Final: 19.8. at 22:45
Viivi Lehikoinen won the 400-meter straight SE at the World Championships
Aleksi Ojala, 35 km walk
Aleksi Ojala was one of the biggest Finnish achievers at the World Championships, significantly improving the SE time of 35 kilometers. He goes to the European Championships as the third World Championship winner Massimo Stanon to freeze out. However, this is only the second value race walk on this trip, so you shouldn’t stare too much at the statistical times. If the hamstring problem after the World Championships does not hinder the going, Ojala will fight for the top positions on his peak day.
Age: 19 years
Record: 2:28,22
35 km walk: 16.8. at 9:30 a.m