Phenomenal world records and the rise of Finnish women – these are the things the World Championships in Oregon will be remembered for

The World Championships held in Oregon were of a high standard. Finnish athletes gave encouraging performances with the European Championships in August in mind. Urheilu gathered together the hottest topics of the World Cup.

Finland’s previous World Cup medal is still there Tero Pitkämäki bronze from Beijing 2015. Despite the lack of medals, encouraging performances were seen from the Finnish athletes in the athletics sanctuary of Oregon.

The javelin throwers reached the final competition Oliver Helander and Lassi Etelätalomortar throwers Silja Kosonen mixed Krista Tervoa pole vaulter Wilma Murto and a triple jumper Kristiina Mäkelä. Six final places is the most at the World Cup or Olympic level since the 2005 World Cup in Helsinki.

The most positive thing was that no less than four Finnish women reached the final competition. It is next to the best achievement of Finnish women. Also in the first ever World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983, four Finnish women reached the final.

Thinking about the European Championships, Finland’s prospects for success seem fascinating.

They were responsible for Finland’s records in Oregon Viivi Lehikoinen In the 400 meter fences as well Aleksi Ojala in a 35 kilometer walk. Among them, Lehikoinen, who won 54.60 in the 400-meter hurdles, stole the most attention in Finland.

Lehikoine was expected all summer Tuija Helanderin Violation of the 35-year-old SE time (54.62).

Finland’s record is always a tough thing at the prestigious competition level, but when you do it in the semi-finals of the World Championships, you talk about top success.

Lehikoinen was only 36 hundredths away from the second fastest European time in the semifinals. Among the Europeans, only the Dutch Femke Bol managed to run under 53 seconds. Lehikoinen showed that he belongs to Europe’s top caste.

American 22 year old Sydney McLaughlin awakened the entire world following athletics in Oregon at the latest. For example, he had previously stayed in Finland, among other things by Armand Duplantis, Karsten Warholm, By Yulimar Rojas mixed by Jakob Ingebrigtsen into the shade. This was despite the fact that he ran to victory at the Tokyo Olympics in the ME time.

However, McLaughlin’s performance in the women’s 400m hurdles WC final stunned everyone. The former junior star improved his ME time earlier this summer by 73 hundredths with a time of 50.68.

It is the fourth world record of McLaughlin’s career. In track sports it is very much, because for example Usain Bolt could do 100 meters in three ME times.

McLaughlin’s star story has the same features as Bolt’s. At one time, there was a lot of speculation about whether Bolt would switch to the 400 meters or the long jump. Now, for McLaughlin, there is even talk of breaking the women’s track lap ME time.

The examples of McLaughlin and earlier Warholm and Duplantis show that it is not always required to be the fastest in the world to be the figurehead of athletics. In this sense, athletics has entered the modern era.

On the closing day of the Games, no less than two world records were set, the latter of which was manufactured by Duplantis. The Swede, who won the first World Championship gold in his career, bent over 621 on his second attempt.

Duplantis’ previous ME was 620 in the hall in March. The world record was Duplantis’ first on an outdoor track, as he broke his previous three ME results indoors.

Duplantis’ best outdoors was the 616 jumped before the World Championships in the Stockholm Diamond League in June.

According to the data, Duplantis went 14.9 centimeters higher than the bar in his ME jump at his best. The closest point was about eight centimeters from the bar.

Based on this, it can be expected that the latest record will not be the last of the 22-year-old superstar.

Nigeria Tobi Amusan the world record in the women’s 100m hurdles was surprising in many ways. In the semi-final, Amusan clocked a new ME of 12.12, with which he improved the US by Kendra Harrison previous record by eight hundredths.

Amusan ran even harder in the final (12.06), but this was not recorded as a world record due to too much tailwind.

Tobi Amusan ran his record 12.41 in Paris before the Games in June. He filed a hundredth of this in the preliminaries, and even after that improved his record by 0.28 seconds.

In the semi-finals, top conditions were enjoyed, which helped no less than ten athletes to their own record. Four of these were also the country’s national record. In addition, two runners beat their own record results.

Whether Amusan’s result had any effect or not, Harrison’s final race went wrong. The American won Olympic silver in Tokyo and World Cup silver in Doha, but the final race in Oregon ended in rejection.

The world’s toughest track and field athletes were at their best again at the right moment. The races saw several top results of the season and some race records.

Along with McLaughlin, the hottest names at the games were, for example, Brazil, who ran a race record of 46.29 in the men’s 400-meter hurdles Alison dos SantosVenezuela’s Yulimar Rojas, who jumped the season’s best result of 15.47 in the women’s triple jump, and Jamaica’s 21.45, who clocked a competition record in the women’s 200 meters Shericka Jackson.

One of the clarifiers was from the USA Noah Lyles. In the men’s 200 meter final race, Lyles and the young man were expected in advance of Erriyon Knighton dueling. However, 25-year-old Lyles put an end to talk of a duel in the final with a fierce time of 19.31. Only Usain Bolt has run faster twice and Yohan Blake once.

An interesting detail is that Michael Johnson once ran the ME time of 19.32 in the USA at the Atlanta Olympics. Now Lyles has broken Johnson’s US record at the next global track and field championships held in the United States.

However, the World Championships in Oregon proved that the discus thrower Daniel Ståhlan endurance runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen and a 400m hurdler Karsten Warholm too are people.

Ståhl missed out on medals for the first time since the 2015 World Championships. ME man Warholm, who was rehabilitated from a hamstring problem, couldn’t stand the lactic acid in the final race until the very end and only finished seventh. Ingebrigtsen, on the other hand, bowed to Great Britain, who had a surprise victory in the tight fight To Jake Wightman.

Of course, Ingebrigtsen made up for her disappointment in the 5,000 meters. He started his race two laps before the finish, and won the world championship with a time of 13:09.24.

Germany and France have been among the great nations of athletics on a global level as well. However, medals were extremely tight at the World Championships.

Long jump star who won the world championship Malaiko Mihambo and the women’s relay team brought Germany the necessary medals on the final weekend of the Games. by Kevin Mayer gold was the only medal of the Games for France.

Of course, the medals are very tight these days at the World Championship level, but the situation of both countries does not promise much for the European Championships either. The Netherlands and Poland are leading the way there.

The situation in Germany in particular is a common concern of all international athletics. Olympic discus champion Christopher Harting said a few years ago in connection with the Paavo Nurmi Games that the sport in Germany is badly overshadowed by, for example, football.

The fact that the country’s javelin stars are tougher stars in Finland than in their home country says something about the position of athletics in Germany.

There were many things that caused surprise at the World Cup. One of them was how the medals were distributed to the winners immediately after the performance.

The athletes had a short time to go around the track with the medal around their neck, after which the medals were collected. However, the medals were handed back at the official award ceremony.

The international athletics federation World Atheletics cannot be accused of a lack of effort at least. The International Athletics Federation should develop things that can distinguish it from other sports. In these games, World Athletics excelled in social media as well.