Reetta from Hurskee On Sunday, with her European championship, she became the first Finnish woman to win a prestigious medal in high-speed fences both outdoors and indoors. Considering the previous performances of the season, the 27-year-old Tampere sailor was expected to win European Championship gold.
Hurskee’s basic level was really high-quality during the ended government period. Before the European Championships, for example, the average of his five best results was 7.82.
The fact that even his fifth-best time would have been enough for the championship says something about Hurskee’s reliability. Nadine Visser took silver with a time of 7.84.
In the 60-meter hurdles European Championship final, Hurske beat Finland’s record by 7.79. This is the second biggest winning time in the EC halls of the 2000s.
Sports expert Tuomas Raja was impressed by the situation where the Finnish sprinter went to the final of the value race as the early favorite.
– Reetta was able to keep her thoughts together in a sensitive sport. He only focused on repeating his own performance. The way he managed that situation was what moved me the most.
Pious and Wilma Murtoa combine the same thing. Their basic performances have risen to a level that makes it possible to win an EC medal even without a record.
This is a significant change in Finnish athletics compared to the last many years. You don’t have to stretch for a top result.
The previous Finnish general athlete like this was a javelin thrower Tero Pitkämäki.
– In top international athletics, it’s about the basic level being a medal performance, Raja sums up.
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“Let’s hope the birthdays pass”
After a perfect indoor season, the focus is on what Hurske can do next summer in the 100-meter hurdles. His record is 12.78 run almost four years ago in Joensuu. The second best jump of 12.88 is from last year.
Hurske improved his record by no less than 14 hundredths during the current Halli season. That’s a huge improvement over 60 meters.
Although Hurskee, who is known as a very hard runner, is better suited to 60 meters, it goes without saying that he is also in record shape in the 100 meter hurdles. That is the journey Annimari Kortene as well as the 12.72 run in the same race in Joensuu.
– At least we can expect a new Finnish record, says Raja.
The next European Championships on outdoor tracks will be held in Rome in June 2024. Next summer, Hurskee’s main goal is the World Championships in Budapest.
When talking about the World Cup or the Olympics, the competition is extremely tough. At the previous Olympics and last summer’s World Cup final, there was only one European rower.
At the World Championship level, Hurske has reached the semi-finals in 2019 in Doha. Instead, in next winter’s WC halls, he can fight for medals when he is fit. Qualified from the European Championship final in Istanbul Cyrena Samba-Mayela is the defending champion of the MM halls with a time of 7.78.
– The first races of the summer will show where the momentum will materialize. In the World Championships (on outdoor tracks), the final place is really hard work. Of course, Reetta sets that as a goal, but you can’t just go there, says Raja.
Hurske’s own goal for next summer is clear.
– Let’s hope that the birthdays will go away this summer. The goal is to run my own record, the Finnish record and everything that can come that summer. There are tickling expectations.
Antti Kalliomäki stick (1975)
Antti Loikkanen 1,500 m (1978)
Markku Taskinen 800 m (1978)
Reijo Ståhlberg ball (1978, 1979, 1981)
Arto Bryggare 50 / 60 m aj (1981, 1987)
Ari Suhonen 1,500 m (1988)
Timo Aaltonen’s ball (2000)
Wilma Breaks a Stick (2023)
Reetta Hurske 60 years old (2023)
Big absences were visible
The last time Finnish track and field athletes won at least two championships in the same EC halls was in 1981. Then the shot putter Reijo Ståhlberg and a high-speed echo Arto Bryggare were able to celebrate the victory. Before Murto, the previous Finnish winner of the Games was a shot putter Timo Aaltonen in 2000.
Finland’s team leader Tuomo Salonen to put things into perspective.
– Last time (2021) there were three medals. Before that, Finland had not received a medal from the indoor championships for more than 20 years. This is now a tough balance.
Both of Finland’s top athletes succeeded perfectly in the European Championships. The medal statistics were won by Norway with four gold medals.
Finland beat Sweden in the medal table, which achieved four medals, but no gold. Finland’s tip was sharp like Norway’s, but Norway and Sweden had more width.
Finland went to the games with a big team of 21 athletes. Raja and Salonen remind that Finland lacked several top athletes. Only Murto and the long jumper, who defended his bronze medal, were among the eight point-scoring athletes of the previous European Championships. Kristian Pulli.
In addition to Murro and Hurske, the top eight competitors who competed in their other adult competition Saga Vanninen19, in the pentathlon.
– We had a lot of placements around the tenth place. Team size is a broad indicator of level. “Perhaps one thing that stuck in my teeth was that there were a few really tough athletes on the home couch who missed the gym season,” Salonen says.
1. Jakob Ingebrigtsen 1,500 m
1. Ingebrigtsen 3,000 m
1. Karsten Warholm 400 m
1. Sondre Guttormsen’s staff
2. Sander Skotheim 7-match
2. Thobias Montler height
3. Carl Bengtström 400 m
3. Henrik Larsson 60 m
3. Fanny Roos ball