Samuli Samuelsson surprised himself on Sunday in Espoo. He ran a Finnish record time of 10.16. Of course, at first Samuelsson had time to tell that he had run the Finnish record of 10.15.
Mika Halonen,
Riku Porvari
Ical Athletes Samuli Samuelsson pinked in Espoo’s Leppävaara on Sunday with a Finnish record time of 10.16. Samuelsson ran the Finnish record of 10.16 last summer.
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Samuelsson’s time was initially announced as 10.15. So the matter was reported as a new Finnish record. The Finnish Sports Federation also announced that Samuelsson had made a new SE time. Later, however, 10.16 was specified for the time.
– According to the organizers of the competition, when the time was examined for the announcement of the Finnish record, it was found that the time was 10.16, that is, Samuelsson sided with his own SE result, SUL report.
One-hundredth here or there, in any case, in the second race of the season, he got really shaken up. Samuelsson opened his racing season on Wednesday at the GP races in Jyväskylä with times 10.37 and 10.36.
Samuelsson says in an interview with Urheilu that the top run in Espoo was made possible by the good conditions. The wind was behind us at 1.3 meters per second and the temperature was +20 degrees.
– Of course, the man has to be fine too. That’s another story, Samuelsson laughs.
On Wednesday in Jyväskylä, Samuelsson felt that he couldn’t really get anything out of himself. The runs were of equal thickness.
– On the way from Jyväskylä to Helsinki, the coach and I decided that I would register here in Espoo. I thought we’d run a preparatory one for the Paavo Nurmi Games.
On Tuesday, Samuelsson will run in the Paavo Nurme Games in Turku, when he will face several runners under 10 seconds. Samuelsson expects a “shockingly tough race”.
Before the Espoo run, Samuelsson decided on his coach Mikael Ylöstalo with to make an extraordinary preparation.
– I have never done strength training the day before the race before.
– It has been tested once in training that we do strength training and then take jumps on top of it, and the jumps work excellently. Now this was a slightly smaller race, so you dared to try something like this for the future.
Samuelsson believed that a good result was possible, but he expected a time of 10.2 starts.
– Apparently, that preparation paid off. I really didn’t expect the Finnish record, said Samuelsson even at the point when he thought his time was 10.15.
For example, ‘s narrator Kimmo Porttila gave a strong prediction in the preview of the athletics season that Samuelsson would pull the Finnish record close to the ghost limit of 10 seconds.
– When you get fewer starts and at least similar conditions, I don’t see why that wouldn’t still drop by hundredths. The background forces have created the belief that I can run harder. I believe in them, Samuelsson smiled.
Samuelsson’s schedule for the continuation of the competition season after the Paavo Nurmi Games is still open. The World Championships will be held in Budapest in August. The 100-meter result limit for the games is 10.00, but you can also enter the value games with ranking points.
Getting to the World Cup would require a brilliant season from Samuelsson, but it is not impossible.
– The World Cup is the goal if we think about the best possible scenario. It requires that I should get several races to beat my record. You should be able to repeat really good successes, he told STT earlier.
Samuelsson has not made any significant changes to training with his coach, because last summer it worked perfectly, as long as he had recovered from the hamstring injury in May.
– The running technique has been invested in what things need to be improved in order to be able to run harder.
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Finnish track and field athletes have already broken five Finnish records on outdoor tracks this season. Alisa Vainio ran a marathon SE in February. Camilla Richardson set a new Finnish record for 10,000 meters in May.
Viivi Lehikoinen ran the 400m hurdles record in Spain on Tuesday this week and Reetta Hurske on Wednesday in Jyväskylä, won the SE of the 100-meter hurdles.