Joonas Rinne said that he was heartened by the criticism he received. It could lead him to breaking one of Finland’s oldest records.
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Laura Arffman
Joonas Rinne ran the Finnish record of 1,500 meters at the Paavo Nurme Games in Turku on Tuesday. Rinne stopped the clock at 3:35.20.
The previous record was Pekka Vasalan ran 3:36.33 from 1972. Vasala won gold at the Munich Olympics.
Rinne chased the record for years and on Tuesday he finally broke the 52-year-old time. Maileri said that he started dreaming about breaking Vasala’s record at the 2018 training camp.
– At the training camp, we discussed life with the boys at the dinner table, and then it occurred to us that the Finnish record of a ton would be something that would be cool to break.
– From there, we have slowly progressed step by step towards this. I’ve thought many times about how it would feel if you broke it and what you would say then, and now that it has been broken, I’m pretty speechless in the end.
From the subject of the review to a SE man
Rinne achieved her first Finnish championship in 2017 at the end of the tactical run. His winning time was the worst in 99 years. Pekka Vasala robbed at that time by commenting on the 1,500 meter runners: “Hey, shame on you.”
– Is the Finnish championship really more important than the future as a runner? This time the winner is not a hero. The hero is the one who starts pulling, Vasala commented.
Now Rinne took the Finnish record from Vasala, who criticized him.
– At that time, I heard some pretty harsh criticism that these boys are nothing. Now here we are as the holder of the Finnish record, so this is a great moment.
– Maybe it was precisely with the coming of age in 2017 that it became a joke that I still show that this boy can also be found.
Hard to get to the line
of Ireland by Cathal Doyle Rinne, who finished eighth in the fast-paced race he won, said that the high-quality race played a decisive role in breaking the record.
It’s easier to run fast with the group than to try to tear off decisive seconds on your own at the front of the race. 1,500 meters is a competitive distance, and not everyone can compete in tough races.
– It is really difficult to enter such a competition. It’s a really tough competition to get to the finish line with such a start. Now that fortunately such a strong start came to my home country, it’s great that I was able to participate, Rinne said.
– For the past couple of years, the media has also been interested in when that record will come. Now I was really ready for that too.