Tag: Athletics
Athletics: Daniel Ståhl far from the top in Hungary with weeks left until the Olympics
The reigning Olympic champion settled for a modest 63.36 – a result that was only good enough for sixth place in the event. Mykolas Alekna, Lithuania, won with his discus…
Athlete Bol says goodbye to fans in Hengelo with track record
Amersfoort – Femke Bol improved her track record in Hengelo during her last competition on home soil before the Olympic Games. Cheered on by thousands of poncho-clad fans, the 24-year-old…
Kipyegon, Empress of the 1,500m, has improved her world record again
Three weeks before the Olympic Games, two world athletics records fell in Paris on Sunday: the Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared 2.10 m in the high jump while the Kenyan Faith…
Athletics: Vanessa Kamga on the Swedish record, the support from her sister and the feelings before the Olympics: “I want to go there and compete completely fearlessly”
It was during a competition in Örbyhus on Saturday that Vanessa Kamga struck and threw her discus 65.09 meters. With that, she broke a 25-year-old Swedish record that Anna Söderberg…
Athletics: Armand Duplantis failed to break the world record – won by a landslide
6.00 meters was enough to win the Diamond League gala in Paris. Then it was time for the usual world record attempt of 6.25 for Armand Duplantis. There was too…
Athletics: Daniel Ståhl lost the duel with Ceh: “I’m really on G”
– It feels much better than the last competitions. I’m really on “G”. It’s still fun to throw in the rain, says Ståhl to SVT Sport after finishing second behind…
Athletics: Six new athletes but Maja Nilsson won’t get an Olympic place: “I’m sorry”
Maja Nilsson, 24, has jumped 1.91 this season, which is in the so-called span. She made it to the Olympics in Tokyo 2021 on the futurist and went to the…
Although he has withdrawn, Yulimar Rojas will be Venezuela’s flag bearer in Paris
Forced to give up the Paris Olympic Games, Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas will nevertheless be the flag bearer for her country’s delegation at the opening ceremony scheduled for July 26, along…
Athletics: Andreas Almgren clears the 10,000 meters at the Olympics: “A broken tibia”
Andreas Almgren was previously entered in both the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters at the Olympics in Paris. Now he is ironing out the 10,000 meters and at a press…
Athletics: Former world champion in high jump Jacques Freitag is dead – police investigate murder
In 2003, the South African Jacques Freitag defeated Stefan Holm at a height of 2.35 meters and took WC gold. Now he is dead and the police are investigating murder,…