Tag: Athletics
The Paavo Nurmi Games is a world-class athletics event, but what would the running legend think of the title race himself?
Urheilu will show the Paavo Nurmi Games on Tuesday, June 13. The broadcast starts at Areena at 16:25 and on TV2 at 18:00. The crowd went wild at Oslo’s Bislett…
Jessica Kähärä’s wild record breaking streak and Reetta Hurskee’s SE time – here are all the highlights of the GP evening that opened the athletics summer
This is what Hurske commented after his final run Reetta Hurskee’s day in the women’s 100m hurdles was fantastic. In the preliminaries, he beat the SE time with 12.70 and…
Five Finnish records, the long wait for medals ends – here are 18 hard predictions for the athletics season
The face of Urheilu’s athletics predicts the Finnish outlook for the upcoming season. Rain of medals from the youth championships, a return to the medal base at the World Championships,…
Athletics: Jim Hines, first man under 10 seconds in the 100m, is dead
Olympic champion in the 100m in 68, he was above all the first athlete under the bar of ten seconds: the American Jim Hines, whose career was as meteoric as…
Bol remains undefeated at 400 hurdles in Diamond League with top time
Bol will be back in action on Sunday, at the FBK Games in Hengelo. There she runs the 400 meters flat, the part on which she broke the 41-year-old indoor…
The shameful actions of the athletics bosses already destroyed the walkers’ life’s work, will the decathlon be next?
Athletes’ careers seem to be easy for international athletics managers. Soon multitaskers may have to seek peer support from walkers, writes Atte Husu. Atte Husu Sports journalist Top Finnish athletics…
Athlete Bol with ‘longer steps’ towards titles 400 meters hurdles
Last Saturday in Oordegem, Belgium, she ran her first race of this year over 400 meters hurdles in 53.12, the best time in the world this year. She was never…
Samuli Samuelsson criticized the athletics federation – received harsh feedback
A sprinter Samuli Samuelsson criticized the Finnish Sports Federation in May for the fact that the Finnish relay team would have had to pay a total of 1,600 euros for…
Femke Bol tempers expectations for FBK games in Hengelo: ‘Don’t count on world record’
“I don’t want to think about records at this stage. The season has yet to start and I had a small physical setback a few weeks ago. It was something…
Super promise of athletics in a startling mood – Jonathan Edwards’ legendary record in danger: “I don’t see any problem”
by Jonathan Edwards almost 28 years have passed since the men’s triple jump world record of 18.29 this year. There have been enough entrepreneurs over the years. It has also…