Arto Bryggare downloaded a tough forecast from Elina Lampela – now the athlete is answering

Elina Lampela has high expectations. Matti Matikainen

– It has always been a dream, but quite realistically, if it is spoken, it’s still a long way off.

This is the case Elina Lampelapole star.

With a dream, he means crossing five meters.

– After all, it is a magical boundary in the female vaulting hypial that only a few have been able to cross.

Elena Isinbayeva exceeded five meters as the first female navigator in the summer of 2005. In his name, he also has a world record, in 2009 jumped 506.

In addition to Isinbayeva Jennifer Suhr, Anželika Sidorova and Sandi Morris.

– All features, everyone, should go forward if you want to jump five meters.

Patience

Lampela, 27, has been refined calmly and a little Wilman Murron In the shadow as an elite class pole jumper.

Lampela was fourth at the European Championship last summer, as was the spring winter European Championships.

“It seems that development has been slow, but over the last five years I have always been able to exceed 450,” he recalls.

-I’ve progressed in small steps, but sometimes I hope that there will be a bit bigger steps-as it was in the European Championships.

Lampela exceeded 470 in the Apeldoorn European Championship final. The record improvement was seven cents.

– I’ve been experiencing for several years that I could have been able to cross 470. At some point came like that … Why don’t I just jump it? Must be patient, he says.

– Years of work begins to produce results. The growth of self -confidence is reflected in the capacity of the value races at its level and even exceeds its own record.

There is no hurry. Lampela is a pole jumper in Prime for years to come.

– If you look at the Paris medalist three, everyone was older than me. Yes, it is very good to do well in this sport in five years.

At the Paris Olympics, the prize ball rose Nina Kennedy, Katie moon and Alysha Newman. Their age at the race time was 27, 33 and 30.

The age of the medal trio at the 2024 European Championships in Rome was 26, 34 and 24, and at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest 26, 32 and 25.

Big steps?

Arto BryggareIltalehti’s athletics expert, in March, commented at the time of the European Championship that Lampela has “seam to take really big steps this summer”.

Is it?

– Yeah, well, I don’t know what’s a big step, but I’m going to get the basic level to get the better sixty or close to the seventies, so it would be possible to reach out to the four -eighties, Lampela replies.

– However, it all starts with the fact that the basic level is there at a certain height, when it is up to a good day to jump on spike results.

What is the result of the body at the moment if that spike jumping comes?

– I don’t really like to say any particular result, but I can say that 470 is not the maximum. Yes, there were certain things in the jump, little stuff that could have been improved. In the end, the jump consists of so many factors.

Toward Tokyo

Lampela opens his season on Monday in Italy.

– In June, it is planned to compete hard, a little less in July, he plans.

– Tokyo is being built.

Tokyo will compete for the World Championships from 13th to 21st. September.

– First and foremost, I’m going to see the final position.