Maja Åskaag opens with Maryna Beh’-Romanchuk’s doping cart.
I become a new one Maryna Beh’-Romanchuk. A woman who succeeds at international top levels in both long jumps and triple jumps.
So the young star of Sweden Hut Åskaag Thought still in the spring.
Then the Ukrainian doping cart was reported.
– He has been my idol and my role model since my junior years. He won medals in both sports, so I wanted to be like him, says Åskaag.
– I was sad when I heard the fly. Cheating is never ok. Sad her, sports, sponsors and everyone. On the other hand, it is great that the system works, Swedish continues.
From the day, the Ukrainian has made the so -called wall dispute. He has stated that he has not used testosterone forbidden in top-level sports, at least not intentionally.
– I feel like he is guilty. Of course, new evidence can come, Åskaag says.
Beh’-Romanchuk was recently sentenced to four years of competition. He has announced that he will elect a sport to the International Court of Appeal.
In the right job
Maja Åskaag competes in a weekend athletics match in Stockholm. Pasi Liesimaa
Åskaag became an athlete at the age of 14. Before that, he had mainly had hobbies.
-At the age of 15, I first saw a Swedish match. I thought that Wau, that’s a handsome event. I never thought I’d compete in a national match against Finland, Åskog describes.
It soon became clear that this was a really tough talent. In 2021, he won gold in the Junior World Championships and European Championships in the long jump and triple jump. Two years later, the Espoo U23 European Championships became two silver.
– Right now I value the leap higher. It’s a little closer to my heart. The absolute emphasis on my training is on the triple jump. Long jump is a bonus, but I love it, of course.
In the Tokyo World Cup, the woman competes in both sports.
– There are a couple of rest days between the races. Long jump gives a lot of triple.
The record in the long jump is 675 centimeters and in the triple jump 14.27 meters.
– I want a medal for the value races. Let’s start with the European Championships next year. And then to the finals in the global races. The leap from juniors to the general series is big, but I’m only 22 years old and my big goals are 2028-32.
A woman in Eskilstuna moved to Stockholm in January. He works part-time at FlowLife, which sells recovery products.
-I work at 20 % working time, a day a week. The work is very light, but I like to work. It gives a nice balance for sports.
In Sweden, it is not very unusual for Åskaag-like athletes to work part-time.