During a workout, her finger got stuck between the weights. Now her nail is completely blue and inflamed. The match did not go entirely according to plan. Yet she stuttered over 20 meters in her last throw. “I wanted that for the audience. But with pain.”
Schilder was announced as the world champion in Hengelo. Last year she won that title in Tokyo. She recently improved her personal record to 21.09 meters. As a result, Natalya Lisovskaya’s world record from 1987 suddenly comes into view, which is 22.63 meters. “This is still too far away,” says a sober Schilder.
Nadine Visser
Earlier in the afternoon, Nadine Visser ran to victory in the 100 meter hurdles. The 31-year-old athlete from Hoorn raced to 12.52 with a strong headwind. Afterwards she was happy with her race. “Very happy that I could win here in front of the home crowd, and in good time.”
The temperature in Hengelo rose to 30 degrees. Visser tried to cool himself with plenty of water. “It ensures that we go fast,” says Visser about the heat. “It takes a bit of puffing and supporting in the warm-up, but as a sprinter you run the fastest with it.”
