Only remnant points are available for blue and white in the all-time athletics competition, writes Santtu Silvennoinen from Espoo.
The Finns are ten meters ahead of the world in the men’s spear. PASSI FLAME
The list of participants in Turku’s Paavo Nurmi Games is the highest quality that has been at an athletics event in Finland since the 1980s.
There will be a competition in the men’s spear and men’s sledge worthy of the Olympic final next Tuesday.
The program has eight sports for women and eight for men, and each includes a medalist of at least juniors. The curriculum vitae of Christian Taylor, a Yankee jumper who has won two Olympic golds and four world championships, is the strongest.
The level is so steep that Finns are wall roses in Turku Sports Park. A single domestic win would be a major surprise and a ranking in the top three for tough success.
The essential thing for blue and white is to get the best possible result, as the competition has the highest possible ranking points. PNG is the only A-class competition to be held in Finland this season.
Ranking is a complex system, but when simplified, the idea is similar to tennis: there are more points to be awarded for the 2nd round of the Grand Slam than for winning a challenger tour.
Christian Taylor, who competes in Turku, is a two-time Olympic champion and four-time world champion on the outdoor tracks. AOP
If the athlete does not make the result limit for the Eugene World Championships or the Munich European Championships, the value event can be reached with the help of ranking points.
Eugene’s ranking scoreboard closes on Midsummer Sunday, June 26th.
It is no coincidence that in just over two weeks, three major races will be held in Finland: next week’s PNG (A-level points), on Saturday 18 June the Kuortane GP (B) and Midsummer’s Oulu ranking races (B).
So far, there are 11 Finns in the World Championships: Tiia Kuikka, Elisa Neuvonen, Aleksi Ojala and Aku Partanen (35 km walk), Alisa Vainio (marathon) Topi Raitanen (3000 m ej), Sara Kuivisto (800 m and 1500 m), Wilma Murto (pole vault), Senni Salminen (triple jump) and Silja Kosonen and Krista Tervo (hammer throw).
– Breaking twenty athletes is the first goal. The Tokyo Olympic team gives direction when 21 athletes were involved. It was a clear increase from 5 pm in the 2019 World Cup in Doha, says Tuomo Salonen, Coaching Manager at SUL, and states in a rough estimate that the World Cup will go with 1,160 to 1,200 ranking points.
– But of course there are species for which you have to make a profit limit. In Tokyo, for example, the women’s jump did not get in with points, Salonen continues.
This was the starting point for Aaron Kangas’ record throw of 79.05 at the Espoo GP in 2020. Since then, it has been quieter. PASSI FLAME
When the men’s hammer was thrown at the Espoo GP in 2020, Aaron Kangas stalled 79.05. At the time, I thought that Pirkkala would become the world’s leading whistleblower.
The fabric’s best result last season was 76.85 and this season has gone 75.03. Adjutants Henri Liipola, Aleksi Jaakkola and Tuomas Seppänen have not taken the expected leap forward.
Although the Russians and V-Russians are on the ice, the current earnings condition of the Finns is not enough for Eugene.
Moukari was PNG’s number one species for many years.
Is no longer.
Daniel Ståhl from Turku is more interested in the people. The puck overtook the hammer as the second throw-in for the men in Turku.