Bad luck continues to chase Björn Koreman from Geertruidenberg. The marathon runner has to skip the European Athletics Championships in Munich in August. The athlete has suffered a hip injury that will sideline him for weeks.
“Where I thought a few weeks ago that it was an innocent pain in my hip, the sports doctor told me the reality. A stress source in my ilium, which means four weeks of walking rest. With seven weeks until the European Championships can so immediately draw a line through it,” the 31-year-old athlete writes on Instagram.
Olympics
The European Championship would be his first major tournament. Koreman more than met the limit in April in the Rotterdam marathon with a time of 2.10.32. Last year Koreman missed out on participating in the Olympic marathon. He had met the limit, but there were five other athletes with the limit in his pocket.
The Athletics Union chose the three men with the best times. “This makes it feel extra sour, but I will also come out stronger here to start blazing the coming marathons towards Paris 2024”, Koreman writes, Tom Hendrikse and Ronald Schröer now remain as participants in the marathon at the European Championship.