Samuli Samuelsson was surprised how the jacket was empty after the SE run in July.
The men’s 100 meters preliminaries of the Kaleva Games were run at 12:35 on Saturday. The final was run at 19:50 the same evening.
In the meantime, the thought of another one crossed my mind. A break of almost seven and a half hours between runs is quite rare for sprinters.
– I could already see it in my concentration. I was just waiting for you to start running already. Terrible tension was on, really restless feeling, SE man Samuli Samuelsson described after the final.
We are used to waiting at the Kaleva Games, but the 3-4 hour break is already short compared to Saturday.
– Of course, you had to eat after the first round. However, I couldn’t do it a second time, because then it would be too much. After my run, I watched the 400m races, and after that it was just waiting in the hotel room.
Samuelsson’s excitement erupted into the second Finnish championship of his career with a score of 100. The run was still excellent. 10.24 was the third best time of his career.
In the final, the wind was blowing three meters per second towards the finish line.
– I didn’t really even know how to run with such a hard dowry. It was a really good run.
The jacket was completely deflated
For Samuli Samuelsson, the second 100th World Championship gold in his career tasted very sweet. Mikko Lieri / AOP
Samuelsson rose to the lips of the whole nation in July in Porvoo at the latest. The star print of the Ikaalisen Ureilijats was caught Tommi Hartonen in the Finnish record time of 10.16.
Then the spin started.
The good-natured Finnish runner had been waiting his whole life to get SE for himself. He couldn’t even imagine the state of being after the record run.
– I didn’t think that the jacket would empty that much. Its digestion required its own time. Of course, the phone rang hard for a couple of days. It would have been good to get a breather, but that moment never came. That’s why it took a little longer to recover from the whole thing.
Samuelsson says that for the past seven years, everything was aimed at only one goal: the Finnish record.
– Now that that goal doesn’t exist, we have to reinvent the wheel. It’s still a bit of a work in progress, he laughed.
Parts change
Samuel Purola (second on the right) begged for Samuelsson’s scalp with a hundred. Mikko Lieri / AOP
When it comes to the current level of Finns in sprinting, Samuelsson’s lips forcefully rise. Samuel Purola immediately after broke 200m SE.
The duo’s final battle was awaited with itching fingers in the stands of Joensuu’s central field.
– Even if those other runners don’t say it out loud, of course they wanted to win the scalp from me. That’s how it should be, that the record holder has something to prove at the Kaleva Games.
Purola finished second in the final with a time of 10.33. In the 200 meters, Samuelsson starts as a challenger.
– He certainly knows that when we are on the line, we go for the win, the number one man of the hundred grinned.
Won the SM bronze Santeri Örn has clocked his best 10.36 this season. in Joensuu Santeri Lehtonen reached his best time of the season with 10.45.
Finland’s situation for the European relay in Munich looks promising.