Athletics Crisis: The Finnish boss bounced worm figures

The Finnish team had 27 athletes at the Tokyo World Championships, while the preparation camp in Japan was injured Nooralotta Neziri missed out.

The team had 23 athletes in stadium sports that offered more starts. Only sledgehammer throws Silja Kosonen and Krista Tervo as well as the 100 -meter barn runners Lotta Harala and Saara Keskitalo.

-With three points and sixth in the 16th, it would have been a better end in the 2010s, but will be left on those metrics in the 2020s at our weakest value race at the global level, commented on the top sports director of the Sports Federation Tuomo Salonen At the Finnish media meeting on Sunday in the capital of Japan.

As many as 19 athletes left after one event.

– Of course, it shows that it didn’t hit quite well, did not bounce home. It shows up and leaves a little bit of a place. It is known that even the better could have been able.

Marathoner Alisa Vainio as well as walkers Aku Partanen and Jerry Jokinen There was only one competition in the sport. The same goes for a seven -player Saga.

Male shortage

There were only seven male athletes on the Finnish team.

– We have a lot of women and the team has grown a lot throughout the last decades. Eight years ago, the team was 12 athletes at the London World Cup eight years ago. It is typical and characteristic of us at this time that we have more female athletes at the value race level. The World Cup and Olympic team, in particular, is built on the emphasis on female athletes, Salonen announced at the media meeting.

Men’s performance cannot be described as very iron, as the best was the ranked 17th in the spear qualifier in the ranks Lassi Etelätalo.

– It is not really the case that there are special measures to correct this, but to seek more men and women for the World Cup and Olympic Games, and especially for those top positions.

– The trend has been visible in recent years that the number of women on the team is increasing and at the same time the share of the team’s size is increasing.

Spear

In the men’s spear, Finland was for the first time in the history of value without the final athlete.

– There was a very tough level in the qualifying round, exceptionally tough. One of the toughest what the History of the World Cup remembers. However, the guys threw a reasonably qualifying competition at the level they had thrown, Salonen said.

He says that the spear spot in Finland is not as bad as it has been generally presented.

– We have throws at a good level and youth value competition medalists from recent years. Perhaps the qualifying part shows that even in spear, competition has become much more intense this millennium. There, even from quite exotic countries, and at the same time the level has risen hard.

Success

Finland achieved three points in Tokyo, meaning that the athlete was in the top eight in his sport.

– With regard to these races, great performances are remembered: Silja Kosonen Fourth place and Alisa Vainio’s super -accident in fifth place. Of course, they warm the mind and show that good investments and performance can be done when things are right.

The third score was captured by Vanninen, who was seventh in the match. On Saturday, he described the outcome as the greatest failure of his career.

The World Championships in Tokyo will end on Sunday. Finns are not involved on the closing day.

The best Finnish -speaking athlete in Finland Daniel Ståhl Competes in the final of the men’s reel throwing competition.