The World Championships of Salla Sipponen and Anniina Kortetmaa are over.
Pirkkala has been chosen as the most positive municipality in Finland. The night before Tuesday, Finnish time, the local ambassador in the sports world experienced less positive moments.
– Excited as hell, sighed the discus thrower Salla Sipponen27.
– These are the biggest crackers I’ve ever been to, he continued.
The tension was already felt in the body hours before the start.
– Even at night the ressi didn’t hit, but during the day the food didn’t taste good.
Sipponen raced the lowest throws of the qualifying group with ferocious power. The first and third were poor performances in puck terms, i.e. performances that went into the notebook. In the second, the device slipped into the field at 57.16 meters.
– The second one was a surprisingly good result considering how bad that performance was. I couldn’t get the technique right. Traditional emergency.
Earlier this season, the Finn set a record of 60.58.
– More than three meters less than the record in the World Cup qualification is quite a lot, said the athlete with a sense of humor.
Sipponen’s result was not enough for the discus throw final, so he will soon return to Pirkkala.
On a quick visit
Salla Sipponen did not advance to the discus final. PASI STOVE LAND/IL
A 200-meter runner who made an effort to reach the World Championships from position 287 in the world rankings thanks to the ranking system Anniina Korttemaa was a world star in his own preliminary round Elaine Thompson-Herah next to the seventh track.
– It was great to run in it, so you had to focus completely on your own performance, he said.
My performance was 23.51 for the rest of the time. It wasn’t enough to continue.
– It was a bit sticky. The final result was the basic level of this season.
Kortetmaa, 27, has a record of 23.42 and a season’s best of 23.44.
The athlete who made it to Eugene by surprise arrived in the United States the other Sunday and will leave for home on Thursday of this week.
– The hard start was a good experience considering the European Championships.
The women’s 200 meters is, like the hundred, between the Jamaican stars.
– I guess so Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce win. His hundred was so strong that even the runner-up will pass.
Anniina Kortetmaa’s competitive performance in Eugene lasted 23.51 seconds. PASI STOVE LAND/IL