Athletics EAA Under 23 European Championships 2021

[maestro 702]

Fantastic 400m final. All top seven finishers set a new personal best or equaled their previous.  Vondrova beat Malikova for gold with a 51.19.   

[hckošice 16,630]

Great run, with not the fastest first 100m but excellent second part. Clearly, one of the top SVK sport results of the year behind Vlhová or hockey win over RUS at WCH and football win over POL at EURO.

 

I am very happy

 

 

 

[Grassmarket 4,305]

4 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Highly unlikely.

Ah, that famous German sense of humour.  

[hckošice 16,630]

Czech gold and silver in W 400

[Makedonas 2,263]

Who's dumb idea was it to have the men's 5000m split into two final races? 

[Grassmarket 4,305]

Rare medal for . Not many fans in the crowd to give him a flag, though.

[Grassmarket 4,305]

2 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

Who's dumb idea was it to have the men's 5000m split into two final races? 

Agree. Two heats on Thursday morning: final on Sunday afternoon.

[Jinzha 703]

Gold medal for Schilder in women's shot put today. But a little disappointed Van Klinken (4th shot put), Angela (3rd 400mH) and Sedney (4th 100mH) couldn't do more.

[Illya 590]

Easy win for Yaroslava Mahuchikh and another 2.00+ m. clearance

[Makedonas 2,263]

Another silver for Karalis. Was hoping he'd be able to upgrade his silver from 2019 to a gold this year but I guess it's still a decent result for him. He's been pretty disappointing the past few years. He's made zero progress while his peer Duplantis has done the exact opposite.

 

I don't want to be too harsh on Karalis because he had some serious injuries, but I question his focus and commitment. He seems like he cares more to be a famous/social media influencer.

 

He's still only 21 but the fact that his PB of 5.80(i) was from February 2018 is quite concerning. Back then he was 18 and seemed like he would surely improve a little more over the next couple years and become a medal contender for Tokyo. Clearly that isn't the case.