Athletics at the European Championships 2022

[Makedonas 2,133]

Stefanidi gives us the third medal here, although I was hoping it would be our third gold. Still nice for her to be on a major podium again for the first time since the 2019 World Championships  and doing so with a SB!

 

Frantzeskakis into the men's hammer final as expected. He is really doing better than Anastasakis who once again failed in qualifying at a major competition...

 

I'm surprised Karydi made it to the women's triple jump final. She's having a horrible season but the level is so low that it makes her look decent.

 

Also pleased to see Gnafaki make it to the 400 hurdles semifinals with a new PB! She had 58.48 as a 19 year old in 2016 and didn't improve her PB until 2020! Now she has improved it 5 more times in the last two years, and here in Munich up to 56.45. Another new PB in the semifinals would be awesome. I'm pleased to see that she is finally back on the right track after years of struggling.

 

 

The bad news for us is that one of our women's 100 hurdles, Anais Karagianni, had to pull out due to injury. She joins the list of female track athletes (Emmanouilidou and Vasiliou as well) that had to withdraw from these Championships 

[Bearas 521]

No one is even near 61m for direct qualification in women's javelin.... 

[Bearas 521]

Lol, I stand corrected, Jasiunaite just did it!

[Werloc 3,161]

Ok, I'm pissed. No way to see 3000m Steeplechase since LRT are geoblocking the livestream, but they're not streaming athletics this morning as well.

 

I woke up for this shit... 

[Grassmarket 3,384]

Judges giving away free extra jumps in the heptathlon long jump for some reason.

 

Looks like two athletes got free jumps - and they both NJed!  

[Werloc 3,161]

Liveta Jasiūnaitė qualifying as number 1 in the women's javelin is giving me war flashbacks of how badly it all went down in the WCH final 

[Bearas 521]

Galvydytė fighting for third spot and then completely loosing her momentum after Herning's trip for no reason. She looked confused... 

[Monzanator 4,487]

Even with the injured hamstring Adrianna Sułek achieves 6.55 PB in the long jump (after two NM).

[heywoodu 14,953]

What was this whole thing with Dokter, Krizsan and an official about after the long jump? It would have been possible to hear them all speak in English and then hear Dokter speak with Vetter in Dutch if it weren't for the English commentator constantly talking through it  

 

I know Dokter jumped well over 6 meters, and then everything got rather vague it seemed.

[heywoodu 14,953]

Ah, apparently there was a technical issue during Krizsan's jump, after which Dokter was cleared to jump. They were however still fixing the issue, leading to there not being a photo of Dokter's take-off, so they couldn't allow her result. It seems they were both allowed another attempt, as they should, but during Krizsan's new attempt another technical issue appeared (but this time the photo showed she was over the line anyway). Dokter wasn't shown anymore, uncertain whether or not she jumped again. That's a real shame though, that seemingly legal jump - just with an unfortunate organizational error - seemed to be at least half a meter better than what she now has as result, that's a ton of points