Athletics at the European Championships 2022

[Monzanator 4,798]

Spotakova and Vilagos improve in the last throw!

 

60.68 for grandma, 62.01 for the teenager

 

Szilagyi drops from silver to 4th bc of these two throws.

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and our commentator now with his typical dry humor: "and look, javelin throwers get világoš from Vilagos"...ehm..haha..

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Finally second medal for Czechia Republic

[Belle 1,038]

Congrats Greece! Love that the young generation take gold and silver  and the grandma the bronze. I’m pleased with the results in the women’s javelin 

[Makedonas 2,239]

GOLD for Elina, so awesome! 

 

We won 4 gold medals here now, the first 2 on the same day (women's 35km and men's long jump), and then the second 3 on the same day (women's 20km and women's javelin).

 

20 years ago, Mirela Manjani won gold in the women's javelin in Munich 2002. Now, 20 years later once again in Munich, Elina Tzengko wins gold in the women's javelin. Both girls are of Albanian origins as well. Really we've only had three notable female athletes with Albanian origins, and all are javelin throwers . Of course Elina is the only one who was born in Greece, the other two were migrants.

 

Manjani won two Olympic medals so hopefully Tzengko can also do the same. Her progress reminds me of Tentoglou's, so hopefully she can become as dominant as him over the next few years.

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12 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

Is it confirmed that Vuleta is retiring? I thought she was retiring after the World Indoors in Belgrade but she's still around obviously.

 

It would be a big loss for Serbia as they don't have many top athletes in athletics, although Topic and Vilagos are big hopes for them.

no, she already started saying that she might make up her mind after Thursday night's triumph...

 

at least, this is according to our usually well informed broadcasters...

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and teams again going to Triathlon it looks

[Monzanator 4,798]

Alright, women's 4x400 final next. Anything below gold medal for Poland will be deemed a minor failure but Swiety-Ersetic just isn't good enough this season so we might settle for bronze behind GB and Pays Bas.

[Grassmarket 4,085]

Spanish 4x400m ladies do the Macareña - pure quality. 

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1 minute ago, Grassmarket said:

Spanish 4x400m ladies do the Macareña - pure quality. 

I thought it was Asereje