Summer European Youth Olympic Festival 2023

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There was nearly a three way tie in the girls 100m hurdles. All three medalists finished with a time of 13.22, but Zajac  (3rd) was 0.003 seconds behind Montauban  and Wild .

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1 hour ago, phelps said:

 Cooper 2.14.53

 Roth 2.15.91

 Megelova 2.17.78 @hckošice medal no.5 

Amazing. However the time is terrible but yeah a medal is still a medal

 

and btw, Happy Birthday young man

 

50 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

 winning medals in judo and swimming as we all would have expected and predicted 

 

Slovakia is really feeling that Slovenia. Travel there might even be considered a good idea 

Absolutely amazing day for sure for us. We rarely win 2 medals in a day, so 3 is just a science-fiction

 

 

Edited July 28, 2023 by hckošice

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1 hour ago, phelps said:

 Cooper 2.14.53

 Roth 2.15.91

 Megelova 2.17.78 @hckošice medal no.5 

Thanks. Very promising generation on the women's side for GB and Germany. Romania also has a lot of good talents and Italy is doing a good job on the men's side + Jackl of course has to be mentioned. We might see some of them at the olympics next year already. Especially Blocksidge and Jackl aren't far away.

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41 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Amazing. However the time is terrible but yeah a medal is still a medal

 

and btw, Happy Birthday young man

 

Absolutely amazing day for sure for us. We rarely win 2 medals in a day, so 3 is just a science-fiction

 

 

The time isn't terrible for her age, the two girls ahead of her are both 1 year older. She would be 38th in the american all-time rankings for 13/14 year olds. She has until next year to improve on that ranking. For comparison some of the other girls on that list:

2:18.57 Kate Douglass

2:18.42 Summer McIntosh

2:18.21 Kathleen Baker

2:18.20 Sydney Pickrem

2:17.75 Nathalie Coughlin

2:17.64 Maya DiRado

2:17.48 Claire Weinstein

2:17.21 Elizabeth Beisel

2:17.19 Ariana Kukors

2:16.96 Bella Sims

2:16.28 Regan Smith

 

I think her problem is that slovakian coaches don't know how to produce world-class swimmers and by the time that she will be old enough to go to college, it will probably already be too late for her (since she wasted multiple years of development). For her the best would probably to go to Hungary or even GB. Those two nations know how to produce world class swimmers in the IM. Sadly that doesn't seem like a very realistic option for her, unless her parents are rich ...

 

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Very impressive week by Kevric in women's artistic gymnastics. She won 4 out of 6 possible golds and it very well could have been 6 out of 6. The women's team missed gold by only 0.8 points and in the vault final she only missed gold by 0.016 points. Difficult to say where she is at compared to the best talents in her age group, but she for sure is one of the best talents Germany has produced in a long time.

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Does anyone (from Italy) know why Italy competed with a completely new women's team here? They had a completely different team at junior worlds earlier this year. Did they want to give their "reserve" a chance to compete at the international level?

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Apparently women's shot put was won by Nafy Thia M from Belgium ...

Edited July 29, 2023 by OlympicsFan

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Pretty unlucky results for Germany in the tennis tournament. McDonald getting injured cost him a (gold) medal chance in the individual and the double. On the women's side the german athletes were unlucky to run into athletes from the Czech Republic in both the individual and the double competition in the quarterfinal already.

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On 7/27/2023 at 5:47 PM, Olympian1010 said:

Good battle between  and  for gold in women’s skateboarding (street).  comes out on top in the end.

 

Overall, the level of the competition was good, but nothing too crazy. Europe still has some work to do to catch up to North America, Latin America, and East Asia.

Got  whacked, though.

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Interesting result in women's volleyball. Slovenia vs. Germany in the final, seems rather unexpected. Not sure what happened to Italy, Serbia, Poland and Turkey.