Recap of Slovak athletes competing in Day 7
In Athletics
Men´s
200m
Our first medal in this edition. Ján Volko was supposed to be the leader of our delegation and this 20 years old guy showed that he can stand the pressure, after missing the 100m bronze by 0.03 seconds this time he presented a great finish in the final meters to win a great bronze. Congrats man. In the semifinals he won his semi with 20.82 and advanced to the final, 2 hours later he won our first medal with a time of 20.99
Šimon Bujna finished 7th in his semifinal with 21.46 and did not qualified for the final
5000m
Peter Ďurec eliminated in the heats. He finished in his heat 11th with a time of 14:51.36 and failed to qualify for the final
20km Race Walk
Dominik Černý finished 14th with 1:36:10 and Miroslav Úradník DNF the race after 18km.
Women´s
200m
Alexandra Bezeková presented her careers performance here qualifying to the todays final and she really was not far of a medal. finishing 4th in the final with 23.70
High Jump
Tatiana Dunajská (the Miss of the games), qualified to the finals as last 12th qualified thanks her result 1.70
Hammer Throw
Veronika Kaňuchová competed in the final and finished 10th with 63.14 from her 1st attempt.
Heptathlon
Originally we expected to have 2 athletes competing, unfortunately Stanislava Lajčáková because of injury had to retire from the competition and DNS today, so our only representative here became the young Lucia Mokrášová, she is currently 9th after 4 events with 3071 points (her todays results 5th in her 100m Hurdles heat with 14.93, 1.59 in High Jump, 12.69 in Shot Put and 26.09 in 200m)
In Golf
Michal Brezovský is 36th after 3rd round with 223 (+7) in the men´s category, Natália Hečková is 27th after 3rd round with 229 (+13) among womens
In Tennis
Ivan Košec/Simona Parajová won in the 3rd round of the mixed doubles over Gajewski/Jegiolka of 6-1, 6-4 and advanced to the quarterfinals
In Table Tennis
Jakub Figeľ lost also his last match in his preliminary pool of the men´s singles this time to Wong Ka-Ho of 2-3 (-9, 11, 5, -8, -9)
and here our first medal