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Athletics at the European Championships 2022


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Ireland are sending a team of 38 athletes to the European Championships in Munich. The team is led by 3 former medalists, Thomas Barr (400m Hurdles), Mark English (800m) and Ciara Mageean (1500m) and contains many fresh faces.

 

 

:IRL IRELAND :IRL

 

 Men's 100m (1)  Israel Olatunde
 Men's 200m (1)  Marcus Lawler
 Men's 400m (1)  Chris O'Donnell
 Men's 800m (2)  Mark English
 John Fitzsimons
 Men's 1500m (2)  Luke McCann
 Andrew Coscoran
 Men's 5000m (2)  Brian Fay
 Darragh McElhinney
 Men's 10000m (2)  Efrem Gidey
 Hiko Haso Tonosa
 Men's Marathon (1)  Hugh Armstrong
 Men's 400m Hurdles (1)  Thomas Barr
 Men's Shot Put (1)  Eric Favors
 Men's 20km Walk (1)  David Kenny
 Men's 35km Walk (2)  Alex Wright
 Brendan Boyce
 Men's 4x100m Relay (6)  Israel Olatunde
 Joseph Ojewumi
 Mark Smyth
 Colin Doyle
 Leon Reid
 Marcus Lawler
 Women's 400m (3)  Rhasidat Adeleke
 Phil Healy
 Sophie Becker
 Women's 800m (2)  Louise Shanahan
 Ciara Mageean
 Women's 1500m (2)  Sarah Healy
 Ciara Mageean
 Women's 5000m (1)  Roisin Flanagan
 Women's Marathon (3)  Fionnuala McCormack
 Aoife Cooke
 Ann Marie McGlynn
 Women's 100m Hurdles (1)  Sarah Lavin
 Women's 3000m Steeplechase (2)  Michelle Finn
 Eilish Flanagan
 Women's Heptathlon (1)  Kate O'Connor
 Women's 4x400m Relay (6)  Rhasidat Adeleke
 Phil Healy
 Sophie Becker
 Sharlene Mawdsley
 Cliodhna Manning
 Roisin Harrison

 

 

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Bulgaria is sending only 6 athletes at these Championships. It's safe to say, that along with football, it's the biggest downfall of a sport in our current history. It's truly amazing with the last 50 year history in this sport, that we are only able to send a team fitting a minnow state, let alone fight for finals, or a pipe dream of getting medals.. Like swimming is having a better, much better team currently, a sport, that has almost no tradition here.

 

Tihomir Ivanov (M, High Jump)

Georgi Nachev (M, Triple Jump)

 

Mirela Demireva (W, High Jump)

Alexandra Nacheva (W, Triple Jump)

Militsa Mircheva (W, Marathon)

Marinela Nineva (W, Marathon)

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58 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

Bulgaria is sending only 6 athletes at these Championships. It's safe to say, that along with football, it's the biggest downfall of a sport in our current history. It's truly amazing with the last 50 year history in this sport, that we are only able to send a team fitting a minnow state, let alone fight for finals, or a pipe dream of getting medals.. Like swimming is having a better, much better team currently, a sport, that has almost no tradition here.

 

Tihomir Ivanov (M, High Jump)

Georgi Nachev (M, Triple Jump)

 

Mirela Demireva (W, High Jump)

Alexandra Nacheva (W, Triple Jump)

Militsa Mircheva (W, Marathon)

Marinela Nineva (W, Marathon)

well, you had some success at the recent junior worlds...

 

so, there's a chance to improve the current (sad) situation of Bulgarian athletics...

 

Mitkova is basically ready for the senior stage with her jumps in Cali...it won't take long before she can make the global finals...

 

the high jump guy (sorry, I don't remember his name at the moment) is more a long shot, but maybe he also has a chance to develop in a global medal contender in a few years...

 

and you know, it only takes someone to ignite the spark and then the good tradition can always comeback...

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1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Hmm. Only 24 athletes in womens Hugh jump. Why they did not invite sb other? 

They should get better this rankings and invitations for next time.

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2 hours ago, phelps said:

well, you had some success at the recent junior worlds...

 

so, there's a chance to improve the current (sad) situation of Bulgarian athletics...

 

Mitkova is basically ready for the senior stage with her jumps in Cali...it won't take long before she can make the global finals...

 

the high jump guy (sorry, I don't remember his name at the moment) is more a long shot, but maybe he also has a chance to develop in a global medal contender in a few years...

 

and you know, it only takes someone to ignite the spark and then the good tradition can always comeback...

You know, i saw those results last week, but i just can't feel optimistic about. Good junior athletes come and go (at least here) all the time, but only a select few make the transition to a good senior level. It's not only in athletics, but with all sports, there is just something broken in our system, that can't push juniors into the top of the senior level.

 

Whether it's the financial situation, the coaching methods, the training preparations, the athletes desire and motivation, there is always something, that prevents the majority of juniors breaking through. And i'm sure this could be said for any country. 

 

Will see, what will happen with Mitkova. The same was being said about Alexandra Nacheva. World Champion, Youth Olympic Champion in 2018, bunch of other medals, big talent aaaand her PB is still from that 2018. 4 years after that, she hasn't shown any progress, better jumps, she is basically on the same junior level as she was, when 16-17.

 

Just another example from the past 10 days. Apparently we won some fancy juniors women's tennis team cup and people were gushing what a prosperous group of girls we have, everyone is the best in their age group yada-yada (tennis has become a rising sport between kids, because of Grigor Dimitrov). I can bet a good amount, that those girls won't even reach the top 100 in the WTA in years time... 

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3 hours ago, stepansevs said:

Hmm. Only 24 athletes in womens Hugh jump. Why they did not invite sb other? 

They should get better this rankings and invitations for next time.

The federations had 8 days to deregister their athletes so that others could move up. There is definitely no failure on the part of EA, but the federations with their selfish behavior are to blame.

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56 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

The federations had 8 days to deregister their athletes so that others could move up. There is definitely no failure on the part of EA, but the federations with their selfish behavior are to blame.

Johannes Vetter will take part or German officials continue to being German officials as we all know them ?

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5 hours ago, stepansevs said:

Hmm. Only 24 athletes in womens Hugh jump. Why they did not invite sb other? 

They should get better this rankings and invitations for next time.

The real problem with rankings is that some people that are qualified get injured and such, whilst some athletes that don't really have a chance to qualify anymore end their season, then get the invitation that they decline, because they are not prepared. 

 

That's how three of our athletes stayed at home. 

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