Athletics’ age-old SE end result can also finally be scrapped – right here are 3 possible breakers

No much less than three runners can smash Pekka Vasala’s Finnish file for 1,500 meters, which has been held for extra than 50 years. And it is able to eventually show up this year.

Athletics the home competition season commenced in earnest on Wednesday at the Harju area in Jyväskylä.

The GP night time ended with the guys’s 1,500 meter race, where the younger newcomer Santtu Heikkinen challenged the king Joonas Rinne.

Rinne, 28, matured Heikkinen, who will flip 21 next Monday, together with his long hair. Both ran underneath three:40, which may be considered some form of Finnish ghost line.

Rinne ran the second one fine time of his profession, 3:39.18. Sisupussi Heikkinen ran his file three:39.86.

This season, Finland already has 3 under 3.Forty at 1,500 meters. It’s top season Topi Raitasen 3.38,forty seven.

“Good opposition develops us all. Isn’t that Finnish record going to be damaged soon,” Heikkinen predicted.

Finland’s record is Pekka Vasalan three.36,33 from the Olympic gold run from 1972. Next to it is also Antti Loikkanen in 1980 with guide timing going for walks 3.36.Three.

I’m vulnerable the prediction may also well have come actual this summer, however who the various trio could break Vasala’s extra than 50-year-old SE?

Raitase could have the pleasant conditions, however he wants to profile himself and make a name for himself inside the world as a hurdler.

In the international video games, he would be a 1,500 meter runner among others, but because the European steeplechase champion, he has weight.

“The pace of Rintine and Heikkinen isn't always sufficient. Instead, Heikkinen’s persistence could be enough for a record, if he ought to get into the run, in which the goal is a time of 3:34. Then he could have small seams at the time of Vasala”, skilled athletics observer and previous supervisor Jukka Härkönen examine the problem for Helsingin Sanomat.

Härkönen thinks that Vasala should have long past 1,500 meters in three:32–three:33 in the Munich Olympic Games situation, if a separate velocity run had been prepared on the way inside the equal fall.

The 800-meter race became organized on the Helsinki Olympic Stadium in the aftermath of Munich, where Vasala beat the recent Olympic champion of the distance Dave Wottlen with a time of 1:forty four.6.

 

 

Pekka Vasala aired his 1500 meter gold medal in Munich in 1972. Picture: J. Handcuffs

Coach Kari Sinkkonen remembered HS final summer in the interviewthat Vasala might have run a international document in Helsinki, if he had now not braked too fast at the start.

“Two hundred meters Intermediate time become 23 seconds. When Pekka heard it, he started to brake. It become a mistake. Otherwise, he could have run the sector document,” Sinkkonen said.

Like Heikkinen, Joonas Rinne believes that Vasala SE may be beaten. However, Rinne didn’t start threatening the problem any greater.

”Ari Suhonen SE’s time at 800 meters is fairly more difficult than Vasala’s time at 1,500 meters,” says Rinne.

Suhonen kasi’s Finnish record is 1.44.10. Seki’s file turns 34 this summer.

“Suhosen and Loikkanen could have had possibilities to run around three:34-three:35 in 1,500 meters. Suhonen become at his quality of global elegance. In 1987, he ran a ton in Lahti with a time of two.17, and that 12 months he was fifth inside the global facts on that distance,” says Härkönen.

As a cherry the gp commencing changed into inside the cake Reetta Hurskeen the Finnish document in the a hundred-meter hurdles, 13.70, already run inside the preliminaries.

Time is the pinnacle statistic in Europe this season. There is sufficient time for 16th area on the world listing, however there are no much less than 9 American paddlers ahead of him.

At the World Championships in August, there can best be three Americans on the starting line, so in that statistic, Hurske could be tenth in SE time. Eight oarsmen will run within the World Championship very last.

The statistical number one is the Puerto Rican Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn with a top time of 12.31. Last summer season’s ME runner (12.12) Tobi Amusan clocked 12.Fifty seven ultimate week in Jamaica. In the undressed World Cup information, the Nigerian is 6th.

Hurske already said inside the spring that his goal is the World Cup final. It’s viable, but calls for an ideal run inside the semis. Viivi Lehikoinen has the equal intention within the four hundred meter hurdles.

Hurdle runners Reetta Hurske and Nooralotta Nezeri at the Jyväskylä GP on Wednesday. Picture: Mikko Vähaniitty / Magazine photograph

The closing time a Finnish diver become in the final of the World Championships changed into in 1987, whilst Tuija Helander was 5th inside the four hundred-meter hurdles.

There become drama in Harju in the girls’s velocity fences, whilst Annimari Korte injured his hand on the fence while education. Lotta Haralan a promising run resulted in a crash on the penultimate fence.

Korte had desired to run within the final, but the medical doctor sent him for similarly examinations.

The hand injury does now not interrupt Kortte’s competition season.

“You run it with your feet, you don’t need your hands,” Korte saved joking in Jyväskylä, where season’s pinnacle effects were visible in lots of sports, as is traditional at the moment of the competition season.

Next for once, Finnish athletes are aiming for tough results at home subsequent Tuesday at the Paavo Nurmi Games. Rinne runs 800 meters in Turku, in which she is the most effective Finnish runner. Raitanen is worried in the obstacles.

In the ladies’s high-pace hurdles, the entire pinnacle 4 of Finland can be visible: Hurske and Korte, as well as the one who again to the music after injuries Nooralotta Neziri and Lotta Harala.

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