Munich. That was the night I saw Daniel Stahl abdicate as the world’s discus king.
There isn’t just a new mayor in town.
two things. Or it’s two.
Daniel Stoll He went without a medal for the second consecutive tournament, when he only reached 66.39 in the final.
Fourth at WC in Eugene and now fifth here in Munich, he changed places with Simon Peterson finishing fourth this time with a 67.12 shot.
Being defeated by today’s dominants Christian C and Micholas Alkana wasn’t much of a problem.
She was first and second in WC as well, although it was Alekna who surprisingly won this time with a throw of 69.78.
Only nineteen years old.
What not to evolve into in the world of discus where 23-year-old Christian Sieh ranks highest and where they both have a future.
But the fact that former NFL player Lawrence Okoye would finish third came as a real shocker.
Which makes it possible to call this a Swedish flop, considering that both Ståhl and Simon threw over 70m recently as they did at SM in Norrköping two weeks ago.
But there the winds and conditions were perfect.
Here in the cauldron at the Olympic stadium in Munich, conditions were noticeably worse.
This makes Alekna 69.78 even more impressive.
The nineteen-year-old who also has an entire school season in the United States behind him.
A new world discus throwing system
No, I think I just watched the end of a Swedish era, in which Daniel Stahl was forced to abdicate forever, having managed to call himself a world and Olympic champion for about a year.
Without a medal in two consecutive championships now and without the gold buckle in the right arm we are used to.
Simon Pettersson can still improve and it was the first time he beat Daniel Ståhl in a tournament final. He feels like more hope for the future than Ståhl at the moment, especially since he’s raised his best for nine straight years. But he is 28 years old and nearing the end of his career.
And what would he be able to do to two of the greatest discus throwing talents the world has ever seen?
Looks like we’re going to learn a new discus world order.
Unfortunately.
For the EC team led by Kajsa Bergqvist, the disc medal was indeed needed.
Now he will stop at gold and silver, as Mundo Duplantis will jump home with the gold he earned in the pole vault on Saturday night.
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But even this is not enough to beat Finland in the medal league, which, unlike Sweden, has survived and really risen in this European championship.
I sit here and look enviously at my fellow Finns not without reason.
There is celebration after another surprising gold in EC, when Topi Raitanen returned with a superior victory in the men’s 3000 hurdles here on a cool Friday night.
And just a few minutes later, Christina Makela jumped home with the silver medal at the European Championships with three steps, when she set a Finnish record with her jump of 14.64 and increased her personal best by 16 cm.
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We Swedes lie to me
Not to mention Norway.
They have already outperformed Sweden in the European Commission’s medal league.
Karsten Warholm ran home gold in the 400 hurdles with ease as Jacob Ingbrigtsen ran double gold in the 1500 and 5000 meters.
We Swedes are well protected there.
Can Kramer scream again?
Now it was not only dark Swede.
I had basically counted Andreas Kramer out of the 800m final, after his poor experience where he got first on time.
He now shocked the entire field of runners when he won the semi-final, after a brilliantly completed race.
He chose the exact opposite tactic of trying, when he took the lead, pulled and tied it at the end.
Now he went to bed last time and when the riots started he had all his strength left.
I thought he’d have trouble getting past the field in front of him, but he found the right gaps in the crowd and was first across the finish line.
There were no bad people he met either and now hope is lit for a new EC medal.
After all, Kramer achieved a major breakthrough, when he took home a silver medal at the European Championships in Berlin four years ago.
Can he bark again?
It will already be needed.
We love it
Then of course we also have Perseus Karlström. But he still has his own association and his own guild captain in his mother’s sword. He goes outside.
Also strong from Hanna Hermansson to finish seventh in the women’s 1500m and set a personal record of 4:05:76 – half a second better than before.
She used the same tactics as Kramer and stayed away, before running past four girls on the run.
We love it.
