Athletics Weekly – July 24, 2019

BORÅS, SWEDEN, JULY 18-21 @ATHLETICSWEEKLY

gold but I thank God for everything

• first or last. I wasn’t healthy a few
  weeks back so I just have to take
  things as they come and keep
  rolling with it.”
  His fellow Briton, the strongly-
  fancied Jeremiah Azu, pulled up
  with a hamstring injury. Their team-
  mate Tobi Ogunkanmi made the
  semi-finals where he ran 10.63.
  Then it was Fontana’s turn as she
  secured success in the women’s
  event, setting a national under-20
  record of 11.40 (+0.8m/sec), the
  same time as N’ketia Seedo ran in
  second.
  The previous day had seen
  16-year-old Seedo run a Dutch
  under-18 record time of 11.37 in the
  heats.
  Spain’s Jael Bestue was third
  in 11.59, just ahead of GB’s Aliu in
  fourth with 11.60.

Kokhan creates

hammer history

AN historic hammer contest was

highlighted by Ukraine’s Mykhaylo

Kokhan as he improved the previous

European under-20 record with

four of his throws. His best of

84.73m in the third round was also

a championship record by almost

three metres and moved the former

world under-18, European under-18

and Youth Olympic champion up

to second place on the world U20

all-time list.

In an exciting competition

he took gold ahead of Hristos

Frantzeskakis who improved his

Greek under-20 record to 84.22m

for a mark also further than the

previous European under-20 record

of 82.97m.

Italy’s Giorgio Olivieri claimed

bronze with 78.75m, while the

competition of Britain’s Bayley

Campbell came to an early end

following three fouls. Ben Hawkes

threw 69.68m in qualifying and did

not make the final.

Spain’s Yasiel Brayan Sotero won

the men’s discus title with 62.93m

as Czech twins Michal (62.17m) and

Jakub Forejt (61.64m) secured silver

and bronze. GB team co-captain

James Tomlinson finished fifth with

60.01m.

Aleh Tamashevich of Belarus won

the men’s shot put with 21.32m as

GB’s Lewis Byng placed eighth with

18.70m, while Simon Wieland threw

a Swiss under-23 record of 79.44m

to win the men’s javelin.

Jules Pommery of France

claimed the men’s long jump title

with 7.83m (-2.7m/sec) as Britain’s

Stephen Mackenzie (7.07m) and

Alessandro Shennini (6.92m)

placed 10th and 11th. Germany’s

Thomas Carmoy won the high jump

(2.22m) and Artem Konovalenko

of Ukraine won the triple jump

(16.50m).

Norway’s Pal Haugen Lillefosse

cleared a best of 5.41m to take

pole vault gold, with silver going to

Ukraine’s Ilya Kravchenko (5.31m).

France’s Robin Emig (5.31m) won

bronze. Rankings leader Matthias

Orban of France was just fifth with

a clearance of 5.11m.

Long-time decathlon leader

Simon Ehammer wrapped up the

title by securing a Swiss junior

record score of 7851 points.

That put him 151 points ahead

of Netherlands’ Leon Mak, while

Britain’s Joel McFarlane (7203) and

Jack Turner (7040) were 14th and

18th respectively.

Mykhaylo Kokhan:

impressive

hammer series

British medal tally

Gold:

Isabelle Boffey – 800m

Oliver Dustin – 800m

Amy Hunt – 200m

Joshua Zeller – 110m hurdles

Women’s 4x100m

Women’s 4x400m

Silver:

Amber Anning – 400m

Seamus Derbyshire – 400m hurdles

Ben Pattison – 800m

Bronze:

Keely Hodgkinson – 800m

Joshua Lay – 1500m

Lucy-Jayne Matthews – 100m hurdles

Holly Mills – Long jump

Finley McLear – 800m

Chad Miller – 100m

Simon Wieland: javelin gold

Yasiel Brayan Walking tall: decathlon victor Simon Ehammer (1)

Sotero: won

the discus