Athletics | Eveliina Määttänen recovered from the “lactic acid bath” – ran her new record in the Diamond League

Runner Eveliina Määttänen reached his own record in the Stockholm Diamond League of athletics on Sunday. Määttänen finished third in the 800 meter race with a time of 1:59.59.

In his run, Määttänen shaved 15 hundredths of a second off his record. He has broken the two-minute mark five times now.

Sara Lappalainen He was still 18 hundredths away from the Finnish record. Lappalainen has run under two minutes only once, in 2021 in the semifinals of the Tokyo Olympics.

“Before the run, I was a bit nervous about whether I had recovered from the lactic acid bath in the Oslo race,” Määttänen said in the Sports Association’s press release.

He ran in the Oslo Diamond League just three days earlier. At that time, the Finn scored the first round’s terrible speed, less than 57 seconds. Too fast an initial pace ate up the clean, and the final time was more than a second slower than later in Stockholm.

“I still felt the Oslo race in my body, but now it came out just fine when I just let go. Composure also seems to be a trump card when it comes to sharing speed,” commented Määttänen.

The Stockholm run was not perfect in terms of the record hunt, as the pace was moderate. Määttänen ran in a tight group at the time of the opening lap 58.1.

“There was a little bit of contact, but the race was good for such a tactical run.”

The hustle and bustle didn’t stop at the track, as Määttänen took the airport train from Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium directly to the Arlanda Express, which took him to the evening flight to Helsinki-Vantaa.

She will begin her focus on the European Championships in Rome, whose program includes the women’s 800m preliminaries on Monday, August 10.

“I’m going to Rome in a good mood,” said Määttänen, who is in record shape.

Määttänen, 28, rocketed to the top of Finnish athletics and prestigious competitions a couple of summers ago. There were two reasons. First, he doubled the length of his main trip. Secondly, he started to be coached by a Slovenian Jan Petracwho is also Määttänen’s spouse.

Määttänen has already been seen in four prestigious competitions in a couple of years. In particular, he dazzled in the World Championship arena in Budapest last summer, when he ran to the 800m semi-finals.

Stockholm the race did not offer huge results, but it came close in the men’s pole position.

Swedish Armand “Mondo” Duplantis cleared the bar in the pole vault in front of his home audience to a world record height of 625. Duplantis tried three times very cleverly, but the bar fell time after time. However, it is only a matter of time before another ME is born. Maybe that will happen in Rome in a week?

Sweden’s star runner in men’s 3,000 meters Andreas Almgren served his home country’s record of 7:34.28 in the race, which he won with his record of 7:33.49 from Norway Narve Gilje Nordås.

The Flying Dutchman Femke Bol opened his outdoor track season in the 400 meter hurdles with a modest time of 53.07. The run mostly looked like training before the European Championships. Bol’s record is more than 1.5 seconds better.

In the women’s 200 meters, Sweden’s 23-year-old also made a difference Julia Henrikssonwho clocked his own record of 22.89 in the two meters upwind, only to lose to Jamaica To Shericka Jackson.

At the Stockholm Olympic Stadium, the headwind on the front straight watered most of the top times on the fast distances. This upset the person who reported the event to MTV Antero Mertaranta.

“Yes, this headwind is scratching the soul,” “Mertsi” lamented when the times were 1.5 seconds behind the usual times.