Sport|Athletics World Championships
Eugene’s Hayward Field is an athletics-only, renovated stadium. Elmo Lakka is the first Finnish sprinter to reach the top-speed track.
Eugene
Elmo Lakka will be the first Finnish sprinter to try Hayward Field’s fast running track at the World Athletics Championships stadium in Eugene.
American Sydney McLaughlin broke the women’s 400m hurdles world record at Hayward Field in late June with a time of 51.41 at the national championships, where other tough results were also achieved.
Hayward Field is a renovated athletics-only stadium with a capacity of 25,000 spectators. The stadium is sold out as Eugene is the epicenter of US track and field.
“It’s great to compete in a stadium made only for athletics. The track is really fast and snappy,” says Lakka.
The men’s 110 meter hurdles preliminaries will be run on Saturday at 21:25 Finnish time. In Eugene, it is then 11:25 a.m. Saturday afternoon.
Last year, Lakka scored SE 13.31. In Eugene, it would be enough for the next place. This season, Lakka has run final times between 13.55 and 13.58 four times.
Lacquer did his finishing practice on the track the night before Friday Finnish time. At the same time, he practiced the transmission rhythm of the local sender, which can surprise.
“It was kept on racks for a long time. I still have to listen to the preliminaries of the men’s 100, what kind of broadcast rhythm is there”, Lakka thought.
A coach for sprinters Petteri Jousteen according to the World Cup, “Swedish senders who send more slowly” have also been found.
“Each sender shoots in his own way. Experienced athletes know how to go. They don’t intentionally take false starts,” says Jouste.
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