Long jump, triple jump or both? The eternal question still has no easy answer for Maja Åskag. “We’ll see how it goes at the World Championships next year,” says the 23-year-old.
SportsArmand Duplantis declines collaborations with Chinese sponsors. The pole vault star's agency has learned from the criticism storm against Sarah Sjöström's Huawei collaboration. It became almost unbearable, says agent Daniel Wessfeldt.
SportsArmand Duplantis is joined by ten Swedish track and field athletes in the indoor World Championship in Chinese Nanjing next weekend.
SportsMelwin Lycke Holm got cramp in both calves, only reached over 2.13 meters and was knocked out in the high jump qualifying round at the European Championship. It's so damn pity, because it's not a good class today either. It sucks, says the 20-year-old.
SportsStefan Holm's debut as a radio expert is delayed since his son Melwin Lycke Holm was selected at the last minute to the indoor European Championship in Apeldoorn. "It's like nothing dramatic in itself. More comical", writes the coach in a text message.
SportsThree days after her Swedish record on 200 meters at the indoor Swedish Championship in Växjö, Julia Henriksson was selected to the year's first athletics championship, the indoor European Championship in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
SportsJakob Ingebrigtsen crushed the world record in the English mile (1,609 meters) at the indoor athletics gala in Lievin, France, with a time of 3:45.14. The Norwegian was clocked at 3:29.63 after 1,500 meters in the race, which is also a world record.
SportsBoth Maja Åskag and Henrik Larsson impressed, but there were no new Swedish indoor records. Even though it was close.
SportsNew rules await in several events at the World Championship in athletics. Maja Åskag likes the change: It can benefit me, says the long jumper and triple jumper.
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