MUNICH: Poland’s Aleksandra Lisowska claimed the primary identify on the Ecu championships, successful the ladies’s marathon at the streets of Munich on Monday. The 31-year-old Pole clocked 2hr 28min 36sec, Croatia’s Matea Parlov Kostro taking silver, at 7sec, with Nienke Brinkman of the Netherlands claiming bronze, an extra 10sec adrift.
The lads’s marathon identify went the best way of host country Germany as Richard Ringer produced a very well-judged ultimate burst previous Ethiopian-born Israeli Maru Teferi for gold. Ringer dug deep in entrance of hundreds of onlookers to time 2:10.21, with Teferi taking silver, 2sec in the back of, and some other Ethiopian-born Israeli, Gashau Ayale, claiming bronze an extra 6sec adrift.
The outlet day of the athletics championships had opened in dramatic taste as global decathlon champion Kevin Mayer’s bid for a primary Ecu identify got here to a shuddering halt as he pulled up within the opening 100m. Global document holder Mayer, two times global champion and a two-time Olympic silver medalist, had warned that he would withdraw from the grueling two-day tournament will have to he really feel even the slightest ache.
And so it proved because the Frenchman took the foot off the pedal after 70 meters of the 100m, the primary of 10 occasions at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. “I did a decathlon 3 weeks in the past,” he mentioned in connection with his global title-winning effort in Eugene, Oregon, dubbing his bid so as to add the continental identify to his haul as a “challenge unattainable”. “I pulled up sooner than damage. I had one hundredth of a 2nd to come to a decision: raise on and I injure myself, or I forestall. It’s very arduous.
“I gave myself each likelihood to have a good time once more as a result of, irrespective of the fears and tension it would generate, at the monitor I’ve such a lot a laugh! “I sought after to present myself a possibility to get there, I didn’t be triumphant, it doesn’t topic: I’m global champion, my season has been a good fortune, which was once sudden given my accidents.” The night time consultation on the Olympic Stadium sees medals up for grabs in each the women and men’s shot put, in addition to the ladies’s 10,000m. – AFP