It was as before – Republic

Joanna Jóźwik, beautiful face of our success

Source: AFP

author: Olivier Morini

Source: Republic

Twelve Polish medals in the European Championships in Zurich. At the weekend there was a silver Paul Fajdka, Pawel Wojciechowski and Yared Shegumo and bronze Joanna Jóźwik and men’s 4×400 meters relay.

Polish championship finished in sixth place in the medal count. Each day brought another place on the podium. On Sunday, it was worth it to look primarily at men’s marathon, and it was from beginning to end. From the beginning, because it more or less from the seventh kilometer lone hero rivalry was Marcin Chabowski.

attacked very boldly. Mile after mile tore himself away from the rest of the runners on the first ascent (repeated four times, discouraged to compete dozen marathoners) had a few seconds of advantage, but after an hour ahead of the peloton has more than one minute. It seemed that the chances of his victory begins to grow.

But experienced runners know that the honest test case comes after the 30th kilometer and then you can see really strong. The crisis caught Chabowskiego, running a marathon for the fourth time in his career, just then. Pursuit of an international group composed of Yared Shegumo soon began to diminish the distance to the leader, the camera showed tired face Pole.

The future champion Daniele Meucci of Italy picked a good time to counterattack, even before the 35 km caught up and overtook Chabowskiego easily. The others waited a moment, but soon it turned out that a strong feel as Shegumo. Polish Ethiopian strengthened tempo enough to not run the silver medal with Spaniard Javier Guerra and others. As he passed a colleague of representation, Chabowski just stood resigned to the fact that his bravado this time will not be rewarded.

To finish there came also theoretically strongest of Poles Henry the sixth. It can translate calf injury. In the absence of a third classification (second, Blazej Brzezinski took 43rd place), the Poles did not count in the team classification.

Explosion Power

Shegumo Yared won the first Polish medal in the men’s event a great marathon. Who remembers complicated way of life medalist: escape in Bydgoszcz Ethiopian youth team in 1999, two weeks nomadic life on the Central Railway Station in Warsaw, then help good people, citizenship in 2002, the ups and downs of sports, emigration to Britain, another Running back – knows that the joy of this success has many sources. It was the 11th medal at the Polish Championship in Zurich, redeemed perhaps the greatest difficulty.

A day earlier enjoyed success in the hammer throw and pole vault and men in the 800 m women. Silver Paul Fajdka certainly was included in the plan medal of the President of the Polish Association of Athletics George Skucha. The world champion from Moscow did not disappoint, fought to end European champion Krisztian Pars of gold, any attempt it was an explosion of power, so it is not surprising that four of six kicks burned. It was a moment that almost came Hungarian, he has been the fifth line to make up only 13 cm. But do not make it, Pars has had many such competitions, was strong and in the last round sealed his success: 82.69 m. Polak finished with a score of 82.05.

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