European Indoor Championships: Strametz celebrates with the best time, Kingley impresses on his debut!

European Indoor Championships: Strametz celebrates with the best time, Kingley impresses on his debut!

At the European Athletics Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, the Austrian athletes experienced mixed emotions. 26-year-old Karin Strametz, who reached the semifinals of the 60 m hurdles with a personal best of 7.99 seconds, ended up in a respectable tenth place. Despite difficult preparation and health problems, she expressed satisfaction: “The fastest and third fastest times of my career are pretty decent,” said Strametz, who ran the eighth fastest time in the semi-finals and shows that she can fully exploit her potential BVZ.at reported.

Raphael Pallitsch, also active in Apeldoorn, narrowly missed the final round of the 1,500 m after finishing fourth in his preliminary heat with a time of 3:40.96 minutes. “A little bittersweet,” as he called it, as he had hoped for more from the competition. Enzo Diessl, another hurdler, had to abandon his race after a fall, while debutant Caroline Bredlinger took fourth place in the 800 m with 2:08.90 minutes, missing the semi-finals by 15 hundredths. Kingley, also making his European Championship debut, was unable to qualify for the final, but spoke of a winning experience and called the three centimeters he was missing “damn little”. This gave him a lot of self-confidence, however Small newspaper reported.