Karsten Warholm was rarely last before the gold race in Tokyo. The question one can ask now is whether he is unique, both as an athlete and in Norwegian sports history.
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KARSTEN WARHOLM HAR delivered an achievement the world rarely sees, and may never have seen. 45.94 in Tokyo this Tuesday morning is all the way up there with Bob Beamons 8.90 in length from Mexico 1968 (Olympics), Michael Johnsons 19.32 in the 200 meters in Atlanta 1996 (Olympics) and Usain Bolts 9.58 in Berlin 2009 (WC ).
Under enormous pressure of expectations, not least in relation to himself, the 25-year-old from Ulsteinvik brought out the ultimate hurdle race.
When it is beaten, whether it is beaten, is impossible to say.
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HJALLIS, AS STILL moved the world records on skates at times not thought possible at the time he went skating, said “you can not go on zero”. He had not heard of Karsten Warholm. Basically, you can not run 400 meters hurdles at 45.94 either.
If you do not believe in Santa Claus then, or Leif Olav Alnes, as he is also called.
Warholm’s coach, who in the last year has had the hundredths under 46 seconds as a realistic goal.
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IT IS NOT some point to put Olympic gold against each other, it will always be a wrong exercise. Regardless of the support for the sport in terms of measured attention and audience interest, they are all great individually. You can not take anything from an Olympic gold, they do not come counting on an annual basis as World Cup titles in biathlon.
They are awarded every four years and are the ultimate prize.
Whether they come in shooting at running wild boar – Tor Heistad in Seoul 1988 – or of running people like Vebjørn Rodal in Atlanta -96 and Karsten Warholm this morning, they stand on their own two feet every day.
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SPORTS PERFORMANCE ON THE OTHER HAND, AND especially those that can be measured in time, height and length can be ranked. In such a perspective, I would venture to say that Karsten Warholm’s 45.94 is one of the greatest athletics achievements of all time, if not the greatest.
The first thing that comes to mind, if you are going to put 45.94 in the 400 meter hurdles against times, lengths and heights in other exercises is 9.50 in the 100 meters, 100 meters in the javelin, 6.30 in the pole and 2.50 in height, to name a few.
So far, all these results are taken from the utopia of sport.
Or to be completely precise, where Karsten Warholm practiced his sport this historic morning for Norwegian sports.
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IT IS A things to set a world record in a championship final, it is something completely different to break the time that was the best ever at the start. Karsten Warholm did it plus a little more.
He maltreated his own world record by 0.76 seconds.
He touched on what most athletes think is impossible, the perfect achievement.
SILVER WINNER RAI BENJAMIN, given the opportunity before the start, would have thrown himself around your neck if you had given him 46.17. Bronze winner Alison Dos Santos had taken 46.72 he too. Every other day since the dawn of time, in order not to break it down to every other minute in the history of athletics, running 53 hundredths faster than the current world record in the 400 meter hurdles would hold to Olympic gold.
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But not this day, and not this minute, between 12.20 and 12.21 local time in Tokyo.
Then there was a man who had it in him to lower the world record by 76 hundredths.
Of course, that says a lot about the track in Tokyo, and about the surface it is run on.
But that says the most about the gold winner.
KARSTEN WARHOLM VAR great in Norwegian sports before this achievement. Now he is the biggest. I’m struggling to see a greater athletic performance than the one we witnessed this morning. When the boy himself talks about the perfect race, you know where it is.
Maybe Karsten Warholm is there along with several others, we have many big gold winners in Norwegian sports history, and there is no point in ranking them either.
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But to see someone bigger than this unique from Ulsteinvik is impossible this morning.
As a good colleague wrote in a text message, ringside from the empty arena in Tokyo:
This is syyyyyyyyyykt!
I do not usually like diagnoses made in the absence of better words, but for this an exception is made.
It is very precise.
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