“I am very happy to have won a medal at the World and European Championships and I am even happier to have thrown ninety meters this year, because it was a lifelong dream. And the fact that I did it in the first race was a weak point. to begin with, “he told reporters.
In the vote of athletic officials, coaches and journalists, he scored 1,527 points and won with a 226-point lead over world record holder Špotáková. She covered the biggest athletic history of the season. At her CE, she won another great medal with her last attempt at hers, and then she decided to end her career at the age of 41. The Staněk putter ranks third in the poll for the fourth consecutive time, having won his first outdoor medal after four indoor gold medals.
There were a total of four javelin throwers in the top six. In addition to Vadlejch and Špotáková, the fourth Vítězslav Veselý, who thus repeated the European placement, and the sixth Nikola Ogrodníková. She made it through to the finals of both of this year’s top events. She was eighth in the World Championship and twelfth in the European Championship.
Between them, mile runner Kristiina Mäki, who took sixth place at the European Championship, wedged herself in fifth place. Both grand finals took the relay to the men’s quarters in seventh place, whose leader Patrik Šorm as an individual completes the elite ten thanks to his fifth place at HMS. Ahead of him were the eighth cross-country skier Radek Juška and the ninth Eliška Martínková.
Vadlejch coach Jan Železný was named best coach of the year for the seventh time. The Discovery of the Year Award went to the fifth HMS handyman Dorota Skřivanová. Jakub Dudycha, the European junior champion of the 800 meters, became the Junior of the Year.
