When can you come across a world champion or two in Sätra? Well, on Saturday when the athletics hall in Stockholm’s southern suburbs hosts the Folksam GP Stockholm Indoor. Chase Ealey-Jackson has won the last two shot put finals at the World Championships in Athletics.
The American is the top name in the ball competition that has been created for Fanny Roos, the Olympic sevens who stepped on the podium at the last two editions of the Indoor EC. From one world champion to another, the officials will also have a good standard. It is rumored that Fanny’s partner Daniel Ståhl will help with the balls because it is his association Spårvägens FK that organizes the competition. Chase and Fanny are also challenged by the world number two in shot put last year, Maggie Ewenalso from the USA.
In the cross-country pit, a repeat of last year’s duel between the four-time European Championship silver medalist awaits Thobias Montler and the super talent Matthias Furlani, who last autumn was named “European Rising Star” among all European track and field athletes. In Sätra, Thobias won with what would prove to be his longest jump of the year (8.19) while Furlani took over the European junior record with 7.99. He later jumped 8.44 in a slightly too strong tailwind. Mattia, who won both the long jump and the high jump at the Youth European Championships, turns 19 next week. Falkenberg’s Tilda Johansson won the long distance competition last year and now has to show his colors against the Serbian Milica Gardasevicwho among other things won the Junior WC.
On the circuit, we get to participate Andreas Kramer first race for this year – just like last year when he was superior in his first of 23 races at 800 meters. Four of them were in the world time of 1:44 and Andreas won the Team EC. At 1500 meters, at least three Swedish stars will enter Emil Danielsson, Samuel Pihlström and Jonathan Graham. The latter set the eighth of his eleven junior records in Sätra last year. Now the Mölndal runner, who recently turned 19, comes with his first Swedish senior record, set at a mile this weekend.
Other Swedish stars to keep an eye on:
Max HreljaMAI, who at the WC last year came close to Robert Kronberg’s Swedish hurdles record and in the first two competitions of the year touched the personal record in the 60 meter hurdles, 7.70.
The clubmate Julia Henrikssonwho started with one hundredth from the Swedish record in 200 meters, now gives up in 60 meters.
Melvin Lycke Holmwho in his first international competition of the year touched the personal height record of 2.18 – the same result that he won the Junior European Championship with last summer.
Hanna Hermansson comes across the Atlantic as the fresh season’s fastest in the Nordics at 3000 meters. She goes on the favorite distance 1500 against the European number one Georgia Bell.
On competition website all information is found.
Contact person media: Lorenzo Nesi, email: lorenzo.nesi@gmail.com, phone: 070-886 64 44.
