14-08-14 8:07 pm – Source: Reuters
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Dafne Schippers gave yesterday a special performance at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich. The Utrecht athlete, which is formed as a star and all-around at last year’s World Championships in Moscow even bronze in the heptathlon conquered, is simply the fastest in Europe at 100 meters. The national anthem sounded Wednesday in the windy Letzigrund Stadium for the all-rounder from the Netherlands, the gold medal of the queens song firmly around her neck
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Exactly 64 years after FBK Schippers is the second Dutch athlete who wins the European title in the 100 meters. ‘Numbers from the past, I do not know. I can barely remember my own personal records, but FBK I know of course. Very nice that I am the successor of such a legend, “she said after her winning race.
Favorite
She was regarded as captain of the European rankings with 11 03 advance as favorite for the title. Schippers was the organization’s handling of a true star. She was the focal point for the opening day at the assembled international press. It brought the sober Utrecht not hairpiece. Smooth and with a display of power, they put themselves through the series (11.10) and the semifinals (11.08) for the final, which she won with strong headwind in 11.12.
“It was not great race, I had quite a force on the final stretch, but what the hell. Of course I had to run in a top, a neat race, but that was not possible with the wind on a wet track. My start was not good and I had a lot faster, but I still saved it nicely. I came for the title and then the time is not interesting. “
Gok
Along with her coach Bart Bennema decided the all-around star at the beginning of the competition season its course change and go to the European Championships. before the sprint “It’s a gamble if you make such a choice, but has great unpacked,” says her proud trainer. “She knew it had to happen here and then they build it so well. Not popping in the preliminary round and you save energy for the final. “
Bennema Schippers know through and through. “The pressure of a major championship to them. There she thrives in. But she has made a big step by three races so hard to walk and where to oppose sprinters who are not ‘for the cat, he was referring among others to the dethroned champion Bulgarian Ivet Lalova and rapid Frenchwoman Myriam Soumaré. “It was a matter of time that this would come out. Dafne has so much speed and it can also flexibility, though the finale like a real fighting race. “
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