European Championships next adventure for Šutej, Sember

MUNICH, Germany – The following worldwide monitor and area occasion this summer season involving athletes with ties to Arkansas would be the twenty fifth European Championships, with Olympiastadion serving because the venue within the fiftieth anniversary of it being the host for the 1972 Olympic Video games.

Razorback alum Tina Šutej of Slovenia competes within the pole vault, which has a qualifying spherical on Monday, August 15, and the ultimate on Wednesday, August 17.

Nice Britain’s Cindy Sember, who trains with Arkansas girls’s affiliate head coach Chris Johnson, competes within the 100m hurdles with the primary spherical scheduled for Saturday, August 20, whereas the semifinal and last happen on Sunday, August 21, the ultimate day of the occasion.

The twenty fifth version of this meet was initially scheduled for Paris in 2020 however was cancelled as a result of pandemic. The newest model of the meet was held in Berlin throughout 2018. Now Germany turns into the primary nation within the historical past of the European Championships to host consecutive occasions.

Along with internet hosting the Olympic Video games 50 years in the past, Munich beforehand served as host of the European Championships in 2002. The Olympiastadion venue has additionally hosted the 1974 FIFA World Cup and 1988 UEFA Euro in soccer.

Šutej leads the sphere of 25 pole vaulters with a season outside better of 15-6 (4.72) and her indoor better of 15-9 (4.80). This shall be Sutej’s fifth European Out of doors Championships and he or she has additionally competed in 5 European Indoor Championships.

A silver medalist on the 2021 European Indoor, Šutej’s greatest end at European outside has been 10^th place on two events (2010 and 2014). In World Championship competitions this season, she collected a bronze medal indoors and positioned fourth outside with heights of 15-7 (4.75) and 15-5 (4.70), respectively.

A bunch of 4 vaulters comply with with a better of 15-5.5 (4.71) for Italy’s Roberta Bruni and at 15-5 (4.70) for Lene Retzius (Norway), Margot Chevrier (France), and Katerini Stefanidi (Greece).

Stefanidi is the two-time defending European champion with titles in 2016 and 2018, whereas beginning with a silver medal in 2014. She holds the meet document with a top of 15-11 (4.85) from 2018, when the European Championships had been held in Berlin.

Competing at an age of 33, Šutej has improved her Slovenia nationwide document 10 instances, indoor and outside, over the previous 4 years. If a medal is within the playing cards for Šutej in Munich, she would develop into the oldest medalist within the girls’s pole vault at this competitors, surpassing Nikoleta Kyriakopoulou of Greece, who was 32 years previous when she medaled in 2018.

With a area of 25 entrants from 15 international locations, Šutej shall be amongst 12 vaulters in group B. The automated qualifying top to succeed in the ultimate is 14-11.25 (4.55) whereas the highest 12 general will advance. The development within the qualifying spherical begins at 13-5.5 (4.10) and can transfer as much as 13-11.25 (4.25), after which progress with heights of 14-5.5 (4.40), 14-9.25 (4.50) and 14-11.25 (4.55).

Sember, who earned a silver medal on the 2021 European Indoor Championships over 60m hurdles, makes her debut on the outside model.

With a British nationwide document of 12.50 established throughout the World Championships semifinal earlier this summer season, Sember sports activities the season-leading time among the many 36 entrants representing 24 international locations within the 100m hurdles.

Within the World Championship last, Sember posted a wind-aided 12.38 to complete fifth after which claimed a bronze medal on the Commonwealth Video games with a 12.59 clocking.

Poland’s Pia Skryzszowska, the European U21 champion final yr, follows with a 12.51 whereas Netherland’s Nadine Visser, fourth within the 2018 European last, has a better of 12.66 this season.

The championship document within the 100m hurdles is 12.38 set by Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova in 1986.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS | Munich, Germany

Day 1 Monday, August 15

Day 3 Wednesday, August 17

Day 6 Saturday, August 20

Day 7 Sunday, August 21