Picture story of the second day of the European Athletics Championship 2015 in Prague

The EACh 2015 continues in Prague, reports NOC of Belarus.

Alina Talay showed perfect results in semi-final dashes and made it into the final of 60 meters hurdles

Alina leapt agilely the distance (7.89 sec) having missed just 0,1 seconds of her personal record. She is considered to be the triumphant of the event since she is the leader of the season and got victorious six times already.

Alexander Linnik set a national record in 400-metre dash

Alexander Linnik set a national record in the semi-final of 400-meter race as he crossed the line in 46.78 sec.

Though Linnik finished his dash third and got fourth in overall ranking, he failed to get into the final where the leaders of all races competed. Still he exceeded his achievement in Fayettewille in 2012.

The morning program

On the second day morning program the rivals contested in qualification events.

Alina Talay became an absolute winner of the preliminary 60 metres hurdles (8.04 sec) and got into the semi-final, which will be telecasted at 18.00 (UTC+3).

Alexander Linnik finished second in his 400-metre dash with his personal record of the season (47.40 sec) made it into the semi-final that will go on the screen today at 18.40

‘I’m satisfied with my results and ready to fight to the finish, said Alexander.

Two Belarusian triple jump athletes competed for the semi-final.

Dmitry Plotnitski took the 7th place (16.44). Eight leaders of the event will meet on the sports ground at 20.40 on March 7.

Maxim Nesterenko finished his performance and got 19th (15.15)

Unfortunately our men’s 60 meters hurdles team failed in the preliminary race. Vitalij Parakhonko set a personal record and finished 16th (7.76 sec). Maxim Lynsha got 20th (7.84 sec).

It was the first time when the finalist of the Olympic Games 2012 and the World Championship 2011 Anastasia Mironchik-Ivanova performed in the competitions after 9 month since has given birth to a child. In qualification long jump event she got 10th and didn’t get into the final.

‘I feel as though I wasn’t pregnant. I kept fit due to my training even being pregnant. Today I failed, though hoped at 6.70 meters height, but my step over canceled it. Just before the try I stepped behind, still my spring steps were too bold. So I will work harder. My next point is the World Championship in Beijing.

Svetlana Kudelich got excited after the 3000-metre race as well as her supporters. She crossed the line exactly at the same time with her rival from Finland. According to the referees’ decision Kudelich took the 5th place, the Finn – 4th. Still her results are good enough (8.57.97 min) to join the final race at 20.50 on March 7.

‘When finishing I saw that I was 4th, but was too exhausted to argue how did it the Finn. The race was hard enough: firstly, the track was narrow, secondly, it was prefabricated, and I had a strong feeling of rounding as if I ran on the plate’ shared her emotions Svetlana.

Pentathlon

Yana Maximova and Ekaterina Netsvetaeva tried their best in pentathlon for awards. In the first discipline 60 meters hurdles Netsvetaeva finished 10th (8.55 sec), Maximova got 13th (8.76 sec).

In high jump Maximova hoped at 1.89 meters height.

The result of Netsvetaeva is 1.74 meters.

In shot put Netsvetaeva set a personal record of 14.97 meters, just a millimeter farther than the Maximova’s result (14.96 meters).

According to the overall ranking of three disciplines Maximova gained 2912 points and took the 5th place, Netsvetaeva got 10th with 2768 points. The Belgian athlete Nafissata Tiam became a leader of the tournaments with the highest result.

The evening program saw the rest of the pentathlon contests – long jump and 800-meter dash, whereupon the winners were awarded.

After all Maximova came close to the podium with the 4th place (4628 points). Netsvetaeva got 12th with 4414 points.

The European Athletics Championship goes from 5 to 8 of March in O2 Arena in Prague with the capacity of 18.000 spectators. 26 kits of medals are meant to be awarded.  15 Belarusian athletes represent out country.

Photos by NOC of Belarus.
Anastasia Marynina, Prague.

Translated by Alexey Tulko, 4th year, the Interpreters’ Department, MSLU.