The Viking celebration of Karsten Warholm’s world record.
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“I have an even better time,” the Northerner assures. “I remember Felix Sánchez ruling the obstacles. Four years undefeated, where he came, he won. And now Warholm is a class away. A white boy from Norway, terribly fast with an excellent rhythm, “Mužík smiles.
Warholm chooses the outer runways. “I hated the eighth, I needed someone in front of me. He now had a seven, so he ran after someone for at least a while, but he is able to run great time even without rivals and spectators. In addition, it runs economically, all obstacles on one leg, the left swing and the right tug, so it can be closer to the line in a turn, “appreciates Mužík.
“And it was his first Thursday in the hurdles of the season, I knew I was able to run a second faster after her,” he says.
Breaking the record was a matter of time, Warholm was close to him, but last week Rai Benjamin was five hundredths behind Young at the US Championships. And it is their duel that can still set a record time. In the end, it will not take place on July 9 in Monaco, as Benjamin changed his race plan, but only in Tokyo, Olympic.
“I read various considerations that the real ones are 46.30 to 46.50, these are completely brutal times, because even now Warholm would run evenly with the best guys on a smooth Thursday. Then dos Santos ran a South American record of 47.38 and it looked like he was flying behind him, “says the Czech record holder and vice-champion of Europe from 2002.
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