Italians and Germans peaking perfectly for 2010 Eurovets meet
The top masters meet this year wasn’t Kamloops. It will be the European Masters Athletics Championships. The meet I call Eurovets will draw more than 3,100 age-groupers from 41 countries. It’s set for July 15-24 in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. Here’s the website. The Italian masters nationals (see results) were held recently, and they had so many heats in the sprints they sometimes ran timed finals. Also check out results from the Belgian and Dutch masters nationals. The German masters pentathlons were a week ago; two German masters nationals are upcoming. Here’s a video of the M50 800 at the Italian nationals, won by Lahti finalist Luigi Ferrari in 2:08.08:
2 Responses
The number of participants is a bit lower than 2008 Ljubljana (3695) and seriously lower than Potsdam 2002 (4385), but about the same as Poznan 2006 (3057). See http://www.evaa.ch/records-a-statistics/90-european-veteran-championship-records-1978-2006-.html
It will be my third Eurovets after Potsdam 2002 and Aarhus 2004. Looking back I see the zigzaging of my career, with high jump as only constant factor. In Potsdam I also did the pentathlon and triple jump, but injuries made me skip those disciplines. In Aarhus I did the hammer throw just for fun. In 2005 I became a javelin thrower, so in NyÃregyháza it are my first and second love of the moment, high jump and javelin throw. Looking forward to meet all those colleagues! (And beat them…)
Actually, there was a pretty good meet up in Boston. around the end of March…..
Leave a Reply