2023-06-24 22:49:57
The shot putter Belgian Jolien Boumkwo had to improvise as a 100 meter hurdles specialist and completed the distance 20 seconds behind the winner, this Saturday in Chorzow (Poland) during the European team athletics championship.
Boumkwo, smiling, unaccustomed to participating in this test, had obvious Difficulties in overcoming hurdles. She finished in 32 seconds and 81 hundredths, in the last position of her series, won by the Spanish Teresa Errandonea, with 13.22.
The pitcher had to replace her compatriot Anne Zagréfence specialist.
No other hurdlers from the Belgian team were available and if no one had competed in this event, the formation would have been disqualified from the European.
You are a shot putter but your team needs an athlete to run the 100 meters in the #EuropeanGames
???????? Jolien Boumkwo has been more than 20 seconds behind the rest, but she has a story to tell for the rest of her life. pic.twitter.com/QyuTnitnAS
– Teledeporte (@teledeporte) June 24, 2023
“The team is the most important thing to me. I couldn’t bear that we lost by one point, so I agreed to participate. I didn’t take risks if I ran calmly,” explained the 29-year-old athlete.
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After 25 of the 37 tests on the program and before the last day, on Sunday, Belgium is 16th and last, so it is threatened with relegation to the second continental division. He has 159 points, two were contributed by Boumko in the 100 hurdles despite his last place.
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