Decathlon Blog

We qualified yesterday for the SFI-serien final that is held every September in Marienhamn. There is first local area competitions from which the best teams will qualify for the final. I did discus, high jump and run 400 m in Swedish relay. In discus we only had four rounds and I only got result from [...]

Finland-Sweden international started today and Sweden set the pace both in men and women. They are leading both competitions by 10 points. Finnish men had a bit of bad luck as Janne Mäkelä won the 400m hurdles but was disqualified and Heikki Taneli got no height in high jump although he got already a white [...]

I started the rehabilitation of my left achilles right after Woerden. It includes physiotherapy, low frequency micro electricity ~15 min every day, constant stretching of my shin muscles with scotching and some exercises. In addition I should take some non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs but I have not yet had time to go to a pharmacy. My [...]

They may be found here. I totalled 6680 points. Winds are not marked in those results. The wind in my hurdles was +2,2 (luckily sot that it is not qualified to the statistics). I had an awful start for the second day on hurdles. I was lucky to get to the finish line as I [...]

11.63 (+0.3) 652 (+1.7) 12.39 187 53.17 3418 points. Bit struggling and I was really tired already before the 400 m. Achilles did not bother me too much but it might do it tomorrow morning. Hopefully I will get it warmed up before the hurdles. Jari Olli did pretty well today. He is just ahead [...]

We came today to Woerden. It seems to be a really nice small town of 45 thousand people. We went to the track as well. The curves are really long and as a consequence the field is very wide. Most probably it is a good track to do good results. So far the organisers have [...]

I will leave to Woerden (Netherlands) tomorrow to compete in the international combined event competition. They have now participants listed. For example Lyudmila Blonska who finished fifth in Göteborg is competing in heptathlon and Benjamin Jensen who competed last year in Helsinki is competing in decathlon. I guess that there will be rather a tough [...]

Athletics world championships will be held next year in Osaka on 25.8.-2.9.2007. Heptathlon will start on Saturday 25.8. and decathlon on Friday 31.8.. Let’s see what happens to the forecasting result service, whether it will get to Osaka or not. I would guess that I will not be too eager to run it from Finland. [...]

Won the double 100m + 200m. Swede Wissman was second. Decathlon started also today but we did not make it to the stand. The weather was not that great today and it might be the same tomorrow. Sebrle has taken the lead and Finns underachieved today. Ojaniemi was disqualified on the 400 m but Finland [...]

It all looked good when I the picture below was taken. It was once again going to be a duel between Barber and Klüft. The crowd was going to follow closely what happens in the heptathlon. It all changed after Barber retired from the competition. The fight for the silver and bronze was fierce but [...]