With first throw
Top throw! Hudson on course for gold at the European Championships
Sensational! A dream come true! Victoria Hudson achieved the golden throw at the European Championships! But it was a hot match, a centimeter thriller, in which the Lower Austrian, who traveled to Rome as Europe's number 1 in the women's javelin throw, lived up to her role as favorite. She beat Adriana Vilagós (Srb/64.42) with 64.62 m in her first attempt. "That was a trembling without end!", summarized Victoria Hudson, who won only the third European Championship title for Austria in the 90-year history of the European Athletics Championships.
Unbelievable scenes of joy played out in the small red-white-red colony in the Olympic Stadium after her gold was confirmed. Victoria Hudson and coach Gregor Högler were in each other's arms, Victoria's fan club cheered in the stands, including her grandparents, both over 80 years old, who had flown in from England, mom, dad and her boyfriend. The happiness was complete. Victoria was beaming with joy, first kneeling down, overwhelmed by emotion, then cheering without bounds, the red-white-red flag around her shoulders.
"It's all just incredible. I've dreamed of winning a medal all my life. Now it's a gold," she cheered. Vicky won only the third European Championship title for Austria after Liese Prokop in the pentathlon in 1969 and Ilona Gusenbauer in the high jump in 1971. There were also two silver medals for Red-White-Red, including the one here in Rome by discus ace Lukas Weißhaidinger, as well as eight bronze medals. Victoria Hudson's gold was another historic superlative! She won the second ÖLV medal in the women's javelin throw - even surpassing Olympic champion Herma Bauma, who won silver in Brussels in 1950. With gold and silver in Rome, these title fights are of course by far the most successful European Championships for Austria.
Shocker at the beginning
"I had said that anything is possible," she laughed, "if I hit a full throw, it can fly very, very far!" And it did fly far. On the very first attempt. She threw the 600-gram implement a magnificent 64.62 m! A fantastic start. A shocker for the competition. Her opponents were slow to recover. In the third round, Adriana Vilagós from Serbia with 64.42 and Marie-Therese Obst from Norway with 63.50 came damn close. However, Vicky continued to throw consistently well, followed by 61.75 m and 62.74 m. Finally the last round! Red-White-Red still had to tremble. Fear. But then it was done! Victoria Hudson is European champion. She hugged Gregor Högler, the great success coach. After all, he is also Lukas Weißhaidinger's coach.
She simply couldn't describe the feeling of being European champion. "I can't put it into words," she said later. The almost unbelievable thing: "On my first attempt, I absolutely didn't have the feeling that it was that far. When I saw the distance light up, I thought there must be something wrong with the display. Were the lines for the distances perhaps wrong?" she even wondered, "I never thought it was a 64 m throw!"
At least her tactic of "knocking one out" on her first attempt worked. Coach Högler had also given her this advice. "Risk everything on the first attempt!" The coach was naturally overjoyed and delighted that Vicky was able to perform so well after the problems at the start of the season (back pain and three or four illnesses). "She can deliver now, she used to be a miracle bag!" Now she has established herself as European champion.
Similar to Luki, Victoria Hudson also made her way from qualification to the final without losing much strength. With 60.15 m, she came fifth overall and advanced to the final of the twelve best. "Qualifying is often worse than the final," she said. Hudson, freed from this pressure, had saved the tension for the final ...
Five top ten places
Austria now has five top ten places before the final day. In addition to Lukas Weißhaidinger and Victoria Hudson, Susanne Gogl-Walli (seventh in the 400 m), the men's relay team in the half marathon (ninth) and hurdles sprinter Karin Strametz (tenth) are responsible for this. A great result. And on Wednesday, Raphael Pallitsch will also be competing in the 1500 m final. In the huge field of 17 starters, the SVS athlete, an excellent tactician, hopes to be able to play on his sprinting strength and thus achieve a hoped-for top ten place.
Austria's medals at the LA European Championships
Gold (3)
Liese Prokop pentathlon 1969
Ilona Gusenbauer high jump 1971
Victoria Hudson Javelin 2024
Silver (2)
Herma Bauma Javelin throw 1950
Lukas Weißhaidinger Discus 2024
Bronze (8 )
Karl Kotratschek Triple jump 1938
Maria Sykora 400 m 1969
Hermann Fehringer pole vault 1990
Steffi Graf 800 m 1998
Beate Schrott 100 m hurdles 2012
Ivona Dadic heptathlon 2016
Lukas Weißhaidinger discus throw 2018
Austria (Ketema, Herzog, Steinhammer) marathon team 2018
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