This is strong

12,88! Strametz doesn’t let it get him down

Karin Strametz

(Bild: Pail Sepp)

Enzo Diessl finished third in the 110 m hurdles in 13.61 at the traditional "Spitzen-Leichtathletik" in Lucerne, a good last test run before his Olympic start in Paris - and Karin Strametz, who had missed out on a ticket for the Olympics by a wafer-thin margin, proved that she would have been ready for Paris by finishing fifth in the 100 m hurdles in a great 12.88 ...

"It's really such a shame, I'm in such good form and would have been ready for the Olympics," said the Styrian, who stormed to fifth place in the strong A final on the unfavorable outside lane 8. She missed her personal best time of 12.87 set in the European Championship semifinals in Rome by just one hundredth.

With her 12.88 seconds in Lucerne, she also proved her character and showed that she would not let her narrow failure to qualify for the Olympics get her down. Only Beate Schrott from the ÖLV has ever been faster than Strametz with 12.82 and 12.83.

Karin Strametz

(Bild: Olaf Brockmann)

A few days before the meeting in Lucerne, Strametz had already set a personal best of 11.49 in the 100m in Eisenstadt. She will compete again the weekend after next in Eisenstadt (60 m and 100 m).

Enzo Diessl

(Bild: Olaf Brockmann)

"A solid run!"
The 20-year-old Diessl showed good form two and a half weeks before his Olympic start: "The race was okay, I ran well. It even felt faster than the time was. It was certainly a good last training session before the Games." Coach Beate Hochleitner was also "satisfied" with her protégé's performance: "It was a solid run, which is good to build on!" Two days earlier, Diessl had finished fifth in La Chaux-de-Fonds (SUI) in 13.55.