Sergei Klevtsov, the coach of Russian athlete Saveliy Savlukov, told that he expected his athlete to set a new European record in the 600 meter indoor race at the Christmas competition Starts in Yekaterinburg.
Savlukov won the Yekaterinburg tournament with a result of 1 minute 15.09 seconds and set a European record in the indoor 600 meters, beating the feat of German Nico Motchebon (1 minute 15.12 seconds) , which he established in February 1999.
– Completely normal performance. The season has just started. Today, all problems seem resolved, as if such a result was expected. At the “tag” level. Maybe a little faster. We were prepared.
But that is all in the past. Everyone has already passed. The work continues, the winter season still includes a few starts specifically for Savely. Well, the summer will be quite eventful. Life goes on.
— So you expected Savlukov to set a European record?
– Yes. The fact is that in December in Omsk he ran in 1 minute 16.61 seconds, but there was an arena that, to put it mildly, is not very predisposed to running fast there. So somewhere a second wondered only because of the turns. And in terms of preparation, he was about half a second faster than in December. So I thought something like this might happen. That’s how it happened,” Klevtsov told .
Source : MatchTV
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