Irene Ekelund want to celebrate with 18 European Championship final – Göteborgs-Posten

Irene Ekelund has accelerated slowly in the major championships. But in the European Indoor Championships, she hopes to celebrate her 18th birthday with running their first finals. – Now I feel that I’m in the game, says Ekelund.

It was not until this summer before the Värmland super talent scored his first international senior championship in EM in Zurich.

There was Ekelund just eight hundredths of finals in the 200 meters.

And when sprinter now preparing for 60 yards on the European Indoor Championships in Prague it with hopes of reaching the final for the first time. Ekelund, who declined the World Indoor Championships last year, feels she has grown into a senior suit.

– Now I feel that I’m in it all. Then it was on the border, it was just that I qualified. Now I feel that I have been running a bit below the qualification and that I am in the game. So it feels much better now, she says.

Ekelund, who turns 18 at the European Championship final is decided tomorrow, set a new personal best and plastered while his Swedish junior record when she won the Championship for 7.26 two weeks ago.

Can it go even faster now?

– I’ll try to run as I ran, then I am happy. Maybe a little faster. The shape is very good.

How long can it last?

– its best, it is well-finals. Otherwise I just sat to advance to the semi goal, and run there.

A small storm clouds are back in the right thigh.

– I have had little … not problems, but a little stiffness in one of the back that has stopped me a bit. It’s sad, because then dares not really pressing everything you have. But now I rested a bit, so I hope it’s good, she says.

In Saturday’s experiments, Irene Ekelund joined by 24-year-old from Örebro Elin Ostlund, who set a new “person” with 7.41 in the SM.

Irene Ekelund

Born: 8 March 1997.

Lives : Karlstad.

Club: Malmo AI.

Personal Bests, outdoor: 11.35 100 meters, 22.92 in the 200 meters. Indoor: 7.26 of 60 meters, 23.15 in the 200 meters.

Qualifications: Silver in the JVM in 2014 at 200 meters, gold in UVM in 2013 at 200 meters.