Gold in the 4×100 meters – and the new Swedish junior record – Aftonbladet

Eskilstuna. Sweden concludes with a JEM-gold in the relay 4×100 meters here in Eskilstuna.

And they wins.

Quite far before Poland and France

And other Swedish record within just a few hours – 39.73.

– Absolutely incredible, says Gustav Kjell.

They are Sweden’s 10 largest athletic talents

Emil von Barth, Austin Hamilton, Gustav Kjell and Thobias Nilsson Montler swung Sweden’s first gold in the JEM.

The Swedes who set a new Swedish record is already in trials with 40.01, where the big favorites Great Britain was disqualified.

So did the Swedes to the big favorites for the final, with by far the best time of the tests.

But the newly planted junior record of 40.01 held up just a few hours – just as they promised after the trials.

– Yes, I felt that we had more to give, says Emil von Barth.

– I told Austin afterwards, this can be much better. It showed we are now.

Yes, in two years they lowered the fourteen year old record with a total of 37 hundredths.

– We are the best. That’s why we win, says the final man Gustav Kjell.

“A few nervous minutes’

– There are just looking in the 100 meters individual where we were three men in the final.

There was some anticipation afterwards, the jury watched the two warnings handed out during the course.

– There were a few nervous minutes before it was ready, says Nilsson Montler.

But then they could embark on ärevarvet before the home crowd.

And the newly-set record of 40.01 was completely mashed in the final, when the Swedes became the first junior ever to get below 40 seconds on the short relay.

It is also the first Swedish relay gold in a championship in 69 years.

Recently, it happened was at the European Championships in Oslo in 1946, when much of Europe lay in ruins after World War II.

It is also the only time that Sweden won gold in the 4×100 meters before.

Last medal on the women’s side is a JVM bronze from Santiago in Chile in 2000, when Sweden had a team with Susanna and Jenny Kallur as anchors.

“We can go to any length”

No one had anticipated that the boys shortest sprint distance would be the most successful branch in this championship.

First, with Emil von Barth bright bronze hundred meters final.

And now a relay gold.

And do you believe these guys it more.

– Yes, we can go to any length. We are so young all. The future is bright, says Emil von Barth.

They are Sweden’s 10 largest athletic talents