UpdatedAugust 16, 2022, 10:56 PM
AthleticsMujinga Kambundji takes silver in the 100m
The Bernese has long believed in victory at the Olympic Stadium in Munich. But the German Gina Lückenkemper blew her gold by 5 thousandths of a second.
Mujinga Kambundji is 5 hundredths away from becoming European 100m champion.
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Mujinga Kambundji (30) won the silver medal in the 100m at the European Championships on Tuesday evening at the Olympic Stadium in Munich. After passing the first 95 meters in the lead, the Bernese was passed on the wire by the German Gina Lückenkemper. The two sprinters were credited with the same time (10”99), but the photo-finish was favorable to the German outsider, who remained 5 thousandths of a second less than the Swiss on the track. The third place is the property of the Briton Daryll Neita (11”).
Some 45 minutes after enjoying the silver won by Appenzeller Simon Ehammer (22) in the decathlon, Swiss Athletics has thus added a 35th medal to its European harvest. In this competition imagined between the two world wars by the European Athletics Association and organized since 1934, the Helvetians won eight gold necklaces, fourteen in silver and thirteen in bronze.
Mujinga Kambundji, who took third place in the 100m on September 8, 2016 in Amsterdam, behind the Dutch Dafne Schippers and the Bulgarian Ivet Lalova-Collio, now has two. In 2018, in Berlin, during the last edition of the continental games, she tasted the bitterness of fourth place.
“I’m happy with my race, happy with the medal, explained the vice-champion of Europe. But I’m a little nervous about these thousandths that I miss. I don’t know what happened, maybe I got a little tense.”
“Maybe I got a little tense”
She will have the opportunity to enrich her collection in the coming days in Bavaria since she will also be competing in the 200m (series and semi-finals on Thursday) and the 4x100m relay (series on Friday from which she will probably be exempted, final on Sunday ).
The 100m men for Jacobs
The queen race of these European Championships, the men’s 100m smiled on favorite Lamont Marcell Jacobs (27). Sacred on August 1, 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics ahead of American Fred Kerley and Canadian Andre de Grasse by setting a new European record (9”80), the Italian cut the line after 9”95 d effort, his best time of the season. On the podium, he was surrounded by Britons Zharnel Hughes (2nd in 9”99) and Jeremiah Azu (3rd in 10”13).
Fribourgeois Pascal Mancini (33) was eliminated in the semi-finals after having to settle for 5th place in his series (10”23).