'Global' party thanks to Van der Wielen in Nijmegen

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Peter Kemperman NIJMEGEN - His final shot was just short of the best Dutch citizenship in the strong international field of five kilometers. Michel Butter was a fraction of a second faster. But the standing ovation moments later the home crowd was for him. Jesper van der Wielen took the Nijmegen Global Athletics last night a party. Only the 18 - year old athlete from Wijchen seemed to shake off his sleeve. So easily and constantly ran his lap, and finally at the very time that he previously had in mind (13.50 minutes, scored winner Gideon Kipketer 13.15) to finish. Thus he took fewer than 39 seconds from his PR off, he improved the national youth record Koen Raymaekers and fulfilled exceeds the limit for the youth World Cup in Canada later this year. "I knew I was good enough for a record and the limit. Only the weather and the race had to be involved, "said the nation's largest full of bravado after talent.

Where the jewel of Nijmegen Athletics at his home track lap after lap neatly followed the footsteps of his hare, Butter missed his pacer. "I was only chosen for the leading group. Later, I had still pay the price. I came right through the cracks and I could not do more than continue to fight hard. "

Van der Wielen had just as hard as his hare stepped out of the race, but picked up again when his countrymen Abdi Nageeye Light and Dennis was in sight. "If I had something to chase."

He also wants to hunt later on the Dutch record since 2002 with 13.13.06 in the hands of Kamiel Maase. "That time is far away now. On the other hand, I've only spent three years in athletics. There's so much more. "

In the 800 meters for women, most eyes focused on Susan Kuijken. With a time of 04.02.1934 was living in Australia Nijmegen neat third. Kuijken (23) could live with. "In terms of time I am not completely happy, but who actually did not really matter. It was my first game of the season and I think I have run 820 meters each other. It was pushed, cut here and there one handed elbow. Instructive. "

Next weekend she appears on the FBK Games in Hengelo. "Then I want to qualify for Euro 1500 meters. But is it not immediately, then certainly in a few weeks though. "
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GLOBAL ATHLETICS
Eighteen Years of Nijmegen super talent puts European Junior Athletics season rankings to
_ Wijchenaar smashes national junior record in the 5000 meters.

_New Personal journals than enough to qualify for World Junior Championships.

_ Sanne Gelt Reich (13) amazingly fast 1000 meters.

Matthieu small tank NIJMEGEN - Six years ago, he announced it all: he would at Nijmegen Global Athletics Dutch junior record in the 5000 meters suits. 13.50.43 Wijchenaar did with Jesper van der Wielen it broadly.

Nerves in the organization: the rain would not spoil it in the record race made especially for the top talent of Nijmegen in the program of Global Athletics Athletics had included? Tension also father Van der Wielen, who feared that his son in his record hunt much on his fork and so the limit would take for the world championships for juniors would miss. The only one who does not suffer from any doubts, the 18-year-old self. "I've recently done all that I need to do, I had good legs and is just super excited about this race on my home course," he know after the race.

The first kilometers enabled Van der Wielen quietly along in a group led by a hare. The foreign athletes in this race had come down long before he ran out and the national top seemed out of reach. Just when his hare out of the car, off Van der Wielen still a mile. Remarkably, he quickly closed the gap to Nageeye Abdi, who until now he never knew defeat. With an incredibly fast last two hundred meters he nearly all Dutch topsenioren behind. Michel Butter only the last two years the fastest Dutchman at this distance, finished less than one second for him. His time of 13.50 was less than 39 seconds below his personal best in the world championship eighteen seconds limit and twelve seconds in the Dutch record in the name of Koen was Raymaekers. Van der Wielen carries this season, ranking at the European Junior and last year there was no one faster. These are figures which indicate that he is an exceptional talent. He himself stays sober under: "This time I at the World Cup between all the African guys of course not easy. A place in the first eight would have been nice. And among the top ten European Junior all time to come, I also have eight seconds faster. "

Guus Janssen (Nijmegen Athletics) ran a good race on the 1500, but remained with his time of 3.44.07 over five seconds away from the limit for the Championship. "But I'm not concerned with that limit," he wayward runner to know. "Only if I really diving far below, I go to the European Championships, because otherwise I really have no business. I only go if I really what to show. All or nothing, so I am. "

Janssen moved earlier this year to another trainer, but recently he does everything himself. "I do not have much of a trainer and would rather rely on myself. I love to do my own thing, enjoy working with African athletes. "

Nijmegen Athletics unprecedented success in recent years. And a new talent is already on. The 13-year old Sanna Gelt Reich ran the 1000 meters in 2.55.18. This makes them the fastest in her age group ever. Also on the 600 meters enter the pupil of trainer Theo Joosten all the record lists.