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From 10 to 16 August the European Athletics Championships will be held in Birmingham, England. Ukraine earned 38 quotas, but only 25 of our compatriots will travel to Britain.
Immediately 13 male and female athletes were left off the entry list, although they could have competed at the continental championships. The reason is not only related to sporting results, writes 24 Kanal.
Why 13 athletes were removed from Ukraine’s entry list
As Suspilne Sport reports, the team’s head coach Oleksandr Romaniuk explained the decision not to use all quotas as a new approach to forming the entry: now each athlete’s participation is considered individually by the coaches’ council and the executive committee of the athletics federation.
The coach emphasizes that the main criteria were performances at previous competitions and current form. The federation wanted to avoid a situation where athletes at the Euros cannot reach the final rounds and end their competition after the first round.
However, they do not hide the financial factor: if an athlete earned the right to compete by selection but there were no state funds allocated for them, they were offered the trip to the Euros at their own expense. Overall, due to the war and difficult circumstances the federation reduced the squad for both the European Championships and the World Junior Championships.
Who will not go to the European Championships because of the team cut
high jump — Yuliya Levchenko
long jump — Vladyslav Mazur
triple jump — Olga Korsun, Anna Krasutska, Maksym Vaniakin
shot put — Olga Holodna
marathon — Olga Nyzhnyk, Viktoriia Kalyuzhna, Vitalii Shafar
race walking — Olena Sobchuk, Valeriia Sholomitska, Ihor Hlavan, Yehor Shelest
Of all these athletes, only Yuliya Levchenko’s exclusion from the list is explained by the athlete’s and her coaches’ decision based on how she feels and wanting to be cautious after an injury. The others were simply not allowed to participate by the federation.
Is Yaroslava Mahuchikh going to the European Championships
With Yuliya Levchenko absent, Ukrainian fans in the high jump sector will support Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Iryna Herashchenko in the women’s competition and Oleh Doroshchuk, Roman Petruk, and Dmytro Nikitin among the men.
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