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Animesh Kujur has failed to finish between top-three in his first presence in the Diamond League, but he is quite confident to make it at the World Championship to be held in Tokyo in September.Speaking a day after the Monaco Diamond League meeting, where he finished fourth in 200 meters in the U-23 category, Kujur said, “I will qualify. Don’t worry.”To make it for the world in 200 meters, it has to run a time of 20.16 seconds, which is 0.16 seconds faster than its personal best of 20.32 seconds. This is going to be difficult, but his coach Owen Martins also believes that his disciples can achieve the goal.
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“The right race, given the right people and the right surface, it will be possible. There is 20.16 seconds there. And this is an unprecedented improvement. He says a lot about the hard work done by him. He was hitting 20.5 seconds last year and we are wondering what is going to happen? When he is going to break the national record? “Coach Martins said, who train Kujur at the Odisha Reliance Foundation Athletics High-Perforce Center (HPC) in Bhubaneswar. And empowering athletes for global success, the government of Odisha is supporting HPC athletes in gaining international performance and competing with the world’s best.Even if Kujur does not make a qualifying time, he can make it in the world through points systems and is currently 39 positions in the world. For Friday’s race, neither Kujur nor his coaches were happy to show him, but more happy than former footballer experience.“I expected more, but I competed with big athletes such as Gout Gout and Some others, who are the national record holders of my country. So running with sharp athletes will only make you fast, ”Kujur said during a virtual conversation.“I also met Noah Loles and Latsil Lebogo and saw their warm-up routine and how they train which I am going to implement in my warm up in the coming days.”Meanwhile, Martins convicted Headwind for a slow time and admitted that Kujur did not fit like other athletes. “We had a relay camp, Asian Championship and then a meeting in Taiwan. We then flew here and we are not as fit as we should be. And on Friday night it was very clear how fit everyone was – all Diamond League athletes, ”said Martins.The resulting coach now wants to return to the basics, but said that his disciple’s beginning has greatly improved to work with SNC coach Chris Woi at Maglingon Sportsantrum in Burn, Switzerland.“We worked in a few sessions with some movement patterns and we initially optimized it. Martins said that there has been a lot of improvement in the beginning, but we can still improve a few hundred seconds.Is he capable of doing so that it will be clear during his next few programs, the first of which is Spitzen Lechtthletic in Lucurn, Switzerland on July 15. The next World University is sports, after which he will compete in Bhubaneswar in the World Athletics Continental Tour.
