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May 07 Sommer 2009* 05 May 2009: Sanna is on a trainingscamp in Portugal (Albufeira) with the Swedish Team. In an interview with SVT.se she said that the stressfracture is going slowly away, but it's also painfull. The world championships in Berlin (Augut) are comming closer, but first the metal plate in her leg has to be operated to get it out. And then she can sprint back. The pain in herleg forced Sanna to fing new exercises. "My trainers are very creative in finding new exercises." Sanna said to SVT Sport. Click here to watch the video on SVT.se.
* 18 June 2009: Swedish Team doctor Stefan Olsson said to Expressen.se that Sanna and Jenny will probably miss the World Outdoor Championships in Belin (August) this summer. Olsson doesn't believe that Sanna has enough time to be in good shape at the World Championships. He said that she has to take care of herself and being healthy first. Two weeks ago, Jenny and Sanna were operated. The metal plate has been removed to help the healing of the stress fracture in the shin bone. She's recovering together with Jenny. It's been a long time since they ran hard on spikes. Jenny has already said that it would be a big dissapointment if she can't compete this year... Hopefully Sanna's shinbone will heal so that she can compete this year... October 29 Winter 2008-2009* 17 september 2008: There isn't really good news about Sanna now... Sanna's injury hasn't evoluate in the positive way. It's still the same as a few weeks ago... She's got the same injury as her sister Jenny. She's got a stressfracture and she missed the whole season, both indoor and outdoor. Sanna's trainer Torbjörn Eriksson said to the Swedish media that her chances to make the indoorseason are minimal. "It would be a bonus if Sanna can begin at the indoorseason. There's a 50% that she'll make that indoorseason." So it's possible that Sanna won't defend her 2 European indoortitels on the 60m hurdles in Turin (2005, Madrid-2007, Birmingham). Hopefully for Sanna, her injury developes well so that she can compete at the indoor season (especially at the European Indoor Championships in Turin). And hopefully the injury is gone in the outdoor season, because then it's going to be important! It's a year with a world championship in Berlin. This blue track may be her favourite track, because she set here her PB (12.49)! I wish you all the best Sanna and I'm hoping your injury recovers soon!
* 14 October 2008: Sanna won't compete indoor this year. She'll skip the indoorseason to concentrate full on the outdoorseason with has as main goal the World Outdoor Championships in Berlin. The injured hurdle star has choosen to start the Autumn-trainings at a quiet tempo, so that her injury won't get worse. Her injury is a stressfracture in her underleg. "With the thoughts on the outdoor season, I want to concentrate the trainings in function of the outdoorseason." Said Sanna's trainer Torbjörn Erikkson to Aftonbladet. "When the leg is ok, maybe she can do a couple of indoor competitions as well."
Hopefully for Sanna, her injury developes well so that she can maybe participate at the European Indoor championships in Turin and maybe she can defend her title (2x European Indoor Champion 60m hurdles).
* 22 October 2008: It's possible that Sanna will be operated for her injury. But nothing is certain. Because an operation will mean no indoorseason and maybe no outdoorseason.
* 04 November 2008: Jenny & Sanna will probably go to the USA for help to their stressfracture in their shin-bone. First, the leg will be tested with hard toll. Rehabilisation for an eventually operation is individual about 10 weeks rest says Swedish team doctor Erikkson.
Information for an eventually operation stays out... The decision for an operation for Sanna ad Jennt stays out.
Below you can read pieces from the article on the IAAF-site. You can read an article about the strss fractures in the Swedish athletics world on the IAAF-site, or CLICK HERE.
Stress fractures are caused by pressure from endless repetitive training, but the position of the break is vital in the time it takes for a fracture to clear up. The greater the blood flow to the area, the faster the cure.
For Susanna and Jenny Kallur, the problem seems more serious and a decision is imminent on whether they will be operated on. "We have been concentrating on general training these last three weeks," said coach Torbjőrn Eriksson speaking of Susanna's case, "and we haven't put any pressure on the leg. We are just doing what does not cause pain."
Sister Jenny, on the other hand, has been sidelined for almost a year with her fracture, a fate that Agbonjer wants to avoid: "I got the fracture in September, but by February it hadn't even started to heal so I chose an operation," said the 27-year-old.
"They scraped the bone out around the fracture and substituted it with bone from under the knee," said Agbonjer (400m runner). "Now I'm back in training and things look good. Some exercises are painful but at least I can train." If there's any news about Sanna's injury you can findit here!
*11 November 2008: Because of her magnificant indoor season last year, Sanna is nominated for 'the Performance of the Year Awards' organised by the IAAF. Sanna is one of the candidates and her performance is the World Indoor Record set in Karlsruhe in February. Click on this link to vote and select 3 candidates! http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/performanceoftheyear/index.html
* 12 November 2008: Sanna will be operated because of her stress fracture in the shin-bone. But it's not clear where she'll be operated and by whom. It will be a 'family-operation' because Jenny, who's also suffering from the same injury for almost a year, will be operated too.
"She hadn't got any other alternatives." said Swedish National team doctor Thomas Eriksson to Eurosport.
The decision will be in public next week when all the details are arranged. Then there will be a press conference. ''It's almost clear that the operation will be in the US, but nothing is certain. It als can be Norway or Sweden.'' said the Team doctor. The healing will take about ten weeks, but that depends on person to person.
Because of this injury it's certain that Sanna'll miss the indoorseason and that she can't defend her European Indoortitle on the 60m hurdles in Torino this Winter.
The National team doctor said that she can be in full competition form in May. The decesion for an operation means no indoorseason, but maybe she can train and compete this season without any pain. Eursport.se anounced this news on their site, but nothing is yet official. Their daddy and manager Anders Kallur, didn't want to confirm anything. 'I don't have any comment. I'm forces to keep the policy and we'll announce a press conference when there's something to tell." Anders Kallur said. That press conference will probably held at the end of the week.
The team doctot believes that she can be back in the Spring/Sommer. But it will take time to recover full from an operation. * 19 November 2008: After an Autumn of careful researche and alternative treatments, the decision for an operation was clear. So Sanna and Jenny are operated on teir shin-bones. The operation are already done in New York by a specialist: dr. David Helfet. And the operations went well. No they've got to do a long revalidation period. Last week, Thomas Eriksson said to SVT Sport that it could take 6 weeks to wait and a half year before the sisters can run full.
"It feels finally good that we've done this surgery and that we can look forward. It also feels good that the medical team under leading of team doctor Thomas Eriksson agreed for a good solution." Sanna and Jenny said in a press message. They're ready for a comeback in the late Spring. Tomorrow they will hold a press conference in Falun and there they'll tell more about the operationd and the future.
After the operation, that was executed at the end of last week, they've got to walk a month with crutches. By this the toll on the legs won't be to heavy.
In the first month they only can do a cycle and water practice. At about old and new (end December-January) there'll be a new röntgensurvey. They won't go to New York to do that, but the team doctor will send te pictures from the survey to NY.
Swedish athletics team captain, Stefan Olsson finds it positif that the Kallurs choose for an operation. "I think it's a very good decision to do an operation and further treatments. It was definantly the best time for an operation." He hopes that the Kallurs can compete outdoors. "Both sisters are planning for 2009."
* 20 November 2008: Yesterday Sanna & Jenny arrived from the US. Both operations went well and they can balast their legs back after 6-10 weeks. In February they can run back hard. "It feels great to have done the operation. Try to rest and hope the injur will go away, wasn't a good alternative. In the end I saw who Jenny dealt with her injury." Sanna said on a press conference in Falun today. "I thought that it would go away on the natural way and that this the alternative was. But the doctors said that it would heal better on a natural way after an opertation. It feels good and it won't be any problem to compete again in the sommer." Sanna said.
"Were going to South-Africa in January on a trainings camp and hopefully we can start to run than." Sanna said. Jenny is operated on her left shin-bone and Sanna on her right shin-bone. Sanna and Jenny god a stealplate with screws on the leg. Click here to see a fragment of the press conference (SVT.se).
Sanna already looks forward to the World Outdoor Championships in Berlin (2009) this sommer. "I really look forward compete there." Jenny is also looking torwards to Berlin: "WC is the big goal." Jenny said. Sanna said that the Golden League and the WC her main goals are. "I hope I can jog about the end of the year." sanna said.
* 22 December 2008: It's almost Christmas, but it's also the end of the year. The end of a sporstyear which was for Sanna a year with mixed feelings. Indoor she ran the World Record (7.68) but she failed to capture the World Indoor title because of an injury. Because of that same injury she missed out almost the whole season. Fortunatly she made Beijing where she made the semi-final, but there it went wrong again this season... She hit the first hurdle and fell. But we are at the end of this turbulent season with records, injuries and operations and now it's time for something more pleasant. Sanne became 2nd after Stefan Holm in the refferendum for Swedish Athlete of the Year 2008 because of her World Record. Congrats Sanna! For the jury it was a problem where thay had to put Sanna in the list. Because she missed a couple of important races because of her injury problem. But because she made history with that fabulous world record indoor and the fact that she could beat anyone outdoor without any injury she became 2nd. Click here to watch the full list.
* 22 December 2008: While Sanna is training for 3 weeks in South-Africa and revlidate from her operation, her trainer Karin Torneklint said that it's possible that she quits with training Jenny and Sanna. Torbjörn Eriksson will keep on training the Kallurs. SvD doesn't know the motive of Torneklint. "We are discussing now how we'll keep going. That's the only thing I want to say in the current situation." Torneklint said. "hen there's a decission Karin and me (Torbjörn Eriksson) will announce that."
Karin Torneklint was the first trainer of the Kallurs when they started with athletics at the age of 14-15 in Falun. And she came back in the Autumn of 2004 as responsible for the technique training. She's got a big share in Sann's succes: EC-gold (2006), World Record 60m hurdles. Karin has got a great vision on technique. In the beginning she shared the responsability with Agne Bergvall (Växjö). But almost a year ago Sanna and Jenny broke with Bergvall because of the distance and they worked together with Torbjörn Eriksson (Falun). It seems a perfect training duo: Torneklint with a perfect hurdle technique and Eriksson with the speed of sprinting. But now it seems that there's a burst after a year.
Source: Swedish Dagbladet
* 22 December 2008: After all this news I can tell you that Sanna is still in the running for the Jerringspriset and for the Prestation of the year at the annual Swedish sportsgala.
* 24 December 2008: After all those speculations was there yesterday the announcement of Karin Torneklint that, after 4 years, she quits coaching Sanna and Jenny. In the period 2005-2007 Karin worked together with Agne Bergvall and in 2008 Torbjörn Eriksson formed a trainer-duo with her for Sanna and Jenny. But now Torbjörn 'Tobbe' becomes the only trainer for Sanna and Jenny. "Tobbe and I have an other vision about training philosophy, that's wht I cant' mke a good job and that's why I can't keep going. And that's the reason that I chose to give him the full responsability." Karin explained. The appointment from GUA (Grenutvecklingsansvarig), together withe Kade Århäll, for Swedish hurdling, that Karin accepted didn't influence this. "It's nothing personal. If I don't believe 100% in something, then I can't keep going with it." Torneklint said to TV4.se.
In a press message Jenny and Sanna (and also their brother Martin) thanked Karin: "We want to thank Karin a lot, but we have are full understandig for her decision. We are looking forward now to a tense sommer season with the World Championships in Berlin as main goal." Sanna and Jenny Kallur wrote.
Click here to watch/listen te reactions of Karin Torneklint, Torbjörn Eriksson and Sanna (Swedish). Yesterday, the Swedish media anounced it and you can watch another movie of it (Swedish).
* 21 January 2009: Sanna became 2nd in the election for the Jerringspriset after Charlotte Kalla. Sanna had 21,72% of the votes and Kalla 28,99%. So, no 2nd Jerringspriset for Sanna. Click here to watch full results. Remarquable was Sanna's new haircut. Check the album 'Operation + winter 2008-2009' for some pictures. She also missed to be 'Prestation of the Year'. That rewarding also went to Kalla. * 27 January 2009: Anders Henriksson (46) becomes the new technique trainer for the Kallurs after that Torneklint quit with the job. Sportexpressen asked a few questions like when that they'll start with the hurdle training. "We're training hard, but hurdles isn't for now." Have you done athletics? "I tried in Uppsala IF about 30 years ago, but I wasn't special. I trained hard, but get injured. So I became around the age of 20 trainer."
* 25 March 2009: Sanna risks to miss the World Championships in Berlin in August of this year. The injury of the sisters Kallur are healing very slowly. The inoperated metal plate are have to be removed (operation) before she can train back and now they are risking to miss the WC. "She feels a weird pain because of the plate in her shin-bone." Says father Anderes Kallur to SVT.se. "If it's like that the plate have to be removed and she can train back full." Anders Kallur said. National Team doctor Thomas Erikkson warned to think too much about the WC and the risks of an early operation. And the whole outdoor season is in danger because of that operation. Because there has to be another revalidation and a slowly process to train back full... Hopefully for Sanna and Jenny they'll heal back full and maybe they can go to the WC in Berlin... August 07 Summer 2008* 04 April 2008: Susanna and Jenny are going to Monto Gordo (Portugal) and in May they're going to Rhodos. Other Swedish athletics stars like Johan Wissman and Christian Olsson are going to train in Makaraska (Croatia). From 28 April until 13 May, Carolina Klüft will be on a trainings camp together with Alhaji Jeng (Pole Vault) and Stefan Holm (high jump) in Formia (Italy).
There's a picture online from (a stressing) Sanna together with her family during a hockey-game, a derby between Leksand and Mora...
* 29 April 2008: After being in Portugal and have trained there, Jenny and Sanna are going to Rhodos to train there. But Sanna felt again the pain from her last injury. So her coach, Karin Torneklint, said that she has to train less hard at 90%. It's to hope that her injury evoluates good and that she can start her season 24th May in Hengelo (the Netherlands) at the FBK-Thales Games.
* 10 May 2008: Sanna will have a lot of competition at the Olympics in Bejing. At the meeting in Doha, her competetors ran fast. Brigitte Foster (JAM) won in 12.56 only 7/100 above Sanna's PB and Lolo Jones (USA) became 2nd in 12.65. And then there's Damu Cherry (JAM), after she was suspended for doping (2 years, steroïd anoblide) she ran 12.47 in Martinique. In the same rac, Delloreen Ennis-London ran 12.50. Sanna's trainer Karin Torneklint said that they're only focussing on Sanna and not on here competetors. Last year there were only three times inder 12.47 (Sanna's PB) - Michelle Perry, 12.44 and 12.46 and Virgina Powell 12.45. But Sanna will be sharper than last year. Her trainings are going well. "Yes, she's almost training back full. A time ago she ran again hurdles and it was fun." Said Torneklint. Later in May there's the seasonsstart from Susanna. Other competetors in Hengelo are Lolo Jones, Vonette Dixon, Danielle Caruthers.
* 13 May 2008: Sanna will delaye her season start because she still feels something at her hamstring. Her coach Tjörborn said that it's only for safety it's not that she's back injured. So Sanna announced ten days before the GP in Hengelo that she will not start there. Her coach also said that they need to focuse themselves on the Olympic Games. Sanna is still on a trainings camp in Rhodos and her trainer said that she's stronger than ever! So that's good news... She has done stabilisation exercises and it looks awesome. Now will Sanna open her season at the Golden League in Berlin on the 1st of June.
* 31 May 2008: It may be possible that Sanna have a competetor less in Bejing named the Worldchampion Michelle Perry. Perry is injured and it's possible that she can't compete at the US-trials for the Olympics.
* 01 June 2008: Sanna's seasonsopener in the Golden League in Berlin went well! She became 2nd in 12.54 after Josephine Onya from Spain (12.50). She set a new Spanish record. Sanna won't win the Golden League jackpot this year, but she said that she will compete in every competition of the Golden League.
Sanna's reaction: "It's a great season start. I can't be unhappy with this race. After a long brake since Valencia in March this is my first race. I know my starting reaction was not my best, but my feelings are very positive. I could not ask for more. I know I'm out of the jackpot ravce, but the season is just starting. I'm still planning to compete at all Golden League meetings."
Below you can wath the top-3 from the ISTAF-Golden League in Berlin: Click here for full results of the Golden League! Click here to watch Sanna's race (Swedish: SVT.se).
1. Josephine Onyia (ESP) - 12.50
2. Susanna Kallur (SWE) - 12.54
3. Lolo Jones (USA) - 12.57
* 06 June 2008: Sanna became 3rd after Josephine Oniya and Lolo Jones at the Golden League meeting in Oslo. Sanna had a poor start, her reaction time: 0.210. Onyia ran again a strong race, this may be a new 'enemey' for Sanna. 'Her start was better than last week. But it looked like she ran quit slow and simple." said TV4 expert Lennart Julin. Sanna's reaction: "It was really a bad day at work. I didn't want to work out today." Sanna said. "I don't suceed in improving myself. Bad start, bad race." Sanna said dissapointed to TV4. "No, it's like that. It goes good and it goes bad." Sanna saw a few causes: "First of all I had - again - a bad reaction. And I didn't feel good, I was stresed before the start." Click here to watch full results. Click here to watch Sanna in action (svt.se).
1. Josephine Onyia (ESP) 12.59
2. Lolo Jones (USA) 12.66
3. Susanna Kallur (SWE) 12.71
* 15 June 2008: Sanna won't compete at the European Cup in Turkey next weekend (22 & 23 June) because she suffers from a new injury... So Carro's next competition will be on July 11th at the Golden Gala (GL) in Rome. It's her right leg that hurts, Sanna laready felt it at the Golden League meeting in Oslo and that's a reason why she didn't run full there. "After a thouroughly search and röntgensearch, I got a positiv answer from doctor Leif Swärd. The pain comes from an earlier stressfactur." Kallur says. So Sanna has to rest the main part of the spring because of this injury. A positif point is that her Olympics won't be in danger. "She can do an alternative training to get away the pain and rest." said Swedish national teamdoctor Sverker Nilsson. But Sanna still got some small problems with the same hamstring as in Valencia...
* 14 July 2008: After not competing at the European Cup and the Golden Gala (GL) in Rome, Sanna will also miss the golden league in Paris for the same reason: her injury. Her manager Daniel Wessfeldt: 'It's frustrating because every cancelled competition is a dissapointing.' 'I'ts dificult when my leg hurts. It feels like a wise decision to keep going with training without doing a hard hurdlerun.' Sanna said in a pressmessage. 'In stead of this, I'll focus myself on the DN-Galan in Stockholm on 22th July. I hope to be prepared till that date for a hurdle competition and that can uprise the chance for a better OG start.'
Oter news: After the US trials are over, we know Sanna's competetors for the Olympics. Only the first 3 athletes from each competition go to the Olympics. Sanna's competetors from the US are: Lolo Jones, Damu Cherry and Dawn Harper. So Michelle Perry won't compete at Bejing, she's also suffering from an injury. Michelle Perry went out competition in the semi-finals she ran 12.79 and became 6th in her semi-final. Lolo Jones ran very fast: 12.45 in her semi-final! Damu Cherry ran 12.47 in her semi-final. In the final Lolo Jones was outstanding! She ran 12.29, but with too miuch wind (+3.8) the second was Damu Cherry with 12.58 and the third was Dawn Harper with 12.62.
* 22 July 2008: Today it's the DN-Galan in Stockholm, normally Sanna will be competing with injections in her leg against the pain. The doctors said thatt nothing would happen if she run the 100m hurdles. And that was the plan until the warming-up. Sanna wasn't announced for the 100m hurdles run. She didn't start at the DN-Galan today because she found thath her leg wasn't feeling well enough t compete... She didn't feel any great pain, but she felt something in her leg and she wouldn't take any risks. By the way Lolo Jones won the competition in 12.64 after a false start. Sanna want to be careful with her injury in an Olympic year, that's the resaon why she didn't start. But she went on stage to recieve her 'medal' for running the world (indoor) record of the 60m hurdles. Sanna was a little bit dissapointed, but it's better to don't start now then missing the Olympics in August! I hope that Sanna will be ok in Bejing.
* 23 July 2008: Sanna really wants to run a competition before the Olympics start. That's why she will be running in Karlstad next Monday on July 28th at the Karlstad GP (Götagalan). "I hope I can really run there." Sanna said yesterday. Click here to go to the site rom the Karlstad GP.
* 25 July 2008: Sanna decided to NOT compete in Karlstad. As a safety-measure Sanna has chosen to not start at Karlstad GP on Monday, but she'll spare herself for the Olympics in Bejing. "I don't wan to take any risks before the Olympics. It's not ideal to prepare, but a wise decision," Sanna wrote in a press message.
* 1 August 2008: Everything about Sanna's 2nd Olympic Games check the weblog: 'Olympic games Beijing 2008'.
* 21 August 2008: While the Olympics are still going on, Sanna's manager said that she'll compete in Zürich at the Golden League next weekend (29 August). Because of this, Sanna won't compete at the Finnkampen. It's the ideal way to take revenge for her semi-final in Beijing. Almost the whole top from Beijing will be in Zürich. Zürich is also the place where Sanna took revenge for her 4th place in Osaka last year. And in Brussels she won too. Let's hope for her that it will be the same this year! Normally Sanna will be competing in Brussels (5 September) for the Golden League and Stuttgart for the World Athletics Final (13 September).
* 26 August 2008: A cold won't stop Sanna from competing in Zürich on Friday. "At least I don't have fever. Now it will be fun to compete again." Sanna said to Dalarnas newspaper. The question is now will Sanna run at the Finnkampen? Stefan Olssn, athletics captain counts on Sanna for the 4x100m chich will be decide on Friday, but the 100m hurdles will be decide on Saturday. Today the team is anounced for the Finnkampen and Sanna won't be there to compete like I said earlier... If you're intrested youcan watch here the team.
Today is also the startlist for the Golden League in Zürich, Weltklasse, anounced. Click here to read it. It will be almost an Olympic final with Sarah Claxton (GBR), Delloreen Ennis-London (JAM), Brigitte Foster (JAM), Dawn Harper (USA), Lolo Jones (USA), Susanna Kallur (SWE), Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (CAN), Sally McLellan (AUS), Josephine Onyia (ESP). So it's going to be a top-100m hurdles race.
* 29 Augut 2008: After her injuryproblems Sanna became 5th at the Golden League meeting in Zürich tonight. She ran 12.71 and finished before the Olympic Champion Dawn Harper (USA) 12.73. American Lolo Jones won in 12.56, Josephine Onyia (ESP) was 2nd in 12.62 ans Sally Mc Lellan (AUS) became 3rd in 12.63. So Sanna made a decent performance at the highest level, maybe she can go for a top-3 place in Brussels and achieve her new goal. After her dissapointed semi-final at the Olympics, Sanna set a new goal she wanted to achieve this season and that is achieve as much points to be in the World Athletics final in Stuttgart (13-14 September). But she has to gain a lot more points to go to Stuttgart... Maybe in Brussels?? Click here to watch full results of the race.
Sanna dis a good run, but at the end she couldn't hold the tempo with the best runners at the last part. "It was nice if I could run closer to the rest of the field." Sanna said again with a smile to TV4. "It wasn't one of my better days. My technique was bad." Sanna said after she saw her race.
* Weltklasse Zürich Report (Ed Gordon): Coming back at the end of an injury-plagued year, Susanna Kallur showed good form with her 12.71 fifth-place time. If nothing else, she gained the satisfaction of defeating the Beijing champion, Dawn Harper, who was sixth in 12.73.
* 30 August 2008: Sanna won't compete in Lausanne so she'll be ready for Brussels next week. She wants to spare herself ans especilly her several injuries for the Golden League meeting in Brussels. If Sanna can go to Stuttgart for the World Athletics final is unshore. Sanna have to score muc more points to be in that final. Who and how many athlets who are going to that final standson the IAAF-website or click here. Click here to watch Sanna in action in Zürich (SVT.se).
* 02 September 2008: Sanna decided to not compete anymore this season. After many injury problems this year, she has choosen to rest and not compete anymore in this season. She wants to be ready for 2009, ready for training back in the Autumn. Sann will start back in the middle of October with her training after a vacation. Sanna said in a press message that it doesn't have a lot of sense that she would compete in Brussels and maybe in Stuttgart. So it's better for her to rest and compete back in 2009 on her best. Sanna also said that she felt a little bit her injury after the competition... Hope to see you next year back on track Sanna! And hopefully wit more luck than this season... maybe Turin (EC Indoor) and Berlin (WC Outdoor) will bring Sanna more luck!
World Rankings from this season: 2007-2008
50m hurdles: n°1 - 6.67 (Stockholm, 21-02-2008)
60m hurdles: n°1 - WR: 7.68 (Karlsruhe, 10-02-2008)
100m hurdles: shared with Delloreen Ennis-London (JAM): n°6 - 12.54 (Berlin, 01-06-2008) March 23 Olympic Games Beijing 2008* Thursday 07 August: Two days before the Olympics will be opening, Sanna have trained without feeling any pain from her injury! She also trained again wih her spikes after she cancelled the meeting in Stockholm (DN-Galan). So, that's really good news. (pictures from that training already online!) On Sunday Sanna will run a full run and than we'll know if the injury is better... If she feels the injury a bit, she'll be competing with injections. Let's hope that that's not necessary!
* Sunday 10 August: Sanna's body is better. She's ready to compete in Beijing in the heats! Sanna helped her roommate Carolina Klüft when she was training her triple jump. That you can watch on a picture.
* 12 August: Another update from Sanna's injury. “I don’t know exactly why the pain has disappeared but last week I was able to train for the first time without suffering from anything at all for the first time in nearly six months,” Sanna said. “I’ve had a lot of painkillers since having to pull out of the World Indoor Championships final back in March [when she suffered the hamstring twinge] but my recovery has been going well in recent weeks and I’ve stopped using them. I’ve just been getting some ordinary massage and other treatment like this. But I’ve done various tests in the last week, successively harder and harder, and I’m now confident of what I can do.”
Thomas Engdahl is still erring on side of caution despite Kallur’s optimism. “She can run in the Olympics, that’s for sure. However, we must assess the situation after each race. But at the moment, the prospects look much brighter than they did a week ago.,” said Engdahl.
Source: Spikes * 16 August 2008: The entree list is online! Tomorrow, Sanna will start in lane 9 from the first heat. The first 2 from each heat are directly qualified. And the 6 fastest times will be qualified too. If you're from Europe you can watch the heats on 13pm (Bejing time: 19pm). We will be waiting for Sanna's "season start". Although season start isn't completeley the right word to say if we're already on the Olympics... So, Sanna will be running in heat 1 and her other competetors are:
lane 2 Aurelia Trywianska-Kollasch (POL); lane 3 Micol Cattaneo (ITA); lane 4 Josephine Onyia (ESP); lane 5 Katsiaryna Paplauskaya (BLR); lane 6 Lucie Skrobakova (CZE); lane 7 Miriam Bobkova (SVK); lane 8 Nervin Yanit (TUR)
Click here to watch all the heats. (you can also watch the pb's and season bests from all the athletes here!)
* 17 August 2008: Today it's the day of the 100m hurdles heats with Susanna Kallur! After all the injury problems, she'll be there at the startline from heat 1 in lane 9! And Sanna is back on track! She became 2nd with the same time as winner Josephine Onyia: 12.68 and so she moves on to the semi-finals tomorrow. Her race was technical very good. She came not that good out of the blocks and became faster after each hurdle. She came agressive over the hurdles, that is something you can see on the pictures. She became 2nd in 12.68 and qualifies her directly for the semi-finals. Sanna's reaction time was 0.194 and the wind blew negative: -0.2m/s. The time from Sanna was also the fastest time. The second time is 12.96 set by Brigitte Foster-Hylton (JAM) and Vonette Dixon (JAM). Lolo Jones won easily her heat in 12.71.
Click here to watch full results. Below you can watch top-3. Below you can wtach the video from Sanna's heat!
1. Josephine Onyia (ESP) 12.86 Q
2. Susanna Kallur (SWE) 12.86 Q
3. Nevn Yanit (TUR) 12.94 q
Sanna's reaction: * "I was a little bit nervous. I haven't a pretty good start, but it's ok. It was actually pretty nice. When the warming-up felt clear it was 'yes'. I didnt feel anything, not the back and shin bone disturbed me." Sanna believes that he can run faster tomorrow: "Yes, it feels like I can take more." She said with a big smile to SVT.se. (Source: SVT.se)
* "A pretty good time. It became 68? The same as the winner?" Kallur said in the mixed zone after her race to Aftonbladet. "The body felt good. Yes I was a little bit nervous, but that was a good thing because I could take every hurdle full." (Source: Sportbladet.se)
* Monday 18 August 2008: After her injury-problems Sanna is back on track. She'll be running the semi-final today. The time that the race will be held is 19.40 pm Beijing time (13.40pmEuropean Time). Sanna will be running in the second semi-final in lane 6. Her competetors are in lane 2: Reïna-Flor koti (FRA) ;lane3: Sara Claxton (GBR); lane4: Brigitte Foster-Hylton (JAM) ;lane 5:Vonette Dixon (JAM) ;lane7:Dawn Harper (USA) ;lane8: Damu Cherry (USA) ;lane9: Anay Tejeda (CUB).
The first 4 of each heat will be automatically qualified. Click here for the startlist.
Sanna won't be Olympic Champion 100m hurdles 2008. She went out in the semi-finals on a dramatic way. She started agressive and hit the first hurdle. Because of this she fell and was out of cometition. So no Olympic Final for Sanna this year in Beijing. For the moment Asia doesn't bring lot of luck for Sanna. Remember last year in Osaka where she became 4th after Michelle Perry (USA) touched her on the last hurdle in the final. Sanna was - of course - very dissapointed. This wasreally a chance for her to run the final. She was able to finish with the 4 best. And so, Sanna still haven't run an Olympic final... In Athens (2004) Sanna ran in the semi-final a PB, but she didn't made the final. The heat was won by Damu Cherry. The fastest time was set by world indoor champion LoloJones in 12.43. That's the world leading time and a PB for Lolo Jones, who's no the absolute favourite now Sanna is out. Sanna ran again with injections against the pain as a precaution. she also did this in the heats. Sanna promised to SVT.se that she'll be going on for another 4 years until London 2012. So that's good news, maybe she'll have more luck in Europe (London).
Below you can watch top-3 of the heat. Click here to watch full results. Below you can watch a movie from that dramatic race...
1. Damu Cherry (USA) 12.62 Q
2. Dawn Harper (USA) 12.66 Q
3. Brigitte Foster-Hylton (JAM) 12.76 Q
Reactions:
* Sanna: "I didn't have time to think, suddenly I was standing on my head. I felt like I was in superform. I didn't feel anything from the injuries during the warming-up and I really wanted to run fast. I'm going furhter for at least 4 years." Sanna said to SVT.se (Source: TV4.se & SVT.se) Bridgitte Foster-Hylton tried to cheer Sanna up: "It's a strange year for you." She said to Sanna.
* Delloreen Ennis-London (JAM): "It's Terrible."
* Yelena Isinbayeva (RUS): "It's so bad for her. She had some bad luck this year, but next time she'll win."
* Her trainer Karin Torneklint: "She wanted to run fast right now. She was too soon by the first hurdle and she hadn't the time to rise her leg." (Source: TV4.se)
* article IAAF: After eventually coming to terms with her disappointment, Kallur finally stood up and walked towards the finish line trying to hold back tears under the supportive applaud of the crowd. In probably the kindest of gestures, Foster-Hylton waited for her and spared a few words which Kallur visibly appreciated as she even managed a smile at the TV camera. "I guess I tried to much," commented Kallur. "I wanted to run too fast. For the first time this summer, I felt in really good shape. But I pushed too much. I hope I'll be back on the track again in a few weeks. It's not as bad (physically) as it is mentally." (Sourrce: IAAF)
* Tuesday 19 August 2008: Sanna looked better this morning when she supported her friend Carolina Klüft while she was jumping in the qualifications from the long jump. You wan watch some pictures off Sanna, supporting 'Carro' (Carolina Klüft).
* 20 August 2008: Sanna wants revenge for her lost semi-final in Beijing and that will be in Zürich (Switzerland) for the Golden League on Friday 29 August.
* 21 August 2008: Other non-Olympic news check te weblog 'Summer 2008'. October 04 News Winter 2007-2008* 04 October 2007: Susanna became 6th at the Waterford Crystal European Athlete of the Year 2007. The honour to win was for Blanka Vlasic of Croatia who became World Champion in the high jump. Last year that honour to win was for the Swede Carolina Klüft, who became 2nd this year. The third place was for the Russian Yelena Isinbayeva. Last year, Sanne ended 7th, so one place better! Congrats to Sanna for her 6th place and thanks for voting! Click here for the full results.
* 10 October 2007: Vote Susanna to European Athlete of the month September. If she win that honour, she can be - at the end of the season - European Athlete of the year. But she has got to be selected first and the only possibility is that you vote her to victory in September... How can you vote? Just CLICK HERE. Or you can go to the EAA-website by yourself...
* 18 October 2007: Susanna and her trainer Karin Torneklint gave a lecture about Sanna's way to succes. There were at about 90 people who were at the SISU Stockholm and they could liste the road to the top of Susanna Kallur. There are a few pictures online in the album: Winter 2007-2008.
* 24 October 2007: Susanna didn't became European Athlete of the month September. That honour was - again - for the Croatian Blanka Vlasic. You can read the article by clicking on this link. Although Sanna didn't won, thanks for voting!
* 07 December 2007: Sanna is with the Swedish team on a trainingscamp to prepare herself for the indoorseason and ofcourse for the olympics... Sanna is training with her sister Jenny, Carolina Klüft,... in Potchefstroom (South Africa). Sanna will be celebrating her Christmas at home but on January 1st, she'll return to South Africa, this time to Stellenbosch. There are some pictures online...
* 20 December 2007: Sanna ended third after Carolina klüft and Stefan Holm in the referendum of Swedish athlete of the year. This election is based on the prestations in championchips and there was Carro better. Stefan Holm, also 4th at the WC in Osaka and 1st at the ECIndoor in Birmingham, became 2nd because he stands first at the world list. Congrats to Carro and well done Sanna. Click here to read the full article. And here for the offcial article at Friidrott.se.
* 22 December 2007: Sanna and Jenny broke up with Agne Bergvall as coach. They said in a press message that the distance between Falun and Växjö is to big. Now will Karin Torneklint and Torbjörn Eriksson train the 2. Torbjörn Eriksson was a Swedish sprinter and he'll bring more speed in Sanna's run. Especially after her last hurdle, because she can win a few hundrets on that last line to the finish. Agne Bergvall and the sisters did this together. He said that it's time for Torneklint and that she's got now the responsability of the two girls.
Read the full message on SVT.se (Swedish) and watch a video on TV4.se.
* 29 December 2007: Susanna is with the last 4 nominies to become Swedish sportwoman of the year 2007. Sanna will have to fight against Carolina Klüft, Anja Pärsson (ski) and Therese Alshammar (swimming). Click here to watch the other nominies in every category. After the first votes for the Radiosportens award (Jerringpriset) 7 candidates stayed over, from the 10. Click here to watch the other candidates. For the Jerringpriset, Sanna will have competition from Carolina Klüft (2002 winner) and other sporters. Sanna has won this price (Jerringpriset) last year. The second vote round (by telephone) will go until January 12th, this meens, 2 days before the Swedish Idrottsgalan (The Swedish sportsgala) and there will be the final decession. The Jerringpriset (since 1979) is the only Swedish sportprice that goes out from the people. The people vote for their favorite sporter. The winner from the Jerringpriset will be anounced on January 14th. Vote can until 12 January and then, five candidates will left. And thos 5 will go the final where the final decession will be taken on the Idrottsgalan. For Swedish people, the telephone number is 099-42004.
Best wishes for everyone!
* 07 December 2007: There's an article about Sanna at the EAA-site. The article is about Sannas first meeting in the Kelvin Hall (Glasgow) for the Norwich Union. There can Sanna win for the 6th time! This is wha Sanna said: "Glasgow is the start of another big year for me. I have had great success in the last year and in particular in the last six years at Kelvin Hall and I look forward to holding on to my unbeaten run." Click here to read it.
* 14 January 2008: You can watch a video from Sanna on a trainingscamp in Stellenbosch (South Africa). Click here to watch the video (Swedish).
* 14 January 2008: Sanna became 2nd for the Jerringspriset after she was with the last 2. Zlatan Ibrahimovic won the price. Sanna was also nominated for Swedish sportwoman of the year, but that honour went to Anja Pärsson. Click here to watch the interview (Swedish). You wan watch pictures of the Idrottsgalan (Swedish Sportgala) in the album winter 2007-2008.
* 24 January 2007: Susanna said on her bolg: 'I've just trained intensive last week. On Monday afternoon, I landed in Stockholm after a trainingscamp in South Africa and later I get into a hotel for the Idrottsgalan in 'The Globe'. At the end of the Gala I get a little bit nerveus. I want to start the season as soon as possible.I didn't expect that I get that high in the Jerringspriset but it feels also good that Zlatan won. Peronaly, I believed that Carro (Carolina Klüft) or Anja (Pärson) would win, but Zlatan is also a justified winner.'
You can read everything on Sanna's blog: http://www.afconsult.com/templates/Page____42871.aspx
* 25 January 2008: Sanna's calender online! Click on the link to watch a press conference (GE Galan) & interview with Sanna.*26 January 2008: Great opening of the season for Sanna! Susanna won the 60m hurdles at the Norwich Union in Glasgow. It's the 6th time in a rowe that Sanna won in Glasgow. She won in 7.81 that's only 1/100 above her PB, 7.80 that she set in 2005 at the European Indoor Championships in Madrid. The time she set today is also a new World Best Year Prestation, She improved tha prestation with 64/100! She crossed all the competetors and set a best Year Prestation. Click here to watch full results. Below you can watch top-3.
1. Susanna Kallur SWE 7.81 = SB = BWP
2. Lolo Jones USA 8.05 = SB
3. Judith Ritz GER 8.15 = SB
Reactions: (Sportbladet.se) 'I've never ran that fast in my season opener. I'm suprised.' Kallur said. 'I thought about a time about 7.90, but it gets better. I've always liked this lanes here and they fit me perfect.' Susanna hasn't lost a competition on the 60m indoor since the World Indoor Championships in Moscow 2006. Her biggest goal for the indoorseason is of course the World Indoor Championships in Valencia (7-9 March).
* 29 January 2008: Susanna has set a new Swedish and Personal Record on the 60m hurdles tonight at the Samsung Galan in Göteborg. In the heats, Sanna ran 7.90, but later in the finale she was unstopable. Seh was and is simply the best. She grabs the best worldyear prestation, again and better the Swedish record. The record that she set is only 6/100 above the Worldrecord from Ljudmilla Enguist. It's also the 6th best prestation ever! About that worldrecord Sanna says: 'I don't think about that because last year I did (with the Swedish outdoor record) and got nervous and stressed.' Sanna is definantly in good shape, after Glasgow last weekend when she set a very good time, now in Göteborg, she set a Swedish record. Way to go Sanna! We look forward to see you compete in Valencia! Click here for the full results. Click here to watch her heat. Click here to watch her recordrace. Below you wan watch top-3.
1. Susanna Kallur SWE 7.75 = MR, NR, PR
2. Lolo Jones USA 8.00
3. Anay Tejeda CUB 8.08
* 02 February 2008: Today, Sanna will compete in Stuttgart at the Sparkassen-Cup. Sanna won her heat in her second best run ever: 7.78! This time is also a meetingrecord! She shares this record together with Brigita Bukovec (Slovenia) she ran that time in 1999. Sanna won before Kellie Wells from the USA (8.04) with a wide margin. Later on the evening Sanna will run the final at 19.49h (local time). Click here to watch the results of the heat. After Sanna won the heat in a very strong time, she put down a new Swedish record: 7.72! That's only 3/100 above the 18 year old worldrecord!!! First the clock said 7.71, but later the time was corriged to 7.72.She improved again her PB and the Swedish record, that Sanna in form is, may already be clear. The time 7.72 is Sanna 's best time ever and the second time of all times! Sanna is ready for Valencia (maybe for a worldrecord to??)! Sanna won, again, with a wide margin from Lolo Jones. She ran the perfect race! 'I've no other explanation than that I could train healthy hurdles. What I couldn't do last year. Now I came into the indoorseason like I finished my season with exact he same hurdle-feeling.' she said to Aftonbladet. 'My start wasn' good, I gave my start away. I felt it was bad.' Do you think about the worldrecord? 'It feels onlogical when I start to think about it on the startline. I'll look after my race to the result. I always run bad when I think about I time I want to beat.' Susanna said to Aftonbladet.se. 'I havn't been injured this year. I've been able to hurdle more than in previous seasons.' On the Question isn't it a little too early in the season to be running so fast? Kallur said: 'No, that's not EVER a problem.' Sanna laughed (Source: IAAF). Click here to watch her race. Click here to watch full results!
1. Susanna Kallur SWE 7.72 = MR, NR, PR, WL reaction time: 0.176
2. Lolo Jones USA 7.86 = PB 0.159
3. Vonette Dixon JAM 7.94 0.169
* 04 February 2008: Sanna will not have to compete against the World Outdoor Champion, Michelle Perry and American Outdoor champion Virgina Powell.
* 07 February 2008: Sanna is nominated for European athlete of the month January. You can vote Sanna to victory, just click on the link: http://www.european-athletics.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4760&Itemid=208!
* 09 February 2008: Tomorrow, Sanna will be hurdling in Karlsruhe. The Swedish Athletics Association has taken pictures and a movie. Click here to watch the movie. Pictures are online on this site!
* 10 February 2008: Sanna won her heat at the BW-Bank Meeting in Karlruhe in 7.78. That 7.78 was also a new meeting record. A good warm-up, because Sanna didn't ran fully, for her final later. Click here for full results of Sanna's heat. That final was supreme! She ran a new World Record, 7.68!!! Click here for full results of the final! Sanna had a good start and ran very fast to a time that was 1/100 above the 18-year old record. The time stood directly still on 7.68 and was waiting for the official time and that was 1/100 better then Ludmilla Enguist' world record. Sanna was very happy and delighted, when she got the flowers in her hands she ran a lap of honour. Congrats Sanna! Sanna ran very relaxed with giving the intention that she can ran even faster. But still the clock stopped at a new worldrecord. 'It was a very good race.' said Agne Bergvall 'But I know that she can ran faster.' Before the race Sanna said that she had pain in er leg in Stuttgart but that after a good massage everything back ok was.
'I find it hard to believe that it's true.' Said a very happy Sanna to SVD.se straight after her race. 'When I saw the time, I couldn't believe it at first.' Over her heat Sanna says: 'I had a bad start, that's why my time was 7.78.' In the final it went much better like we all now. 'I felt myself fresh and I thought, when I have a good start, the race can be good.' Kallur said to Sportexpressen.se. 'It was a better race than in Stuttgart (7.72). I had a better start. My race was like that in Ghotenburg (7.75), but on a faster track.' Funny aspect: Sanna got the number 168, the same numbers as the new worldrecord... Below you can watch the video + an interview!
1. Susanna Kallur SWE 7.68 = WR, NR, MR reaction time: 0.162
2. Lolo Jones USA 7.77= PB
3. Damu Sherry USA 7.89 = PB
* 14 February 2008: Sanna became European Athlete Of the month January 2008! Congrats to Carro. Click here to read the article on the EAA-site.
* 16 February 2008: Happy Birthday Sanna! Sanna celebrated her 27th-birthday with a victory at the Nowich Union Grand Prix in Birmingham. Sanna won in 7.75, this is also a new Stadium Record for Sanna. She won convinced with a wide margin before the second the margin was 30/100! The reporter from the BBC asked Sanna what it is like to be a world record holder. Ans Sanna said that she couldn't still believe it that she has got that record now. She said that maybe in a couple weeks that she can believe the fact of having a world record. Sanna also said that her technique has never been better. So that's a very good sign for the World Indoor Championships in Valencia (7-9 March) and of course for the Olympics later. Click here for the full results. Below you can watch the race.
* 21 February 2008: An other victory for Sanna! She won the GE Galan in 7.74 a new meeting record. Susanna didn't dissapointed, she won for a full crowd with a meeting record that was 6/100 better. Click here to watch full results. Sanna won again with a margin from 17/100. That time is only 6/100 above her own World Record. Her start was not that good, she took the leading after the second hurdle and made the margin bigger and won simply the race in 7.74. Sanna's 3rd best time ever! Sanna won't compete at the Swedish Indoor championships, she wants to rest a little bit and than go for a world titel in Valencia.
* 08-03-2007: Vote Sanna to European Athlete of the month February 2008! In February 2008, Sanna set the new world record and she won every 60m hurdles competition in which she started... Click on the link to vote. You can vote until 12 am 17th March 2008. World Indoor Championships Valencia
* 07 March 2008: The full entree list is online! Click here to watch it (entrees of the 60m hurdles are standing on page 20 below.). Sanna will compete in the heats at 10.25 am. Normally she'll run the semi-final at 18.10pm and the final at 20.15pm. Every news about about Sanna and the 60m hurdles event in Valencia will apear here up to date! I wish Sanna all the best tomorrow!
* 08 March 2008: Heats: Sanna set a new stap to the World Indoor title by winning her heat in 7.87. After two false starts Sanna went not that good out of the blocks (reaction time: 0.259). But Sanna won her heat easily before Lacena Golding-Clark (JAM) and Eline Berings (BEL) who set a new NR with a mark of 8.05. Later Sanna will run the semi-final. Click here to watch full results of the heats. Sanna's reaction: "I am feeling good here in Valencia. I know that it is a fast track. It felt hard underfoot, and that is good for me. I don't know if I will break my world record this evening. But I would like to get the victory like in the European Indoor Championships in Madrid three years ago."
Semi-finale: Sanna won't start in the semi-finale. She felt pain in her leg and will not take the risk, so Sanna won't start in the semi-final... Of Course Sanna was verry dissapointed, she deserved that gold medal if you watch the whole indoor season. Sanna said that she almost faint by the thought of an injury at the hamstrings. By the warming-up she had a bleeding at the backside of her right thigh. "And than came the thought: 'God why is it happens now?'. But this is topsport. When someone is in good shape this can happen." Sanna said with tears in her eyes. It wasn't her good form that did break that thigh-muscle. "I was in very good shape and I maybe did my fastest start ever when this happend." Swedish TT asked Sanna if she could break the worldrecord (7.68) in the final: "It would be ridiculous to speculate about it now. It's not my thing to do that." Swedish TT asked Sanna what would happened if she ran the semi-final: "I would never ran that race because I felt that something wa broken. I couldn't ran hard if you don't want to damage it. It would be worse when I fall after the third hurdle or later." This kind of injury knows Sanna a little bit from the Olympic year 2004, that year Sanna had to rest 4 months because of a thigh injury. "It was also an Olympic year. That year I could run in May, but I could go full at the Olympics. I'm not worried about the future, the only thing that the injury did whas that I couldn't run today. I can train in three days back hurdles. The Olympics are a big goal and I've got a good indoorseason." Susanna Kallur still got no golden medal at a WC. But it can come in Bejing in August: "If I start in the final of the Olympics? Maybe."
* 15 March 2008: Sanna is training back! But still she has to be careful, in two weeks she can train full. She said that it's faster than expected that seh can run and train back. So that's good news...
* 19 March 2008: Sanna is European Athlete of the Month February 2008! Congrats to Sanna and thanks to everyone for voting! Click here to read the article at the EAA-site. It's the second time this year that Sanna gets the price of 'European Athlete of the Month'. That can be important for the end of the season, than we can choose the best European Athlete of the Year! With her 2 victories, Sanna is already nominated for becoming 'European Athlete of the Year'. |
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