Wilfried Happio silver medal in the 400m hurdles
[ad_1]
Frenchman Wilfried Happio won the silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the European Athletics Championships in Munich on Friday August 19, in a race dominated by Norwegian Karsten Warholm.
The reigning Olympic champion and world record holder won in 47 s 12 ahead of Wilfried Happio (48 s 56). The Turkish Yasmani Copello (48 s 78) finished third, depriving the Frenchman Ludvy Vaillant of the bronze medal by a hundredth of a second (fourth in 48 s 79).
Fifth French Medal
After his frustrating fourth place at the Worlds in Eugene (USA) last month, Happio won, at 23, his first international medal which crowns a season marked by his immense progress. He brought France its fifth medal of these championships (two silver, three bronze).
But the French could not do anything against Karsten Warholm, definitively recovered from the muscle tear which had prevented him from appearing in top form at the Worlds, where he finished seventh.
Third French present for the final, Victor Coroller took the eighth and last place in 50 s 46.
[ad_2]
Source link
