Animesh Kujur (picture over x/@rfyouthsports) Animesh Kujur might not have ended among the top three in his first Diamond League show, but he is quite convinced that the World Championship in Tokyo will be held in September.Kujur, who spoke the day after the meeting Monaco Diamond League, where he finished fourth in 200 meters in the U-23 category, he said: “I will qualify. Don’t worry.”To get into the world of 200 meters, it will have to run 20.16 seconds, which is 0.16 seconds faster than its personal best of 20.32 seconds. It will be difficult, but his coach Owen Martins also believes that his pupil can achieve the goal.
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“Due to the right race, the right people and the right surface it would be possible. Somewhere there is 20.16 seconds. And this is a phenomenal improvement. Said coach Martins, who trains Kujura in Odisha Reliance Foundation Athletics High-Performance Center (HPC) in BhubaneSwar. When gaining an international exhibition and compete with the world’s best.Although Kujur is not taking time, he can get into the world through a point system and is currently 39 years old. As for Friday’s race, nor Kujur, nor his coach was not satisfied with his performance, but the former football player is more than happy with the experience.“I expected more, but I competed with big athletes like DNA Gout and some others who are also national record holders of their country. So running with fast athletes will make you so quickly,” Kujur said during virtual interaction.“I also met Noah Lyles and Letsile Tebogo and saw their warm -up routines and how they train, which I will implement in the coming days.”Meanwhile, Martins blamed the headwinds of slower time and admitted that Kujur was not as fit as other athletes. “We had a relay camp, Asian championships, and then a meeting at Tai -Wan. Then we flew here and we’re not as fit as we need to be. And that was very obvious on Friday night – all Diamond League athletes,” Martins said.As a result, the coach now wants to return to the foundations, but he said that his pupil’s beginning has improved extremely thanks to his cooperation with Coach SNC Chris Woolley in Magglingen Sportzentrum in Switzerland.“We did some movement formula with him in a few sessions and we adapted it to the beginning. So the beginning improved extremely, but we could still improve for several hundred seconds,” Martins added.Whatever he can do, it will be obvious during his next few events, the first of which is Spitzen Leichtathletik in Lucerne, Switzerland, July 15. Another will be the world university game, after which it will compete in Bhubaneswar on the world athletic continental tour.
