Today in the English city of Birmingham, the fourth stage of the Diamond League will be held in women’s triple jump.
On the seventeenth of August, the most productive Athlete of Kazakhstan Olga Rypakova went from Ust – Kamenogorsk to England for the next round of the Diamond League, where she will again meet her main rivals-Yulimar Rojas and Katerin Ibarguen, and it remains only to guess how the jumpers will perform this time, because they will not be able to forget about the fight at the World Cup for a long time! Together with them will compete two representatives of Jamaica Kimberly Williams and Shanika Ricketts, Anna Knyazeva-Minenko from Israel, Polish athlete Anna Jagachak, the famous Portuguese athlete Patricia Mamona and Janine Assani-Issuf from France.
Today we got in touch with the head of the East Kazakhstan Athletics Federation Denis Rypakov and Olga herself and learned a little about the mood of our athlete before the stage.
– Olga, you recently flew from the World Cup in London, and now went to England again, but now to Birmingham for the fourth stage of the Diamond League. Is it difficult to compete in this mode?
– We planned to prepare, taking into account the same schedule, knowing when these competitions will be held. The main start of the season, of course, is over, and even the relief inside is felt, because the main thing that we were preparing so hard has already passed, and it has succeeded! But it is impossible to relax, we are preparing further, because ahead is two more stages of the Diamond League and the Asian Games in the premises, which will be held in Ashgabat in September…
– These starts are more positive than the previous ones, because the most important thing is the ones that are left behind. Girls compete as they are. But this stage should go better than the second and third! – added Denis Rypakov.
The start of the race is at 15:28 local time.
Inna Semenyak
