Blessing Afripa gained the Jerusalem Grand Slam in athletics: “The group driven me ahead”

The Jerusalem Grand Slam in Athletics used to be held this night (Sunday) on the Givat Ram Nationwide Stadium with the participation of about 80 athletes from in a foreign country and about 60 Israeli athletes. Blessing Afrifa (Maccabi Tel Aviv) excited the gang, when he gained the 200 meter race whilst surroundings His 12 months’s result’s 20.47 seconds. In the similar run, Gal Arad (Maccabi Tel Aviv) completed in 5th position with a time of 20.83 seconds.

On the finish of the contest, Afrifa mentioned, “I am happy the gang got here, they driven me ahead. I additionally felt a bit of power as a result of that is my house position. I sought after to end up to them that I will win right here, I am glad that I ran neatly and completed in first position.”

In 3 weeks, Afripa will compete within the Ecu Championships to be held in Rome, the place he’s coming as a candidate for the finals. Referring to his personal expectancies within the pageant, he mentioned: “I do not wish to say a spot or a podium, however I do wish to achieve the finals and convey honor to Israel and my circle of relatives. I come to the contest to compete.”

Israel’s 100×4 relay workforce, which integrated Ido Peretz (Hapoel Holon), Aviv Koffler (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Blessing Afrifa (Maccabi Tel Aviv) and Gal Arad (Maccabi Tel Aviv), gained with a rating of 39.84 seconds.

Every other blue and white athlete who completed in first position is Yonatan Kapitolnik (Maccabi Tel Aviv), who gained the prime soar pageant with a results of 2.15 meters. Hana Minenko (Maccabi Haifa Carmel) set her 12 months’s end result within the triple soar – 13.56 meters, which positioned her in 7th position .

Edva Cohen (Maccabi Tel Aviv) set the most productive Israeli success within the 2,000 hurdles: 6:26.52 mins and completed 2nd within the run. Karavan Halabi (Maccabi Haifa Carmel) completed in fourth position with a brand new private file of 6:32.67 mins.

“I labored at the front to the water hollow and it were given higher. I had numerous a laugh working in entrance of the Israeli crowd, friends and family who got here to peer me,” Cohen mentioned. “The following speedy objective is the Israeli championship in 3,000 stumbling blocks this coming Thursday.”

Alina Drotman (Maccabi Rasheltz) completed in 2d position within the girls’s 100 meter run with a time of eleven.66 seconds. Ilana Dorfman (Hapoel Holon) got here proper after her in 3rd position with a time of eleven.97 seconds. On this distance for the boys, Ido Peretz (Hapoel Holon ) used to be the Israeli who completed within the absolute best position – in 6th position, with a time of 10.62 seconds.

Within the girls’s 400 meter hurdles, Noa Levy (Maccabi Rasheltz) completed in 2d position with a time of 58.58 seconds. Margarita Dorojon (Negev Athletics) completed in 2nd position within the javelin throw together with her 12 months’s results of 54.25 meters. Every other Israeli athlete who got here Noam Memo (Hapoel Emek Hafer) took 2nd position within the 800 meter run, when he crossed the end line in a time of one:48.98 mins.

Within the males’s lengthy soar, Yishai Ifraimov (Chief Jerusalem) completed in 3rd position with a results of 7.64 meters. Dor Chion (Negev Athletics) additionally completed in 3rd position within the 110 meter hurdles, whilst surroundings a brand new private file of 13.93 seconds. Sasha Lokshin (Maccabi Haifa Carmel) completed fourth within the 100-meter hurdles together with her 12 months’s end result, 13.39 seconds. Estelle Valano (Maccabi Tel Aviv) completed fourth within the discus throw with a distance of 54.62 meters.