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Andreas Kramer is the first Swede below the dream limit of 1.45.00 in 800 meters.
That’s after a historic Swedish evening in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
The clock stopped at 1.44.47 when he finished second.
– I already felt before the race that I would go fast, says Kramer.
Yes, when he crossed the finish line, there was no bubbling euphoria in his chest.
– No, it was probably more relief actually. There has been a lot of talk during the season that I will break the Swedish record. And myself, I’ve always felt like I have more to give, but I didn’t just want to get over it by a few hundredths. I really wanted to do it. And it really happened, Andreas Kramer tells Sportbladet.
And now you have created a dream limit: 1: 44.00?
– Ha ha, yes, there is always a cut and I have a career in Zagreb on September 17. And it is clear that I am also looking at borders. And it doesn’t seem like an impossibility. It’s a good time, but it can improve.
– At the same time, it was not only the moment I was happy about, but it also placed me well in the race. It means a lot to me.
Kramer’s previous Swedish record of 1.45.03 came in the big summer of 2018.
Even twice.
First in the Karlstads GP and then in the final of the European Championship in Berlin, when he raced to second place and took silver.
Now he smashed that time and ran sixth in the world in 800 meters this year.
I sniffed the record
Last year he was unsuccessful and has already started in the Doha World Cup tests.
But this summer, the 23-year-old has returned.
He sniffed the Sollentuna GP record on August 10 when the time was 1.45.05 and only two hundredths off the record.
At the Bauhaus Gala a week later, it was even closer when the clock stopped at 1.45.04.
Just a hundredth away.
– But I have still shown a stable level around 1:45 and that was the important thing. And like I said, I really wanted to break the record once I did, says Kramer.
Ran as third
Now he was right.
Now it became historical.
On a difficult starting field, he ran second behind Britain’s Jake Wightman, who won in 1.44.18, the third fastest time in the world this year.
Andreas also falls away from all the previous Swedes on the top ten Swedes list. There is more time difference (98 hundredths) between Kramer and Sweden’s runner-up Rizak Dirshe (1.45.45) than between Dirshe and tian Mattias Claesson (1.46.36).
Such thing.
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