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Hurdler Jason Joseph (21) is getting faster and faster. At the Swiss Championship in Basel, he broke a new national record on the track on Saturday. He finished the 110m hurdles in 13.29 seconds and improved his own record for the second time this season. Great achievement! In the final he is only slightly slower, racing at 13.32 towards the championship title. “I knew I had the record in my legs,” he says. “That’s why I wanted to pick up the pace.”
“He’s the brother I never had”
But he is even more delighted than the championship title and the record with the 200m title of William Jeff Reais (21), that’s his best friend. “He’s the brother I never had,” says the Basel bidder from the Chur. “An incredibly positive person, he brings a lightness to him, he’s always in a good mood, but still says what he wants.” When Joseph starts anywhere in the world, Reais will be the last person he ever writes a WhatsApp message to first. “It’s wonderful when such a special person achieves something like this,” he says.
Reais also accomplished great things on Saturday. After Joseph’s record sprint in the run-up, he told himself: “Today anything is possible for me too.” And how it is: Reais runs the 200m in 20.24 seconds, two tenths faster than his previous personal record. And above all: new European annual record! The best friend’s motivation worked. “Now I have to set the Olympics as my goal next year,” said the 21-year-old.
But before that, the two go on vacation together. “For the first time, we had booked something far in advance,” says Joseph. Last year it was. Miami vacation. “Nothing will come of this because of the pandemic.” Let’s never do it like this again, “says Joseph laughing. Now it’s just a destination in Europe.
Next title for the Kambundji family
Ditaji Kambundji (18) also has reason to smile. “Didi”, the younger sister of sprint star Mujinga, becomes Swiss champion over 100m hurdles for the first time. Because Noëmi Zbären (26) is absent, the task seems to be easier than it already was, but Kambundji is not spoiled: with 13.07 seconds, he sets his personal best, only one hundredth slower than Zbären in his fastest race this season. “Time is also a reward for having focused on obstacles for the first time in a season.”
There is also gold for Léa Sprunger (30) in 200m, Lore Hoffmann (24) beats Selina Büchel (28) in 800m, Decathlon mega talent Simon Ehammer (20) triumphs in the long jump and runs over 110 m hurdles to SM- Plata.
Silvan Wicki (25) cannot celebrate another title. The Basel sprinter had to give up after his 100m championship title on Friday in the 200m semi-final with a cramp. He’s still open if he can start in Bellinzona on Tuesday, as most of his colleagues do.
