# [LiveStream] Gothenburg Games 2023 Live Athletics Broadcast

The first edition of the Gothenburg Games takes over Friidrottens Hus on the first Thursday in February 2nd, 2023.

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Date : Thursday 2 February 2023
Start time : Around 5 p.m.
Where: Friidrottens Hus, Gothenburg

Class & branches:
M 60 m, 400 m, 800 m, length, three stages
K 60 m, 200 m, 800 m, 3000 m, height, length, three stages

Prize money

A (4000-2000-1000 SEK)
M 400 m, M 800 m, M length, K height, K length

B (2000-1000-500 SEK)
M 60 m, M three steps, K 60 m, K 200 m, K 800 m, K 3000 m, K three steps

January 26
Khaddi Sagnia jumps the world best 6.75 at a smaller competition in Friidrottens Hus!

Men's 60m
Bingtian Suis not only the Asian record holder in the 100m with 9.83 set in the Tokyo Olympics semi-final which he won for future Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs. In that race he clocked 6.29 as a 60m split which is the unofficial world record for the distance - not even Usain Bolt has run faster!
His official indoor record of 6.42 is the fifth fastest time of all time, just eight hundredths off the world record of 6.34.
The fast-starting Chinese is a super idol in his home country and now he is coming to Gothenburg! It will be more Asian in the form of the Japanese Akihiro Higashida who did 6.64. Many fast Nordics can be seen in the starting lists and the Norwegian indoor and outdoor champion Even Meinseth will make his season debut. Last year he ran 6.69.
Inspiring starting field for the fast residents of Gothenburg where Filip Schwartz has been the fastest this year with 6.83 while Patrik Andersson makes his season debut. Please also keep an eye on just 16-year-old Hugo Kündig , who is making his debut against senior opposition. The young sprinter from IFK Göteborg thundered in at 6.90 this weekend.

Men's 400 m
Carl Bengtströmwho represents one of the home clubs Örgryte IS has had a major breakthrough with the indoor WC bronze in Belgrade last year, which meant that he was nominated for newcomer of the year at the Sports Gala. Outdoors, the focus is on the 400 m hurdles where he won the junior EC, but indoors it is the intense two-lap distance that applies. His national record of 45.33 last year is actually just 0.81 off the world record. This weekend in Växjö, he recorded 46.26 - a time that is the second best time in Europe this year, and he meets in Gothenburg the third-ranked Dane Gustav Lundholm Nilsen , who lowered his personal best to 46.57 in Luxembourg. Add to that an Olympic champion in the form of Kajetan Duszynski , who won gold in Tokyo in the mixed relay over 4x400 m with his Poland.
In the B-final, we will also see Carl's in-form training buddy Karl Wållgren , who started strongly with a personal best of 47.35 this weekend.

Men's 800 m
Andreas Kramer broke the Swedish indoor record 1:45.09 two years ago in Torun, Poland. A few weeks later in the same arena, an elbow from the Pole Mateusz Borkowski and lost speed meant that he did not make it to the European Championship final. Borkowski, on the other hand, took the silver in the final after a personal best of 1:45.79 in the semi. Kramer has been successful in the World Indoor Tour where last year he was on the podium in three races. The Kenyan Collins Kipruto was twice and in Birmingham he won in a personal best 1:45.39.
These guys should be pulled outErik Sowinski , who last year led Jakob Ingebrigtsen to a new indoor world record at 1500 m. He himself has a bronze from an indoor WC at 800 m and was seen frequently in the Diamond League as a paceman in 2022.
In the field there are two more home runners who ran outdoors in 1:46 - Alexander Lundskog and Felix Francois .

Men's long
distance Many disciplines offer high-class starting fields, but perhaps the biggest event of the evening in advance is the duel between the Olympic champion Miltadis Tentoglou and the Swedish indoor record holder Thobias Montler .
There is a two-year age difference between them and they have been closely followed in recent years. In addition to the Olympic gold, Tentoglou has two EC outdoor gold medals and he won last year's IVM in Belgrade. There, Montler challenged with silver in 8.38, which is his national record.
According to the statistics database Tilastopaja, they have met 28 times and it says 23 - 5 in favor of the Greek. Four out of five times that Montler has beaten him, it has been in their first meeting of the season - most recently in the first meeting last season. Expect Thobias to be happy to repeat it for the home crowd.
Tentoglou and Montler are not only reigning gold and silver medalists from IVM, but also from IEM, which will take place in just over a month again - this time in Istanbul. Even the fifth from that final, the German Maximilian Entholzner is included. Indoors he has jumped 7.97 while outdoors he has jumped 8.12. Also the EC sixth in three steps from last summer, the British Ben Williams is in the starting field in the long distance competition.

Men's three-step
The Greeks can not only jump long, but they are also sharp in three-step. Andréas Pantazís has an indoor press of 16.79 which he jumped last year when he won the World Indoor Tour in Karlsruhe.
Compatriot Nikólaos Andrikópoulos has 16.39 and British Seun Okome 16.13. The home runs are many and perhaps mainly led by 20-year-old Lukas Edqvistwho made a big splash by becoming Swedish outdoor champion in 15.58w. Gothenburgers are many and even, and count on it being prestigious to be the best in town.

Women 60 m
Julia Henriksson has the best personal best of the Swedes with 7.37 but also watch out for clubmate Filippa Sivnert who in 2020 as an 18-year-old won ISM in 7.38.
Ullevi's own junior talent Elvira Tanderud , who touched her inside press in 7.46, will also start. Elvira who normally has 200 m as the main distance where she ran JVM last summer.
In principle, we also dare to promise a personal best from the Swedish champion in the 100 m hurdles from last summer, Mölndal's Hanna Palmqvistwho rarely ran the distance. She has done 7.62 on the stretch. In Växjö this weekend, she lowered her personal best over short hurdles by three tenths to 8.23.
Of the invited guests, it is Bianca Williams who ran the fastest with 7.26. She was in the WC semis in 2018 in the distance - the same year she also won European Championship gold for Great Britain in the 4x100m.

Women's 200m
200m indoors in a four-lane arena is usually decided with two runners in each heat. A classic head to head and here the Swedish ladies will face strong opposition. Ullevil runner Lisa Lilja won the outdoor SM in 23.14 and started more indoors with 23.50 in Växjö this weekend. She meets 22-year-old Georgina Adamwho outdoors ran 22.87 this summer.
Even faster in Växjö was Malmö's new acquisition Julia Henriksson , whose 23.32 is the second best Swedish indoor time ever. The Swedish record is 23.15 and was set by Irene Ekelund in 2013.
Julia will face Gabriela Anahí Suárez from Ecuador. As a 20-year-old last year, she broke a new national record with 22.74 when she advanced to the WC semi-finals in Eugene.

Women 800 m
Unfortunately, due to illness, Lovisa Lindh has had to throw in the towel due to a lingering illness. She had otherwise been up against competent opposition where several have run around 2.00. Kenyan Jarinter Mwasyaran the WC and under the dream limit last year, while the Dane Annemarie Nissen had her breakthrough this summer when she lowered an old Danish record to 2:00.58 in Hungary in September. Olympian Gabriela Gajanova , training partner of Lovisa Lindh, is coming as well as another WC runner, Finnish Eveliina Määttänen . In Lindh's absence, it is Maria Freij who, with a new personal best, has run the fastest of the Swedes. Home run Gaël De Coninck makes his season debut. She participated as a 20-year-old at the European Indoor Championships two years ago.

Women 3000 m
Last year Sara Christiansson fell short9.00 in the 3000 when she recorded 8:59.10 in Miramas, France. The girl from Sävedal passed the 2021 qualification limit of 9:10.00, but as three other Swedes ran faster, she was not allowed to debut at IEM.
This year she is once again chasing a place in the championship. The new qualifying limit is as good as 8:48.00 - but instead, you let active people in according to a ranking on a ranking system. Sara therefore needs a good time and a good placement to be eligible for the championship in Istanbul and the Gothenburg Games will be her season debut.
Sara will be supported by the experienced hare Elin Brink , who will set the pace.

Women's height
In the women's height, the biggest profile is Airine Palsytewho has a personal best as good as 2.01 which she set in Belgrade 2017 when she won the IEM.
Two other girls have personal bests over 1.90. The Greek Eleftheria Christogeorgou took 1.93 outdoors this summer and Gothenburg is represented by Ellen Ekholm who took 1.91 indoors a couple of years ago. The current Swedish number one from Lund, Matilda Nilsson is of course also in the starting field. She has jumped 1.87 this year.

Women length
Khaddi Sagniastarted the season by lowering his personal best in 60 m down to 7.25, but at the Gothenburg Games it is the main discipline that counts. The form of the home jumper who last year won two World Indoor Tour competitions at 6.70 (the indoor season's equivalent of the Diamond League) is therefore brilliant and maybe the long-awaited jump over 7 meters will come soon. Her national record 6.92 is from 2018 and outdoors last year, Khaddi jumped the longest jump of her life 6.95 when she just won the Diamond League in Eugene. Here is the most qualified opposition Abigail Irozuru . The Brit has jumped 6.73 indoors. She was a finalist at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and at the 2019 World Championships in Doha. Her career longest jump of 6.86 also came that year. At the Tokyo Olympics, Khaddi beat her by two places.
18-year-old super promise Plamena Mitkova from Bulgaria became the junior world champion in Colombia last year when she jumped 6.66. The year before in Nairobi, Maja Åskag won the same championship and she has also just announced that she will jump in Gothenburg. Her longest jump in approved wind is 6.60 while actually when she won the Junior EC 2021 at 6.80 but had +2.2 in the wind. In Friidrottens Hus there is no risk that the wind will be too strong, but it will be a competition with good moves!
And speaking of junior champions, home jumper Tilde Johansson hasopened the season strong. Tilde, who won the junior EC in the 100 m hurdles in 2019 and was second there in the distance. Outdoors she has jumped 6.73 and indoors is a personal best 6.55 recorded in Belgrade last year. With 6.35 in her season debut, she tops the Swedish statistics this year ahead of Åskag and the start is stronger than last year.

Women's three-step
Five girls who won their respective national championships outdoors compete in the women's three-step competition. The home jumper is Rebecka Abrahamsson who jumped 13.51 indoors last year. Dane Janne Nielsen has the very best pers inside with 13.72. For the indoor EC in Istanbul, 18 girls get places and just outside of those places are currently Lithuanian Aina Griksaite and newly married Polish Adrianna Laskowskawho have personal bests three and five centimeters longer than Rebecka. Aina also holds Swedish citizenship and is allowed to participate in Swedish championships, but represents Lithuania internationally. Outdoors last summer she jumped a full 13.98. Norwegian Rachel Ombeni also won her national championships in 2022 and has already started the season with a new inside press, 13.05.