{"id":10961,"date":"2023-06-27T06:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T06:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jolien-boumkwo-belgium-shot-putter-who-ran-100m-hurdles-thanks-crowd-for-support\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T06:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T06:28:36","slug":"jolien-boumkwo-belgium-shot-putter-who-ran-100m-hurdles-thanks-crowd-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jolien-boumkwo-belgium-shot-putter-who-ran-100m-hurdles-thanks-crowd-for-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolien Boumkwo: Belgium shot putter who ran 100m hurdles thanks crowd for support"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Belgian shot-putter Jolien Boumkwo has thanked fans for “heartwarming” support after her surprise 100m hurdles appearance at the European Athletics Team Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Boumkwo stepped in for her injured team-mates, gaining a point for her country despite finishing last.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The 29-year-old’s performance at Slaski Stadium, in Poland, went viral on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I thought I would take one for the team,” she told <\/span>BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“I didn’t think about it, I just went for it,” added Boumkwo, who praised the crowd for their reaction.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was really heartwarming all the support, the crowd was screaming and I cannot believe how many people are so kind.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When I was younger I used to do some heptathlons, it was 10 years ago when I last did hurdles. <\/span><\/p>\n

“But now in my training I do hurdles, for mobility and to be flexible. It is not a new movement, but to do it here [at a major championships] is a whole new world, but I really enjoyed every second of it.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Boumkwo said her approach to the multi-sport event had paid off: “The focus was trying to be in the competition and enjoying every moment and sometimes I have a tendency to take things too serious, and then it is hard as you are not relaxed.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Belgian shot-putter Jolien Boumkwo has thanked fans for “heartwarming” support after her surprise 100m hurdles appearance at the European Athletics Team Championships. Boumkwo stepped in for her injured team-mates, gaining a point for her country despite finishing last. The 29-year-old’s performance at Slaski Stadium, in Poland, went viral on social media. “I thought I would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10963,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10961\/revisions\/10963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}