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Tyminska will look for a repeat performance

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As a defending champion, the pressure is always there. But for Poland’s Karolina Tyminska, it will go up a notch or two at this weekend’s European Cup Combined Events Super League.

The competition is being staged in her own country, in the city of Torun, as she looks to repeat her performance from 12 months ago in Tallinn.

It was there that Tyminska produced the best result of her career when she won with 6347 points on her way to beating Hanna Melnychenko, second with 6260, just weeks before the Ukrainian took gold at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow.

It was a fine two days from Tyminska, as it was too for the woman in fourth place with 6104 - France’s Antoinette Nana Djimou - who played a big part in the destination of the overall team title.

The European Cup Combined Events is a competition where scores from the heptathlon and decathlon are added together and with Nana Djimou’s fourth leading the way for the French women, the glory achieved by Kevin Mayer who won the men’s with 8390 saw France land overall victory with 41,421 from Russia with 41,032 and Estonia with 41,027.

Despite the presence of Melnychenko, Ukraine finished second from bottom in the table, just above Italy, and the pair were relegated to the First League.

It means Poland will face opposition from France, Russia, Estonia, Belarus, Great Britain, Netherlands and Switzerland in this Super League as scores are all combined for the grand total with the lowest men and women’s marks deducted.

Tyminska is joined in the Polish team by Agnieszka Borowska, Edyta Kulmaczewska and Paulina Ligarska, with their decathlon quartet being Kacper Chlond, Krzysztof Plaskota, Marcin Przybyl and Pawel Wiesiolek.

Nana Djimou returns for the French while Nadine Broersen, of the Netherlands, who is third on this year’s European Athletics rankings with 6536, will pose a big threat. She has already triumphed in Poland this year having won gold in the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Sopot in March.

Romain Martin, with a season’s best of 8013, will spearhead the French men’s team and while the Dutch have Eelco Sintnicolaas, the European indoor heptathlon champion from Gothenburg, who has scored 8161 this summer, Russia will be exceptionally hard to beat with three of the four decathletes with marks above 8000 this year – and all personal bests.

Artem Lukyanenko has 8177 from Yevgeniy Sarantsev with 8123 and Ivan Grigoryev with 8112. The fourth member of the squad is Sergey Sviridov, who has a 2014 best of 7994 and a personal best of 8365.

Madeira is the venue for the First and Second Leagues, with Melnychenko in the Ukraine team as they look for an instant return to the Super League in a match against the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

The Second League will see Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Romania, Slovakia and Türkiye chase promotion.




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