Konstantin Krylov 10.14 & 20.42

Fireworks this summer if all goes right. Let's hope for some new personal best times!

It was recorded in the track results thread about Konstantin Krylov opening up his season with a 10.16 +2.1 wind over the 100 meters. It's a shame it was a hair over the allowable limit or he would have just about tied his p.b. of 10.15 in his first race. Krylov skipped the whole indoor season so he has to get his legs back under him and get his fitness back. I can see him going sub 10.10 this summer but hoping for a sub 10.05! He is only 21 years of age so time is on his side. Just wish the war would end & the Russian Athletes can compete around the world again. Konstantin Krylov is missing out on experience racing in different countries and against other competitors than just his teammates.

Here is to him making himself more known around the world in the next 4 to 8 years. I also want him to be the first Russian to go Sub 10! They have a few good up & coming young guys and Krylov can lead by example. Good luck to him this summer!

Konstantin Krylov runs a new personal best of 10.14 +0.3 in the RAIN! This is a great time for only his 2nd race of the year and he proves he doesn't need wind to run fast. He did this all on his own. I expect him to go sub 10.10 and he may go sub 10.05 this summer with good conditions. The great news is that he just turned 21 years of age in March.

Krylov only gets to run against Russians. Imagine how much this has set him back? Then the very cold weather & short track season in Russia. He could have already went sub 10 if things were different. I feel so bad for all the russian men & women track athletes.

BIG THINGS TO COME FROM THE NEXT VALERIY BORZOV!

very good time given the conditions. Can't he run anywhere as a neutral athlete?

mastermulti said:

very good time given the conditions. Can't he run anywhere as a neutral athlete?

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No sadly between the IAAF Council and Russia he is not allowed to leave home soil. What a waste of elite talent. It's not like Russia has had
many elite sprinters since the Soviet Union Days. The only descent one I can remember was Andrey Yepishin. He was not as good as Krylov.

I think sprinting is more or less a sport that Russia doesn’t care a lot about in current times. This year for example they only have 6 guys that have run a 10.5 or better. Heck, they only have 28 guys so far this year that have run under 11. That’s a participation issue, not a talent or genetics issue. It would be nice to see Krylov break the 19 year national record held by Yepishin and I’m sure he can do it.

…Once, sprinter Andrei Epishin repeated the Russian record in the 100-meter dash at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg — 10.10 seconds — and won a silver medal. (The national record was set in 1986 by Nikolai Yushmanov.) And Andrei lost to the best sprinter in Europe, Portuguese Francis Obikwelu, who ran outside the top ten: 9.99 seconds. And Epishin then became only the second sprinter from Russia in history to be on the podium after a distance of 100 meters. (The first was Alexander Porkhomovsky, he won bronze in 1994.)


What did Andrey Yepishin say in Gothenburg? That the Russian sprinter had never achieved such a result before, and he should thank his father and coach Sergey (he ran the 3000m steeplechase) and his mother Ekaterina Podkopayeva (800m). And that he expected a fast time from himself, but now he needs to train more and "try to run under 10 seconds."


I remembered this when Krylov spoke in Luzhniki. What did Konstantin Krylov say, having won gold practically in the rain and thunderstorm, setting a personal best and showing a result of 10.14 in the 100 meters? (Alexei Zavaliy won silver, Ali Hadji from Bahrain won bronze.) He simply said: "Running under 10 seconds is the minimum that needs to be done." Let us clarify that in the history of the USSR and Russia, not a single sprinter has achieved this. Konstantin showed that the swing of his "wings" as a runner is strong.


Krylov assumes that he can achieve the desired result in a year or two. It is “desirable” to do it in such a time frame. And at the same time, promising great achievements (and how else can you call something that has not yet happened in Russian track and field?), he refuses to even feel any pressure on himself because he himself announced it and because they expect a Russian record from him? “Well, they are waiting and waiting. If I beat it, it will be great.” He also says that in the conditions of not being allowed to participate in international competitions, he is motivated by personal goals.