Karsten Warholm, the reigning world champion in the hurdles from Norway, insisted on Wednesday that he would give it his all as he battled back from an injury to pursue a third world championship gold.
When Warholm broke the 29-year-old world record to win the 400m hurdles at the Tokyo Games in a time of 45.94sec, he delivered a performance that is regarded as one of the most outstanding Olympic track performances of all time.
However, the 26-year-old pulled up hurt at the Diamond League competition in Rabat in early June with a “muscle fiber tear” in his hamstring, which he described to reporters on Wednesday ahead of the world championships in Eugene, Oregon, as a “personal disaster.”
Warholm, who has been receiving treatment in Germany and combining swimming workouts with physiotherapy in the hopes of being fit for Eugene, said: “The last five to six weeks have been close to hell.”
It’s been difficult because you don’t know how each day will turn out when you get this thing.
His hopes are still very high, but the Norwegian proverb says: “We conducted some testing before this.
“I believe it is safe to say that we are going in there completely at this point.
“There is no such thing as feeling just OK before a championship. I feel 100 percent ready to go; when I say that, I always mean 100 percent “recent .”
Warholm emphasized that his first competitive outing in 2021 had seen him win gold in a world record in Tokyo, saying that a lack of competitive outings was neither here nor there.
Naturally, you should participate in some races to build your confidence, but on the other hand, I’m not worried about confidence, he said.
“I don’t know what I can bring to the table, so it’s going to be challenging, but I know for sure that all of my training up until the injury was excellent.
Naturally, it’s not the best way to enter a championship.
Warholm added that his competition, a physically and technically demanding effort to clear 10 hurdles in one lap, was not for the weak-willed.
He acknowledged, “This is probably the hardest task I’ll ever take on in this part of my career.”
