After a solid Day 2, Nataliya Dobrynska bounces back to take the Gotzis title

Olympic Heptathlon champion Natalia Dobrynska in her latest diary entry talks about her recent win in Gotzis and shared the plans for the rest of the season.

“Hi everybody,

“To be honest, I feel a huge relief now, when I know that all my season preparations were not in vain. You know, the meet in Gotzis has always been special for me. After the Olympic Games and the World Champs, it is my first priority. To compete at the same meet with the legends like Roman Sebrle, Carolina Kluft and Eunice Barber – this is really special, and I’ve always tried to peak my shape for Gotzis.

“But still, somehow at this very meet before I had never been successful! I achieved my best result five years ago at my very first Gotzis meet, when Carolina Kluft won and I was third. After that I never managed to be in the best three here, although very much wanted to. I don’t know what the secret is, but in Gotzis I had always been either injured or not in best shape. Maybe because this meet is in the beginning of the season and it was hard for me to be in time with my training. Having won it this year, I am so happy to break this bad tradition, I just can’t describe!

“In Gotzis I always feel that the attitude to multiple events in Austria and Germany is different from the rest of the world. They consider it a “king discipline” in athletics, and the stadium is always full and so much supportive. It was the 35th edition this year and I know there are people who have been coming to Gotzis for 30 years running or more. This is just unthinkable! When you come there you feel that this is the meet with the history and with long tradition, there are even special books and photo-retrospective. I think the meet organizer Konrad Lerch is number one in his business, it’s just a pleasure to experience such perfect organization and huge respect to the athletes. 

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