The young sprinter from Karlstad to go from strength to strength on the running track.
Outdoors, he has taken the gold in both the 100 metres (2018) and 200 metres (2017) and have a personal record on 10,22 and 20,85.
Now, he has demonstrated the capacity indoors as well.
On the inside-the Swedish CHAMPIONSHIPS in Norrköping, he ran 60 metres of eur 6.60 seconds, a personal record by eight hundredths of a mm and only two hundredths from Peter Karlsson and Patrik Lövgrens 20-year-old Swedish inomhusrekord.
” It will be exciting to see if I can lose even more time. This is not a medal hard to imagine. Sek 6.60, must be sufficient to the final, ” he says.
He is ranked seventh in the launcher, but several that are ahead in the statistics will not start in Glasgow.
due to injuries, not had someone’s indoor season the past two years.
Last year, he broke a bone in the foot and had rehabilitation and the option exercise to may.
On his first race he ran 100 metres at 10,31, a time he later improved in the semi-final of the U20 CHAMPIONSHIPS in Tampere, where he was sixth.
10,22, then, is the third best time through the ages and the confederation of Swedish juniorrekord.
Now is camden, from Karlstad, sweden a medal hopes on the inside-EM.
Henrik is a 100-metres runner in the first place and we haven’t really known for his capacity in the 60 meters until now. He has been injured during the indoor season in previous years, ” says father Roger who is one of the two coaches.
The other is the mother of Maria, who is a former sprinter.
the Siblings Agnes and Sara also has athletics in his blood.
the tall sprinter will from a large idrottsfamilj.
” He was always with us at the races. Henry has grown up with athletics. He played a little football at a young age, but quickly found athletics and thought it was fun to run, ” says father Roger Larsson.
Early on, it was clear that Henrik Larsson was faster than all the others in the school.
” When I was in sixth grade it was noticed that it was much faster than all the others. When we ran up in the schoolyard I was the fastest. Then was the mother old sprinter and told me about athletics. It helped me to choose sports. On the way it is, ” says Henrik Larsson.
the Now 19-year-old ready for his may big breakthrough.
He has no injury worries but is in full training.
– Last time before the EM, I have just tried to keep the body in time and hone in on the details. I’m really looking forward to the championship, ” he says.
who manages the physics says:
“He is like a steel spring, it is only to screw up and drop as he flies in the way,” says Roger, laughing.
Son fills in:
” Yes, so it is really. I feel in good shape.
the Competition with the two year older Austin Hamilton from Malmö AI, he looks just as positive.
” It’s really fun to have another swede who is on a high level. Both will be better of for it. We help each other to cut the times.
Henrik Larsson went out of high school last year and now focuses only on sprintsatsningen.
the Plan is that he will start studying at idrottskunskap at the university for the fall.
” I need something more than just training and competition. I hope it will be good, ” he says.
and sponsors are needed.
Perhaps a medal at the european CHAMPIONSHIPS provide an opening.
– We are searching high and low for more partners, ” says Roger Larsson.
the 60 metres will be determined on Saturday, march 2, with trials, semifinals and finals.
” It is fun to run 60 metres. It is a distance that most people can compare themselves with, ” he says.
– at Least final I hope. Everything else is a bonus, ” says Sweden’s major sprintlöfte.
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