This summer, a grand gathering of athletes is about to return, which will surely attract the attention of the whole world. Both long-established sports superstars and rising sports stars eager to show their heads are poised for a race on the long-awaited track. Richard Mille's family of best friends is a leader in a variety of sports, and they can now be expected to fully demonstrate the spirit of RICHARD MILLE on the field and enjoy sports.
All-around sprinter Wayde van Niekerk
South African sprinter Wayde van Niekerk, who joined the Richard Mill brand's family of best friends in 2016, is without a doubt one of the greatest track and field athletes of his time. At the 2016 Free State Championships in the 100m, he finished the race with a time of 9.98 seconds with firm confidence, becoming the first person in history to run 10 seconds in the 100 meters, 20 seconds in the 200 meters, and 400 meters faster than 44 seconds.
Van Nikek continued to be invincible, and August 14, 2016 was also Van Niceck's best battle of the year, he finished the 400 meters with a time of 43.03 seconds, while breaking the world record set by Michael Johnson in 1999 with a margin of 0.15 seconds. Later, at the 2017 World Championships in London, he successfully defended the 400m champion and the 200m runner-up.
Richard Mille, who used the name van Nickenyk and the national color, launched the RM 67-02 Wayde van Niekerk watch, which is comfortable, thin and light, with flexible lines, and has become his wrist equipment in the competition, looking forward to his success in future competitions.
High jumper Mutaz Essa Barshim
At the 2017 IAAF Annual Awards ceremony at the Grimadir Convention Centre in Monaco, Richard Mill's best friend Barshim won the "Male Athlete of the Year" award, becoming the first high jumper in history to receive the award.
Mutaz Essa Barshim has set the world's best in the high jump season nine times, surpassed the 2m 40 mark twice, and became the first male high jumper in history to jump above 2.40m in five consecutive seasons... Not content with these performances, Mutaz is still obsessed with pursuing higher goals – "It's not easy to break the world record, but I believe that as long as I stay in good physical condition, I will be able to jump to 2.46m or 2.47m.".
At the 2019 World Championships in Athletics, Held in Doha, Qatar, he once again won the men's high jump event with an excellent result of 2.37 meters, and won a valuable championship in his hometown. The man, who is not afraid of gravity, became the inspiration for the RM 67-02 High Jump self-winding watch, and also broke through new heights with Mutaz and challenged new possibilities.
Heptathlon champion NAFI THIAM
RICHARD MILLE's best friends also shine in the athletics arena, such as Nafi Thiam, the first female tracker to join the RICHARD MILLE family of friends. The athlete shined at the 2017 World Championships and 2016 and became a world leader in athletics with outstanding performances.
Following the 2013 European Junior Championships and runner-up at the 2015 European Indoor Athletics Championships, Nafi won the gold medal in the heptathlon in Rio. In 2016, she was voted rising star by the IAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) and was named Female Athlete of the Year the following year, while the same time winning the title of Best Male Athlete was Mutaz Essa Barshim, another close friend of the RICHARD MILLE brand. In 2017, at the Hypo Championship in Götzis, Austria, Nafi scored 7013 points, the third best result in the history of the world heptathlon, which also directly helped her win the gold medal at the World Championships in London. In 2019, she was runners-up in the world championships in the heptathlon event.
The heptathlon is one of the most complex events in athletics, and the heptathlete is also considered the most well-rounded athlete. Richard has said: "When working with Nafi, what attracted me the most was her vision and approach to achieving her goals. She has strong analytical skills and is not in a hurry. If you want to be the best person, the most important thing is to find a way to self-transcendence and accept the precipitation of time, which I agree with. ”
Heptathlon nova Maria Vicente
Also achieving her peak in the heptathlon was Maria Vicente, an athlete from Catalonia. The youngster has won numerous titles and trophies at the age of 18, becoming the best women's heptathlon in Spain's history by an absolute advantage, breaking more than 53 Spanish national records, winning the U18 heptathlon world championship in 2017, then winning gold at last year's European Under18 Athletics Championships, while also setting a U18 heptathlon world record.
In a match in Borås, Sweden, Maria Vicente defeated all opponents with the same outstanding performance as always, won the gold medal and set a new personal best record. Before the final race, she had already set a new personal best in javelin, throwing 44.18 meters, a full 5 meters away from her previous personal record. She was hit by a torrential downpour in the 800-meter event, and the situation was once grim. The starting gun sounded, and she did everything in her power to shorten it by a few milliseconds compared to the original 2 minutes 24.79 minutes. In the end, she not only reached her goal, achieving an excellent time of 2:16.28, but also advanced a full 6 seconds and broke the record, becoming the first Spanish female player with a total score of more than 6,000 points, and ascending to the heptathlon championship with an absolute advantage of 6150 points. At the 2019 European Junior Championships, she once again won the heptathlon, adding to the RICHARD MILLE family of best friends.
The athletics field, which has been silent for a long time because of the epidemic, will eventually break the tranquility, once again full of passion and sportsmanship, fighting forward, not afraid of difficulties, just like the spiritual core of RICHARD MILLE.