Ladies’s 800 last preview
We now know the eight finalists for the ladies’s 800m – two from Ethiopia, and one every from
Kenya, South Africa, France, USA, St Vincent and Britain. The ladies’s 800m has actually developed over the current interval. Within the Paris semi-finals there have been 24 athletes with 21 going underneath 2m. The three winners had been
Keely Hodgkinson 1:56.86
Mary Moraa 1:57.88
Tsige Duguma 1:57.47
The slowest qualifier for the ultimate ran 1:58:06. And the unluckiest athlete was Britain’s Jemma Reekie who was eighth sooner – the quickest to not make the ultimate. This was the primary time we had seen a repechage spherical and not one of the six who got here via that course of into the semi-finals reached the ultimate, though Kolberg of Germany did run a PR within the try.
Keely Hodgkinson might be many individuals’s favourite however Mary Moraa can’t be discounted. She is, in spite of everything, the reigning world champion. The 2 Ethiopians Diguma and Mesele may even be sturdy.
With three British athletes within the race we had hopes of two and even three within the last – there had been three within the last in Tokyo – Hodgkinson, Reekie and Alexandra Bell. 17 yr outdated Phoebe Gill was first up, She ran 1:58.47 for fourth place, How are you going to criticize a 17 year-old whose goal for the season was the European U18? However maybe she ran an excessive amount of in lane 2 and three. Her feedback had been: “I’m very emotional proper now, and that isn’t from being unhappy – that’s from being pleased with myself! It’s a whirlwind of feelings coming into the Video games and performing in entrance of that many individuals. I’m not used to that. However to go on the market and provides it my all on that observe. I’m simply so completely satisfied to get via one spherical and to say that I’m an Olympian now! I really feel so mature in myself, and I’m so completely satisfied that I used to be capable of face it and never again out. Onwards and upwards from right here”. It’s an incredible thought however she is going to nonetheless be in her 20s by the 2036 video games!
Once more Jemma Reekie ran effectively, eighth quickest, in second place many of the race however unable to carry off late challenges, slipping to fifth. Her time was 1:58.01 (examine her 1:56.90 in Tokyo 2021). Her evaluation was: “It was actually powerful, and I’m in the perfect form of my life, and I used to be coming right here to combat for a type of medals. But it surely’s the Olympics, it’s actually powerful on the market. I used to be pleased with the way in which I ran it however I’ll have to observe the race again and see what I can do higher. I ran it the way in which I wished to, and I believe I ran it my solution to give myself the perfect shot of a last”.
Hodgkinson was the quickest finisher and able to profitable races in several methods however she has the added stress of chasing a primary international title.
