She had turned around and was heading back to congratulate her fellow competitors when the scoreboard was changed (12.58, rounded down to 12.57 was actually the time of the runner-up). Britain’s Emily Diamond, Seren Bundy-Davies and Anyika Onuora finished seventh, eighth and ninth. “To run the British record is sensational”. “I just have to keep my feet on the ground and stay patient but I’m excited”.
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Harrison missed out on a place in the United States team for the Rio Games and set her sights on breaking the world record after that heartbreak.
Harrison did not qualified for the US Olympic team after she failed to make the top three at the American trials. In the final, the 23-year-old Harrison got out of the blocks quickly and was away from the field by the third hurdle.
Usain Bolt gave the near sell-out London crowd the finale they were looking for on a gorgeous Friday evening at the Müller Anniversary Games, storming to 200m victory. Someone is going to be Olympic champion (next month) and someone is going to be Olympic champion in 2020.
There were a couple of victories for British women on the fast newly laid track: Laura Muir in the 1,500 as well as the quartet of Asha Philip, Desiree Henry, Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita in the 4×100-meter relay.
She bettered the record of Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova from 1988 – four years before Harrison was born – by one hundredth of a second.
That run, which was also a world lead and a meeting record, sets them up perfectly for a tilt at a medal in Rio in two weeks’ time.
Reigning Olympic and two-time world champion Christian Taylor made the most of his final tune-up before Rio by winning the men’s triple jump with a world-leading effort of 17.78 meters, bettering his own season best of 17.76 meters from the Olympic Trials.
“I’m comfortable with being tagged as the favourite (in Rio), I’m never nervous, which is good for me”.
Brazil was second in 42.59secs France were third in 42.84sec.
He declared on the eve of the race that he was fully fit following treatment from his German doctor Hans-Wilhelm Muller-Wohlfahrt, but this was still a crucial fitness test for him ahead of the Games and his bid for an historic “triple triple” of 100m, 200m and sprint relay crowns.
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“If I’m aiming just to be a lane-filler then that’s probably the best I’m ever going to get”, Gemili told reporters. “Go back to training and go after the world record”. “I was really heartbroken”. His compatriot, Renaud Lavillenie won the men’s pole vault with a leap of 5.9 metres.
