- Written by Harry Poole
- BBC Sport in Glasgow
2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships |
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date: March 1-3 venue: emirates arena, glasgow |
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Great Britain's Gemma Leakey continued her bid for her first world medal by running fastest in the women's 800m final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
The 25-year-old Scottish Leakey won the semi-final in 1 minute 58.28 seconds, a perfect assessment of her efforts to build further confidence ahead of Sunday's medal race.
“The final will be very tough, but I want to do it.” [the other athletes] To know that if they are going to win on my course they have to work hard! ', Leakey told BBC Sport.
“We've been fighting for each race and we're going to sit together tonight.” [my coaches] John [Bigg] and sally [Gunnell] And let's solve it together.
“But I think it's going to be fast.”
Leakey, who finished fifth at last summer's outdoor world championships, asserted himself as one of the gold medal favorites by defeating two rivals who were expected to win medals in the semi-finals.
The home favorites overtook world leader Habitum Alem of Ethiopia in the closing stages, leaving 2022 world indoor bronze medalist Halima Nakaai in third place.
Elsewhere during the Saturday morning session, the U.K. david king In the men's 60m hurdles, he placed third in his heat with a time of 7.64 seconds and advanced to the semifinals, but his teammates Tade Ojora Missed.
Grant Holloway of the United States, a strong favorite to defend his title in this event, was the fastest to pass in 7.43 seconds.
amy hunt In the women's 60m, she continued her comeback from a long-term injury and finished fifth in 7.29 seconds, missing out on the next round. Ewa Swoboda and Julian Alfred, who were favorites before the race, scored 7.02 points, leading to a successful qualifying.
Saturday's much-anticipated evening session begins at 19:05 GMT and could be a golden session for Britain.
World 1500m champion josh carr and fellow Scotsmen Laura MuirThe Olympic 1500m silver medalist will compete in the 3000m final.
British team captain Laviai Nielsen Participating in the women's 400m final Molly Corderyboasts a world-class clearance of 4.86 meters this year and is aiming for a podium spot in the pole vault.
Tent Grew threatens to resign over proposed long jump changes
Olympic and world men's long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou threatened to retire from competition after winning gold on Saturday, citing changes proposed by World Athletics.
Track and field governing bodies may introduce take-off zones, which measure jumps from where an athlete's front foot takes off to where they land, to make events more appealing to spectators, eliminating foul jumps. .
The Greek athlete fended off a challenge from Italian teenager Mattia Furlani to win his fourth world gold medal and defend the world indoor title he won in 2022.
Furlani, a 19-year-old rising star, showed exciting potential as he matched Tentguru's best jump of 8.22m, but Tentguru's second-best jump of 8.19m took him the gold medal.
“I consider the long jump to be one of the most difficult events because of the board and the precision required,'' Tentglou, 25, said after his win.
“You have to run like a sprinter to land perfectly on the board. This is the difficult part of the long jump. The jump itself is easy, but it's the run-up that's difficult.”
“So if they wanted to remove this, the long jump would be the easiest event. If that happened, I wouldn't be a long jumper anymore. I'd be a triple jumper.”