Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke ahead of the heats for the Women’s 400m semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon, USA File photograph: Morgan Treacy/InphoBy the midway point things were not looking good. From the first 35 athletes in competition, 25 did not qualify from their opening heats, those that did producing a single top-eight placing in six finals, with another two did not finish in the heptathlon and 20km walk.
In Eugene over the past 10 days, Germany won just two medals, the well-fancied Malaika Mihambo winning the women’s long jump to go with her Olympic title won in Tokyo last summer, before the women’s 4x100m relay won bronze on the penultimate day, running a season best of 42.03 seconds. Better still perhaps more countries than before had athletes reach the finals: the list of 81 countries is up from 76 in Doha in 2019, with Liberia, Niger, Pakistan, Samoa, Philippines and Guatemala reaching a final for the first time in World Championships history.
Among the rare few to win two medals was Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, still only 21, who avenged his silver medal defeat in the 1500m earlier in the week with a ruthlessly dominant display, taking gold in 13:09.24 ahead of Kenya’s Jacob Krop and Uganda’s Oscar Chelimo. Double wow. As it turned out Ireland’s sole final representation was in one of the opening events, the mixed 4x400m relay, where after being anchored by Rhasidat Adeleke in the heats, the team ended up eighth.
Lol. Not a hope for the very long term.
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