Harrison wants more record-breaking feats
American hurdler breaks 28-year-old record in 100m, Bolt wins 200m race
Keni Harrison. PHOTO: REUTERS
LONDON:
One world record is not enough for Keni Harrison. Hours after breaking the 28-year-old 100m hurdles record on Friday to avenge failing to make the US Olympic team, the young American revealed there is another race she wants to conquer.
“[I want to] try to get another record in the 400m hurdles,” Harrison told a conference call from London where she ran a record-breaking 12.20sec in the 100m hurdles.
She bettered the record of Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova from 1988 — four years before Harrison was born — by one hundredth of a second. It came in Harrison’s first race since finishing sixth in the cut-throat US Olympic trials where only the top three advance to the Games.
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“I wanted to come out here with a vengeance to show these girls what I have,” said the 23-year-old, who defeated the three women who will represent the US in Rio.
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Usain Bolt delivered on his top billing by winning the 200m at the London Diamond League on Friday.
Bolt, running his first 200m race for a year in his last outing on the track before the Olympics, struggled for his usual rhythm as he laboured to victory in 19.89sec.
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However, having pulled out of the Jamaican trials last month with a hamstring strain, he was delighted to get through Friday’s race uninjured and can now go away and fine-tune for his attempt at the triple-triple of 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay golds in Rio.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 24th, 2016.
One world record is not enough for Keni Harrison. Hours after breaking the 28-year-old 100m hurdles record on Friday to avenge failing to make the US Olympic team, the young American revealed there is another race she wants to conquer.
“[I want to] try to get another record in the 400m hurdles,” Harrison told a conference call from London where she ran a record-breaking 12.20sec in the 100m hurdles.
She bettered the record of Bulgaria’s Yordanka Donkova from 1988 — four years before Harrison was born — by one hundredth of a second. It came in Harrison’s first race since finishing sixth in the cut-throat US Olympic trials where only the top three advance to the Games.
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“I wanted to come out here with a vengeance to show these girls what I have,” said the 23-year-old, who defeated the three women who will represent the US in Rio.
Bolt snaps up much-needed win
Usain Bolt delivered on his top billing by winning the 200m at the London Diamond League on Friday.
Bolt, running his first 200m race for a year in his last outing on the track before the Olympics, struggled for his usual rhythm as he laboured to victory in 19.89sec.
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However, having pulled out of the Jamaican trials last month with a hamstring strain, he was delighted to get through Friday’s race uninjured and can now go away and fine-tune for his attempt at the triple-triple of 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay golds in Rio.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 24th, 2016.