Gender Cheat wrote:
Though Dibaba and Semenya both looked better than Hassan.
They were totally different heats. Heat #2 was slow as heck. Hassan ran in last until about 450 . She had no problem whatsoever.
People look good in a fast heat as they are crushing people.
Laura Muir on the BBC.
“I just wanted to get through,†siad Muir. "I’m really happy - job done…. It’s great to get started. It’s really excited to be in the semifinal tomorrow."
Caster Semenya refused to stop in the mixed zone and we were unable to interview her about her decision to run the 1500.
If you werent' in the top 6 in heat #2, you are out. So that means Linden Hall and Sheila Reid are out as is Kenyan Judith Kiyeng. Kiyneg only had a 404.4 pb.
Heat 2
POS BIB ATHLETE COUNTRY MARK
1 4127 Sifan HASSAN NED NED 4:08.89 Q
2 4370 Jennifer SIMPSON USA USA 4:08.92 Q
3 3851 Gudaf TSEGAY ETH ETH 4:08.96 Q
4 3900 Laura MUIR GBR GBR 4:08.97 Q
5 4107 Malika AKKAOUI MAR MAR 4:09.05 Q
6 3939 Hanna KLEIN GER GER 4:09.32 Q
7 4153 Karoline Bjerkeli GRØVDAL NOR NOR 4:09.56 - will not advance. 6 people in 1st heat ran faster than this.
8 4190 Marta PEN FREITAS POR POR 4:10.22
9 3621 Linden HALL AUS AUS 4:10.51
10 4197 Claudia BOBOCEA ROU ROU 4:11.20
11 4269 Meryem AKDAG TUR TUR 4:12.51
12 3739 Sheila REID CAN CAN 4:13.12
13 4084 Judith Jemutai KIYENG KEN KEN 4:13.65
14 4276 Esther CHEBET UGA UGA 4:14.12
15 4106 Eliane SAHOLINIRINA MAD MAD 4:23.56 SB
SPLIT TIMES
SPLIT MARK ATHLETE COUNTRY
400m 1:08.35 Marta PEN FREITAS PORTUGAL POR
800m 2:19.17 Jennifer SIMPSON UNITED STATES USA
1200m 3:23.25 Gudaf TSEGAY ETHIOPIA ETH