Pearson Completes Golden Comeback

22 Sunday, August 13, 2017 SPORTS Pearson completes golden Sally Pearson celebrates with mascot Hero and Hedgehog comebackLondon like Beijing in 2008 (she won a surprise ustralian hurdling great Sally Olympic silver) when I didn’t come in Pearson won the 100 metres as one of the favourites. Mayer succeeds hurdlesA world title for the second time She added: “I have no idea where my yesterday in the same stadium where mum is sitting. If anyone sees Anne she clinched 2012 Olympic gold. McLellan tell her to come down here Eaton as world The 30-year-old timed 12.59 seconds so I can give her a hug!” to take the crown ahead of 2008 World record holder Kendra Olympic champion Dawn Harper- Harrison disappointed in finishing decathlon champion Nelson (12.63sec) with Germany’s only fourth confirming that her Pamela Dutkiewicz, a surprise third Achilles heel is a lack of championship London Mayer clocked a third in 12.72. experience having failed to make the rance’s Kevin Mayer personal record of his It was a remarkable comeback for Olympic team last year. yesterday became the first campaign, with 13.75 seconds the Australian as she had suffered two Harrison had blasted out of the manF other than the now- in the day’s opening 110m years of injury hell missing both the blocks but faded as Pearson arrived retired Ashton Eaton to win hurdles. 2015 world championships and the on her shoulder and the Australian a global decathlon event since After managing a best of Olympics last year. hurdled to a famous victory. 2011 when he claimed gold in 47.14 metres in the discus, the “Far out, that was bloody hard,” An overjoyed Pearson jumped up the world championships. Frenchman suffered a scare strength-sapping 1500m, gasped Pearson, who became only the and down to celebrate her win -- she was Olympic silver medallist in the pole vault when he the final event. fourth woman to win the world title then picked up by the championships Mayer amassed a total of 8,768 needed three attempts to go On Friday, Mayer more than once. mascot Hero the Hedgehog and swung points from the 10 disciplines over 5.10m. timed 10.70sec in the “I was so tired. I don’t know what around before he carried her off round in the gruelling two-day event. That left him on 7,237 100m, managed 7.52m to say, that was just incredible. It was the track. (AFP) Germany’s Rico Freimuth points, ahead of Freimuth in the long jump, threw took silver with 8,564 while (7,121) and Kazmirek (7,021) a season’s best shot put of teammate Kai Kazmirek with just the javelin and 15.72m and registered 2.08m claimed bronze (8,488). 1500m remaining. in the high jump before Reese takes fourth “I just wanted to say you are Mayer made no mistake clocking a personal best the most amazing public in with the javelin, throwing a of 48.26sec in the opening the world and I thank you for best of 66.10m, before clocking day’s closing event, the long jump gold that,” Mayer said. a safe 4:36.73 around the 400m. (AFP) London merican Brittney Reese won a fourth world gold when she claimedA victory in the women’s long jump at the IAAF World Championships on Friday. Reese, who previously won in 2009, 2011 and 2013 and was 2012 Olympic champion, managed a best of 7.02 metres. Russian Darya Klishina, competing as a neutral with her country’s federation banned by the IAAF over doping, claimed silver with 7.00m. Reese’s teammate Tianna Bartoletta, defending world champion, held off Serbia’s Ivana Nigeria’s Glory Onome Nathaniel (R) hands the baton over to Nigeria’s Emerald Egwim (2L) as Spanovic, Germany’s Nadine Gonska (2R) hands off to Germany’s Svea Kohrbruck (L) in the heats of the women’s for bronze 4x400m relay athletics event at the 2017 IAAF World Championships at the London Stadium in London (6.97). (AFP) yesterday (AFP).

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