World Championships Day 1 Preview: Tiernan versus world over 25 laps
Published Fri 04 Aug 2017
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This season’s personal bests have come thick and fast for Patrick Tiernan (Qld) who will start 25 laps of the track in London at
The 22-year-old former Villanova student, who won the NCAA cross country last year, has
In his first race of the world championships in
Olympic long jump finalist from Rio, Fabrice Lapierre (NSW), will be competing at his fifth world championships after winning silver in Beijing two years ago.
He will be looking to find the board early in the qualification round at
Also in the men’s long jump qualifying round is Henry Frayne (Qld) who recently jumped within just six centimetres of his personal best of 8.27 in Switzerland.
Georgia Griffith (Vic) makes her senior debut in green and gold at
Three years ago she placed fourth at the world junior championships over 800m and competed in the final of the 4x400m relay.
Joining Griffith in the women’s 1500m at
The men’s discus throw qualifying Group A will start at
Liz Parnov (WA) will start the women’s pole vault qualifying at 4:45am.
Live results can be found here.