Tokyo Olympics day 6: Wednesday 4 August

[Occasional Hope]

3.56 for a semi for Kipyegon. She's sending a message to Hassan.

[LuckySpikes]

Bloody hell! 3:56.8 for a semi.

Jessica Hull & Nozomi Tanaka with sub-4 National Records ! 3:58.81 and 3:59.19 respectively. Tanaka has taken 4.9s off her own NR at these Games!

Purrier only 6th in 4:01.00 but could go through.

[SprintRelayFan]

I'd have thought they'd really need to push it in the second for her not to

[Occasional Hope]

Could have taken something out of the athletes in this heat for the final.

[SprintRelayFan]

Well done to Jessica Hull with that area record. No McGee or Chebet...

Snowden not quite as fast as in the heat but betters her pre-games PB again. A good outing for her.

[Occasional Hope]

Unless there's a protest. I didn't see what happened with Chebet's fall.

[Occasional Hope]

A PB is always an excellent result.

[LuckySpikes]

4:01.23 NR for Czech Kristiina Maki too, taking over 3s off her best!

[SprintRelayFan]

"remarkable" does cover Hassan's performances yes

[Occasional Hope]

Laura through OK.

[trickstat]

One thing I will say about LM is that she is a consummate heat runner,

[Christy93]

I really want Faith to win tomorrow, that's all I'll say.

[SprintRelayFan]

Indeed. I hope Laura can get 3rd, I guess the Ethiopian and the Ugandan main competition? Or Debues-Stafford as well?

[LuckySpikes]

Brilliant run by Marta Perez in 5th, 4:01.69, taking 3s off her PB.

And a third NR of the week for Finland's Sara Kuivisto in 7th, 4:02.35.

Purrier & Maki the fastest losers from semi #1.

[Occasional Hope]

11.94 shot from KJT, not very good even for her. 14.82 for Thiam.

[nutsos]

15.29 for Vetter in the second round of the shot.
Schafer 13.99
Vidts 14.33
KJT 13.31 in the second round

[SprintRelayFan]

13.31! That's a lot better

[Afrothletics]

Outside of Doha that's the furthest she's ever thrown! Perhaps we all wrote her off too early?

[SprintRelayFan]

Lol, I was just scrutinising her P10 profile to discover the same thing.

[Occasional Hope]

Much better in the second round! 13.31 is not bad at all for her.

[Ursus]

Fair play to Kat. She’s obviously not at her best, but giving it a good lash so far.

[SprintRelayFan]

Paulino really something hey? Mcleod looked very easy though. Think Hayes will make it

[Occasional Hope]

Wow, 49.39 for Paulino in her semi. US champion Hayes in 4th, probably unlikely to get a FL spot.

[SprintRelayFan]

Ha! We disagree OH...we shall see who is right

[trickstat]

Then again, the next 2 heats each only have 1 athlete who's broken 50 this year.