Birmingham CWG Day 5 - (Saturday August 5th)

[jjimbojames]

She’s said she’ll never go back to multis…it caused her mental health issues. She did mention giving triple jump a go - would be interesting to see that

[RunUnlimited]

Borthwick out at her 1.81m.

I'd suggest she forget about the Europeans, close her season, and give herself time to properly grieve for her brother. It's clearly taken a toll on her throughout this year.

[jjimbojames]

She did clear 1.76, I think. Not great, but better than none

[Occasional Hope]

Three fails for Emily Borthwick at 1.81. Not a great experience.

Morgan over at the second attempt.

[carterhatch]

not even close at that attempt I have said it before, I'll say it again, Morgan Lake needs to do a winter training for an indoor pentathlon, change up her motive, compete in this event to the highest level she can, to refresh things... I reckon she will surprise herself. She is now 25, and surely can not continue with mediocrity, funded by the lottery. Seeing her standing next to a couple of the walkers she looks amazonian in stature.

[Occasional Hope]

Morgan Lake not looking good either.

[Occasional Hope]

Oh dear, not a good start for Borthwick with a fail at her first attempt.

[Occasional Hope]

With Olyslagers out, Patterson would have to make a major error not to win here.

The battle will be for silver/bronze.

[jjimbojames]

Top five seem to be one Aussie, two Jamaicans, a Ghanaian and Lake. Patterson aside, none of the ladies are super consistent at the top end

[alfie]

Only one world class Australian : unfortunately for the contest , Nicola has withdrawn with an injury.

[LuckySpikes]

The Women's 10,000m Race Walk is on the track this morning. Usually at the CWG it would be a 20km road walk but, given the proximity to Worlds, they wanted to encourage participation here with a shorter distance.

Race Walking has a very good global reach with 5 continents represented in the Top 6 finishers in the Women's 20km at the Tokyo Olympics (and 19 different countries in the Top 25).

Unfortunately though, that global aspect is not reflected so well in the small field here. The Caribbean countries don't really do Race Walking and it's only really a thing in 5 African countries - Kenya, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria & Ethiopia.

Jemima Montag (AUS) starts as the hot favourite here. She's the reigning champion and was also 6th in Tokyo and 4th in Eugene.

The 2 Indians, Priyanka Goswami and Bhawna Jat, are both much better than their track 10,000m PBs suggest - both have walked sub-1:30 for 20km on the roads (the benchmark of world class is around 1:31).
Priyanka was 17th in Tokyo last year. If you watched (??) the World RW Team Championships back in March, you may remember her storming out to a 2+ minute lead by 8km of the 35km race, before suffering really badly in the last 15km.

After the retirements of Alana Barber & Rachel Seaman last year, New Zealand and Canada respectively don't have any good female race walkers at the moment.

[jjimbojames]

I think a clean card may well be the decider for bronze (assuming the two Aussies are top 2). Haven’t checked the progression but 1.91 first time may be enough

[paul]

Emily has not come remotely close to that outdoors yet. And Laura never. So it seems a tall order. With Morgan you never know. She certainly has the talent.
If they want a medal, that is what will be needed...

[marilyn1]

Speaking of world class events, the w HJ is one. The world-classness is very largely courtesy, sadly for us, of world class Australians. But hopefully our three very talented jumpers will surf the crowd love to SBs. Crazy that this kicks off so early in the morning.

Are you thinking our Gb jumpers will jump perhaps 1.95 or better?

[Grassmarket]

10:07 Athletics Women High Jump Final
10:20 Athletics Women Shot Put F55-57 Final
10:30 Athletics Women 10000m Walk Final
11:48 Athletics Men Hammer Throw Final
11:50 Athletics Men 3000m Steeplechase Final Final
12:15 Athletics Women 4 x 100m Relay Round 1
12:45 Athletics Men 4 x 100m Relay Round 1
13:10 Athletics Men 1500m Final
19:00 Athletics Women Hammer Throw Final
19:10 Athletics Men Pole Vault Final
19:30 Athletics Women 400m Hurdles Final
19:45 Athletics Women 800m Final
20:10 Athletics Men 5000m Final
20:45 Athletics Men 400m Hurdles Final
21:18 Athletics Men 200m Final
21:44 Athletics Women 200m Final