Eleanor Patterson walked back onto the track the new world champion. For a year her coach had been telling her to walk and talk and train like a world champion. Now she is one.
drawn to the track for a perfunctory qualifying round. After the high of winning her world gold in the US last month it was good to be back so soon on the track doing what she does.
In the men’s high jump there were not enough entrants to have a qualifying round, but the women’s needed a quick round of qualifying to go through to the final. Patterson and Australia’s Olympic silver medallist from last year in Tokyo Nicola Olyslagers were both pleased they“I preferred it in this instance. Made sense for me as well, hadn’t been out to see the track at all,” Patterson said.
Olyslagers knew there would be few jumps needed and so took the opportunity to do extra jump in the warm up before competition began, though she didn’t try to jump too high over the low warm up height the bar is set at.“It is actually a funny thing with high jump, if you jump too high over the bar you will actually hit it off with your feet so I was like none of that, no showing off, just do your job, be humble, be strong and get back out there for the final,” Olyslagers said.
In the 1500m Stewart McSweyn was a late withdrawal with a flu, but Australia’s Ollie Hoare was superb in winning his heat and making the final in what will be one of the strongest fields in any event or race at the Commonwealth Games.
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