Twelve months to the day after her career low in Tokyo, Nina Kennedy is a Commonwealth Games gold medallist just weeks after winning world championship bronze.
Last year Nina Kennedy’s career had crashed. She had bottomed out in Tokyo at the Olympics, finishing 12th after barely clearing a training height. She was shattered.
“It’s incredible, with Tokyo last year I was at the bottom of my whole career so to come third in the whole world and first in the Commonwealth is incredible.”Nina Kennedy also had a crack at the Commonwealth Games record in Birmingham.Winning had almost looked too easy. She won gold clearing the bar at 4.6m - the same height she cleared when she won bronze on the Gold Coast four years ago - then told the officials to put the bar up to 4.76m, a centimetre above the Commonwealth record.
“He was like ‘come on, you can do it’ and I was like ‘really? Do I have to?’ No, it was fine: the crowd all got around it so I was just trying to soak it in.” After England’s Holly Bradshaw was a late withdrawal her biggest threat coming into the meet — 2018 gold medallist Canada’s Alysha Newman — was in all manner of trouble. She cleared a low height then at 4.35m ran through the mat twice and retired injured.For context four years ago she cleared 4.6m and only won bronze. Here she cleared the same height and won gold. A fortnight ago in Oregon she jumped 4.80 to win bronze.With the bar up to 4.
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