ELL AND BACK TO JAMES
LAURA MUIR fired a warning to her World Championship rivals by unleashing a blistering final lap to win in London.
So when challenged to hold back until the final 400m she took it in her stride, even if she did require treatment for cramp after.
“The Worlds will be a more tactical race,”
Mui r said. “Championship races are different.
“It can be run a lot of different ways. I’m in good shape in the 800m a nd 1 5 0 0 m, my endurance is good. I’ve got all the armoury for however it pans out.” It was a decent day for Br i t a i n . Zharnel Hughes ran a season’s best 9.95secs to take second behind Akani Simbine in the 100m.
Jonnie Peacock won JAMES ELLINGTON and Goldie Sayers made for a day of high emotion at the Olympic Stadium.
Competing for the first time since cheating death in a head-on road crash in 2017, Ellington (left) completed the men’s 100m in 10.93secs.
Sayers, Britain’s greatest female javelin thrower, fought back the tears as she was presented with the Olympic bronze medal she was cheated out of in Beijing 2008. the Para 100m, while Laviai Nielsen ( 400m) and Beth Dobbin (200m) smashed lifetime bests.
In the men’s 800m Jamie Webb forced his way into Britain’s alltime top-10 with 1:44.52.
BRITISH superteen Amy Hunt, 17, (left) confirmed her very special talent by storming to the 200m gold medal at the European Under- 20 Championships in Sweden, in 22.94secs. Ellington, a two-time European relay champion, said: “That was the first time I have sprinted over 60m since my accident. Pretty much 99.9 per cent of people wrote me off and didn’t think I’d walk properly again let alone run.”
Ellington aims to compete in next year’s Tokyo Olympics.
Sayers, who has now retired, learned she had become an Olympic medallist as she drove down the M11 to meet her mum for coffee. “It’s been a long time coming,” she said.