Tara Simpson-Sullivan wins the women's hammer throw to become 𝐵𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓂𝓅𝒾𝑜𝓃 🙌
A final throw of 67.38 clinched the victory!
📊 Results: https://t.co/KZEbAXz8Vy
#MullerBritishChamps
A brilliant weekend at Leigh Sports Stadium for the North & Midlands Winter Long Throws Championships!
Rain, sunshine, big throws, national standards and huge promise for early‑season competition.
Read the full summary here: https://t.co/OWT3bQkikk
Last week, @RiceAthletics honored Fred Hansen, the only athlete from Rice to win an Olympic gold medal. The former track-field star won the men’s pole vault at the 1964 Olympic Games, making it one of the greatest athletic accomplishments in school history https://t.co/KYQpgtT3AO
16 years ago these two were in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games! The opening ceremony was 8-8-08. We are so fortunate to have both of these incredible people working for @RiceAthletics#GoOwls
🗣️ “I can’t do this anymore. It’s very frustrating dealing with JOA and JAAA. These people don’t care about field events in Jamaica.”
https://t.co/yoCVIfRpRM
🇯🇲 Jamaica’s Danniel Thomas-Dodd goes off on the after the Jamaican Olympic Association and the Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association for denying a credential for her coach. She hasn’t seen him in 2.5 weeks.
More of her comments from this video:
“It’s very frustrating. This is something that I’m more than capable of obtaining and I came up short today.”
“That’s the irony of it. The gold medal that they were sitting down waiting for did not come from the track. It came from the field events. And those are the events that they neglect so much in Jamaica.”
“Most of the medals that we have gotten so far at these games come from the field events and we are the most marginalized group in Jamaican track and field. It’s time for them to stop and really reflect on what they are doing to us as athletes.”
#Paris2024 #Olympics #Athletics
Good luck to our own Erna Gunnarsdottir at the 2024 Paris Olympics tonight!
Erna will compete later tonight (3:25 a.m. CT) in the shot put qualification round.
#GoOwls👐
YES SHE DID!!!
NCAA Hammer Throw Runner-Up ✅
First Team All-American ✅
Broker her own school record ✅
That’s how you close your career with a bang!
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THAT’S HOW YOU END THE NIGHT 😎
On her final attempt, Van der Westhuizen moves to third place with a personal best throw of 57.51m in the javelin!
#GoOwls👐