Zoe Hobbs

Relief from sprinter Zoe Hobbs after qualifying for tomorrow's 100 metres semi final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.

Relief from sprinter Zoe Hobbs after qualifying for tomorrow's 100 metres semi final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon 17 July 2022 - article from www.rugbyleague.co.nz Relief from sprinter Zoe Hobbs after qualifying for tomorrow's 100 metres semi final at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon Meanwhile it wasn't the best day out on the track for fellow sprinter Eddie Osei-Nketia who missed out on the men's 100 metres final, placing seventh in his semi in 10.29 seconds.

New Zealand sprinter Zoe Hobbs has broken her own Oceania women's 100m record to place second and advance to the semi-finals at the World Athletics ...

This is the fifth time since December that Hobbs has lowered the New Zealand women's 100m record and has becomes the first Kiwi woman in history to reach the 100m semi-finals at a World Championships. New Zealand sprinter Zoe Hobbs has broken her own Oceania women's 100m record of 11.08 to place second and advance to the semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon. Hobbs beat her previous record of 11.09sec set at the finals of the Oceania Athletics Championships in Mackay, Australia last month.

Zoe Hobbs lit up the track at the world championships, but fellow Kiwi Eddie Osei-Nketia couldn't continue his hot form.

“The race in Paris really put her in good stead in terms of not racing these top girls for a first time straight off the bat. The 23-year-old threw 19.50 metres to finish just .27cm out of the medals. A beautiful mind crunching all the player stats. You need journalists close enough to smell the liniment. If quality local sport journalism is important to you, become a Stuff supporter today. I'm a little bit disappointed with that, but making it to semifinals with Coleman and Kerley, I can't be happier than that.” Kerley and [Christian] Coleman got the jump on me,” Osei-Nketia said. Tanner was fifth in the third and final heat in a time of 3:39.33. Hobbs has lowered the New Zealand’s women’s 100m mark five times since December, and her 11.08sec dash was a half a second quicker than her performance in the heats at the 2019 world championships. Needing a top-two finish to gain automatic entry to the final, he was slow out of the blocks and never recovered. There was no repeat of yesterday’s scenes for fellow Kiwi Eddie Osei-Nketia, who clocked a sluggish 10.29sec to finish seventh in his 100m semifinal shortly after Hobbs lit up the track, but Maddison Wesche threw a massive personal-best by 40cm with a 19.50m effort to finish seventh in the final of the women’s shot. Kiwi sprinter Zoe Hobbs broke her own Oceania and national records to power into the 100m semifinals at the world championships in Eugene, Oregon.

Kiwi speedster Zoe Hobbs has shaved another fraction of a second off her own NZ and Oceania 100m records to progress to the world championship semi-finals ...