The Athlos NYC 2024 ladies’s observe occasion, which featured 100mH, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m, confirmed that observe is usually a nice leisure occasion with an awesome theme and trigger. It was such an thrilling and distinctive night time.
Watching the occasion, with the quick interviews between the races and pre-made video clips, one couldn’t assist however admire the inspiring tales of the feminine athletes.
With just some athletes competing in every occasion, it might be simpler for the occasion organizers, the commentators, and even the followers on the stadium to seek out as a lot details about every one as potential and discover inspiration and motive to understand them. It was nearly much like the Ineos 1:59 occasion, the place Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge was the whole focus of the world as he ready to run a marathon in underneath two hours.
It appeared extra like an leisure occasion than an everyday observe and discipline competitors, with a lot fanfare because the athletes entered the stadium to compete earlier than a sold-out crowd on the Icahn Stadium in New York. Amid the flashing lights and fireworks, pink and purple appeared to have been the theme colors as they appeared in varied spots on the stadium and on the TV screens.
The prize cash was the very best ever for a observe occasion, with the winner taking residence $60,000 and the sixth-place finisher -the final one on this case- taking residence $2,500.
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn gained the primary of the six occasions and was introduced with a crown even earlier than the opposite races started. “I dedicate this race to my mum,” stated Camacho earlier than she received to bop briefly on the stage.
Marie-Josee Talou-Smith gained the 100m race.
“I inform the younger ladies to maintain believing in themselves and to maintain working laborious,” she stated as she was introduced along with her crown. It was an inspiring second. The meet additionally had some ladies’ races in between the primary occasions.
Two-time world and Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic gained the ladies’s 400m race in 49.59.
Tsige Duguma of Ethiopia gained the ladies’s 800m race. The lanes have been from lane three to eight, leaving out the primary two lanes initially. Kenya’s Mary Moraa took to the entrance after the primary 200m, however Duguma by some means managed to push by way of the within lane and was on the entrance on the bell. Duguma held the within lane and managed the race to win in 1:57.43.
Not one of the ladies within the 1500m race appeared all in favour of following a quick tempo set by the pacer and saved a ways behind. Nonetheless, with about 600m to go, there was a shock surge, and being an instinctive tactical racer, Religion Kipyegon took a strategic place on the within lane and was capable of draw back within the final 150m to win the race in 4:04.79.
The final occasion of the night, the ladies’s 200m, was thrilling to the house crowd as their Olympic Champion, Gabby Thomas, took to the observe. However Olympic silver medalist Brittany Brown wished the win extra and received it in 22.18, edging out Thomas in 22.21.
