Early season check for Olympic 100m gold medallist on the Hanzekovic Memorial and Continental Tour Gold assembly in Croatia
Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred checks her velocity within the 200m on the debut on the Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb on Saturday (Could 24).
The St Lucian athlete was near her PB with 21.88 in Gainesville just lately and will probably be favorite to win right here at this World Athletics Continental Tour Gold occasion.
Numerous Brits have made the journey over to Zagreb. They embrace 800m runners Issy Boffey, Erin Wallace, Ethan Hussey and Justin Davies plus 1500m runner Ava Lloyd.
The latter is in a troublesome race led by Gudaf Tsegay, who’s operating her first outside 1500m of 2025 after having gained the world indoor title in Nanjing impressively in 3:54.86.
All eyes will probably be on the ladies’s discus as dwelling favorite and a number of world and Olympic champion Sandra Elkasevic is in motion and going for her twelfth victory at this assembly.
One other Croatian thrower, Sara Kolak, is within the girls’s javelin.
On Thursday evening in Zagreb, a males’s shot put was gained by Payton Otterdahl of the USA with 21.71m with Tom Walsh of New Zealand throwing the identical distance, whereas Friday evening sees a girls’s excessive bounce that includes Angelina Subject of Serbia and Lamara Distin of Jamaica.
