BEIJING: Ida Marcussen finished in sixth place in the first heat at 100 meter hurdles for women in heptathlon at the World Cup Saturday. The time was not better than 14.47.
Marcussen did not exactly any “flying start” in the championship, where she has 14.10 which season best in a short hedge, and where she has a personal record 13.96. Cuban Yorgelis Rodriguez won the heat to Marcussen with 13.73.
Height which was the second exercise in the heptathlon at noon Saturday was no success for Marcussen. She went over 1.68 meters, but strikes in all three attempts at 1.71 meters, and leaving the exercise over. She has a personal best of 1.74 meters in the exercise, but was far behind it, and also far behind the listing she had when she sat Norwegian sjukamprekord in 2007.
Record
The aim of Marcussen is to perform at the results near or preferably below, the Norwegian record in heptathlon at 6226 points. It has Ida Marcussen even from the World Championships in Osaka in 2006.
At that time, when she ended in 11th place in the championship overall, she opened with 14.16 in the short hedge . She was far and away the time in the Bird’s Nest on Saturday morning.
The very fastest in opening practice in heptathlon for women Saturday, Dutch Nadine Visser. She ran to 12.81 seconds and set a personal record.
British favorites
Jessica Ennis-Hill, sjukampdronningen from the 2012 Olympics, opened with the second best time in the short hedge Saturday morning and got 12.91 seconds. That she is with the medal fight in earnest. It is also her teammates Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who ran to 13.37 and ended in ninth place.
Of the 32 who completed the short hedge, ended Norwegian Ida on 30th-place . She came to the World Cup in 12 hours after having managed VM requirement last year. In this season she has plundret achieve good results.
She has not been over 5,900 points in any of the five heptathlon she has participated in this season, and it looks as if she should have trouble getting to a level of 5900 points also in the World Cup after a short hedge beginning Saturday morning.
After a rather weak season did not Marcussen the opening she dreamed the VM either, although she claims that the form should be good. (© NTB)
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