World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024: Great Britain's Jemma Reekie reaches 800m final

[CharlieH]

 

World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024
Dates: 1-3 March Venue: Emirates Arena, Glasgow
Coverage: Watch live on BBC TV, BBC iPlayer and online; Listen to commentary on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra & BBC Sounds; Live text and video highlights on the BBC Sport website and app.

Great Britain's Jemma Reekie continued her bid to win a first global medal by qualifying fastest for the women's 800m final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.

Scot Reekie, 25, judged her effort to perfection to win her semi-final in one minute 58.28 seconds and build further confidence before Sunday's medal race.

"The final will be very tough but I want [the other athletes] to know that if they are coming to win on my track, they are going to have to work hard!" Reekie told BBC Sport.

"We have taken each race as it comes. Tonight I will sit down with [my coaches] Jon [Bigg] and Sally [Gunnell] and we'll work it out together.

"But I think it will be a fast one."

In winning her semi-final, Reekie, who finished fifth at last summer's outdoor World Championships, got the better of two of her expected medal rivals to assert herself as one of the favourites for gold.

The home favourite cruised past Ethiopia's world leader Habitam Alemu in the closing stages, with 2022 world indoor bronze medallist Halimah Nakaayi finishing third.

Elsewhere during Saturday's morning session, Amy Hunt finished fifth in her women's 60m heat in 7.29 secs as she continued her comeback from a long-term injury, missing out on a place in the next round.

In Saturday's eagerly anticipated evening session, Great Britain's Josh Kerr won 3,000m gold before team-mate Molly Caudery clinched the pole vault title.

British captain Laviai Nielsen finished fourth in the women's 400m final, while Laura Muir placed fifth in the women's 3,000m.

 

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