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South China Morning Post
29-06-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong sprinter Leung Kwan-yi holds back tears of disappointment despite 100m win
There was nothing but disappointment for sprinter Leung Kwan-yi despite winning the women's 100m final at the Hong Kong Athletics Series on Saturday. With the meet at Wan Chai Sports Ground the final chance for local athletes to qualify for the city's National Games squad, Leung had to hold back her tears after she failed to clock a time better than her 12.12 seconds, which put her ahead of five other sprinters on the day. With Hong Kong co-hosting the November Games with Guangdong and Macau, the city can send up to three athletes and one relay team in each event without meeting the qualifying standards. The three who will represent Hong Kong at the women's 100m sprint at the National Games are Chan Pui-kei, Kong Chun-ki and Chloe Pak Hoi-man. Pak, who qualified for Saturday's final in second but had to withdraw for precautionary reasons, clocked 11.84 at last month's Hong Kong Athletics Championships to snatch the third spot on the Games list. Leung Kwan-yi (right) won the 100m final with Lee Hau-yi (left) finishing second. Photo: Edmond So The Hong Kong University student, who also missed the women's 100m hurdles final, was carrying a mild strain entering the weekend. The 19-year-old is expected to travel to Germany in three weeks alongside 74 other athletes for the World University Games, which runs from July 16 to 27 in Rhine-Ruhr.
RNZ News
24-06-2025
- Sport
- RNZ News
Sprinter Zoe Hobbs breaks New Zealand and Oceania record
Zoe Hobbs Photo: PHOTOSPORT New Zealand sprinter Zoe Hobbs has set a new Oceania record in the 100m at the latest World Athletics Continental Tour event in the Czech Republic. The 27-year-old beat her own previous Oceania and New Zealand records by clocking 10.94s for a brilliant third place at the Ostrava Golden Spike event in what was a fast final. Hobbs' previous fastest 100m time was 10.96 seconds, achieved in July 2023 in Switzerland. Thelma Davies from the USA clocked 10.91s to win the women's 100m, while Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith from the Ivory Coast had a season best of 10.92s in second. New Zealand middle distance runner Sam Tanner came 14th in the 1500m at the same event with a time of 3:40.02. The 18-year-old Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech of Kenya won in a time of 3:29.05.
New York Times
10-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone to run first professional 100m sprint at Grand Slam Track Philadelphia
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will run her first 100m flat sprint in a professional setting at the Grand Slam Track event in Philadelphia later this month. McLaughlin-Levrone, the world-record holder for women's 400m hurdles, won the long hurdles groups and claimed the $100,000 bonus for doing so at the two opening Grand Slam Track events in Kingston and Miami. She will compete in the short hurdles group in Philadelphia, consisting of 100m hurdles and 100m flat. The 25-year-old American clocked a time of 11.07s when she ran the 100m at a collegiate event in 2018 while a student at the University of Kentucky. McLaughlin-Levrone is set to race in the 100m hurdles on May 30, with the 100m flat set to take place a day later. A post shared by Grand Slam Track (@grandslamtrack) The two-time Olympic champion last raced 100m hurdles in May 2024. Her personal best over the distance stands at 12.65s, set at the USATF Golden Games in May 2021. The event in Philadelphia is the third on the calendar of the Grand Slam Track, headed by former U.S. sprinter Michael Johnson. The competition consists of six different events for men and women — short sprints, long sprints, short hurdles, long hurdles, short distance and long distance. The final Grand Slam Track event of its inaugural season takes place in Los Angeles from June 27-29.
