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Hoffman, Knott, Cray to resume Olympics bid

Published May 11, 2024 07:09 am

At A Glance

  • Fil-Americans Lauren Hoffman, Kristina Knott and Eric Cray vow to continue with their respective bids to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after falling short of reaching the qualifying standard in their golden performances at the 2024 Philippine Athletics Championships on Friday evening, May 10, at the Philsports Track and Field Oval in Pasig City.

Fil-Americans Lauren Hoffman, Kristina Knott and Eric Cray vow to continue with their respective bids to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics after falling short of reaching the qualifying standard in their golden performances at the 2024 Philippine Athletics Championships on Friday evening, May 10, at the Philsports Track and Field Oval in Pasig City.

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Kristina Knott (PATAFA)

Hoffman, 25, breezed through the field and topped the women’s 400 meters with a time of 55.92 seconds, but it was still short of the Olympic qualifying standard of 54.85sec. She also ruled the 100m hurdles in a record-breaking feat, but missed the Games qualifying mark.

Knott also captured her second gold after becoming the fastest female in the competition with an 11.27sec performance in the 100m, but needed to push harder to reach the qualifying time of 11.07sec.

She earlier won in the women’s 200m.

Even 2016 Rio Olympian Eric Cray couldn’t hide his frustration with his performance despite winning the men’s 400m hurdles with a time of 50.51sec.

“I’m definitely trying to hit the Paris (Olympics) mark. Practice has been going great. I feel great but it’s just not coming out,” said Cray, who needed to run two seconds faster as the standard time for the said event is 48.70sec.

The six-time Southeast Asian Games champion is scheduled to compete in six remaining tournaments before the July 30 deadline.

Meanwhile, Fil-British Victoria Bossong continued to make waves by leading the final qualifiers in women’s 800m with a time of 2 minutes and 12.7seconds.

In other results, Airex Villanueva (14.05 meters) and Nicolas Nieto (12.94m) made a 1-2 finish for Ateneo in the U20 shot put event.

Also triumphing were Team Aloysian’s Stephanie Cerezo in U18 women’s 3000m (12:05.80), University of Mindanao’s Kate McDowell in U20 women’s 3000m (11:52.57), Myla Ferreras in U20 women’s high jump (1.45m), Masbate’s Ana Bhianca Espenilla in U18 women’s javelin throw (49.36m), and Thailand’s Sawitree Kaewsuksri in women’s hammer throw (51.50m).

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