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Knott runs closer to clinching 100m berth in Tokyo

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KRISTINA KNOTT clinched another silver medal in a 100-meter race in the US on Monday, but the Filipino-American still has work to do to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

Knott clocked 11.36 seconds to settle for the silver behind Ecuador’s Angela Tenoria (11.33) at the Pure Athletics Invitational in Clermont, Florida. American Quanera Hayes (11.38) completed the podium.

Knott improved on the 11.54-second clocking she booked in clinching a silver medal at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays last March 27 but has yet to get closer to the Olympic qualifying time for the event of 11.15 seconds.

“I’m preparing to reach the qualifying time by executing my race pattern every competition,” Knott told BusinessMirror in a phone interview.

Knott’s personal best stands at 11.27 seconds, a new Philippine record she set at the Dark Blue Oval meet in Iowa last August 30 and broke former Asian Sprint Queen Lydia de Vega’s 33-year-old record by one-hundredths of a second.

“Running with people faster than me helps me in pushing myself to reach my highest potential,” said the 25-year-old Knott.

Her opponents in Florida were no pushover—Tenoria, 25 and currently No. 60 in the world in the 100m, has a personal best of 10.99 and is a former South American Championships gold medalist, while the 29-year-old Hayes’s best time stands at 11.27 but has two US national outdoor and indoor 400m gold medals.

Knott is ranked No. 115 in the 100m and No. 101 in the 200m.

But the 200 tolled on Knott, who clocked 23.61 for seventh place in a 21-runner field in the same Florida race won by Bahamas’s Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.03) with Hayes (22.68) clinching silver and American Lynna Irby (22.75) bagging the bronze. No one made the 22.80-second qualifying time for Tokyo.

That clocking was way below the 23.01 seconds Knott recorded in clinching the gold medal in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.

Next up for Knott are the Miramar Invitational on Saturday and Gainesville on April 17, both in Florida.

Read full article on BusinessMirror

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