Hobbs equals World Athletics Champs time
- Dave Worsley
- 10 minutes ago
- 1 min read
Kiwi Zoe Hobbs has won the women's 100m race at the Paavo Nurmi Games, in Turku, Finland, with a time of 11.09 seconds in the heats followed 11.07 seconds for victory in the final.
The winning time equalled the World Athletics Championships entry standard of 11.07.
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Second in the final was Hungarian Boglarka Takacs in a time of 11.11 seconds with Thelma Davies from Liberia third in 11.14 seconds.
After the race Hobbs was thrilled to put everything together.
"Amazing conditions here. Amazing crowd, it's my first time runnere here in Finland, so I'm happy with today's preformance and I'll take the win.," said the 27-year-old from Taranaki.
"I think the fact it is a World Champs stanard as well takes a little bit of weight off my sholders
and to piece together a race that I know has been there in training. I've been a little bit frustrated with my comps lately and there has been some good things and some bad things in training before I left home i just didn't feel like I could put it down onto the track.
Having two weeks training under my belt and getting some solid training in Europe with my coach over here has been a massive help," said Hobbs
