Teen wins race for the ages, as Australia names first athletes for Paris

Claudia Hollingsworth turned 19 on Friday. On Sunday, she won possibly the greatest 800-metre race staged in Australia and was picked on the Australian Olympic team.Claudia Hollingsworth wins the Womens 800-metre final at the Australian Track and Field Championships in Adelaide.Hyperbole aside, the teenager kicked in the final lap to beat a national championship field deeper than any Australia has seen since the lead-in to the Sydney Olympics.

Eventually, the Australian team will swell to almost 70 athletes. But, for now, the depth of competition, particularly in the middle-distance running events, made it impossible for the selectors to name more than the most obvious first qualifiers.

Mitrevski didn’t just put down an Olympic qualifier to claim his place on the team, his 8.32-metre jump marked him as a genuine medal contender in Paris. A jump of that size would have earned a bronze medal in Tokyo three years ago, and been just four centimetres short of matching the gold-medal jump.

Caldwell was close behind in 1:59.01, while Olympic 400m runner Bendere Oboya, who has stepped up to the two-lap race, finished third in 1:59.03 ahead of national record holder Catriona Bisset.

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