World Indoor Championships: Jemma Reekie takes 800m silver as Great Britain win 4x400m relay bronze

Home favorite Jemma Reekie took 800 metres silver on the ultimate night time of motion
on the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow for her first world medal.

The 25-year-old Scot clocked a time of two:02.72 as she completed 0.82 seconds behind Ethiopia’s Tsige Duguma, with the medal considered one of two gained by Great Britain on Sunday on the three-day occasion.

“I knew those girls were going to throw something at me that they were confident with, and they were just better than me today,” Reekie instructed the BBC.

“I didn’t want anything other than the win, but first senior medal, I made some mistakes and I’ll learn something from it.”

“It’s my first senior medal and I’ve got to take it. I’ve got one now and I definitely want one of those Olympic ones, and it will be a good stepping stone forwards.”

There was additionally bronze for Great Britain within the ladies’s 4x400m relay earlier within the night as the staff completed with a haul of 4 medals, including to the 2 golds gained by Josh Kerry and Molly Caudery on Saturday.

Laviai Nielsen, twin sister Lina Nielsen, Ama Pipi and Jessie Knight once more set a brand new nationwide report – as they’d executed within the morning’s heats – with a time of three:26.36.

They got here in behind the Netherlands (3:25.07) and the United States, with Jamaica not ending after the baton got here out of Charokee Young’s hand on the third leg, seemingly by way of unintentional contact from Pipi.

Pipi mentioned: “It was a really messy leg but I just stayed focused on what I needed to do and tried to give it to Jessie in a good position, and I think I did that.”

British pair Georgia Bell and Revee Walcott-Nolan have been fourth and sixth respectively within the ladies’s 1500m remaining, and team-mate Cindy Sember was seventh within the ladies’s 60m hurdles – gained in a brand new world report time of seven.65secs by Devynne Charlton of the Bahamas.

The males’s 1500m remaining included GB’s Adam Fogg coming 14th, with the occasion gained by Geordie Beamish of New Zealand in a time of three:36.54. Also amongst Sunday night’s finals was the boys’s pole vault title being retained by Sweden’s Olympic champion Armand Duplantis.

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