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Day 9 Evening Sessin Outcomes
WHJ Final
Nicola McDermott was in form and had set two NR of 2.00 and then 2.01. She was one of only 4 athletes over 2m this year, all of whom were competing today and she was one of only three that cleared that height tonight.
In a fascinating competition, many looked good after clearing the 1.95 in qualifying but one extra centimetre in the Finals progression started to cull the jumpers.
1.96
Eleanor Patterson was the best Australian to that point with a clean sheet with McDermott behind her with a first attempt miss at that height.
The next height would really start to sort the wheat from the chaff, with only 4 clearing that setting, not including Patterson with 3 failures. Two jumpers passed at this height and proceeded to 1.98, Vashti Cunningham (USA) and Yuliya Levchenko (UKR).
1.98
At 1.98, things started to become really clear.
Iryna Gerashchenko(UKR) cleared on 2nd attempt. McDermott cleared first time to go into the lead! Levchenko failed at her 2nd attempt and then passed to 2.00m. Lasitskene, coming back from injury and an XXO at a lowly 1.96, made 1.98 on her second try. Vashti Cunningham passed after 2 failures. Mahuchikh, the young superstar made it on her 3rd attempt and did not look good.
2.00
Gerashchenko hit her limit at 2.00 with XXX, whereas McDermott cleared it 1st time to stay in the lead. Levchenko fails at her first attempt and 3rd consecutive, as does Cunningham, so both exit. Lasitskene, who looked like she was close to failure, clears on her 2nd, as does Mahuchikh. Can McDermott actually win this?
2.02
The bar goes to 2.02. McDermott cleared 1.98 and 2.00 first time but fails here on first. Lasitskene finds her old form and clears it on 1st go putting her in 1st place. McDermott decides to consolidate and takes a second attempt and succeeds, setting a new NR and AR! Mahuchikh decides she wants the win and passes after her first attempt failure.
2.04
There are now 3 at 2.04, McDermott, Lasitskene and Mahuchikh. All fail their first attempt. McDermott fails her 2nd but Lasitskene finds some old form and clears it. Mahuchikh fails her 2nd attempt but 3rd consecutive after her fail at 2.02.
Outcome
That's it. The places are Lasitskene 2.04 SB, McDermott 2.02 AR and Mahuchikh 2.00 SU (Season's Underperformance).
McDermot takes the second silver for an AUS women's HJer after Michelle Mason-Brown's scissors in Tokyo 1964.
How did I do?
I said McDermott would need to jump to her best if she wants to grab a minor medal. She increased her best by 1cm and got a minor medal, a sort-of-unexpected silver. If nobody had cleared 2.04, she would be the gold meallist. How do you solve a problem like Mariya? I bet she sings in the abbey!
I said Eleanor Patterson was on a roll and should be good for high 1.90s but I can't see a medal. She had a very clean sheet and = her SB of 1.96 to finish 5th.
I said Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) had the gold medal to lose, and she did. I said Lasitskene had a high chance to fail and early on it looked to be coming true but she pulled out the class performer doll, stroked it lovingly, and then magicked another gold medal in a SB.
I thought Vashti Cunningham (USA) was just happy with a 1.96 at the USA trials and would peak here but, no, that was her year's limit. I said she wasn't a regular 2m jumper like Lasitskene and Mahuchikh and she definitely proved that again today.
I said that my prediction was McDermott to finish 2-4, Patterson 4-5 and McDermott finished 2nd and Patterson finished 5th. Mock me all you like on this one.
M1500 Final
Stewart McSweyn finished finished 7th in 3:31.91 in the fastest OG 1500 ever.
Ollie Hoare finished 11th in 3:35.79.
I said that McSweyn was 3 seconds faster on paper than his team mate but I didn't think it would make much difference here. However, McSweyn finished nearly 4s ahead of Hoare. Stupid dumb El Toro! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Ollie Hoare impressed me in the semi-final and made me think he had the potential to pass McSweyn off a slow pace. Sadly, or not, the pace was fast, especially compared to the high school heroics of Rio16, and Hoare faded over the last 600m.
I said Cheryiout and Ingebrigtsen seemed likely to be 1/2 in either order, and the either order ended up being JI and TC.
I said both to end up between 3rd and 7th in either order but only McSweyn finished 7th with Hoare in 11th, still a 4 place range. Normally I'd be cursing Ollie Hoare as a baaaaarrrrrstaaaaard for ruining my predictions but not when his OG results sit on his alltime list as Ht 10th, SF 5th and Final 9th. How good is that? (and I bet he can hold a hose, too)
WHJ Final
Nicola McDermott was in form and had set two NR of 2.00 and then 2.01. She was one of only 4 athletes over 2m this year, all of whom were competing today and she was one of only three that cleared that height tonight.
In a fascinating competition, many looked good after clearing the 1.95 in qualifying but one extra centimetre in the Finals progression started to cull the jumpers.
1.96
Eleanor Patterson was the best Australian to that point with a clean sheet with McDermott behind her with a first attempt miss at that height.
The next height would really start to sort the wheat from the chaff, with only 4 clearing that setting, not including Patterson with 3 failures. Two jumpers passed at this height and proceeded to 1.98, Vashti Cunningham (USA) and Yuliya Levchenko (UKR).
1.98
At 1.98, things started to become really clear.
Iryna Gerashchenko(UKR) cleared on 2nd attempt. McDermott cleared first time to go into the lead! Levchenko failed at her 2nd attempt and then passed to 2.00m. Lasitskene, coming back from injury and an XXO at a lowly 1.96, made 1.98 on her second try. Vashti Cunningham passed after 2 failures. Mahuchikh, the young superstar made it on her 3rd attempt and did not look good.
2.00
Gerashchenko hit her limit at 2.00 with XXX, whereas McDermott cleared it 1st time to stay in the lead. Levchenko fails at her first attempt and 3rd consecutive, as does Cunningham, so both exit. Lasitskene, who looked like she was close to failure, clears on her 2nd, as does Mahuchikh. Can McDermott actually win this?
2.02
The bar goes to 2.02. McDermott cleared 1.98 and 2.00 first time but fails here on first. Lasitskene finds her old form and clears it on 1st go putting her in 1st place. McDermott decides to consolidate and takes a second attempt and succeeds, setting a new NR and AR! Mahuchikh decides she wants the win and passes after her first attempt failure.
2.04
There are now 3 at 2.04, McDermott, Lasitskene and Mahuchikh. All fail their first attempt. McDermott fails her 2nd but Lasitskene finds some old form and clears it. Mahuchikh fails her 2nd attempt but 3rd consecutive after her fail at 2.02.
Outcome
That's it. The places are Lasitskene 2.04 SB, McDermott 2.02 AR and Mahuchikh 2.00 SU (Season's Underperformance).
McDermot takes the second silver for an AUS women's HJer after Michelle Mason-Brown's scissors in Tokyo 1964.
How did I do?
I said McDermott would need to jump to her best if she wants to grab a minor medal. She increased her best by 1cm and got a minor medal, a sort-of-unexpected silver. If nobody had cleared 2.04, she would be the gold meallist. How do you solve a problem like Mariya? I bet she sings in the abbey!
I said Eleanor Patterson was on a roll and should be good for high 1.90s but I can't see a medal. She had a very clean sheet and = her SB of 1.96 to finish 5th.
I said Yaroslava Mahuchikh (UKR) had the gold medal to lose, and she did. I said Lasitskene had a high chance to fail and early on it looked to be coming true but she pulled out the class performer doll, stroked it lovingly, and then magicked another gold medal in a SB.
I thought Vashti Cunningham (USA) was just happy with a 1.96 at the USA trials and would peak here but, no, that was her year's limit. I said she wasn't a regular 2m jumper like Lasitskene and Mahuchikh and she definitely proved that again today.
I said that my prediction was McDermott to finish 2-4, Patterson 4-5 and McDermott finished 2nd and Patterson finished 5th. Mock me all you like on this one.
M1500 Final
Stewart McSweyn finished finished 7th in 3:31.91 in the fastest OG 1500 ever.
Ollie Hoare finished 11th in 3:35.79.
I said that McSweyn was 3 seconds faster on paper than his team mate but I didn't think it would make much difference here. However, McSweyn finished nearly 4s ahead of Hoare. Stupid dumb El Toro! Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Ollie Hoare impressed me in the semi-final and made me think he had the potential to pass McSweyn off a slow pace. Sadly, or not, the pace was fast, especially compared to the high school heroics of Rio16, and Hoare faded over the last 600m.
I said Cheryiout and Ingebrigtsen seemed likely to be 1/2 in either order, and the either order ended up being JI and TC.
I said both to end up between 3rd and 7th in either order but only McSweyn finished 7th with Hoare in 11th, still a 4 place range. Normally I'd be cursing Ollie Hoare as a baaaaarrrrrstaaaaard for ruining my predictions but not when his OG results sit on his alltime list as Ht 10th, SF 5th and Final 9th. How good is that? (and I bet he can hold a hose, too)
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