Editor’s be aware: The 400m hurdles add hurdles into the madness of the 400 meters. The 400-meter hurdles was developed, in my humble opinion, by somebody with a sadistic humorousness. Athletes who specialize within the 400-meter hurdles expertise a really particular kind of hell on earth.
Ladies’s 400m hurdles
The 2026 Commonwealth Video games girls’s 400m hurdles was not a “world-class” occasion by way of the requirements set by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, but it surely was important for the athletes concerned. For Sanique Walker of Jamaica, it was her first championship win and a PR besides.
The complete outcomes had been
1 Sanique Walker (Jamaica) 54.00
1 Emily Newnham (England) 54.04
3 Savannah Sutherland (Canada) 54.14
4 Lina Nielsen (England) 54.69
For Emily Newnham, simply 22, the silver medal represented an actual breakthrough. She mentioned afterward: “I knew right this moment it was going to be a battle of expertise with that wind on the again straight. It’s been the speak of the city on the resort. I attempted to dam the speak out and inform myself I may do it. I’m not probably the most skilled 400m hurdler, so right this moment was about specializing in what I wanted to do. I left just a little bit an excessive amount of on the final hurdle, however I’m simply completely happy to be on the rostrum. Going into the race, I simply actually needed to medal, and at 22 years previous, I can’t ask for far more. Hopefully it places me in good stead for the Europeans and provides me a little bit of confidence. I’m tremendous excited for these. I’m studying that I can do that. Strain is a privilege. Little Emily would by no means consider she could be standing on that begin line, not to mention profitable a medal. At 22, it might be really easy to overlook the little and massive wins, so I’m attempting to carry onto them and put it into perspective. I simply have to preserve creating alternatives for myself, and hopefully gold will come quickly.”
For Lina Nielsen, working 54.69 is an achievement in itself. Lina lives with a a number of sclerosis prognosis. Rewind to 2022 when she ran 58.95 within the Commonwealth Video games and 57.19 and 57.42 within the European and World Championships, when her physique merely wouldn’t work correctly. She revealed in 2022 that she had first had the prognosis when she was 17. Getting again to this degree is the results of character, nice willpower and buckets of onerous work.
PS If that was not sufficient, Lina ran an excellent final leg of the blended 4X400 relay to take GB to silver
