B.C.’s Georgia Ellenwood, who completed tenth within the heptathlon on the 2020 Olympics, had best lately returned to pageant after an extended damage rehab when she re-injured her Achilles tendon on the Pan Am Video games in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday. Handiest hours sooner than, Ellenwood was once in moment position after the 100-metre hurdles portion of the multi-event; the re-injury happened throughout the following occasion–the top leap.
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“A face that’s been right here sooner than,” Ellenwood shared on Instagram after the incident. “Similar leg; decrease Achilles rupture. 580 days, again to 0.”
The heptathlon is composed of 7 occasions: the 100-metre hurdles, top leap, shot put, 200-meter sprint, lengthy leap, javelin, and 800-metre run, which occur in that order over a two-day length. Ellenwood wrote that she had an excellent begin to her Pan Am Video games: “I’m offended and will’t perceive why this has took place to me.. once more,” she stated. “I fought my long ago, and it’s all stripped away immediately.”
In February 2022, Ellenwood ruptured her Achilles whilst making an attempt to qualify within the girls’s pentathlon (5 occasions) for the Global Athletics indoor observe and box championships in Belgrade, Serbia. She set an 8.35-second own perfect within the 100-metre hurdles, after which injured her Achilles on her top leap try. “I’ve discovered my long ago as soon as. So I’ll do it once more,” Ellenwood stated after the re-injury. “I will keep mad and sulk or I will get started the method once more in an instant.”
The Pan Am Video games are a continental multi-sport pageant for the international locations of North The usa, South The usa, Central The usa, the Caribbean and Canada. On Tuesday, Charles Philibert-Thiboutot earned Canada’s first observe medal of those Video games, taking silver within the 5,000 metres. The runner was once to begin with awarded bronze, however was once upgraded to silver after Mexico’s Daniel Martinez (who gained the development) was once disqualified for impeding American Kasey Knevelbaard within the ultimate dash.
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On Wednesday, fellow Canadian Grace Konrad narrowly neglected the rostrum, taking fourth in her first world multi-sport video games ultimate. Konrad has had a surprising 2023 season, claiming her first nationwide name within the girls’s 400 metres and operating a personal-best time in her global championship debut in August.
“The point of interest as of late was once simply to run daring,” she stated post-race on Wednesday to media. “I wasn’t feeling super-confident going into as of late, so I simply attempted to head out sturdy and stay my center in it and battle for it on the finish.”
You’ll view the impending time table and entire effects from the 2023 Pan American Video games right here.