She goes into her 800m event ranked 21st and aiming to reach at least the semi-final
“The thesis now has 3,000 words, which is 50-odd thousand short of what it needs,” she says. “But it’s going fine, it’s not due until December, and from Saturday the focus switched from physics mode to running mode.”
“I think I’m actually quite fresh going into the championships which is a bit weird, so that’ll be nice. And I think I’ve become a lot more robust. I’d had two or three consistent years of training going into Tokyo and Munich last year. Her 800m event – as they all are in Budapest – is properly stacked. Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson is the fastest this season with 1:55.77, although it appears evident that Athing Mu from the US, the defending World and Olympic champion, has opted not to compete, and is only ranked 12th this season.
Last year, she broke Ciara Mageean’s Irish 800m record, running 1:59.42, before Mageean took it back this year.
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