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Article by Pirie Enzo

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One of our countries greatest ever track and field athletes succumbded to the high level pressures of tough international competition at the Olympic Games. Long Jumper Marestella Torres leap of 6.22m unfortunatley meant she would not qualify through to the womens final. A leap of 6.40m was probably well within Torres ability as she holds thes SEA Games record with 6.71m. Lets not forget however this is the added pressure factor of Olympic Games and anything can happen.

Filipino Long Jumper Marestella Torres before her third attempt at the Olympic Games in London (Photo Credits: Interaskyon.com)

Alot of athletes in the long jump had underperformed including Beijing Bronze Medalist at the last olympic games Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria whose 6.34m was 2 places above Torres saw her also not advancing to the finals this time. Local favourite Shannon Proctor pleased the crowd qualifying with the best leap of 6.83m.

Torres leaps of 5.98,6.15 and 6.21 (-1.5), (-0.5) (-0.4), while the first jump was into a bit of a head wind the next two jumps there wasnt much wind. Torres finished 11/16 in Group A and 22/32 overall.

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This was Torres second olympic games in Beijing she only reached 6.17m, she has also participated at the world championships level.

Long Jump – W   Qualification Qual. rule: qualification standard 6.70m or at least best 12 qualified.

Group A

07 August 2012 – 19:05

Position	Bib	Athlete	Country	Mark	Wind	.
1	1873	Shara Proctor	GBR	6.83 Q	(-0.3)	.
2	3095	Karin Mey Melis	TUR	6.80 Q	(0.2)	(SB)
3	2897	Elena Sokolova	RUS	6.71 Q	(-0.3)	.
4	1191	Nastassia Mironchyk – Ivanova	BLR	6.66 q	(-0.8)	.
5	2869	Lyudmila Kolchanova	RUS	6.57 q	(-1.0)	.
6	3312	Brittney Reese	USA	6.57 q	(-1.3)	.
7	2957	Ivana Španovic	SRB	6.41 q	(-1.2)	.
8	1201	Volha Sudarava	BLR	6.38	(-0.9)	.
9	2584	Blessing Okagbare	NGR	6.34	(-1.1)	.
10	1121	Bianca Stuart	BAH	6.32	(-1.9)	.
11	2636	Marestella Torres	PHI	6.22	(-0.4)	.
12	2928	Ola Sesay	SLE	6.22	(-0.6)	.
13	3196	Marharyta Tverdohlib	UKR	6.19	(-0.5)	.
14	2399	Lauma Griva	LAT	6.10	(-1.1)	.
.	1887	Maiko Gogoladze	GEO	NM		.
.	3340	Yuliya Tarasova	UZB	NM		.

Group B

07 August 2012 – 19:05

Position	Bib	Athlete	Country	Mark	Wind	.
1	3284	Janay DeLoach	USA	6.81 Q	(-1.8)	.
2	2407	Ineta Radevica	LAT	6.68 q	(-0.4)	(SB)
3	2882	Anna Nazarova	RUS	6.62 q	(-1.3)	.
4	1784	Éloyse Lesueur	FRA	6.48 q	(-0.6)	.
5	1197	Veronika Shutkova	BLR	6.40 q	(-0.1)	.
6	1152	Arantxa King	BER	6.40	(0.3)	.
7	1245	Maurren Higa Maggi	BRA	6.37	(-0.1)	.
8	3295	Chelsea Hayes	USA	6.37	(0.0)	.
9	1651	Concepción Montaner	ESP	6.30	(-0.1)	.
10	3184	Viktoriya Rybalko	UKR	6.29	(-1.7)	.
11	1951	Sostene Moguenara	GER	6.23	(-2.0)	.
12	2775	Viorica Tigau	ROU	6.21	(-0.4)	.
13	2979	Irene Pusterla	SUI	6.20	(2.1)	.
14	2997	Jana Veldáková	SVK	6.18	(-1.5)	.
.	1432	Caterine Ibargüen	COL	DNS		.
.	2606	Margrethe Renstrøm	NOR	DNS

source iaaf.org

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