by Sprintstar’s gout gout and Lachie Kennedy were excluded from the Stawell gift in the semi-finals after they were unable to compensate for considerable disabilities.
Gicht ran a strong race to end the 120 m in 12.34s, but could not quite catch John Evans, who had almost nine meters before the 17-year-old and won almost a quarter of a second.
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“I thought I would get pretty hard and when we had 20, 10 [metres] He was pretty ahead of me on the left, “said Gun. It is what it is.”
Kennedy became 12.26s, but it wasn’t fast enough when he became less than a tenth of a second with a close semi-finals after Dash Muir, a 17-year-old in the field.
Only the winners of the six semi-finals reach the final on Monday in the afternoon, although Gicht and Kennedy will now take part in the traditional Backmarker race.
The men’s races were interrupted by a heavy rain shower that triggered a power failure for the channel channel seven and forced a delay of a few minutes before the last two semi -finals.
Gout spent the time in the rain with the jacket.
“Runing in the rain is a little more difficult than usual, but you cannot cope with the weather, so you just have to adapt,” he said.
In the semi-finals of the women, last year’s Champion Chloe Mannix Power of last year was removed after taking third place behind Jemma Stapleton, a front marker. Mannix-Power ran a personal best over 100 m at the Australian titles of the past week, but Scratch running turned out to be too much.
The woman who ended a place in front of her in the Nationals, Bree Rizzo, also ran up from the ground up, but she started well and won her semi -finals comfortably. She wants to step into her husband Matt Rizzo’s footsteps, who won the Stawell gift in 2017.
“To be honest, the field is strong. I will have to do my absolute best to get to the front from scratch,” said Rizzo. “But I love that on the Stawell gift, I love the challenge and the atmosphere.”
Melissa Breen is the only woman who wins the race from Scratch in 2012. The final will be controversial later on Monday afternoon.
