Great Britain getting better and better
Posted on | August 22, 2016 | Category: WOC news
IOF President Brian Porteous with Kris Jones and Peter Hodkinson
The IOF President Brian Porteous went proudly to greet his national team at the end of the race today. Great Britain did better than ever before in a Sprint Relay, but there is still more to aim for.
There were a lot of happy British faces after Cat Taylor (27) had finished the last leg. The GB team finished in fourth place. That’s a big step forward. “We have all run good legs, and an important reason for doing well is a very good team spirit”, her team-mates say. “This is the best for GB in the Sprint Relay at WOC so far, and there is more to come”. A medal position is something the good British sprinters really want to achieve.
The leg times show that Kris Jones (25) was particularly fast on the third leg, but all did well. Charlotte Ward (23) and Peter Hodkinson (25) ran the other two legs.
One year ago the British team was fourteenth on home ground. The only one from that team taking part this year was Catherine Taylor. On that occasion, not everyone gave top priority to the relay because it was the day before the individual Sprint.
Cat Taylor, Kris Jones, Peter Hodkinson, Charlotte Ward Photos: Erik Borg
For Taylor it will soon be one more diploma from WOC, with this fourth place. She will get it at the prize-giving on Monday evening. She received two diplomas last year, coming fifth in the Middle Distance and six on the Long. Now she is running in her other ‘home country’. She’s been living in Sweden for some years now, and knows how to tackle her next race – the Long Distance on Thursday. “And the good result in the Sprint Relay has taken away a lot of pressure”, Catherine says.
It was not so good a time for her before the season with a lot of injury, but since April there has been a lot of good training for the European Championship medallist in Long Distance two years ago.
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