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Fil-American sprinter Kristina Knott kept her Paris Olympics campaign alive after breaking the Philippine indoor record in women’s 200 meters at the Arkansas Qualifier in Fayetteville, Arkansas over the weekend.
Fil-American sprinter Kristina Knott kept her Paris Olympics campaign alive after breaking the Philippine indoor record in women’s 200 meters at the Arkansas Qualifier in Fayetteville, Arkansas over the weekend.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympian clocked 23.57 seconds to shatter the four-year-old national mark of 23.90sec set by Zion Corrales-Nelson at the MPSF Championships in Seattle, Washington.
However, Knott’s performance could only put her at sixth overall behind Madison Whyte, who timed 23.01sec.
Niesha Burgher and Jassani Carter timed 23.09sec and 23.19sec for second and third places, respectively.
The 28-year-old Knott, a double gold medalist at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, is gunning for a return trip to the Olympics after competing in Tokyo where she timed 23.80sec in 200m outdoor event and failed to advance.
She was known to break the long-standing 33-year-old national outdoor record in the women’s 100m set by Lydia de Vega-Mercado at the 1987 SEAG by clocking 11.27sec at the 2020 Drake Blue Oval Showcase in Des Moines, Iowa.
So far, only pole vaulter EJ Obiena has qualified to Paris from the Philippine track and field team.
