Can Derval O'Rourke win Gold in European Indoors

kilkenny runner

Can she do it........

Nytra and vuckevic are two main contenders... both have ran 7.90 - 8.00 on a few occassions this indoor season...

Derval ran 8.03 before she got a tight groin .......

She has the heats in the morning and if she qualifies the semi around lunch and possible final at 5.40pm irish time...

i think if she can run 8.05ish in morning heats, that might be a sign she is in with a shout for gold.....

if she wants gold i feel she needs to be hitting 7.96ish 7.97ish in semi and then improve on that again in final........

then again Derval always does things different, so maybe she might scrape through in heats and semi and then improve massively in final.... maybe she wont make final ..... who knows.....

tomorrow will tell all.....

Personally i think she will medal and after that who knows what colour...

thirstywork2

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056187146
Maybe check out the link to your previous post about the same topic

Never write derval off but I don't think her preperations have gone great so I wouldn't be too optimistic.
I think mary cullen has a good chance !!!

Brianderunner

I'm gonna say 3rd or 4th but i hope i'm wrong

Pisco Sour

thirstywork2 wrote: »

Never write derval off but I don't think her preperations have gone great so I wouldn't be too optimistic.
I think mary cullen has a good chance !!!

Her preparations weren't great before Gothenburg and Berlin either and look what happened. Its not ideal that she hasnt raced but the injury was only minor by all accounts. I'm sure if we see her qualify from the heats very comfortably that will be a good sign that all is well.

I'm saying silver.

rom

The Cork athlete finished second in her heat behind Carolin Nytra of Germany. In Lane 7, Nytra got off to a flying start and was never headed thereafter, extending her lead slightly over the course of the race and winning in a time of 7.96seconds. O'Rourke also started well and was not far behind in Lane 6. She comfortably took second place and an automatic spot in the semi-final in 8.07seconds, .04s above her season's best to date. She will be in action next at 2.52pm.

liogairmhordain

O Rourke just finished third in her semi which qualifies her for the final this evening.

kilkenny runner

Derval will need to improve her time again if she wants a medal... gold looks to be a step to far in my opinion, with 7.90 maybe even 7.8?? being needed to win the gold.......

i hope im wrong and she takes the gold

ManwitaPlan

What time is Derval running at?

Pisco Sour

I expect Derval to improve her time by another few hundreths, to maybe 7.92-7.94. I expect some of the competitors to run slower in the final than the semi, so I think she has a great chance of a medal, but gold I dont think she will get. The quality is higher than 2 years ago when 7.97 got Derval Bronze.

shels4ever

04072511 wrote: »

I expect Derval to improve her time by another few hundreths, to maybe 7.92-7.94. I expect some of the competitors to run slower in the final than the semi, so I think she has a great chance of a medal, but gold I dont think she will get. The quality is higher than 2 years ago when 7.97 got Derval Bronze.

yep but with her, i wouldnt be shocked if she pulled out an irish record in the final, She tends to run well in finals.

plodder

ManwitaPlan wrote: »

What time is Derval running at?

17:40

gerard65

She's got lane 8:(

Pisco Sour

gerard65 wrote: »

She's got lane 8:(

Doesnt matter a jot! She was in lane 1 in Gothenburg and Berlin!

jeffontour

4th, 7.96. First and second clocked at 7.80, she was the best of the rest.

Pisco Sour

She would have needed a NR to have just got a medal. That was world class running by the top 3. 7.96 would have medalled 2 years ago, but this time around she wasn't even close.

TrackFan123

womens sprint hurdling is really competitive both in europe and worldwide right now. probably because the barriers are so small

kilkenny runner

TrackFan123 wrote: »

womens sprint hurdling is really competitive both in europe and worldwide right now. probably because the barriers are so small

Are u saying they should make the hurdles bigger ?? i dont understand what your trying to say

TrackFan123

kilkenny runner wrote: »

Are u saying they should make the hurdles bigger ?? i dont understand what your trying to say

Yes. You see the fella's, even the tall guys really having to work to get over them, whereas the girls at both sprint and 400 hurdles can more or less stick a leg out and get over them

downthemiddle

TrackFan123 wrote: »

Yes. You see the fella's, even the tall guys really having to work to get over them, whereas the girls at both sprint and 400 hurdles can more or less stick a leg out and get over them

You do realise that the sprint hurdles and 400 hurdles are different heights? The sprint hurdles at 2' 9" are high enough imo.

thirstywork2

I think trackfan knows this but his point is right.
ps pity Derval didnt get a medal,hope Mary an get us one !!!