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<\/p>\nKiwi sprinter Zoe Hobbs has won gold in the 100m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. <\/p>\n
Starting in lane 7 with lane 8 vacant due to the absence of a Jamaican competitor, the 28-year-old sprinter led all the way to win with a national record time of 10.93s. It is also an Oceania record. Her previous best was 10.94s.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old sprinter finished with a national record time of 10.93s and Oceania record. (Courtesy of Sky) (Source: Other)<\/p>\n
Englishwoman Amy Hunt (10.98s) took silver, and Australian Torrie Lewis (10.99s) took bronze. The wind was listed as +1.0 – the legal limit is +2.0.<\/p>\n
Hobbs finished fifth in the 100m final at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. <\/p>\n
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Zoe Hobbs wins gold in the 100m (Source: Sky)<\/p>\n
Speaking after the race, held on a wet track in pouring rain, Hobbs told Sky: “Wild. I don’t even know, I can’t even put it into words, it’s just crazy. <\/p>\n
“I just think about the time I was told I shouldn’t do the 100m because it’s too hard to do, that I should consider doing other events because I’ll never make it as a sprinter in the 100m.<\/p>\n
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Zoe Hobbs celebrates her gold medal (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n
“I actually had a bit of a stumble and had to recover myself, and I wasn’t sure if that would be enough to keep me in it. But I don’t know, the rest is a bit of a blur and I managed to hold them off and I had to dip, it’s not my strength to dip, but I think I dipped.”<\/p>\n
Hobbs is the first Kiwi to win gold in the event – at the 1962 Empire Games Doreen Porter won silver over 100 yards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi sprinter Zoe Hobbs has won gold in the 100m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Starting in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16671,166477,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-548801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-athletics","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}