Heartbreak for Peeters: World Championships final narrowly missed
The Southlander was attempting to become the first New Zealand female in history to reach a global (Olympics or World Championships) javelin final.
Javelin thrower Tori Peeters has come up just short in her quest to book a spot in the final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The Southlander was attempting to become the first New Zealand female in history to reach a global (Olympics or World Championships) javelin final.
Peeters took part in Group B of the women’s javelin qualifying event at the World Championships on Wednesday night [NZ time].
The top 12 advanced to Saturday’s final and unfortunately for Peeters she won’t be part of it after she just missed qualification finishing 13th.
On another roasting morning inside the National Athletics Centre, Peeters launched the spear out to a best of 59.59m with her second attempt and after round two she sat in the 12th and last qualification berth.
However, while the Kiwi could not better her position with a third-round throw of 54.46m, deep into the final round Brazilian thrower Jucilene Sales De Lima ripped away Peeters’ dreams by hurling the spear out to 59.76m to relegate the Cambridge-based thrower to 13th.
Peeters, who bettered her national record with a 63.26m throw in Yokohama in May, had opened in with a 57.95m effort in round one before firing the spear out to her best of the day in round two.
The 29-year-old New Zealander finished just 7cm shy of the 12th placed qualifier – a very relieved defending world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber of Australia. Lina Muze-Sirma of Latvia topped the qualifiers with a best of 63.50m – one of seven women to achieve the auto-qualifying mark of 61.50m.