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20 August 2022
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Performances by Surrey athletes at the 2000 Olympic Games, Sydney,
Australia. Saturday 30th September Natasha Danvers (Shaftesbury Barnet) and Donna Fraser (Croydon Harriers) teamed up with Allison Curbishley and Katherine Merry in the final of the 4 x 400 Metres Relay. The team were clearly disappointed in their 6th place in the race won comfortably by the USA team. The Surrey athletes were quoted as follows: Natasha (53.2 seconds split) was sad: "What I wanted to achieve would not come. I feel upset and responsible. I don’t feel I lived up to what I expected of myself." Donna (50.2 second split) said: "It was tough for all of us. When I tried to come through, I had to run so wide to give the baton to Allison. But this is a learning curve – and why should we aim low? In Atlanta, we didn’t even reach the final." Official result: 21:35 Womens 4 x 400 Metres Relay Final
Friday 29th September Donna Fraser ran the fastest British leg (50.3 seconds) as the GB won the second heat of the Womens 4 x 400 Metres to qualify for Saturday's final. After the race Donna was quoted as saying: "It didn’t feel that fast. But I was wondering why my legs were hurting so much. It’s nice to get a good run out – and we’ve got a great team." Official result: 18:49 Womens 4 x 400 Metres Relay 1st Round - Heat 2
Wednesday 27 September Natasha Danvers (Shaftesbury Barnet) after exceeding most people's expectations by reaching the final of the 400 Metres Hurdles produces another excellent performance finishing in eighth place. Her time of 55.00 seconds is her second fastest ever - only beaten by her time in the semi final. It now seems likely that she will be an integral part of the 4 x 400 relay team along with Donna Fraser (Croydon Harriers) for which the first round is being held on Friday with the final on Saturday. Official result: 20:55 Womens 400 Metres Hurdles Final
Official results: 10:00 Womens Shot Qualifying - Group A
Monday 25 September Outstanding performance by Donna Fraser (Croydon Harriers) in finishing fourth in the 400 Metres Final and setting her third personal best at the Games. She is the third Briton to break 50 seconds and her time of 49.79 seconds puts her third on the British all-time rankings after Kathy Cook (49.43) and Katherine Merry (49.72). Before the Olympics Donna's best time was 50.85 set at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur where she finished third. Official Result: 20:10 Womens 400 Metres Final
Official Result: 19:15 Womens 400 Metres Hurdles Semi Finals - Race 1
Sunday 24 September Donna Fraser (Croydon Harriers) qualifies for 400 metres final setting a new personal best and Surrey record time of 50.21secs. Official Result: 20:07 Womens 400 Metres Semi Finals - Race 2
Official Result: 19:22 Womens 400 Metres Hurdles 1st Round - Heat 2
Saturday 23 September Donna Fraser (Croydon Harriers) qualifies for 400 metres semi-final with a personal best and Surrey record time of 50.77 secs. Official result: 19:51 Womens 400 Metres 2nd Round - Heat 4
Friday 22 September Donna Fraser (Croydon Harriers) qualifies for 2nd round of 400 Metres from lane 8. Official result: 20:06 Womens 400 Metres 1st Round - Heat 8
Guildford & Godalming member wins Gold medal on last day of the Olympics Stepanie Cook (Guildford & Godalming AC) won the first ever Womens Modern Pentathlon Olympic gold medal. After 4 events she was lying eighth and started the 3000m run 49sec. after the leader Emily DeRIEL (USA) and 44sec. after fellow Briton Kate ALLENBY. For the first 2000m it seemed to be a race between the tall, slim DeRIEL and ALLENBY. Just when DeRIEL seemed to gain the upper hand, heading towards Olympic gold, COOK emerged with a devastating burst. First she overtook ALLENBY, then with some 300m to go she passed DeRIEL and flashed home for a great win, much to the delight of a group of English supporters spreading out their Union Jack. Stephanie, a doctor, took up modern pentathlon at 22. However, she is not sure whether she will continue in modern pentathlon as she hopes to devote her medical career to working for Medecine Sans Frontiere. The Modern Pentathlon comprises shooting, fencing, swimming, riding and running. These were Britain's first Modern Pentathlon medals since the men won the team event in Montreal in 1976 lead by Jim Fox. Official Result: 16:20 Womens Modern Pentathlon Event 5 - Running Rk Athlete Country Time Points Total 1 COOK Stephanie GBR 10:03.16 1,308 5,318 2 SVARRE Pernille DEN 10:22.56 1,230 4,541 3 deRIEL Emily USA 10:54.56 1,102 5,310 4 ALLENBY Kate GBR 10:58.71 1,086 5,273 16:20 Womens Modern Pentathlon - Result 1 Stepanhie COOK GBR 5318 pts 2 Emily DERIEL USA 5310 pts 3 Kate ALLENBY GBR 5273 pts DON…..BUT NOT FORGOTTEN by Pete Mulholland Further to the news of the Surrey trio of Olympians selected for Sydney there was another County athlete who competed with distinction in those games and he was Tim Don, a member of Elmbridge Road Runners. Tim finished tenth in the games' inaugural triathlon as he swam, biked and ran to finish the gruelling event in 1:49.28.85 (pretty exact those timekeepers), a little over a minute behind the winner, Simon Whitfield of Canada. Just one place ahead of Tim, who at the age of 22 was the second youngest to finish, was Simon Lessing, also of Great Britain, who as a previous winner of four world championships was considered a certainty to take gold…but that's sport for you. Well known as the son of Phillip Don, the Football Association's referee supremo, Tim has placed second in the Surrey junior cross country championship and is often to be found taking the honours on the local 10km road racing scene. However, after his brilliant performance in Australia his thoughts for the future will probably be concentrated on Athens 2004 - scene of the next Olympics - after which his dad could be known as the father of Tim Don. |
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