Hartley narrowly misses out on Olympics final
Hartley will be in action again in the 500m sprint race on Wednesday
RICHARDS BAY’S Bridgitte Hartley missed out going through to the 2016 Olympics 200m women’s canoe sprint by four hundredths of a second.
Hartley placed third with a time of 41.698 bhind Slovakian Martina Kohlova (41.231) and Inna Osipenko-Rodomska of Azerbaijan (40.702) in the fourth heat of the quarter-finals earlier today, giving her the ticket to compete in the semis.
She again finished third in the first semi-final with a time of 41.478, but China’s Yu Zhou who placed fifth in the second semi-final with a time of 41.017, edged her out of the final spot in the A Final by just 0.461 seconds.
Unfortunately Bridgitte Hartley narrowly misses out on the A Final . Will compete in the B final of the kayak single 200m sprint #Olympics
— Natalie Germanos 🏏 (@NatalieGermanos) August 15, 2016
Hartley will be in action again in the 500m sprint race on Wednesday.
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