Great Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell was beaten in the 1500m in Melbourne in her first race since she was topped ladies’s world indoor champion.
The 32-year-old arrived on the Maurie Plant Meet in Australia lower than every week after she stormed to her first global indoor title in Poland.
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But she was unable to summon her trademark ending burst as Australian Claudia Hollingsworth, 20, made her transfer 200m from the end line and clocked a profitable time of 4 minutes 1.30 seconds, 0.22secs forward of Hunter Bell.
“It was amazing being in a race with this level of girls and beating Georgia,” mentioned Hollingsworth, who set a file time for the meet.
Saturday’s outside occasion marked the primary of 11 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold conferences, which is the extent under the Diamond League.
Elsewhere, rising Australian sprinter Gout Gout, 18, completed second in the lads’s 200m, 0.05secs behind worldwide team-mate Lachlan Kennedy, 25, who received in a time of 20.38.