B.C.’s Georgia Ellenwood, who completed tenth within the heptathlon on the 2020 Olympics, had solely lately returned to competitors after a protracted harm rehab when she re-injured her Achilles tendon on the Pan Am Video games in Santiago, Chile on Tuesday. Solely hours earlier than, Ellenwood was in second place after the 100-metre hurdles portion of the multi-event; the re-injury occurred through the subsequent occasion–the excessive bounce.
📽️ VIDEO | 🥺🇨🇦🏃La desgarradora lesión de Georgia Ellenwood durante el heptatlón de Santiago 2023
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“A face that’s been right here earlier than,” Ellenwood shared on Instagram after the incident. “Similar leg; decrease Achilles rupture. 580 days, again to zero.”
The heptathlon consists of seven occasions: the 100-metre hurdles, excessive bounce, shot put, 200-meter sprint, lengthy bounce, javelin, and 800-metre run, which occur in that order over a two-day interval. Ellenwood wrote that she had an incredible begin to her Pan Am Video games: “I’m offended and may’t perceive why this has occurred to me.. once more,” she stated. “I fought my method again, and it’s all stripped away straight away.”
In February 2022, Ellenwood ruptured her Achilles whereas making an attempt to qualify within the girls’s pentathlon (5 occasions) for the World Athletics indoor observe and discipline championships in Belgrade, Serbia. She set an 8.35-second private greatest within the 100-metre hurdles, after which injured her Achilles on her excessive bounce try. “I’ve discovered my method again as soon as. So I’ll do it once more,” Ellenwood stated after the re-injury. “I can keep mad and sulk or I can begin the method once more instantly.”
The Pan Am Video games are a continental multi-sport competitors for the nations of North America, South America, Central America, the Caribbean and Canada. On Tuesday, Charles Philibert-Thiboutot earned Canada’s first observe medal of those Video games, taking silver within the 5,000 metres. The runner was initially awarded bronze, however was upgraded to silver after Mexico’s Daniel Martinez (who received the occasion) was disqualified for impeding American Kasey Knevelbaard within the last dash.
Canada’s Charles Philibert-Thiboutot is again on the Pan Am Video games podium — and a step increased than final time 🇨🇦🥈
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On Wednesday, fellow Canadian Grace Konrad narrowly missed the rostrum, taking fourth in her first worldwide multi-sport video games last. Konrad has had a shocking 2023 season, claiming her first nationwide title within the girls’s 400 metres and working a personal-best time in her world championship debut in August.
“The main focus at the moment was simply to run daring,” she stated post-race on Wednesday to media. “I wasn’t feeling super-confident going into at the moment, so I simply tried to exit robust and maintain my coronary heart in it and struggle for it on the finish.”
You possibly can view the upcoming schedule and full outcomes from the 2023 Pan American Video games right here.
