{"id":8573,"date":"2024-08-05T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T12:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2024-08-05T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T12:59:42","slug":"becker-competes-over-400m-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/?p=8573","title":{"rendered":"Becker Competes Over 400m In Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Becker made her Olympic individual bow taking sixth place in her 400m heat in Paris this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Becker clocked 51.87 seconds for sixth place in heat one. The race was won by Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain in 49.91 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s disappointing. I was hoping for a good bit faster than that\u201d explained Becker. \u201cTo make a semi, or run a PB, or both is obviously what I\u2019d have liked to do\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m happy with my first 250m, I ran that really well, I put myself in the mix, It\u2019s definitely a learning curve for tomorrow\u201d added\u00a0Becker.<\/p>\n<p>Becker will return to action in the repechage tomorrow morning. There will be four repechage with only the winner in each, and the top two fastest of the next best advancing to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sophie Becker was &#8220;disappointed and a bit confused&#8221; after finishing sixth in her 400m heat but determined to reach the semi-final or run a personal best in tomorrow&#8217;s repechage<br \/>\n\ud83d\udcfa Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XnOP6grnB7\">https:\/\/t.co\/XnOP6grnB7<\/a><br \/>\n\ud83d\udcf1 Updates <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7J2WfVU0Tm\">https:\/\/t.co\/7J2WfVU0Tm<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/olympicgames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#olympicgames<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I1boOCvBFg\">pic.twitter.com\/I1boOCvBFg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTEsport\/status\/1820415522053247134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThere was a small bit of history made by Sophie Becker this morning as she became the Raheny Shamrock athlete with the most Olympic event appearances.<\/p>\n<p>This morning was Becker\u2019s fourth Olympic appearance to go with Friday\u2019s 4x400m mixed relay and two appearances in the 4x400m mixed relay in Tokyo 2020. 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Becker clocked 51.87 seconds for sixth place in heat one. The race was won by Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain in 49.91 seconds. \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing. I was hoping for a good bit faster than that\u201d explained Becker. \u201cTo make a semi, or run a PB, or both is obviously what I\u2019d have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8575,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions\/8575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rahenyshamrock.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}