Visser was very happy with her race, where there was certainly room for improvement. She realized that herself. “For a moment I thought I ruined it after the last hurdle. I lost a lot of speed from hurdle nine to ten. So that could be a lot better,” she analyzed quickly after her race.
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Visser, sixth in the last World Cup final in 2019, had an excellent start. At the finish it was a bit of a wait to see if she had become second (direct placement for the final) or third in the race. It turned out to be third, but she was quick enough to move up to the final with sixth overall. “Normally I never look at the classification, but now I do. There were a lot of girls who are faster than me. I knew I had to run a very good race to continue. At the finish I knew it was enough.”
With 12.63, the former all-around star only just exceeded her Dutch record, which she ran at the World Cup in Doha. It’s her best season time. In Tokyo, her hamstring injury was no longer noticeable, which hindered her in the run-up to the Games. “I’m completely fit,” she said after the series, in which she also made a strong impression with 12.72. In the night from Sunday to Monday (Dutch time) she will compete for a medal at 04:50.
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