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<\/a>Jessica Zelinka in Daegu<\/p><\/div>\n
DAEGU<\/strong> – Jessica Zelinka of London, Ont., finished ninth in the grueling two day heptathlon with 6268 points, registering the best Canadian finish in the seven discipline event ever at a World Championship. Heading into the final event of 800-metres Jessica was in 12th<\/sup> but her time of 2:12.62 added some valuable points to her score. \u201cI have it in me to get on the podium I just need to put it all together in one consistent heptathlon; that is the most important thing I am taking away from this.\u201d<\/p>\n Also in the heptathlon was Ruky Abdulai of Coquitlam, B.C., who registered a new personal best of 6212 points. In the 800-metres Ruky ran a personal best time of 2:15.29 to finish the heptathlon overall in 13th<\/sup>. \u201cI am happy with my competition and the personal bests throughout. On day two, if I didn\u2019t have this hamstring problem, the score could have been even better.\u201d<\/p>\n Victoria, B.C.\u2019s Geoff Martinson finished ninth in a fast heat over 1500-metres. His time of 3:40.98 qualified him into the semi finals on Day 6.<\/p>\n Up tomorrow at 9:00am local Daegu time (8:00pm tonight eastern time) is Peterborough, Ont.\u2019s Rachel Seaman in the 20km racewalk. Already this season Rachel has bettered the Canadian record on two occasions; it currently stands at 1:33:43.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DAEGU – Jessica Zelinka of London, Ont., finished ninth in the grueling two day heptathlon with 6268 points, registering the best Canadian finish in the seven discipline event ever at a World Championship. Heading into the final event of 800-metres Jessica was in 12th but her time of 2:12.62 added some valuable points to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,11],"tags":[4,47,63,442],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-track","tag-4","tag-daegu","tag-jessica-zelinka","tag-world-champs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}