Proper just outside season’s best

Proper just outside season's best

Kelly Proper was just outside her season's best finishing 6th in her 200m heat in 23.28 seconds at the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing. 
Drawn in lane 8, Proper (Ferrybank) ran an aggressive bend and was in contention going into the straight but was just run out in the closing stages. USA's Jeneba Tarmoh won in 22.79. 

"I felt good, a personal best and national record (23.02 by Sarah Reilly in Edmonton in 2001) was my goal," said Proper afterwards who was four hundreths of a second outside her season's best of 23.24. "It felt fast so I was hoping for 23-low, and it just didn’t happen. 

"I’ve worked really hard and been consistent all year, every season I have a couple of races that are really good and the rest are okay but this year they’ve all been consistent, but I haven’t had that 'wow' race. 

"I’ll take a break, look forward to putting in a few months really hard work and look forward to Europeans and hopefully the Olympics."