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Pena bows out in pole vault qualifying

16 August 2016

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Pena unable to qualify for Pole Vault final

Tori Pena (Finn Valley) was unable to qualify for the women’s Olympic pole vault final after finishing 14th in Group B with a best of 4.30m (August 16).

Pena had a first time clearance at 4.15m before advancing on to 4.30m which she cleared on her second attempt. Unfortunately she had three failures at 4.45m.  The Finn Valley athlete has had an improved season on the international stage – she was close to qualifying for the European Championships final in Amsterdam in July. Today’s performance consolidated her progression. This was Pena’s second Olympics having competed in London.

To date this has been Ireland’s most successful Olympics on the track since 1996  with four athletes progressing through the first round including Sara Treacy (Dunboyne) making the women’s 3,000m steeplechase final. Mark English and Ciara Mageean (both UCD) made the 800m and 1500m semi-finals respectively. Thomas Barr (Ferrybank) is bidding to qualify for the final of the 400m hurdles tonight.

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