She might solely have completed fourth in her 5000m warmth however Agate Caune was one of many stars of the World Championships on Wednesday (Aug 23) in Budapest.
The 19-year-old from Latvia was unfazed by the actual fact her warmth contained world champions akin to Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia and Beatrice Chebet of Kenya as she cast a giant lead alone earlier than being lastly caught and handed by Chebet, Tsegay and Margaret Kipkemboi on the ultimate lap.
Caune, who turned 19 earlier this month, was rewarded with a private better of 15:00.48 and with the highest eight to qualify she has progressed to the ultimate.
“From the start I knew I needed to run a brand new private document and to do this I knew I wanted to run from the start,” she advised AW.
“Within the final 200m I believed ‘I can’t run a private document at this tempo’ so I began to run quicker and within the final 100m I felt like I used to be standing in the identical place. However I loved the second. It’s my first time right here and a brand new expertise and I’m so excited to signify my nation.”
Caune, which is pronounced ‘sown-ay’, is a part of a nine-strong Latvian group in Budapest and one in all solely two runners within the squad. She says one in all her function fashions is Jeļena Prokopčuka, the previous New York Metropolis Marathon winner from Latvia.
She additionally appears as much as Emma Coburn, the 2017 world 3000m steeplechase champion from the US, though Caune says she has no intention of ever taking on the ‘chase!
Budapest was not Caune’s No.1 goal this season both. Earlier this month she received the 3000m and 5000m on the European Beneath-20 Championships in Jerusalem in the identical front-running fashion.
Racing in equally heat circumstances she received the 3000m by 28 seconds in 8:53.20 on and adopted that by breaking a 22-year-old championship 5000m document with 15:03.85 the place she lapped a lot of the discipline and received by 47 seconds. Elsewhere this season she has run 8:39.78 for 3000m on the Diamond League circuit to go No.2 on the European under-20 all-time rankings behind Zola Budd’s 8:28.83 from 1985.
Budapest, due to this fact, is a bonus. However her season will keep it up into October as she plans to sort out the 5km on the World Highway Working Championships in Riga, about 100km from her residence in Valmiera.
Will we see her main the sphere once more in Riga and even perhaps the 5000m remaining in Budapest? “It’s my fashion,” she says. “You want to have the ability to run alone, push your self and do your greatest.”
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