Track & Field - Olympic Games - Athens 2004: Sunday 22 August

Women's 100 metre hurdles - heats Result

Sarah Claxton was hoping to become one of the very few Britons to have gone sub-13 in the sprint hurdles. With a season's best of 13.01 it was certainly a possibility. Drawn in the fourth of five heats she ran a good race into a slight headwind but had to settle for 13.14. Had she achieved her target is is still unlikely that she would have progressed to the semi-finals.

Men's Triple Jump - final Result

On a bad day for British athletics - with Paula Radcliffe unable to finish the marathon, no sprinter going beyond the 100m semi-finals, all three women failing to progress from the 400m semis - Phillips Idowu continued the trend when he was unable to produce a valid jump.

Having fouled once, his second effort was initially also judged to be a "no-jump". A calm but firm protest from Phillips, whose toe had not made a mark on the plasticene strip, changed the judge's mind but in the meantime the pit had been raked over and his landing point obliterated without being measured. The judges agreed to give him a second attempt - which he then clearly fouled. What pressure then, as Phillips prepared for his third and final attempt - and, to our dismay, it was yet another "no-jump".

Nobody will be more disappointed than Phillips and all we can do is commiserate with him and remind ourselves that sometimes a disaster in one competition can lead to the perfect result next time around.

Julien Kapek also opened with a no-jump. In the second round he cut the sand at 16.79m and added two more centimetres in round three - but that was not good enough to make the cut and he ended up placing 10th overall.

Restored from the club's earlier website, belgraveharriers.com, and published here as originally written.