Winnipeg’s Victoria Tachinski finished off the podium on Thursday at the World U20 Championships in track and field.
Tachinski, 17, took a sixth place finish in the women’s 800 metre final. The Vincent Massey student was the second youngest athlete in the race in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
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Running in lane six, Tachinski was in the middle of the pack for the first lap and as they hit the final 200 metres she was still dueling for a medal position. She appeared to briefly rub shoulders with another runner and as they hit the stretch run three runners broke away from the pack. The United States’ Samantha Watson and Aaliyah Miller finished first and second respectively.
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Tachinski finished with a time of 2:06.11, which is more than two seconds off her Canadian junior record. She finished in second place in her semifinal heat on Wednesday to qualify for the final. Tachinski still has two years of junior eligibility remaining.
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