2013年08月06日
World Championship qualifying
Javelin thrower Stuart Farquhar and 800m runner Angie Smit have been added to the nine-strong New Zealand athletics team to contest the world championships in Moscow next month.
Three-time Olympian Farquhar, 31, threw a best of 80.42m in Switzerland during the weekend to clinch his spot after a consistent season jeans embroidery.
Smit, 21, snuck under the B-qualifying time with a time of 2min 00.03sec at the World University Games in Russia on Tuesday to book her spot.
She became the third quickest Kiwi woman over 800m, behind Toni Hodgkinson's 1min 58.25sec in 1996 and Nikki Hamblin's 1min 59.66sec in 2010 wine class.
New Zealand's world championships team will be finalised next week.
An Athletics New Zealand release said three leading contenders still to qualify for the championships starting on August 10 are Tom Walsh (shot put), Zane Robertson (5000m) and Julia Ratcliffe (hammer).
NZ athletes selected: Valerie Adams (shot put), Mary Davies (marathon), Stuart Farquhar (javelin), Brent Newdick (decathlon) Asian college of knowledge management, Quentin Rew (50km walk), Jake Robertson (10,000m), Angie Smit (800m), Kimberley Smith (10,000m), Nick Willis (1500m)
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