Featured image by Madeah Addy (Ebony Morrison running in Paris2024 repechage round.)
Liberia’s 100 meter hurdler, Ebony Morrison makes it through the repechage round and into the semifinal, in an intense photo finish. This newly introduced round gives runners a second chance to move forward. The top two women from each heat advanced. Morrison placed first in her heat and clocked the second fastest time of the morning, 12.82 — narrowly beating out Ecuador and Finland.
Morrison repechage round recap
“I’m so grateful that they added this second chance round because it allowed me to get my feet wet yesterday and then come back and be able to do better today,” Morrison told Go Team Liberia, after her heat.
Morrison said a few weeks passed between her previous race and her first heat at the Paris2024 Games. She will move into the finals with Vanessa Caicedo from Ecuador, Marione Fourie from South Africa, Maayke Tjin-a-lim from the Netherlands, Yumi Tanaka from Japan, and Lotta Harala from Finland. All five runners qualified during the repechage round.
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What’s next
Morrison said she’s attacking these Games with a one-foot-in-front-of-the-other approach. On Friday, 9, August, she takes the next step — the semifinal. She will return to the track at 12:05 p.m. local time.
“We just keep chopping at the tree, that is my motto,” Morrison said. “If I keep chopping at that tree, even if I’m chopping it with a plastic knife … it’s gone fall, so that’s just what I’m doing.”
As she prepares for the women’s 100mH semifinal, her message for the Liberian people is simple. “I’m gonna do my best. I’m going against the best in the world, but you know I’m always gonna do my best.”
The Paris2024 organizers will assign the heats and lanes closer to the meet.
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