Runner Nooralotta Neziri placed sixth in her heat with a time of 13.04. That was 6-hundredths of a second faster than her own record in the sport. Before the race, she had told Yle she hoped to break the 13-second mark.
“It was a great experience,” Neziri told Yle immediately after the race. “I was a bit nervous at the start, even though I tried not to think about it. Now I can say that I’m satisfied with this trip” to Moscow, she added.
Neziri, a 20-year-old from the west-coast town of Pori, is of Finnish and Macedonian-Albanian descent.
Brianna Rollins of the USA went on to win the gold in the event.
