Agnes Samaria missed her Namibian national 800m record by one hundredth of a second after coming fourth in a Grand Prix athletics meeting in Rieti, Italy yesterday.
Samaria completed the race in a time of 1 minute 59,16 seconds just outside her national record of 1:59,15 which she set at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in 2002. Yesterday’s race was won by Maite Martinez of Spain (1:58,58), followed by Jearl Miles-Clark of the United States (1:58,64) and Tatyana Andrianova of Russia (1:59,12).Yesterday’s race was won by Maite Martinez of Spain (1:58,58), followed by Jearl Miles-Clark of the United States (1:58,64) and Tatyana Andrianova of Russia (1:59,12).
