Jamaica’s Adelle Tracey will run in the repechage round at the Paris Olympics for the second time, this time in the 1500m, if she is to progress to the semi-finals of the event after failing to advance through Tuesday’s heats at Stade de France.

Tracey trailed home in 13th place of 15 runners in a season’s best 4:09.33.

The athlete, who represented Great Britain before switching allegiance to Jamaica in 2022, ran just once this season before heading to the Olympics, winning the 1500m at the JAAA national championships in late June.

Tracey broke the Jamaican national record last year when she clocked 3:58.77 in the semi-finals of the 1500m at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary.

She ran two rounds of the 800m earlier in the Olympics, running 2:03.47 in the first round and then 2:03.67 in the repechage from which she failed to advance.

Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay won the 1500m heat in 3:58.84 to lead the six automatic qualifiers, Great Britain’s Laura Muir was next in 3:58.91 and Kenya’s Susan Lokayo Ejore was third in 3:59.01.
-Paul A Reid