Anna Hall Day 4 World Athletics Championships Mixed Zone Interview

This interview with Anna Hall was just after her bronze medal in the heptathlon and was brought to RunBlogRun courtesy of EBU Radio.

Anna Hall is a tremendous athlete, having just won the NCAA championships in 2022 (you can read our story on Anna here).

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Anna Hall takes the bronze with a gutty 800m finish in the heptathlon, photo by Kevin Morris

Three weeks after winning the NCAA Champs, Anna came back and won the heptathlon at the USATF Champs, thereby taking one of the three coveted places to Eugene, Oregon at the World Championships.

RunBlogRun covered her USATF performance with commentary on a piece by EME News, which you can view here.

Anna Hall has had the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, as ABC Wide World of Sports used to regale us with at their opening.

Anna Hall had a stellar performance at the World Champs.

Anna ran 13.20 for 1094 points in the 100m hurdles, 1.86m in the High Jump for 1,054/2148, 13.67m for the shot put, 772/2,920, and ending day 1 with a 23.08 for 1071/3,9991.

On day 2, Anna leaped 6.39m in the long jump, for 972 points /4,963, 45.75 m in the javelin for 778 points/ 5,741, and with a gutty 800m in 2:06.67 for 1,014 points for 6,755 PB and the bronze.

Anna Hall, bronze, World Athletics Championships
Eugene, Oregon, USA
July15-26, 2022
heptathlon, women, Hall, USA, Florida, photo by Kevin Morris

Of Anna Hall, Jackie Joyner-Kersee told this writer, ” Anna has it all, speed, strength, agility. It was nice to finally see an American back on the heptathlon podium.”

Enjoy this interview with Anna Hall, from EBU Radio.

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Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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