Dina Asher-Smith upset at defeat in Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix
Saturday 20 February 2016 16:41, UK
GB sprinter Dina Asher-Smith hopes her poor show at the Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix is the wake-up call needed for this year's Olympics in Rio.
The 20-year-old Londoner has high hopes as she prepares for this summer's Games but was downcast after finishing sixth in a women's 60 metres final won by world 200m champion Dafne Schippers in 7.10 seconds.
Asher-Smith, who could only clock 7.25 secs - eight hundredths of a second slower than her heat time, said: "It was not good. In fact it was really bad. I don't like not performing to the best of my ability.
"I don't know where it went wrong so I'll talk to my coach. I didn't feel my transition was any good so I've got a lot to work on. Maybe that's just what I need. If it wasn't such a strong race, I might have got away with it but with the girls I was up against, there was no way that was happening.
"In Olympic year you can't be making basic, technical mistakes so maybe it was a good thing it happened now. I can go away, talk to my coach and fix it."
The event was being staged at Glasgow's Emirates Arena for the first time after a deal was struck to see it shared year-to-year with Birmingham.
But home favourite Laura Muir failed to give the sell-out Scottish crowd the result they were looking for after finding herself boxed in during the early stages of the 800m as she finished behind Canadian Melissa Bishop, silver medallist at last year's World Championship in Beijing.
But Scottish Athlete of the Year Muir - targeting the 1500m in Brazil - was satisfied and said: "You can't do any better than a PB, so I'm delighted.
"That was a world-class field. I learned a lot from the Worlds last year. That was the first time I went through three rounds and ended up finishing fifth. So I have the experience to cope with three rounds at Rio. I just want to get to that start line now and see what happens."
Lorraine Ugen beat British rivals Shara Proctor and Jazmin Sawyers to secure victory in the long jump with a leap of 6.80m. Her effort also clinched first place in the IAAF World Indoor Tour standings and its £14,000 first prize.
Seren Bundy-Davis of Wales looked set for victory in the women's 400m before fading down the home straight, allowing Jamaica's Stephenie Ann McPherson to pinch victory on the line in a time of 52.05secs.
World pole vault champion Shawn Barber missed out on a lifetime best leap of 6.01m but the Canadian still had enough to easily beat Britain's Luke Cutts with a winning mark of 5.89m.