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Angie Smit will be present for three years in a row in the Sylvia Potts Memorial 800 metres this weekend, the key outcome at the Potts Classic meeting in Hastings on Saturday evening.
The Potts Classic is the promote round of the asics Athletics NZ Grand Prix Series. Bullet three will be at the Capital Classic on Monday and the series will then move to Wanganui on Friday 27 January for the Cooks Classic.
In 2010 Smit, from Christchurch, won in 2m 8.10s and last year 2m 9.06s. Smit comes into the hasten fresh from her 2m 6.93s run in Brisbane last Saturday. Chasing Smit will be guy Cantabrian Hannah Newbould, Rebecca Greene of Dunedin, Margot Gibson, Anna Bramley, Camille Buscomb and inhabitant W16 and secondary schools champion Kerry White of Te Aroha. Newbould was third last year and surrogate in 2010 in 2m 10.81s.
Greene, the secondary school double champion and information holder, is also entered in the Women's 20 3000 metres New Zealand championship at the gathering and will decide closer to the event which race she will contest.
Source: Voxy