O’Keeffe hoping to complete injury comeback with good showing

FORGET Usain Bolt’s 100m and 200m nights, the first session to be sold out at this year’s world championships at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin was the women’s hammer final on Saturday night when Betty Heidler, one of Germany’s two defending champions, will command centre stage.

This morning Ireland’s Eileen O’Keeffe will compete for a share of the glory that the final promises when she competes in qualifying group A, which will also feature the German.

The 25-year-old German has been impressive all year, winning nine of her 14 competitions, with a season’s best of 75.83m to take the World University Games title in Belgrade early last month. But that won’t be enough to start favourite, which might suit Heidler just fine.