An undoubtedly tired Sarah Mitton will take a brief and well-deserved break from shot put before travelling to her second consecutive Diamond League Final next week in Eugene, Ore.
Coming off a silver-medal performance at the World Athletics Championships, the Canadian qualified with a 19.76-metre throw for second place in Thursday’s street competition at the Place de la Monnaie in Brussels.
“It’s been a long season and we’ve been [in Europe] a long time. We left [Canada] on Aug. 8, we’re at the end of it and survived,” Rich Parkinson, Mitton’s coach since 2016, told CBC Sports this week from Belgium.
Mitton, who
