'Heart-sinking moment' sees Olympic medallist Montag ruled out of world champs

[ad_1] Twin Olympic strolling medallist Jemima Montag has made the heartbreaking choice to bear hamstring surgical procedure, ruling her out of a red-hot tilt for gold at subsequent month's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Montag has been considered one of Australia's best possible performers on the worldwide stage lately, claiming silver on the 2023 world titles in Budapest and bronze within the 20km and the marathon blended relay on the Paris Olympics.

Gold was very a lot on the agenda in Tokyo for the 27-year-old till she suffered a recurrence of a distal hamstring damage at an altitude camp in St Moritz earlier this month.

Beneath the brutal Parisian solar, Jemima Montag overcame a struggle of attrition to say bronze The sheer brutality of the circumstances ensured the race stroll can be a struggle of attrition. Each finisher is value their weight in gold.

"Figuring out at that time we might solely have 5 or 6 weeks till Tokyo and that this hamstring tendon damage has the propensity to recur, in the end the medical group determined it was greatest to fly dwelling, get it operated on and prioritise the longer-term imaginative and prescient," Montag advised AAP on Tuesday.

"It is such a heart-sinking second as a result of I would felt it earlier than [at a training camp in June].

"You've got been hoping and praying all through the rehab that you've sufficient time, that you just're concurrently taking issues slowly sufficient but additionally progressing rapidly sufficient that you're going to be good for the world championships when it issues.

"So feeling that sharp ache within the hammy for the second time was pretty heartbreaking."

It's a related damage to that suffered by reigning Olympic pole vault champ Nina Kennedy earlier this 12 months.

Montag's hamstring damage is taken into account to be much like the one which has sidelined Olympic gold medallist Nina Kennedy. ( Reuters: Kai Pfaffenbach )

Kennedy has made good progress in her restoration, which has been an enormous supply of encouragement for Montag, who till this 12 months has been principally injury-free since bursting onto the scene with the primary of two Commonwealth gold medals on the Gold Coast in 2018.

"It has been actually useful to look at Nina's development over the past 4 months and also have a few messages along with her yesterday," mentioned Montag.

"She actually reassured me that it's a 12-to-16-week rehab course of and that her hamstring is now feeling higher than ever.

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"Like me, she felt nervous concerning the choice of whether or not or to not get the surgical procedure.

"However she mentioned it is undoubtedly the suitable name and you will really feel even stronger than earlier than you harm it."

Though Montag's withdrawal is a giant blow, there are nonetheless excessive hopes Australia will acquire a swag of medals on the September 13–21 world titles, with the squad to be finalised early subsequent week.

The opposite six medallists from the Paris Olympics will headline a group additionally together with a number of younger weapons comparable to dash sensation Gout Gout and middle-distance tyros Cameron Myers and Claudia Hollingsworth.