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Pinay sprinter Kristina Knott advances to SEA Games final in record time

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Karl Cedrick Basco, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2019/reuters/12/07/kristina-marie-knott.jpg"/><figcaption>Kristina Marie Knott of Philippines tops women’s 200 meters heat 1 with new SEA Games record of 23.07 seconds. <em>Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>CAPAS, Tarlac—Kristina Knott established a new Southeast Asian Games record in the women’s 200-meter sprint, when she clocked 23.07 seconds in the heats at New Clark City’s Athletics Stadium on Saturday.</p><p>Knott&#x27;s time erased the mark set by Zion Rose Corrales-Nelson by 9-hundredths of a second. </p><p>Corrales-Nelson timed 23.16 seconds in a Sacramento, Calif., competition in April.</p><p>Prior to Corrales-Nelson, Lydia de Vega held that 200-meters record for 33 years.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Kristina Marie Knott of PH tops women’s 200 meters heat # 1 with new Sea Games record of 23.07 seconds <a href="https://t.co/1BzFqbEkn7">pic.twitter.com/1BzFqbEkn7</a></p>— Willard Cheng (@willardcheng) <a href="https://twitter.com/willardcheng/status/1203115381449060352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 7, 2019</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Knott progressed to the finals scheduled Saturday night.</p><div><em><strong>EDITOR&#x27;S NOTE: A previous version of this story stated that it was Knott who first broke de Vega&#x27;s record. Philip Juico, president of the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association, the sport&#x27;s national governing body, confirmed the correction. ABS-CBN News regrets the error. </strong></em></div><div><em>(More details to follow)</em></div><div><strong>For more sports coverage, visit the <a href="https://sports.abs-cbn.com/" target="_blank">ABS-CBN Sports website</a>.</strong></div>

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Pinay sprinter Kristina Knott advances to SEA Games final in record time

Karl Cedrick Basco,

ABS-CBN News

Published Dec 07, 2019 10:04 AM PHT

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Updated Dec 07, 2019 07:19 PM PHT

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