{"id":416825,"date":"2024-08-11T16:44:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T16:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=416825"},"modified":"2024-08-11T22:07:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T22:07:16","slug":"sweet-family-moment-follows-aussie-mums-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=416825","title":{"rendered":"Sweet family moment follows Aussie mum's marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

PARIS:<\/strong> A grimace on Jessica Stenson's face quickly turned to a look of bliss as she crossed the finish line of the women's Olympic marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moments later, as she and Australian teammate Genevieve Gregson<\/a> spoke to reporters, Stenson peered through a scrum of journalists and spotted her two kids: her daughter Ellie, who turns one next month, and her five-year-old son Billy.<\/p>\n

And like the lights of the Eiffel Tower at night, the marathon mum's face lit up.<\/p>\n

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"I'll probably\ufeff start crying when I see them, so I won't talk too much, but it's so good to have them here," Stenson said.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old was beaming with joy as she waved to her kids at the Esplanade des Invalides, where her third Olympic marathon wound up.<\/p>\n

Stenson finished 13th in a time of 2:26:45 as Gregson, who's a 35-year-old mum to two-year-old son Archer, trailed home 24th in 2:29:56.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Genevieve<\/p>\n

At the halfway point of the course, Stenson spent a short while in the lead.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"I wanted to just tap in. I didn't want to look back too much, but I was keen to just take a mental break\ufeff," the South Australian recalled.<\/p>\n

"I was quite nervous about the final 10 [kilometres] because I knew there was always something to focus on for the first 32 [kilometres], and I didn't want to get mentally overwhelmed in the final 10.<\/p>\n

"So at that point I started going through every marathon I've ever done in my head and thinking about how I felt at this point, and thinking about my family who I've just seen over there."<\/p>\n

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\"Gregson<\/p>\n

Stenson has now completed two marathons since she and her husband Dylan welcomed their daughter into the world.<\/p>\n

Only six months after giving birth,\ufeff she ran a personal best of 2:24:01 at South Korea's Daegu Marathon in April<\/a>. That run qualified her for Paris selection, which followed in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gregson's Paris campaign played out in far different scenes to her Tokyo experience three years, where the Queenslander tripped in a steeplechase water pit and suffered an Achilles rupture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She had planned for many years on eventually moving up to the marathon, but her Tokyo devastation brought about the shift earlier than expected.<\/p>\n

\"Aussie<\/p>\n

In June 2022, almost a year after being rolled off the Tokyo track in a wheelchair, Gregson and her husband Ryan, a two-time Olympian, welcomed their son Archer into the world.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"It does [feel surreal]. I feel like all the surreal, 'pinch me' moments I tried to get out of the system because I wanted to be on the start line feeling less like an amateur and more like a seasoned pro in the marathon\ufeff," Gregson said.<\/p>\n

"It is only my third marathon and maybe that showed a little bit\ufeff.<\/p>\n

"But I'm very proud of everything I've done."\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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