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July 29, 2014
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All about gold for Williams-Mills
André Lowe, Senior Staff Reporter


Novlene Williams-Mills streaks to the finish line in the women's 400 metres heats. - Ricardo Makyn

GLASGOW, Scotland:

After wins in her heat and semi-final, Jamaican quarter-miler Novlene Williams-Mills is hoping to make it three from three today when she lines up in the women's 400m final at the Commonwealth Games at Hampden Park.

Williams-Mills won her heat in an easy 52.39 on Sunday, before outsprinting 2011 Word Champion and defending Commonwealth Games champion, Amantle Montsho in yesterday's semi-final in 50.73.

The women's 400m final, which will also include, two other Jamaicans, Christine Day and Stephenie-Ann McPherson, will start at 8:30 p.m. here (2:30 p.m. Jamaica time).

After a third-place finish at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne Australia, Williams-Mills is hoping to improve her podium position here in Glasgow, noting just what it would mean to her to win gold here.

very pleased

"Tomorrow, I just want to give it my all and lay it out all on the track," Williams-Mills told STAR Sports yesterday. "I'm very pleased that I qualified to the final, and I have to give God thanks for bringing me though these rounds and for taking me here."

Williams-Mills, who has won three Olympic bronze medals and four World Championships silver medals - all in the 4x400m relays - added that she has been impressed with the level of competition at the games and says she is hoping to win her first individual gold medal at a major international championships after a rough two years that included a successful fight against breast cancer.

"It would mean everything to me, especially in the past two years, when I just didn't want to come back to the track, so getting that gold medal would mean so much to me, and I am really looking to go out there and give it my best shot in the final," Williams-Mills added.

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