Sentence examples for final metre from inspiring English sources

Waldrom scored a second – another specialist finish from the master of the final metre – before Don Armand, a workhorse No6 perfect alongside Waldrom, crossed.

There must be a minimum run-off of 2 m at the sidelines and 3 m at the backlines which may be a different surface for the final metre.

In the final metres, the speed is the same as any other sprint, 70 to 80kmh.

In the final metres he just had far too much power and won by a couple of lengths.

Deignan had to scrap for every inch of road along with Lepistö and the fifth-placed Marta Bastianelli in the final 500 metres and was left with too much ground to make up in the final metres.

Bolt, the world record holder in the 100 and 200, pulled away in the final metres to stay unbeaten for his 14th consecutive sprint victory in 100m finals.

Payne fought her way back on the last lap and her sprint finish saw her reel in Grimaldi in the final metres but fall just short.

It reflected Sky's physical and numerical dominance of the day but in the final metres tactics were what mattered and Voeckler came off best.

Sprinters who win by appearing to storm ahead in the final metres are not speeding up, but slowing down the least quickly.

The Sussex-born swimmer was second for most of the event but just touched out the Russian Anastasia Zueva in the final metres on a night when Michael Phelps suffered his first major individual defeat in four years.

A damaged collar bone and torn ligaments, self-inflicted in a crash during the desperate final metres of stage one, had ended his Tour de France and left him "absolutely devastated".