NSWIS track star Eloise Wellings has crunched her own personal best in finishing 10th in the women’s 10,000m final on the opening day of athletics competition in Rio.

The mother of 2-year-old India ran the race of her life to help set up Australia’s campaign at the Olympic Stadium.

Wellings took a whopping 26 seconds off her personal best to become the first Australian to finish in the top 10 of the 10,000m at an Olympic Games.

“It made me burst into tears. It probably won’t sink in until after the five (kilometre race),” Wellings told the AOC website.

“I knew that I was in good shape, training’s been going amazing, I haven’t been injured for five years. It’s so much a part of my story that I’ve had 11 stress fractures in my 10 years.”

“But not having had one injury for five years, having that consistency and my foundation that I’ve built and the experience that I’ve had in all the major championships have put me in good stead for the future and I’m definitely keen to go on after this year and go to Comm Games … maybe have another baby in between … then hopefully Tokyo.”

“I knew if I ran a really great race I could get top 10, so that was pretty much the goal.”

It was the fastest women’s 10,000m race in history with Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smash a 23-year-old world record.

Avana took 16 seconds off the 1993 world record of China’s Wang Junxia to win gold in 29:17.45.

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