The 21-year-old Queenslander appeared to injured his knee in high jump,prompting concerns that despite sitting in second place it would hamper his remaining events and stop him making a push for gold.
“I have a knee injury that I’ve been struggling with,” Moloney said.
“In the high jump I have to put up with the pain and had to pull out a little bit early,and I wanted to run the 400 well. It is what it is and on to the next day.”
Moloney was third after the morning session on Wednesday. In his first high jump of the night session he cleared 1.90m but appeared to aggravate his right knee. He put a bandage on it and sat out the next heights and waited until the bar was raised.
Clearly he reckoned on saving himself for just a few big jumps. The strategy worked. They took the bar to 2.09m. He cleared it.
They raised the bar to 2.11m,the height of his PB;he cleared that too at his first attempt.
They took the bar to 2.14m and he missed it and decided to abandon the two more attempts he could have had at the height to get more points and instead save himself for the 400m.