Dos Santos ran the third quickest time of all time and a championship document of 46.29sec to win gold forward of Americans Rai Benjamin and Trevor Bassitt.
Alison dos Santos of Team Brazil crosses the end line to win gold within the Men’s 400m Hurdles Final on day 5 of the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field on 19 July 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. Picture: Andy Lyons/Getty Images for World Athletics/AFP
EUGENE – Alison Dos Santos ended Karsten Warholm’s reign as hurdles king on the world championships on Tuesday whereas Britain’s Jake Wightman received his nation’s first 1500m gold in 39 years on a day of upsets.
Warholm could have been behind some of the iconic moments in Olympic historical past when he smashed the 29-year-old world document to win the 400m hurdles on the Tokyo Games in a time of 45.94sec.
But the 26-year-old got here to Eugene on the again of a hamstring harm which in the end put paid to his medal try right here.
Instead, Dos Santos ran the third quickest time of all time and a championship document of 46.29sec to win gold forward of Americans Rai Benjamin and Trevor Bassitt.
“It’s pretty awesome to win the world title on this track. I didn’t care about the time because this is the first time I win a world title,” mentioned Dos Santos.
Warholm led coming into the house straight however seized up badly and ultimately got here in seventh (48.42), breaking a profitable streak of twenty-two races, together with 18 finals, relationship again to September 2018.
“It was a very tough race,” Warholm mentioned. “I had an injury but to me it’s always your fight and giving your all and leaving it all on the track.
“I felt I did that. I hope trying again I’ll really feel happy with that despite the fact that I favor to take a medal.”
Whilst everyone knew Warholm was coming back from injury, serious hopes were pinned on Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men’s 1500m.
But Wightman had not read the script, playing the Norwegian at his own game by kicking with 200 metres to run and holding his form through to the line.
Wightman sealed victory in 3min 29.23sec, Ingebrigtsen taking silver in 3:29.47, with Spaniard Mohamed Katir claiming bronze (3:29.90).
FAMILY AFFAIR
In a bizarre twist, Wightman’s father Geoff is in Eugene doing the in-stadium commentary.
Geoff, also his son’s coach, was reduced to a cracked voice as he announced to Hayward Field: “That’s my son and he is world champion.”
“For him to be a part of my journey to get up to now, and truly half of the particular race itself is so distinctive,” Wightman said of his father.
“I talked to him and he is very joyful. I’m glad he confirmed some emotion.”
Following on from Norway’s Olympic gold medallists in failing to nail a world title was 2019 champion Daniel Stahl, the Swede eventually finishing fourth in the discus.
Australian Eleanor Patterson won high jump gold in the fourth final of the night with 2.02m on countback from Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Italian Elena Vallortigara taking bronze.
“I’m actually speechless proper now,” Patterson said afterwards. “I’m already beginning to get sore cheeks from smiling.”
KERLEY OUT OF 200M
Day five of action at the world champs also saw newly-crowned 100m champion Fred Kerley fail to advance from the semi-finals of the 200m.
Kerley set off smoothly from the blocks but was left grimacing as he hit the home straight at Eugene’s Hayward Field, eventually finishing sixth in 20.68 seconds.
Kerley later said he had cramped up in the later stages of the race, but insisted he would be fit to race in the relays.
“Bit of cramp, but it surely’s all good,” Kerley said. “I’m not in ache, I’ll be good.”
While Kerley was left digesting a disappointing early exit, there have been no such worries for defending 200m world champion Noah Lyles, who romped residence in his semi-final with a blistering 19.62sec.
The predominant menace to Lyles’ hopes of retaining his 200m world title could properly come from teenage team-mate and rising rival Erriyon Knighton. The 18-year-old prodigy blazed residence to win his semi-final in 19.77sec.
In the ladies’s 200m, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce saved her bid for a dash double on monitor as she sailed into the ultimate.
Fresh from profitable a document fifth world 100m title, Fraser-Pryce timed a season’s better of 21.83 seconds within the third of three semi-finals.
Joining the 35-year-old, a world 200m champion in 2013, in Thursday’s ultimate shall be her two teammates who helped snatch an unprecedented cleansweep of the 100m podium for Jamaica on Sunday, Shericka Jackson and Elaine Thompson-Herah.
Alongside the trio of Jamaicans within the ultimate shall be Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith, the reigning world 200m champion who was fourth within the 100m, Americans Abby Steiner and Tamara Clark, Niger’s Aminatou Seyni and Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji.
