Day 4 of motion at Hayward Field in Oregon noticed expertise depend as a number of gold medallists from the Tokyo Olympics adopted up on their efforts within the Japanese capital with extra podium topping.
Gold medalist Yulimar Rojas of Team Venezuela celebrates after competing within the Women’s Triple Jump Final on day 4 of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field on 18 July 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. Carmen Mandato/Getty Images/AFP
EUGENE – Untouchable Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas led a raft of familiar faces to glory when she claimed her third straight triple bounce title on the World Athletics Championships on Monday.
Day 4 of motion at Hayward Field in Oregon noticed expertise depend as a number of gold medallists from the Tokyo Olympics adopted up on their efforts within the Japanese capital with extra podium topping.
Rojas was the primary of three feminine two-time Olympic champions to strike gold in Eugene.
Belgium’s Nafi Thiam earlier claimed a last-gasp victory within the heptathlon over Dutch rival Anouk Vetter, whereas imperious Faith Kipyegon of Kenya gained her second 1500m title.
Not to be overlooked, there have been two male champions from the Tokyo Games who triumphed.
Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar gained a thriller of a excessive bounce competitors for his third world title.
And there was extra gold for the Arab world within the form of Morocco’s Soufiane El-Bakkali, the Olympic champion producing a tactical masterclass as he introduced an finish to Kenya’s 15-year dominance of the 3000m steeplechase.
The night session kicked off, nonetheless, with all eyes on the monitor as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, contemporary from profitable a document fifth world 100m title on Sunday, went in spherical one of many 200m.
“Oh man, it was hard!” stated Fraser-Pryce, who coasted into Tuesday’s semi-finals. “It was a late night and I needed to come back and try to qualify as easy as I can to preserve my strength for tomorrow.
“I’m feeling OK to date. Just have to go residence and get some restoration performed and see the way it goes tomorrow. I would like to eat some meals, get a therapeutic massage, some compression, and simply relaxation, get some sleep.”
Joining the 35-year-old, a world 200m champion in 2013, in Tuesday’s semi-finals will be her two teammates who helped snatch an unprecedented cleansweep of the 100m podium for Jamaica on Sunday.
Shericka Jackson, who has the quickest time this season of 21.55sec, and four-time Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, a world silver medallist over 200m in 2015, are still both seeking their first individual world titles.
KERLEY WITH NEW STRIKEFORCE
The Jamaican women’s cleansweep came sharp on the heels of that by the US men.
And newly-crowned world 100m champion Fred Kerley led a fresh strikeforce of US sprinters into the semi-finals of the men’s 200m, also on Tuesday.
Kerley won his heat in 20.17 seconds to raise the prospect of another US cleansweep, after the sprint all-rounder led Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell home in the blue riband event.
In the absence of that duo, it was the turn of the Americans who finished second, third and fourth in the 200m at last year’s Tokyo Olympics — Kenneth Bednarek, world champion Noah Lyles and 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton — to take to the track .
A hyped-up Lyles celebrated his 25th birthday on Monday by setting the fastest qualifying time of 19.98 seconds, the sole sprinter to go sub-20.
Lyles, who complained of feeling isolated at the Tokyo Games held in strict COVID-19 regulations, said Eugene was much “extra enjoyable”.
“It feels such as you’re operating for one thing, you’re excited and energetic. At the top of the day I’m a performer. I like to go on the market and have enjoyable and get folks excited,” he stated.
Canada’s reigning Olympic champion Andre de Grasse, who failed to make the 100m remaining, was a non-starter in his warmth.
The Canadian struggled within the 100m, having solely simply returned from a second dose of COVID-19, however is holding out hope of being concerned within the 4x100m relay.
