World Athletics Championships 2023: Fast-finishing Watson takes 400m gold
1 year, 3 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Fast-finishing Watson takes 400m gold

The Hindu  

Jamaica’s Antonio Watson won a thrilling World Championship 400 metres gold on Thursday as he overhauled fading Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith on the line. Hudson-Smith, who set a European record of 44.26 in winning his heat this week, went out hard and was well clear coming off the final bend but that effort took its toll as he began to tie up, allowing the 21-year-old Watson to win in 44.22 seconds. What a home straight 🔥 🇯🇲's Antonio Watson is your 400m world champion!#WorldAthleticsChampspic.twitter.com/n8Eroypaz2 — World Athletics August 24, 2023 Hudson-Smith, bronze medallist last year, took silver in 44.31, with American Quincy Hall also finishing strongly for bronze in a personal best 44.37. Jamaica’s first gold in the event since Bert Cameron won at the inaugural World Championships 40 years ago came minutes after Danielle Williams had taken the country’s first gold in Budapest in the women’s 100m hurdles.

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I want to shock the world – Matthew Hudson-Smith vows to build on Olympic silver
4 months, 2 weeks ago

I want to shock the world – Matthew Hudson-Smith vows to build on Olympic silver

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Paris 2024 Olympics: Fast-finishing Hall takes 400m gold for US
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris 2024 Olympics: Fast-finishing Hall takes 400m gold for US

The Hindu  

Quincy Hall produced an incredible late surge to overhaul Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith and take a first Olympic 400 metres gold for the United States since 2008 in another scintillating race on Wednesday. Hudson-Smith seemed on course to win his country’s first gold over the distance since “Chariots of Fire” Eric Liddell in the Paris Games 100 years ago, but he …

Paris 2024 Olympics: Hudson-Smith, Hall win fast and furious 400m semifinals
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Paris 2024 Olympics: Hudson-Smith, Hall win fast and furious 400m semifinals

The Hindu  

Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith and American Quincy Hall won their Olympic 400 metres semifinal heats on Tuesday but Grenada’s Kirani James sent a warning shot that the final will not be a walk in the park for the two favourites. The gold is widely expected to go to Hudson-Smith or Hall, but triple Olympic medallist James showed his mettle with a …

Sha’Carri Richardson gives her Olympic hopes a jolt with 100m win at Prefontaine Classic
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Sha’Carri Richardson gives her Olympic hopes a jolt with 100m win at Prefontaine Classic

New York Times  

EUGENE, Ore. — The display of power out of the starting block was back. It was a historic day in Eugene as Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet set a new WORLD RECORD in the women’s 10,000m with a time of 28:54.14. Moon cleared 4.53 on her second attempt and then passed on jumping 4.63 — thus opening the door for Grove and …

Duplantis, Tsegay topple records at Eugene Diamond League
1 year, 3 months ago

Duplantis, Tsegay topple records at Eugene Diamond League

The Hindu  

Gudaf Tsegay smashed the women’s 5,000-metre world record and Armand Duplantis raised the bar again for the men’s pole vault on Sunday, as the season-ending Eugene Diamond League meet concluded on a high. “Next year’s next year.” Shericka Jackson came off the turn with a massive lead to retain her women’s 200 metres Diamond League championship title in 21.57, but …

Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson triumph at Diamond League meet in Zurich... in USA sprint stars' first action since world championship glory
1 year, 3 months ago

Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson triumph at Diamond League meet in Zurich... in USA sprint stars' first action since world championship glory

Daily Mail  

Sha'Carri Richardson easily won the the women's 100 in 10.88 on Thursday Noah Lyles won the 200m in 19.80 seconds at Diamond League meet in Zurich Another race, another win for triple world champion Noah Lyles. Lyles won the 200 meters in 19.80 seconds at the Diamond League meet in Zurich on Thursday in his first race since the world …

World Athletics Championships 2023: USA claims crushing victory in men’s 4x400m relay
1 year, 3 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: USA claims crushing victory in men’s 4x400m relay

The Hindu  

The United States maintained its vice-like grip of the men’s 4x400 metres relay on Sunday when it emphatically won its ninth world gold from the last 10 finals. Quincy Hall and Vernon Norwood built an early lead before Justin Robinson, who also got a gold in the mixed 4x400 on the opening night, stretched it to give anchor Rai Benjamin …

World Athletics Championships 2023: USA women disqualified from 4x400m relay after baton fail
1 year, 3 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: USA women disqualified from 4x400m relay after baton fail

The Hindu  

The United States women’s 4x400 metres relay team, who has won seven of the last eight World Championships and the last seven Olympic golds, was disqualified from Saturday’s semifinals after a botched baton changeover. The US was trailing Britain after three legs when Alexis Holmes initially failed to collect the baton from Quanera Hayes and by the time she got …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Rogers wins women’s hammer to secure double gold for Canada
1 year, 3 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Rogers wins women’s hammer to secure double gold for Canada

The Hindu  

Camryn Rogers won the women’s hammer throw on Thursday to secure a double gold for Canada after Ethan Katzberg had claimed a surprise title in the men’s event at the weekend. I feel Canada is making its presence known all across the world,” Rogers said of her team mate’s stunning victory on Sunday. Camryn Rogers joins Ethan Katzberg as a …

Matt Hudson-Smith claims silver medal for Great Britain in Budapest
1 year, 3 months ago

Matt Hudson-Smith claims silver medal for Great Britain in Budapest

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Josh Kerr celebrates World Championships gold after running the race of his life
1 year, 4 months ago

Josh Kerr celebrates World Championships gold after running the race of his life

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World Athletics Championships: Sha'Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, Armand Duplantis All Make Finals
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships: Sha'Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, Armand Duplantis All Make Finals

News 18  

Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles went through the motions as they began their 200m campaigns bidding to add to the 100m golds they won earlier in the week at the World Athletics Championships on Wednesday. “Noah Lyles will attack the world record, and maybe, if I push him hard, he could set it.” Duplantis, 23, is bidding to claim a …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Richardson and Jackson on course for 200m showdown
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Richardson and Jackson on course for 200m showdown

The Hindu  

American Sha’Carri Richardson and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, first and second in the 100 metres final on Monday, safely negotiated the next step in their World Championship rivalry as they cruised through their 200m first-round heats on Wednesday. On another roasting morning Richardson, seeking to become the first U.S, winner since Allyson Felix in 2009, looked sharp before easing up to …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Gardiner out of world 400m as Van Niekerk sneaks through
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Gardiner out of world 400m as Van Niekerk sneaks through

The Hindu  

Olympic champion Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas failed to make it into the final of the men’s 400m at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest after pulling up injured in his semifinal on Tuesday. South Africa’s world record holder Wayde van Niekerk endured an agonising wait to qualify as one of the two next fastest after missing out on one …

Matt Hudson-Smith going for gold after smashing European 400m record
1 year, 4 months ago

Matt Hudson-Smith going for gold after smashing European 400m record

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World Athletics Championship 2023: Reigning champion Kerley fails to qualify for 100m finals; Jacobs misses cut
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championship 2023: Reigning champion Kerley fails to qualify for 100m finals; Jacobs misses cut

The Hindu  

American Fred Kerley will not be defending his world 100 metres title later on Sunday after he failed to progress from the semifinals, as his compatriots Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman qualified fastest for the final. FOLLOW | World Athletics Championship Day 2 LIVE Updates Former champion Coleman got his traditional fast start and maintained his form to win the …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Richardson, Fraser-Pryce, Jackson earn easy wins in 100m heats
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Richardson, Fraser-Pryce, Jackson earn easy wins in 100m heats

The Hindu  

Sha’Carri Richardson, Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Shericka Jackson and defending champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce all won their 100-meter heats at world championships Sunday to stay on course for a showdown in what could be the most unpredictable final of the nine-day track meet. Richardson, the American national champion, crossed the finish line in the day’s fastest time, 10.92 seconds. Maria Perez opened …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Spain’s Martin captures first gold in 20km race walk
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Spain’s Martin captures first gold in 20km race walk

The Hindu  

Alvaro Martin of Spain captured gold in the 20-kilometre race walk in the opening event of the World Athletics Championships 2023 on Saturday. FOLLOW | World Athletics Championships LIVE Updates Martin, who was fourth at the Tokyo Olympics and seventh at the worlds last year in Eugene, shaved nearly two seconds off his best time. “I am going to enjoy …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in men’s 200m sprint
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in men’s 200m sprint

The Hindu  

The World Athletics Championships are set to begin in Budapest on Saturday and will conclude on August 27. Here are the three favourites for gold medal in men’s 200m sprint: Noah Lyles Two-time reigning 200m world champion Noah Lyles will go into the evenT as heavy favourite. A gold at Budapest will take Lyles to three gold medals in 200m …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Jackson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Richardson ready to scorch Budapest track
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Jackson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Richardson ready to scorch Budapest track

The Hindu  

World 100m champion Fred Kerley’s long-awaited showdown with Olympic gold medallist Marcell Jacobs is one of many intriguing sub-plots to the World Athletics Championships that start in Budapest on Saturday. Since that heady victory, the Italian has been beset by injuries, missing last year’s Covid-delayed world champs in Eugene when Kerley led a U.S. medal clean sweep in track and …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in men’s 110m hurdles
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in men’s 110m hurdles

The Hindu  

The World Athletics Championships 2023 will be held in Budapest from August 19 to 27. Here are the top three contenders for the gold medal: Grant Holloway Holloway, a 25-year-old American, is the current World Champion, and has won it twice. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The Jamaican, 22, is the current world number two, a Commonwealth Games winner, and …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in men’s 400m
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Top three contenders in men’s 400m

The Hindu  

The World Athletics Championships 2023 will be held in Budapest from August 19 to 27. Here are the top three contenders for the gold medal in the event in Budapest: Steven Gardiner Steven Gardiner is one of the strong contenders for gold in the men’s 400m event in the upcoming World Championship. PB - 43.48 Khalifa International Stadium, Doha 04 …

USA sending 139 athletes to world championships
1 year, 4 months ago

USA sending 139 athletes to world championships

The Hindu  

The United States will send 139 athletes packed with world and Olympic gold medal winners to the athletics world championships in Budapest led by sprinters Noah Lyles, and Christian Coleman, USA Track and Field said on Monday. The team will include 82 members from last year’s world championships squad in Oregon where the U.S. dominated by winning 33 medals, including …

Sha’Carri Richardson suffers first 100m loss of season
1 year, 5 months ago

Sha’Carri Richardson suffers first 100m loss of season

The Hindu  

American sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was beaten over 100m for the first time this year at a meeting in Hungary on Tuesday. Richardson never recovered from a poor start in Szekesfehervar and couldn’t catch Julien Alfred, the Saint Lucia athlete who has been a sensation on the college circuit this season. READ | Paris Olympics organiser sees ‘difficult’ year ahead Richardson …

Thomas, Benjamin among big stars at U.S. track championships
1 year, 5 months ago

Thomas, Benjamin among big stars at U.S. track championships

LA Times  

Late Sunday afternoon, a few minutes after Gabby Thomas ran this year’s fastest 200-meter time in the world during the semifinals at the U.S. track and field championships, she was scrolling through her phone when she realized her time already had been eclipsed. Jackson was undoubted entering this season, having run history’s second-fastest time to win the 2022 world 200-meter …

Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100 meters at US championships in 10.82
1 year, 5 months ago

Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100 meters at US championships in 10.82

Associated Press  

EUGENE, Ore. — Moments after she was introduced on the starting line, Sha’Carri Richardson reached to her head, pulled her trademark orange wig off and flung it onto the ground behind her. “I’m here to say, ‘I’m not back, I’m better..’” She’ll have a chance to put a stamp on that next month at world championships, which will mark her …

World Athletics Championships 2022: Armand Duplantis Bags Pole Vault Title With New World Record
2 years, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2022: Armand Duplantis Bags Pole Vault Title With New World Record

News 18  

Sweden’s Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis completed his medal collection as he dominated the pole vault for world gold in a new world record on Sunday. Olympic champion Duplantis, seeking an elusive first world title, triumphed with a best of 6.21 metres, bettering by 1cm his previous best set when winning gold at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March. American …

Matt Hudson-Smith clinches bronze in 400m at World Championships
2 years, 5 months ago

Matt Hudson-Smith clinches bronze in 400m at World Championships

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World Athletics Championships 2022: Sydney McLaughlin Smashes World Record to Win 400m Hurdles Gold
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2022: Sydney McLaughlin Smashes World Record to Win 400m Hurdles Gold

News 18  

Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin smashed her own world record as she stormed to victory in the women’s 400m hurdles at the World Championships in Oregon on Friday. The 22-year-old American prodigy left rivals trailing in her wake at Hayward Field as she took gold in a stunning time of 50.68sec, the first time any woman has ducked under the 51-second …

World Athletics Championships 2022: American Michael Norman Wins 400m Dash Gold
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2022: American Michael Norman Wins 400m Dash Gold

News 18  

American Michael Norman made up for a disappointing fifth-placed finish at the Tokyo Olympics by winning the world 400m gold in Eugene on Friday. Three-time Olympic medallist and 2011 world champion Kirani James of Grenada claimed silver with 44.68sec, while Briton Matthew Hudson-Smith took bronze. World record holder Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa finished fifth in 44.97sec. Bahamian star …

World Athletics Championships 2022: Olympic Champions Karsten Warholm, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Daniel Stahl Fail on a Day of Surprises
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2022: Olympic Champions Karsten Warholm, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and Daniel Stahl Fail on a Day of Surprises

News 18  

Karsten Warholm’s hopes of winning a third straight World Championships title were dashed while Britain’s Jake Wightman felled reigning Olympic 1,500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen on a day of upsets on Tuesday.Kristjan Ceh dethroned Olympic champion and 2019 winner Daniel Stahl in the discus final and Eleanor Patterson outdid Yaroslava Mahuchikh to win women’s high jump gold. Norwegian Olympic champion Warholm, …

World Athletics Championship: US sweeps shot put medals, Grant Holloway retains 110m hurdles title
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championship: US sweeps shot put medals, Grant Holloway retains 110m hurdles title

The Hindu  

Double Olympic champion and world record holder Ryan Crouser finally bagged World Championships gold as he led a United States clean sweep in a dramatic shot put competition with a best throw of 22.94 metres on Sunday. Holloway successfully defends 110m hurdles world title American Grant Holloway successfully defended his 110 metres hurdles world title after Jamaica’s Olympic champion Hansle …

World Athletics Championships 2022: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Wins Fifth 100m Title in Jamaican Clean Sweep
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2022: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Wins Fifth 100m Title in Jamaican Clean Sweep

News 18  

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won her record fifth world 100m title in Eugene, Oregon, on Sunday, leading an unprecedented Jamaican clean sweep of the podium. Fraser-Pryce is also the first athlete to ever win five gold medals in a track event at the World Championships in the same discipline, with Sunday’s win following 100m golds in 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2019. The …

World Athletics Championships: Fred Kerley Wins Men's100m Gold in USA Clean Sweep
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championships: Fred Kerley Wins Men's100m Gold in USA Clean Sweep

News 18  

American Fred Kerley led a US clean sweep as he won the world men’s 100m gold in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday. Bracy took silver in 9.88sec, and Trayvon Bromell claimed bronze at the same time for a third-ever 100m world championship clean sweep after 1983 and 1991. The fourth of the strong US quartet, Christian Coleman, the reigning world champion …

World Athletics Championships, Shaunae Miller-Uibo: Athlete to watch out for
2 years, 5 months ago

World Athletics Championships, Shaunae Miller-Uibo: Athlete to watch out for

The Hindu  

Legendary quartermiler Shaunae Miller-Uibo is taking up a new challenge at 28. The two-time Olympic gold medallist in the 400m has not won a World Championships gold yet. After success eluded her for almost three years, Miller-Uibo won a silver in the 2015 senior World Championships. Next season, in a dramatic final, she won her maiden Olympic gold in Rio, …

Jamaican National Athletics Championships: Shericka Jackson Completes 100-200 Double
2 years, 5 months ago

Jamaican National Athletics Championships: Shericka Jackson Completes 100-200 Double

News 18  

Shericka Jackson delivered on her promise to produce something special in the women’s 200m with a world-leading 21.55 seconds on Sunday’s final day of the Jamaican National Athletics Championships. After Friday’s 100m victory, Jackson surprised herself with a 200m performance that trails only US legend Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 34-year-old world record of 21.34 seconds and the Jamaican record 21.53 by Elaine …

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah completes sprinting 'double-double' with 200m gold clinch
3 years, 4 months ago

Tokyo Olympics 2020: Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah completes sprinting 'double-double' with 200m gold clinch

Firstpost  

Thompson, the 2016 Olympics 100m and 200m gold medallist who successfully defended her 100m title on Saturday, bagged a record fourth individual gold after storming home in 21.53sec, the second-fastest time in history. Tokyo: Elaine Thompson-Herah made Olympic history in Tokyo Tuesday, emulating fellow Jamaican Usain Bolt to complete an unprecedented women’s sprinting “double-double” with victory in the 200 metres. …

Elaine Thompson-Herah leads Jamaica’s 100 sweep in record-setting time
3 years, 4 months ago

Elaine Thompson-Herah leads Jamaica’s 100 sweep in record-setting time

LA Times  

Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson-Herah celebrates after capturing the gold medal in the 100-meter final. … I can’t be mad at the talent and the work they put in.” Thompson-Herah, who is “Two months ago — a month-and-a-half — I didn’t think I would be here,” she said. If Thompson-Herah qualifies for the Paris Games in 2024, she will have the opportunity …

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