Thompson-Herah edges Richardson in the Prefontaine 100
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica held off American Sha’Carri Richardson within the 100 meters at a wet Prefontaine Basic on Saturday.
Thompson-Herah gained within the 100 and 200 and the 400 relay at the Tokyo Olympics. She defended her Pre title in 10.79 seconds, in entrance of Richardson in 10.92.
“I got here out right here with the mindset of a champion and I delivered,” Thompson-Herah stated, revealing that she’s been battling a shoulder harm this season.
Richardson grew to become a sensation when she gained on the U.S. Olympic trials final 12 months however was denied a spot on the crew for Tokyo as a result of she tested positive for marijuana. She returned on the Pre final 12 months and completed final within the 100.
Richardson wore shiny pink that was adorned with gold charms. She didn’t communicate to reporters after the race, her first sub-11 second mark since final 12 months’s trials.
Runners at Hayward Subject, which can host the world championships in July, have been greeted with passing rain showers, temperatures within the upper-50s and breezy circumstances.
American Michael Norman gained the 400 a meet-record 43.60. He gained on the trials final 12 months and completed fifth within the occasion on the Olympics, however now has his sights set on the worlds.
“I believe it’s everybody’s dream to win at dwelling, this being the primary world championships in Oregon, after all it’s going to be a memorable reminiscence for any U.S. athlete,” Norman stated.
Trayvon Bromell raised his arms in victory earlier than crossing the end line of the boys’s 100 in 9.93 seconds. He crossed the road forward of Fred Kerley and defending world champion Christian Coleman. Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs withdrew from the Pre earlier this week.
“For me it was private, not in opposition to anyone within the race, however largely for myself to indicate individuals like `Man, I’m right here to compete identical to all people else.’ I don’t practice to lose,“ stated Bromell, who gained the 100 on the trials final 12 months however failed to succeed in the ultimate in Tokyo. “So when individuals complain and issues like `Is he going to indicate up in a giant race?’ This 12 months I’m frightened solely about myself. I don’t care what the naysayers say.”
Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce gained the 200 in 22.41.
“I’m feeling good,“ she stated. “A win is at all times good. When it comes to execution, I’m undecided I executed they method I needed.”
Within the Bowerman Mile, the Pre’s signature occasion, Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen gained 3:49.76. Final 12 months the Olympic gold medalist within the 1,500 ran the Bowerman mile in 3:47.24, the quickest time on American soil.
Within the Pre’s different occasions, Samuel Tanner gained the 1,500 in 3:34.37, and Brazilian Alison Dos Santos, the bronze medalist in Tokyo, gained the boys’s 400 hurdles in 47.23, the main time on this planet this season.
Ethiopia’s Berihu Aregawi constructed a giant lead within the 5,000 and cruised to victory in a meet report 12:50.05, breaking Mo Farah’s report by 16 seconds. Two-time Olympic gold medalist and Oregon native Ryan Crouse r gained the shot put with a mark of 75-6 1/4.
England’s Keely Hodgkinson gained the 800 in 1:57.72 and Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon beat her personal meet report within the 1,500 in 3:52.59. Fellow Kenyan Norah Jeruto gained the steeplechase in 8:57.97.
Gabriela DeBues-Stafford was the lone Canadian on the rostrum after successful bronze within the ladies’s 1,500 metres. DeBues-Stafford posted a time of three:58.62 and Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay completed in second at 3:54.21.
Canadian Mohammed Ahmed ran a strong first race of his Diamond League season to complete fourth within the males’s 5, 000 metres. He clocked a time of 13:07.85, simply fifty-five hundredths of a second behind bronze medallist Selemon Barega of Ethiopia.
Within the males’s one mile occasion, Canadians Charles Philibert-Thiboutot and William Paulson completed eighth (3:52.42) and ninth (3:53.82), respectively. The day concluded with the boys’s 100 metres dash. Andre De Grasse completed ninth after posting 10.21 seconds.
The Prefontaine Basic, named after the late Steve Prefontaine, is the third and solely U.S. cease on the Diamond League. Hayward Subject, on the College of Oregon campus, additionally will host the U.S. championships in late June earlier than the world championships in July.
In the meantime, Simon Ehammer soared an excellent 8.45 metres within the lengthy leap and leads the decathlon by simply two factors from Olympic champion Damian Warner of London, Ont., in Götzis on Saturday.
On an exciting first day on the World Athletics Mixed Occasions Tour Gold assembly in Austria, Switzerland’s world indoor heptathlon silver medallist Ehammer improved his personal world decathlon lengthy leap finest by 15cm, reaching a mark that tops this season’s world listing for the person occasion.
Canada’s Warner, in the meantime, was simply two hundredths outdoors his world decathlon finest with 10.14 within the 100m, and after the primary 5 occasions Ehammer has 4,636 factors to Warner’s 4,634. Grenada’s Commonwealth champion Lindon Victor sits in third with 4,379.
