Team USA track & field dominates World Athletics Championships
For the primary time in observe and discipline historical past, the USA hosted the World Athletics Championships, the place a number of the globe’s greatest athletes descended upon Eugene, Oregon.
And the host nation did not disappoint.
Let’s check out how the 10-day occasion unfolded.
Outpacing the world
People racked up 33 medals, 13 of which have been gold. Ethiopia secured 10 medals, the second-most.
The USA additionally gained the primary trophy ever awarded for the staff title.
Encore for Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix competed in a nationwide staff uniform for the ultimate time and was as much as her outdated methods.
One of the vital embellished athletes in United States historical past was effectively on her strategy to retirement after profitable a bronze medal with the 4×400 blended relay staff. She left Oregon, flew to Los Angeles, and was having fun with a cheat meal when she obtained a name to return and run a prelim race for the ladies’s 4×400 relay.
She helped the staff qualify after which watched her teammates win their third-straight relay gold.
Sydney McLaughlin breaks her personal document
McLaughlin, 22, shattered her personal world document within the 400-meter hurdles.
She gained in a time of fifty.68 on Friday, which was 0.73 seconds higher than her earlier document. Trailing in third was Dalilah Muhammad, the U.S. silver medalist and former world document holder from the Tokyo Olympic Video games.
Noah Lyles units new U.S. document
Lyles not solely gained the 200 meters, however he broke Michael Johnson’s U.S. document of 19.32 that was set in 1996 with a time of 19.31. Johnson was a part of the BBC’s protection staff and personally congratulated Lyles.
Athing Mu accomplishes an American first
Mu held off Nice Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson to turn out to be the primary American lady to win the 800 on the World Championships. She ran a time of 1:56.30, the quickest time on the planet this yr.
Different highlights from around the globe
Tobi Amusan, an NCAA champion at Texas-El Paso, surprised the world when she broke the ladies’s 100m world document (12.20) with a time of 12.12 to solidify her spot within the finals. She went on to win gold and have become the primary Nigerian to win gold on the championships.
Mondo Duplantis, a Louisiana native who competes for Sweden, gained gold in males’s pole vault by elevating his personal world document to six.21 meters.
American medal performances
Gold
- Fred Kerley, Males’s 100m
- Noah Lyles, Males’s 200m
- Michael Norman, Males’s 400m
- Grant Holloway, Males’s 110m Hurdles
- Ryan Crouser, Males’s Shot Put
- USA, Males’s 4x400m Relay
- Athing Mu, Ladies’s 800m
- Sydney McLaughlin, Ladies’s 400m Hurdles
- Katie Nageotte, Ladies’s Pole Vault
- Chase Ealey, Ladies’s Shot Put
- Brooke Andersen, Ladies’s Hammer Throw
- USA, Ladies’s 4x100m Relay
- USA, Ladies’s 4x400m Relay
Silver
- Marvin Bracy, Males’s 100m
- Kenneth Bednarek, Males’s 200m
- Trey Cunningham, Males’s 110m Hurdles
- Rai Benjamin, Males’s 400m Hurdles
- Christopher Nilsen, Males’s Pole Vault
- Joe Kovacs, Males’s Shot Put
- USA, Males’s 4x100m Relay
- Sandi Morris, Ladies’s Pole Vault
- Kara Winger, Ladies’s Javelin Throw
Bronze
- Zachery Ziemek, Males’s Decathlon
- Anna Corridor, Ladies’s Heptathlon
- Trayvon Bromell, Males’s 100m
- Erriyon Knighton, Males’s 200m
- Trevor Bassitt, Males’s 400m Hurdles
- Josh Awotunde, Males’s Shot Put
- Dalilah Muhammad, Ladies’s 400m Hurdles
- Tori Franklin, Ladies’s Triple Bounce
- Valarie Allman, Ladies’s Discus Throw
- Janee’ Kassanavoid, Ladies’s Hammer Throw
- USA, Blended 4x400m Relay
