What to watch at the track and field world championships this weekend

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The World Athletics Championships are underway at Hayward Area on the College of Oregon campus. Listed below are the highest Canadian contenders to observe at the moment and over the weekend, highlighted by the nation’s largest observe star making an attempt to maintain his outstanding podium streak alive within the sport’s marquee occasion:

Andre De Grasse within the males’s 100m (heats tonight at 9:50 p.m. ET, semifinals Saturday at 9 p.m. ET, ultimate Saturday at 10:50 p.m. ET)

Relationship again to the shocking 100m bronze he gained at his world championships debut in 2015, De Grasse has entered seven particular person occasions on the worlds or Olympics and reached the rostrum in all seven of them. His greatest occasion is the 200m — De Grasse took silver on the 2016 Olympics and the 2019 worlds earlier than successful his first Olympic gold within the 200 final summer season in Tokyo — however he is been constantly among the many planet’s greatest within the 100m as nicely, taking bronze on the 2015 and ’19 worlds and on the final two Summer season Olympics.

The 7-for-7 podium streak may be in peril, although. Slowed by a foot harm and, extra not too long ago, a bout of COVID-19 that he says hit him fairly laborious, the 27-year-old has but to crack 10 seconds within the 100m this 12 months. The competitors at worlds will likely be fierce, with defending champion Christian Coleman of the USA raring to go after a suspension for lacking too many drug exams stored him out of the Tokyo Olympics. Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs will likely be seeking to show his shock Olympic gold was no fluke, and Olympic silver medallist Fred Kerley ran a world-leading 9.76 three weeks in the past on the U.S. championships on this exact same observe. Trayvon Bromell, who was the Olympic favorite earlier than flaming out within the semis in Tokyo, put down a 9.81 on the U.S. nationals.

However, if we have realized something, it is to by no means underestimate De Grasse. He is regarded gradual within the lead-up to massive meets earlier than, solely to flip the swap when the brightest lights activate. Plus, his final 100m outcome was promising: a season-best 10.05 to win a Diamond League race in Oslo in mid-June, proper earlier than he caught COVID. Coach Glenroy Gilbert stated yesterday that De Grasse is wholesome and “able to go,” so he would possibly simply be peaking on the proper time once more.

Becoming a member of De Grasse within the 100m heats will likely be his Canadian 4x100m relay teammates Jerome Blake and Aaron Brown, who gained his fifth nationwide 100m title final month whereas De Grasse was out with COVID.

Sarah Mitton within the ladies’s shot put (qualifying tonight at 8:05 p.m. ET, ultimate Saturday at at 9:25 p.m. ET)

She completed manner again in twenty eighth place on the Tokyo Olympics, however Mitton owns one of many world’s greatest leads to 2022. The Canadian-record 20.33m toss she launched on the nationwide championships a couple of weeks in the past has been bettered by simply two different ladies — American Chase Ealey and China’s Jiayuan Track, who’re each competing at worlds.

Camryn Rogers within the ladies’s hammer throw ultimate (Sunday at 2:35 p.m. ET)

After advancing simply within the qualifying spherical this afternoon, Rogers ought to contend for the rostrum. Final 12 months, the College of California, Berkeley student-athlete broke the ladies’s U.S. collegiate document en path to successful her second NCAA title earlier than inserting fifth on the Tokyo Olympics. This 12 months, the 23-year-old is ranked fourth on the planet, that means simply three ladies have bettered her greatest throw. Solely two of them, Individuals Brooke Andersen and Janee’ Kassanavoid are at worlds.

Like Mitton within the shot put, Rogers is making an attempt to turn into the primary Canadian girl to win a worlds medal in her occasion.

Moh Ahmed within the males’s 10,000m ultimate (Sunday at 4 p.m. ET)

The 31-year-old’s greatest occasion is the 5,000m. He gained silver in it on the Tokyo Olympics after taking bronze on the final world championships, in 2019. However Ahmed is powerful within the 10,000 too. He is gained Pan Am gold and Commonwealth silver on this race and completed sixth at each the 2021 Olympics and the 2019 worlds. Ahmed broke his personal Canadian document within the 10,000 this 12 months earlier than lacking the nationwide championships with a minor calf subject.

Different stuff to know:

*The large non-Canadian story tonight will likely be American observe star Allyson Felix’s swan track. The 13-time world champion (4 particular person, 9 relay) and seven-time Olympic gold medallist (one particular person) is predicted to line up for her ultimate aggressive race within the blended 4x400m relay ultimate at 10:50 p.m. ET. Canada doesn’t have a group on this occasion.

*Following the lads’s 100m ultimate on Saturday evening, Sunday’s marquee occasion is the ladies’s 100m. Jamaican star Elaine Thompson-Herah is looking for her first 100m world title after successful back-to-back Olympic 100/200 doubles. In Tokyo, Thompson-Herah led a Jamaican sweep of the 100m podium with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (silver) and Shericka Jackson (bronze), who additionally teamed together with her to win gold within the 4×100. Fraser-Pryce, 35, is the defending world champ. Canadians Khamica Bingham and Crystal Emmanuel, who have been each eradicated within the semifinals in Tokyo, will line up for the heats Saturday at 8:10 p.m. ET. The semis are Sunday at 8:33 p.m. ET, adopted by the ultimate at 10:50 p.m. ET.

Find out how to watch:

CBC Sports activities’ unique reside protection of the world championships is on now and continues every single day by means of the conclusion of the meet on July 24. Occasions will likely be proven reside on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports activities app and the free CBC Gem streaming service, and there will likely be weekend broadcasts on the CBC TV community. Verify the total streaming and broadcast schedule right here for particulars.

CBC Gem can even carry a reside each day primetime present specializing in protection of the day’s occasions with broadcasters Andi Petrillo, Mark Lee, Kate Van Buskirk, Michael Smith and Scott Russell trackside. Will probably be preceded by a each day 30-minute digital present hosted by Olympian Anastasia Bucsis with reporting from Devin Heroux, who’s on the bottom in Eugene. That present is accessible on CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca and the CBC Olympics Twitter, Fb and YouTube feeds.