Eugene, Oregon – The first Team USA men’s 100m sweep in 31 years and a historic women’s throw performance brought the Hayward Field audience to a raucous roar Saturday night on the second night of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Ore.
American athletes won four gold medals to vault to the number one spot in the medal table with five total, and the United States also assumed a commanding lead with 50 points. China has the next-highest point total with 28.
100 Meter Final of Men’s
For the first time in Tokyo since 1991, Team USA won the men’s 100m race. Despite starting off inadequately, Olympic tableware semifinalist
- Fred Kerley made up ground over his final 20 measures to out
- Bracy- Williams took tableware at 9.88
- Trayvon Bromell earned a citation, also with 9.88(9.874-9.876).
2019 world champion Christian Coleman (Lexington, Kentucky/ USATF Kentucky) had the stylish launch and ended up sixth in 10.01.
Lining up for the final with half the field made up of Americans for only the alternate time in match history, the U.S. had high expedients for orders and a calm Kerley led the way.
Source: Getty Images no way scarifying as he made up the deficiency behind Bracy- Williams, Kerley showed the stylish conservation of form and that gave him the edge he demanded. Bracy- Williams and Bromell had three World Indoors 60m orders between them coming into this race, and it was Bracy- Williams’ first out-of-door global order, while Bromell matched the citation, he earned at the 2015 World Crowns.
Kerley, who earned a citation in the 400m at the 2019 World Crowns, won his semi over Coleman before in the evening in 10.02 without expending a lot of energy, while Bracy- Williams was alternate in his semi at 9.93 and Bromell was alternate in his at
9.97.
Final Women’s Shot Put
History repeated itself in a way as Chase Ealey (Holman, New Mexico/ USATF New Mexico) blasted at 20.49 m/ 67-2.75 on the opening gamble of the competition to win the first women’s shot-put gold order by an American at the World Crowns.
It was the third stylish gamble in U.S. history behind only the American record of 20.63 m/ 67-8.25 by Michelle Carter and her own 20.51 m/ 67-3.5 at the USATF Crowns last month. The last time a World Athletics global crown event was held on U.S. soil, the 2016 World Indoors at Portland, Carter won the first American gold in that match’s history.
Ealey followed up her big toss with an a19.82 m/ 65-0.5 in round two and also a foul on her coming attempt.
In round four she surpassed 20 measures again, going 20.07 m/ 65-10.25. A19.65 m/ 64-5.75 on her fifth attempt and a foul in the final round were of no consequence as she held off a challenge from China’s Laojiao Gong, the 2019 world champion. Gong had three throws over 20m, outgunned by an a20.39 m/ 66-10.75.
- Jessica Woodard (Marlton, New Jersey/ USATF Arizona) was eighth with a sporty of18.67 m/ 61- 3
- Maggie Ewen (Dilworth, Minnesota/ USATF Minnesota) took ninth at18.64 m/
61- 2.
Final Long Jump Men’s
Steffen McCarter (Copperas Cove, Texas/ USATF Southwestern) sailed out to8.04 m/ 26-4.5 in round two, a jump that earned him fifth, and an an8.02 m/ 26-3.75 in the alternate round carried Marquis Dendy (Ocala, Florida/ USATF Florida) to a sixth-place finish.
Semi Final 1500 Meter Women’s
A veritably confident performance in the opening three stages set up USATF champion Sinclaire Johnson (Longwood, Florida/ USATF Oregon) for a strong finish in the alternate semi, and she took the third in 404.51 to move on to the final.
Johnson was on the shoulder of Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon of Kenya at the 1K mark, and that brace hit the bell at 302.67. Kipyegon won the section in 403.98, while Ethiopia’s Hirut Meshesha passed Johnson for the runner-up spot in 404.05.
In the first semi, Elle St. Pierre (Brighton, Massachusetts/ USATF New England) and Cory McGee (Boulder, Colorado/ USATF New England) were facing Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia, the alternate fastest woman in the world in 2022.
With only two-time qualifying spots available, both women were aiming for a top-five finish. McGee was sixth with 300m to go and went wide coming off the last bend.
She passed Winny Chebet of Kenya down the finale and finished fifth in 402.74 to qualify automatically for the final. St. Pierre was 11th in 409.84.