The sprint stars around Olympic champion and defending champion Noah Lyles (USA) ran into the semi -finals of the World Cup (Sunday, 1:45 p.m. MESZ/ZDF and Eurosport) in Tokyo.
Before his appearance, Lyles did the well-known fattening, then the 28-year-old pulled through in his lead, putting 9.95 seconds. The German sprinter Owen looked at and Lucas viewed could not keep up with the top of the world.
“I had a great start today, but it went even better during training. I know that I have more to offer,” said Lyles fully confidence: “I am in the best form of my life. I bring something special here. With 9.95 seconds in the first round, I achieved exactly what I wanted to warm up my body.”
The strong Jamaicans Kishane Thompson (9.95) and Oblique Seville (9.93) also gave no none. Thompson, who is the number one in the world this year at 9.75 seconds and was casual in his run, can probably have the greatest hopes to end the Americans’ winning streak-and the first Jamaican to bring 100 m gold to the Caribbean island again since sprint legend Usain Bolt. Most recently, four times in series World Cup gold went to the USA.
In any case, Bolt firmly expects Thompson and Seville. “I look forward to going to the stadium and looking at. Hopefully I can hand over the gold medal to you,” said the eight -time Olympic champion shortly before the World Cup. The showdown for the medals also rises on Sunday (3:20 p.m. CEST).
The German record holder Owen viewed after 10.21 seconds in sixth place in his lead, Lucas Wahne-Peprah became fifth in 10.25 seconds-that was not enough.
The South African Gift Leotlela ran state record in 9.87 seconds and was the fastest of the seven preliminaries.