Hammer thrower Merlin Hummel caught the silver medal in Tokyo in the final of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Also strong: the move of Caroline Joyeux into the triple jump final. Nele Weßel, on the other hand, made a long face after the final over 1500 meters. Gold over 110 meters of hurdles goes to the USA, a New Zealander ubelt in the high jump – and over 400 meters the spectators see two world anniversary. The fourth day of the competition at an overview.
Hammer throw – strong bumblebee wins silver
Merlin Hummel hung over the shoulders of the Germany flag and showed his muscles with a laugh: that was strong! The DLV hammer thrower won the silver medal in Tokyo with personal best of 82.77 meters. In the World Cup final, the 23-year-old only had to give up Ethan Katzberg from Canada, who won gold with a World Cup record width of 84.70 meters.
Triple jump – strong qualification by Caroline Joyeux
DLV threesome Caroline Joyeux has booked one of the twelve places for the World Cup final in Tokyo nervous. In her third and last attempt in qualification, she jumped 14.19 meters – that was the ninth best width of the 35 jumpers. “The mood here is totally great. The final is now an encore for me. I will do my best in the first jumps and then see what’s coming”said the 24-year-old of the sports show. The Berliner has already jumped 14.45 meters this year, and this performance can serve as a yardstick in the fight for the medals.
Yulimar Rojas from Venezuela also had the chance to become world champion for the fifth time in the final in the final on Thursday (1:55 p.m., in the live ticker at Sportschau.de). Because of an Achilles tendon tear, she has had a long break. In contrast, Jessie Maduka, the second DLV jumper at the World Cup. With her longest leap, she landed at 13.47 meters. “I train well, but a switch changes in competition and everything is gone”was the 29 -year -old Maduka after the baffled. “I hope that at some point the nervousness will go away and that I can call up a top performance on a big stage.”
1500 meters – Nele Weßel in the final without a chance
The DLV runner Nele Weßel had no chance in the final over 1500 meters. The 25-year-old, which was recovered into the final run after a disqualification of the Italian, could no longer keep up in a quick race with the world-class runners after about two rounds. In 4: 10.31 minutes, she ended up 14 and thus last place. As expected, the defending champion, Olympic champion and world recordler Faith Kepyegon from Kenya (3: 52.15) won in front of her compatriot Dorcus Ewoi (3: 54.92) and the Australian Jessica Hull (3: 55.16).
110 meter hurdles – Tinch wins gold, semi -finals for Minoué
Favorite victory over 110 meters hurdles: The world year’s best Cordell Tinch from the United States won gold in 12.99 seconds after a strong second half of the race. Silver and bronze go to Jamaica: Orlando Bennett finished just ahead of Tyler Mason (13.12) in a personal best of 13.08 seconds. For the Japanese local hero Rachid Muratake, it was only fifth (13.18).
For Gregory Minoué, the semi-finals had already been a success one and a half hours before the final. The 23-year-old did not get out of the starting block, ran after the competition from the start and left 13.56 seconds. “It only got a little good from the fourth or fifth hurdle, that’s not enough”Minoué was self-critical in the Sportschau interview. He was still satisfied with his first World Cup participation: “It was a big thing for me.” For the American Grant Holloway, who had recently won three World Cup titles in a row, it was also in the semi-finals (13.52).
The Japanese Shunsuke Izumiya was disqualified after a fall at the fourth hurdle, but was nevertheless a frenetic applause from his compatriots: the 25-year-old had got up again and only reached the goal after over 29 seconds.
High jump – Kerr higher than everyone else
Olympic champion Hamish Kerr can now also call himself a high jump world champion! The New Zealander was the only final participant to skip 2.36 meters and thus pushed the South Korean Sangyheok Woo (2.34) up to the end of an exciting competition. Bronze went to the Czech Jan Stefela (2.31). Kerr and the competition benefited from the fact that the stars of the past few years were missing with the defending champion Gianmarco Tamberi (Italy) and the battered Mutaz Barshim from Qatar. The DLV springer Tobias Potye got stuck in the qualification.
800 meters – Stepanov excreted with sore throat
WM debutant Alexander Stepanov kept it reasonably good in his lead over 800 meters, but had nothing to do with the last 150 meters. In 1: 46.32 minutes, the 20 -year -old only finished seventh – and it was clearly not enough for the time to get into the semi -finals. In the sports show interview, the German champion was disappointed with his own performance: “I actually imagined that better. It somehow felt difficult. This morning I also got a sore throat. But I stay tuned and show it next time.”
Among the 24 semi -finalists include Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi from Kenya, defending champion Marco Arop from Canada and the 2019 world champion, Donavan Brazier from the USA. In contrast, his only 16 -year -old compatriot Cooper Lutkenhaus, who had traveled to Tokyo as sixth in the world year’s best list.
400 meters – World year best times In the semi -finals
In the semi-finals over 400 meters, Sydney McLaughlin-Levron set a real exclamation mark: the American not only impressively won her course, but also ran in the world’s best time in 48.29 seconds. In the final run on Thursday (3:24 p.m., in the live ticker at Sportschau.de) she is on the number one on the gold medal. Among the finalists include defending champion and Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino from the Dominican Republic (49.82) and the World Cup second of Budapest 2023, Natalia Bukowiecka from Poland (49.67).
The spectators in the nation stadium were also allowed to celebrate a world year’s best time in the men’s 400-meter semi-final: Busang Colle Kebinatshipi from Botswana finished 43.61 seconds. The previous first of this ranking, Zakithi Nene from South Africa, won his semi -finals in 44.20 seconds. In the course of the medals on Thursday (3:10 p.m., in the live ticker at Sportschau.de) he can get the top position back ….