The American Trayvon Bromell scored the first duel in the battle to become the king of speed in the World Championships that will take place next July in Oregon (United States)after winning this Saturday in the final of the 100 meters of the Eugene meetingthird round of the Diamond League, with a time of 9.93 seconds.
A time that did not help Bromell to snatch the best world record of the year -9.85- from the Kenyan Ferdinad Omanyalanot even to lower his best record of the course, the 9.92 that he signed on May 12 in Ponce (Puerto Rico), but that It served for the American to give a blow of authority.
And it is that the Hayward Field stadium, the track that will host the World Cup in just over a month and a half, brought together the best sprinters of the moment this Saturday, with the exception of Italian Marcell Jacobs, the reigning Olympic championwho, weighed down in his preparation by the intestinal virus he suffered at the beginning of the month in Nairobi, gave up the appointment.
Low that it did not diminish a poster of bells that gave greater merit if possible to the triumph of a Bromell, who needed such a victory, after the fiasco suffered in the last Olympic Games in Tokyo in which the American did not even manage to access the final.
Perhaps that is why Bromell’s gestures of joy at cross the finish line ahead of Fred Kerley, silver in Tokyowho with a mark of 9.98 finished second in a test in which no one else managed to get below the 10-second barrier.
Elaine Thompson issues a serious warning to all her rivals
Jamaican Elaine Thompson-Herah, current Olympic champion in the 100 and 200 meters, sent a warning to all her rivals a little over a month and a half before the start of the World Championships, after prevailing with absolute clarity in the final of the hectometer with a time of 10.79 seconds.
A brand that allowed the Antillean 13 hundredths ahead of the American Sha’Carri Richardsonwho finished second with a mark of 10.92 seconds.
A whole world that made it clear that Thompson-Herah is today several bodies ahead of the great hope of American speed, which He missed the Olympics after testing positive for cannabis.
However, the Jamaican, who signed her best record of the course, could not snatch the first place in the world ranking of the year from her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who chose this time to run the 200in which he won with a time of 22.41 seconds, which leads the table with the 10.67 he signed on May 7 in Nairobi.
Ingebrigtsen marks distances with Cheruiyot
The Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen, as happened in the Tokyo Games, again prevailed over the Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot, after winning with a time of 3:49.76 minutes, the best world record of the yearin a mile in which the Nordic always carried the weight of the test.
In the lead going into the last lap Ingebrigtsen accelerated as soon as the bell rang to gain an advantage, which neither Cheruiyot, who he was eventually overtaken at the finish line by Australian Oliver Hoaresecond with 3:50.65, already managed to rinse.
Kenyan Faith Kipyegon finds no rival
The Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, Olympic champion in Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, made it clear that today she has no rival in the 1,500, after winning this Saturday in Eugene with a time of 3:52.59 minutes, the best world record of the year.
Kipyegon, who made his debut this year in the distance after participating in Doha in the 3,000 meter test, lowered by almost 9 seconds the best record of the course so farthe 4:01.50 that the Ethiopian Diribe Welteji signed on May 7 in Nairobi.
A rhythm that could not follow even the Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegaigold in the last World Championships in Belgrade on indoor track, second with a time of 3:54.21, nor the British Laura Muir, silver in the Tokyo Games, who finished in eleventh position 12 seconds from Faith Kipyegon.
Keely Hodkinson shines and Michael Norman claims
The British Keely Hodgkinson, current Olympic runner-up, made it clear that wants to climb a step on the podium in the next World Cupsafter chaining his second consecutive victory in the Diamond League by winning the final of the 800 meters in Eugene with a time of 1:57.72 minutes.
A time that allowed the young British athlete, only 20 years oldsign the best world record of the year after lowering by 46 hundredths the 1:58.18 that the American Allie Wilson had, who could only be seventh, after a new demonstration of absolute control of the test.
The American Michael Norman seems willing to make up for his dismal performance at the Tokyo Games in the next World Cups, after winning this Saturday in Eugene with a mark of 43.60 seconds, the best world mark of the year.
A time that not only allowed Norman to snatch the first place in the world classification from the Olympic champion, the Bahamian Steven Gardiner, who was leading the course with a time of 44.22, but also lower the meeting record by 32 hundredths in possession since 2000 of a legend like his compatriot Michael Johnson.
Arewagi snatches Cheptegei the best world record of the year
The young Ethiopian Berihu Aregawi snatched less than 24 hours later the best world record of the year in the 5,000 meters from the Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei, after prevail this Saturday with a time of 12:50.05 minutes.
Seven seconds less than the time -12:57.99- that the Ugandan athlete, world record holder in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, set a day earlier on this same track at the Hayward Field stadium in a test staged for Cheptegei to assault his universal record.
A circumstance that seemed to spur Aregawi, fourth in the final of the 10,000 meters at the last Olympic Games in Tokyowho did not complete the final stretch of the test alone, a fact that did not prevent the 21-year-old Ethiopian from winning the best time of the year.
Crouser breaks the 23 meter barrier again
The meeting was also closed with the best world record of the year by the American Ryan Crouser, shot put world record holder, who became the first man to overcome the 23 meter barrier this year, after prevail with a best attempt of 23.02 meters.