Shanice Craft easily reached the discus final, heptathlete Sophie Weißenberg gave up after three failed attempts in the long jump. The fourth World Championship competition day in summary.
Men’s high jump final: Nothing to get for Przybylko
For European Champion Mateusz Przybylko it was an early end in the high jump final. The Leverkusen jumper jumped 2.24 m in the third attempt and then failed three times at 2.27. The 30-year-old is twelfth out of 13 starters. In 2018 Przybylko had won gold in a spectacular European Championship final with 2.35 m, but then clearly failed to qualify at the 2019 World Championships in Doha and at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Raul Spank won the last German high jump medal at a World Championships in 2009 with bronze in Berlin.
Discus qualification women: Craft in the final
Shanice Craft easily reached the discus final on Thursday (3:30 a.m. CEST). The 29-year-old easily ticked off the required qualification distance (64.00) in the second attempt with 64.55 m. Olympic silver medalist Kristin Pudenz (Potsdam) and Claudine Vita (Neubrandenburg) throw in group B and can follow their teammate to the final.
200 m heats: Wessolly in the semifinals – from Ansah
Jessica-Bianca Wessolly sprinted into the semi-finals over 200 m. The Mannheim resident, fourth in her heat, missed the third place that was necessary for direct qualification, but 22.87 seconds with a clear tailwind was enough for the place in the next round on Wednesday (3:05 a.m.). CEST). Sophia Junk (LG Rhein-Wied) ran fifth in the heat in 23.27 seconds, although the best time of the season, but did not get any further.
Defending champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce took it easy a day after her 100m triumph, finishing second in her race in 22.26 seconds. The year’s fastest Shericka Jackson (22.33) and Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah (22.41), who had completed the purely Jamaican 100 m podium on Sunday, were still holding back.
US stars shine among the men
In the men’s 200m heat, Owen Ansah finished fourth in the last of the seven races in a respectable 20.52 seconds, but retired. “It was actually a good job for me. I’m still young, I hope it wasn’t my last World Championships,” said the German champion from Hamburg. As the winner of Ansah’s run, defending champion Noah Lyles (USA) achieved the best lead time of 19.98 seconds. The 18-year-old US exceptional talent Erriyon Knighton (20.01) and 100m world champion Fred Kerley (20.17/USA) easily won their heats.
Olympic champion Andre de Grasse (Canada) canceled his start at short notice. After surviving the corona infection, he did not get in shape in time and was eliminated in the semi-finals over 100 m.
Heptathlon: Weißenberg fails in the long jump and gives up
Sophie Weißenberg learned a lot when she took part in the World Cup for the first time. At the start of the second heptathlon day, the 24-year-old, who had finished ninth after four disciplines, made three invalid attempts in her strong discipline of long jump. “It didn’t work out today. It didn’t pay off to take the risk,” said Weißenberg. She gave up the javelin throw and the final 800m run to save grains for the European Championships at home in four weeks: “It makes more sense to stop here now and focus fully on Munich.”
Heptathlon: cousin leads before 800 m run
Surprisingly, Anouk Vetter is ahead after six out of seven disciplines. In the javelin throw, the Dutchwoman shone with 58.29 m and thus pushed Olympic champion Nafissatou Thiam from the top. With 6,045 points, Vetter is just 19 points ahead of the Belgian before the final 800m run (3:55 a.m. CEST/live in the first and on sportschau.de). Converted to the running time, that is about one second. The American Anna Hall (5,741) in third place can hope for a medal at the home World Championships.
Marathon women: Gebreslase takes next gold for Ethiopia
Ethiopian Gotytom Gebreslase triumphed in the marathon and set a world record with her time of 2:18.11 hours. The 27-year-old was nine seconds faster than Kenya’s Judith Jeptum Korir, who had been leading for much of the race but was unable to follow an attack with just under two kilometers to go to take silver.
Lonah Chemtai Salpeter from Israel took bronze and with her time of 2:20.18 hours also stayed below the old world championship record of 2:20.57 hours set by the British Paula Radcliffe in Helsinki in 2005. Defending champion and favorite Ruth Chepgngetich from Kenya dropped out after about half the distance.