Track Star Loses Championship Race In Heartbreaking Fashion

Mangele · August 19, 2023, 11:17pm

The World Track and Field Championships are underway this weekend in Budapest, Hungary. Some of the world’s greatest athletes are competing for gold in massive events encompassing all disciplines of the sport.

Saturday saw the finals of the women’s 10,000 meters, which included Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands. Hassan won three medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Two of those were gold medals in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters.

She attempted to repeat her performance on Saturday in Budapest and she looked well on her way to doing so before disaster struck near the end of the race.

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Hassan stuck her elbow out in an effort to slow Tsegay down, but the move backfired as she fell forward from her own momentum.

Tsegay went on to win the gold medal, leading an Ethiopian sweep of the podium in the event. Letesenbet Gidey finished in second, while Ejgayehu Taye finished third to win bronze.

Jamaican Oblique Seville put the United States on warning that they will have their work cut out for another world 100 metres sweep when he posted the fastest time of the first round on Saturday with an impressive 9.86 second run.

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Jamaica have not triumphed in the blue ribband event since the last of Usain Bolt’s golds in 2015, with the U.S. winning the three since then, including a podium sweep last year.

Seville’s time matched his personal best, was the third-fastest in the world this year and brought him home ahead of defending champion and event favourite Fred Kerley.

The duo had to deal with a long delay before their heat, which then featured two false starts, and Kerley barely got out of second gear to come home in 9.99, watching the action on the big screen as he eased down.

Compatriot Noah Lyles won his heat in 9.95 seconds while easing up and running in lane nine. Former champion Christian Coleman also advanced safely but surprise U.S. champion Cravont Charleston went out as he clocked 10.18 to finish fifth in his heat.

Lyles’s time was initially flagged as 9.82 seconds but was soon adjusted to a more realistic number. The double world champion over 200 metres has been talking up his chances, saying he has a 9.65 inside him.

Muscular Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala, second in the world rankings, who served a doping ban in 2017, also looked strong coming in just behind him in 9.97.

World leader Zharnel Hughes of Britain, who was disqualified for a false start in the Tokyo Olympic final, perhaps had that in mind as he was awfully slow out of the blocks in the opening heat. However, once he got into his running he picked off everyone in front of him to win the heat in 10 seconds dead.

Italian Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who has barely raced since his shock Tokyo Olympic victory, looked a touch heavy but came through for his best time of the year, 10.15, to scrape through in third place in his heat, won in 10.07 by Japan’s Abdul Hakim Sani Brown.

South African Akani Simbine, who has finished fourth or fifth in the last five global championships, also looked good in winning his heat in 9.97.

The semi-finals and final both take place on Sunday evening.

(Reporting by Mitch Phillips, editing by Pritha Sarkar)

cortedivoire · August 20, 2023, 1:25am

Uko na nudes za Hao madem wako hapo. Ni nyonge

Mangele · August 20, 2023, 4:31pm

Sha’Carri Richardson, Marie-Josée Ta Lou, Shericka Jackson and defending champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce all won their 100-meter heats at world championships Sunday to stay on course for a showdown in what could be the most unpredictable final of the nine-day track meet.

Richardson, the American national champion, crossed the finish line in the day’s fastest time, 10.92 seconds. She pretended to flick some sweat off her brow — no big deal, not that anyone expected that in the first round.

Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican who is seeking to tie a record by winning her sixth world championship in the same event, was slowing down as she crossed the line in 11.01.

All in all, it was a low-drama start to what might be the best race of the meet, and a possible preview of more to come at the Paris Olympics next summer.

Later on Sunday, American Fred Kerley was set to defend his 100-meter title, with Noah Lyles also in the mix. Lyles, a 200 specialist who is running at the shorter distance as well, will be racing next to defending Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs in the semifinals.

Maria Pérez opened the day by giving Spain a sweep of the 20-kilometer race walk — her victory in 1 hour, 26 minutes, 51 seconds coming a day after Álvaro Martin won the men’s race.

Other titles being decided Sunday were in women’s long jump, the men’s 10,000 meters, the heptathlon and men’s hammer throw. In that event, Poland’s Paweł Fajdek is also going for a record-tying sixth world title. Fajdek has won the last five worlds but hasn’t finished higher than third in his three Olympics trips.

Mangele · August 20, 2023, 5:23pm

Mangele · August 20, 2023, 7:20pm

Athletics-U.S. thunder in 100m Over Omanyala’s 7th Place

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Lyles makes good, takes world title in 100 meters

Story by By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer •8h

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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Noah Lyles captured the 100-meter world championship Sunday, finishing in 9.83 seconds for a victory that reshuffled the deck for next year’s Olympics and cements him as the world’s No. 1 sprinter.

It was a victory that maybe only he and those close to him saw coming. The 200-meter specialist, who will defend his title in that event later this week, barely qualified for the shorter race after battling with COVID in the leadup to U.S. nationals last month.

More recently, he posted on social media that he could run 9.65 seconds, a thought that defending champion Fred Kerley scoffed at, saying if Lyles did that, he’d run faster.

But Kerley didn’t make it out of the semifinal round and Lyles’ closest competition in the final came from Letsile Tebogo, a 20-year-old from Botswana, who finished in 9.873, .001 ahead of Britain’s Zharnel Hughes.

Running from Lane 6, Lyles overcame a so-so start, and was running in about fourth place at the halfway mark. Everyone ahead of him was to his left, and he powered past them and through the line. His first embrace was with American teammate Christian Coleman, the 2019 champion who finished fifth.

Mangele · August 20, 2023, 7:59pm

Mangele · August 22, 2023, 12:50pm

New sprint queen My Gal Richardson’s frank speaking divides opinion

Sha’Carri Richardson took no prisoners on the track in storming to women’s 100m world gold in a mirror image of her pugnacious style off it – which though not to everyone’s taste has earned praise from track legend Michael Johnson.

Richardson, 23, recorded a championship record of 10.65sec to stun the far more experienced Jamaican powerhouse duo of Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and win her first global title on Monday.

Richardson thrives on confrontation and in a feisty display at the post-race press conference the American said it was as much ‘the haters’ as her close circle that had driven her to success.

‘The haters’, in her view, are those who waded in after she had to miss the Tokyo Olympics two years ago when her US trials results were annulled following a positive test for marijuana.

“I always say never give up,” she said after Monday’s triumph from lane nine. “Never allow the media, never allow outsiders, never allow anything but yourself to define who you are. I would say always fight, no matter what, fight.”

Her initial contrition about the marijuana – which even earned praise from US President Joe Biden – and explanation that she had smoked it after being told of the death of her biological mother, Shayaria, seems to have hardened into something close to bitterness.

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Richardson has complained that she was treated differently to teenage Russian ice skater Kamila Valieva, who competed at last year’s Beijing Winter Olympics despite testing positive for a banned substance because the latter is white and she is black.

Although Valieva was told a day after Russia won gold in the team event that she had tested positive before the Games for the banned angina drug trimetazidine, she was allowed to carry on competing.

“Can we get a solid answer on the difference (between our situations)?” Richardson asked on Twitter, now renamed X, in February 2022.

“The only difference I see is I’m a black young lady. It’s all in the skin,” she added.

The IOC were not impressed, responding “there is nothing in common between these two cases.”

Richardon is an avowed worshipper of controversial women’s 100m and 200m world record holder Florence Griffith-Joyner, who died aged just 38.

Her forthright style has earned her plenty of detractors but Johnson is firmly in the camp of the admirers.

“She’s very authentic, she doesn’t make excuses,” Johnson, the former 200m and 400m world champion who is working as an analyst for BBC, said after her stunning run.

"Some people love to love it and some people love to hate it. I think it’s great for the sport because she has a personality that is unmatched.

“The sport needs this now, to draw in people who are not just track fans.”

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Richardson could not be more of a contrast to her US teammate, new men’s 100m champion, Noah Lyles.

They did though both had tough upbringings, Richardson’s grandmother Betty Harp taking care of her along with an aunt.

“My family has kept me grounded,” she said.

Lyles was afflicted by a racking cough so serious he would often have to be taken to hospital and when his parents divorced his mother Keisha scraped and saved to provide food for him and his two siblings.

Lyles at least had a loving mother, whereas Richardson yearned for that maternal love.

“Not having that bond of my biological mother during the transition of me getting older,” she said in a video posting this year.

"I think that’s what really got me. She was supposed to be my world and now that she wasn’t there I usually asked myself ‘Why I’m I here?’.

"It really took me to a very dark place.

“When I was a junior in High School, I tried to commit suicide.”

However, whilst Lyles is largely amiable and smiling, Richardson shoots from the hip and her hackles are easily raised, grudges not let go easily.

Such was the case in a bitter break up with her Jamaican girlfriend 100m hurdler Janeek Brown.

Richardson and Brown became embroiled in a bitter claim and counter claim of mental, physical and verbal abuse.

Brown said Richardson’s going public about the relationship had been “malicious and calculated.”

It was a far cry from happier times when Richardson delighted Brown by sporting LGBTQ+ colours after winning the 2021 US trials 100m.

Johnson is not the only high profile believer.

Her former training partner 2004 Olympic 100m champion and two-time world gold medallist Justin Gatlin, who served two doping bans, is in no doubt about her potential.

“She can be the greatest female sprinter,” said Gatlin, who was coached like Richardson by Dennis Mitchell, who also served a doping ban back in his prime as a sprinter.

Richardson may be abrasive but she also has the ability to touch people, like her former university coach Dennis Shaver, who calls her “a cool cat.”

Mangele · August 22, 2023, 1:59pm

World Athletics Championships medal table: Latest standings and results at Budapest 2023

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The 2023 World Athletics Championships have begun in Budapest.

The next eight days will provide the best of the best the chance to prove themselves on track and field around Hungary’s National Athletics Centre, a 36,000-seater arena built especially for this event at a cost of £562million.

Here’s the latest athletics medal table and standings at Budapest 2023…

Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	USA	5	2	2	9
2	Spain	2	0	0	2
3	Ethiopia	1	1	2	4
4	Great Britain & NI	1	1	1	3
5	Sweden	1	1	0	2
6	Canada	1	0	0	1
6	Burkina Faso	1	0	0	1
6	Serbia	1	0	0	1
6	Uganda	1	0	0	1
10	Jamaica	0	2	1	3
11	Italy	0	1	1	2
11	Cuba	0	1	1	2
13	Australia	0	1	0	1
13	Botswana	0	1	0	1
13	Kenya	0	1	0	1
13	Poland	0	1	0	1
13	Slovenia	0	1	0	1
18	Brazil	0	0	1	1
18	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
18	Hungary	0	0	1	1
18	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
18	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
18	Romania	0	0	1	1

Great Britain & NI have their first gold of the competition courtesy of heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson, while Zharnel Hughes bagged bronze in the men’s 100m.

On Monday night, Dina Asher-Smith missed out on a medal in the women’s 100m.

Mangele · August 23, 2023, 4:45pm

Faith Kipyegon pushes pace and pulls away to defend 1,500-meter title at world championships

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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Faith Kipyegon’s race strategy isn’t all that complicated. What works is that she’s among the few who can execute it.

“Get to the front and go faster,” the Kenyan runner explained.

Her pace, the one that she’s used to set three different world records at three different distances this season, also brought her a second-straight 1,500-meter title on a muggy Tuesday night at world championships.

Faith Kipyegon, of Kenya celebrates winning the gold medal in the Women’s 1500-meters hurdles final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Popping out quickly to the lead, then daring the other 11 runners to reel her in, the 29-year-old Kipyegon’s tactics are not for the faint of heart.

More often than not in these races, early leaders fade. Not this one. Kipyegon finished in a time of 3 minutes, 54.87 seconds to beat Diribe Welteji of Ethiopia by almost a second. Sifan Hassan, running from back in the pack, as is her custom, surged into third place.

Silver medalist Valarie Allman, of the United States, hugs gold medalist Laulauga Tausaga, also of the United States, after the Women’s discus throw final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

“I told myself, ‘You are the strongest and just keep going,’” Kipyegon said.

Whether it’s winning races or setting records, Kipyegon has been in quite a zone this summer. Over a 50-day span, she set world marks in the 1,500 meters, 5,000 and the mile.

In Budapest, Kipyegon says, it’s all about medals, not records.

No time for rest, though. Kipyegon will be back on the track Wednesday evening for the start of the 5,000 meters. She got a bit of a reprieve when officials decided to move the event to the night session due to excessive heat forecast for Wednesday morning.

Laulauga Tausaga, of the United States, reacts after winning the gold medal in the Women’s discus throw final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

The Dutch runner Hassan will be in the field, too, and running her third event at worlds, much as she did at the Olympics two years ago where she won two golds and a bronze.

Dalilah Muhammad, of the United States prepares to start a Women’s 400-meters hurdles semifinal during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

It’s a decision she’s starting to lament.

“Before I decided to these three events, I did not look at how fast the girls are this year,” said Hassan, who regrouped for a medal Tuesday after a fall near the finish in the 10,000 meters over the weekend cost her a chance at one. “When I looked at the start list for my heat, I was wondering why I put myself in this position. I would never have imagined that I would win a medal.”

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Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali rose to the occasion once again at a big meet in defending his steeplechase world title. It pairs perfectly with his gold from the Tokyo Games.

Steven Gardiner, of Bahamas, left, reacts as he pulls up injured in a Men’s 400-meters semifinal during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

For Lamecha Girma, the world record holder in steeplechase, it’s yet another silver medal. He’s finished runner-up three times at worlds and once at the Olympics.

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“I still aim to win gold at the world championships or Olympic Games,” Girma said. “Nothing has changed in my goals. Maybe, I become even more motivated for next year.”

Laulauga Tausaga and Valarie Allman finished 1-2 for the Americans in the discus. Tausaga used the biggest throw of her career — her mark of 69.49 meters (228 feet) was a four-meter improvement over her previous best — to edge Allman.

Steven Gardiner, of Bahamas, left, reacts as he pulls up injured in a Men’s 400-meters semifinal during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

The Hawaiian-born, California-raised, University of Iowa-educated Tausaga was just as shocked as anyone.

“I don’t know if I have a fairy godmother or something, or my ancestors had some say in it, but I was able to do something tonight that I didn’t think was possible yet,” Tausaga said. “No one was expecting me and I just showed up.”

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Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi earned a gold medal he won’t have to share. He edged American JuVaughn Harrison courtesy of clearing 2.36 meters (7-8 3/4) on his first attempt while Harrison needed two.

At the Tokyo Games, Tamberi and good friend Mutaz Essa Barshim finished tied for first and they agreed to share the gold. Tamberi jumped up and down in elation.

Gianmarco Tamberi, of Italy, celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men’s high jump final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

This time, Barshim took bronze. And the Italian started a party that could go on for a while.

Soufiane El Bakkali, of Morocco, reacts after winning the gold medal in the Men’s 3000-meter steeplechase final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

“I need to celebrate this medal,” said Tamberi, who shaves one half of his face and leaves the other half with stubble. “Because after one year of sacrifices and diet, I deserve it.”

It was a tough night for former world champions Dalilah Muhammad (400 hurdles) and Steven Gardiner (400). Muhammad, struggling with injuries this season, couldn’t advance out of the semifinals, while Gardiner collapsed to the track rounding the final bend and grabbed his leg.

For Muhammad, it was a rare early exit. The runner-up at last summer’s worlds and at the Tokyo Games, she had struggled with Achilles issues.

“It hasn’t really hit me yet that I won’t make the final, but it was all a bit of a Hail Mary to be honest,” the 33-year-old said.

Dutch hurdler Femke Bol has regrouped from her fall a few meters before the finish line in the mixed 4x400 relay. She showed precisely why she’s the favorite in the 400 hurdles, powering her way past the field to win her semifinal heat.

It’s a gold medal up for grabs in the absence of world record holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who skipped the competition to focus on the 400 and later withdrew due to a knee issue.

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Faith Kipyegon, of Kenya leads to win the gold medal in the Women’s 1500-meters final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Gianmarco Tamberi, of Italy, celebrates into the camera of supporters own the tribune after winning the Men’s high jump final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Bronze medalist Mutaz Essa Barshim, of Qatar, carries gold medalist Gianmarco Tamberi, of Italy, celebrating after the Men’s high jump final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Gianmarco Tamberi, of Italy, celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men’s high jump final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Sha’Carri Richardson, of the United States, celebrates after winning the gold medal for the women’s 100 meters at the World Athletics Championships, in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Vidar Johansson, of Sweden and Simon Kiprop Koech, of Kenya, clear a barrier in a heat of the Men’s 3000-meters steeplechase during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Gianmarco Tamberi, of Italy, celebrates after winning the gold medal in the Men’s high jump final during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)© Provided by The Associated Press – Sports

Mangele · August 24, 2023, 1:54pm

World Track & Field Championships medal count 2023

Top nations ranked on number of gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively.

Pos.	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	7	4	3	14
2	Great Britain	2	1	1	4
3	Spain	2	0	0	2
4	Ethiopia	1	3	2	6
5	Italy	1	1	1	3
Kenya	1	1	1	3
Norway	1	1	1	3
8	Australia	1	1	0	2
Sweden	1	1	0	2
10	Burkina Faso	1	0	0	1
Canada	1	0	0	1
Dominican Republic	1	0	0	1
Morocco	1	0	0	1
Serbia	1	0	0	1
Uganda	1	0	0	1

Full medal count is available on the World Athletics’ official website.

Mangele · August 24, 2023, 11:15pm

BUDAPEST — Jamaica’s first two gold medals of the world championships came in back-to-back races from sprinters who entered worlds seeded eighth and ninth.

Danielle Williams capped a career comeback by taking the 100m hurdles by one-hundredth of a second over Olympic gold medalist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico.

Williams, the 2015 World champion, clocked 12.43 seconds in an upset. She entered worlds seeded ninth by best time this year.

Camacho-Quinn was followed by American Keni Harrison, who won her third medal in the last four global championships after two silvers.

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About 15 minutes later, Antonio Watson won the men’s 400m in 44.22 seconds, overtaking Brit Matthew Hudson-Smith by nine hundredths.

Watson entered world seeded eight by best time this year, then lowered his personal best for the fourth time this year in the semifinals (to 44.13). The 21-year-old began the year with a best time of 46.17 after primarily running the 10m and 200m in recent seasons.

American Quincy Hall took bronze, his first world medal.
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Dutchwoman Femke Bol won the 400m hurdles in 51.70 seconds. American Shamier Little took silver (52.80), one hundredth ahead of Jamaican Rushell Clayton.

Olympic gold medalist Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece won the long jump by leaping 8.52 meters on his final jump.

Before that, he and Jamaican Wayne Pinnock were tied at 8.50, but Pinnock had the tiebreaker with a farther second jump by one centimeter.

It’s the second world title for a Greek man in any track and field event after Kostas Kenteris’ 200m crown in 2001.

Canadian Camryn Rogers took the women’s hammer with a 77.22-meter throw.

Janee’ Kassanavoid and DeAnna Price kept recent American strength in the event going with silver and bronze medals.

World 100m champions Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson advanced to Friday’s 200m finals.

Lyles, bidding to become the first man to sweep the 100m and 200m golds since Usain Bolt in 2015, had the fastest men’s semifinal time.

Lyles’ first of three semifinal heats was pushed back to the end the lineup because a cart transporting to athletes to the stadium collided with another cart.

Jamaican Andrew Hudson injured his eye, spent 20 minutes in a medical tent and finished fifth with blurry vision. He was given a place in the final.

“I feel like it all happened in slow motion,” Hudson said. “I was in the buggy coming to the stadium and unfortunately I was sitting on the side where another buggy crashed into us. I was directly impacted when a bunch of glass went into my eye. They got most of the glass out. Now I’ve got to go back and have it looked at, make sure it’s OK.”

Richardson, bidding to become the first woman to sweep the 100m and 200m golds since Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in 2013, was fourth-fastest in the women’s semis (22.20).

Fellow American Gabby Thomas had the best time (21.97) followed by defending champion Shericka Jackson of Jamaica (22.00).

Worlds continue Friday at 1:30 p.m. ET, live on USA Network, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app and Peacock.

Peacock also live streams the first day of the decathlon starting at 4:05 a.m.

Mangele · August 25, 2023, 8:30pm

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Mangele · August 26, 2023, 6:06pm

Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon: From running barefoot to the ‘queen of 1,500m’

In yet another glorious moment in a record and medal-laden year on the track, Kenya’s middle-distance running “queen” Faith Kipyegon completed a hat-trick of world 1,500-metre gold medals at the World Athletics Championship in Budapest this week.

The double Olympic champion has not lost over the distance for two years.

Although Kipyegon launched her season with a slightly less comfortable win at the Doha Diamond League in May, she has since vanquished her competitors and past records in an astonishing season.

In May, she crossed the finish line in the women’s 1,500-metre race in Doha in front of a large contingent of Kenyan fans bowing to her from the stands.

The 29-year-old finished the race with a time of 3:58.57, nearly nine seconds behind Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba’s world record, in one of her poorest finishes.

The wait for the world record didn’t last too long.

A month later, Kipyegon not only broke the record but also smashed the three-minute, 50-second barrier at the meet in Florence. And as soon as she crossed the line this time around, Kipyegon fell on the track and slammed her hands in an outpouring of disbelief and ecstasy.

Mangele · August 26, 2023, 7:59pm

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Mangele · August 27, 2023, 4:18pm

Track and Field World Championships 2023 Results

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Event results from the 2023 World Track and Field Championships in Budapest …

Women’s 100m

Gold: Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) – 10.65 seconds

Silver: Shericka Jackson (JAM) – 10.72

Bronze: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) – 10.77

Marie-Josee Ta Lou (CIV) – 10.81
Julien Alfred (LCA) – 10.83
Ewa Swoboda (POL) – 10.97
Brittany Brown (USA) – 10.97
Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) – 11.00

Women’s 200m

Gold: Shericka Jackson (JAM) – 21.41

Silver: Gabby Thomas (USA) – 21.81

Bronze: Sha’Carri Richardson (USA) – 21.92

Julien Alfred (LCA) – 22.05
Daryll Neita (GBR) – 22.16
Anthonique Strachan (BAH) – 22.29
Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) – 22.34
Marie-Josee Ta Lou (CIV) – 22.64

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Women’s 400m

Gold: Marileidy Paulino (DOM) – 48.76

Silver: Natalia Kaczmarek (POL) – 49.57

Bronze: Sada Williams (BAR) – 49.60

Rhasidat Adeleke (IRL) – 50.13

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World champs gold rush for Lyles, Richardson and Kipyegon

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Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson, the two faces of the World Athletics Championships, won their third and second golds respectively by anchoring the United States to 4x100m relay triumphs in Budapest on Saturday.

On an enthralling night’s action Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis and Faith Kipyegon rubberstamped their authority in their events.

Charismatic Swede Duplantis retained his pole vault title, although he fell short of bettering his own world record, whilst Kenyan Kipyegon became the first woman to achieve the 1500 and 5,000m double, when she won the latter.

It was a night of firsts for Canada, who had earlier in the championships swept both the men’s and women’s hammer titles.

Marco Arop and Pierce LePage became the first Canadians to win the men’s 800m title and decathlon respectively.

Olympic champion Damian Warner gilded the lily for Canada in the decathlon, taking silver.

Yet another medal came Canada’s way with Sarah Mitton finishing second in the women’s shot put.

Mitton lost out to USA’s Chase Ealey, who, like Duplantis, retained her title.

Lyles and Richardson, though, stole the show.

Mangele · August 29, 2023, 12:41am

World Championships 2023 medal table

Top 15 nations ranked on number of gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. For full medal table see the World Athletics website.

Pos.	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	12	8	9	29
2	Canada	4	2	0	6
3	Spain	4	1	0	5
4	Jamaica	3	5	4	12
5	Kenya	3	3	4	10
6	Ethiopia	2	4	3	9
7	Great Britain	2	3	5	10
8	Netherlands	2	1	2	5
9	Norway	2	1	1	4
10	Sweden	2	1	0	3
11	Uganda	2	0	0	2
12	Australia	1	2	3	6
13	Italy	1	2	1	4
14	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
15	Greece	1	0	1	2

  |Japan|1|0|1|2|

|Morocco|1|0|1|2|