World Athletics Championships: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce took her fifth gold in the 100 meters with a strong performance

Just as the United States dominated the men’s 100m competition on Saturday at World Athletics Championships disputed in that country, Jamaica did the same this Sunday in the women’s branch, with the final Triumph of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Prycewho thus won the fifth title of its kind over that distance.

Fraser-Pryce, 35 and a two-time Olympic champion over that distance, in Beijing 2008 and London 2012, won gold at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, with no low points.

The colored-haired Caribbean athlete recorded a time of 10.67 seconds, new record in this type of championships, and was ahead of a Jamaican triple. Hectometer world champion for the first time in Berlin 2009, the nicknamed “pocket rocket ” He repeated victories in Moscow 2013, Beijing 2015 and Doha 2019, before completing his collection with this fifth crown in the United States.

Shericka JacksonOlympic bronze in Tokyo 2020, won the silver medal with the record of 10.73 and the double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Hera He completed the podium with 10.81.

In the final of the last Olympic Games, Jamaican athletes had already reached the podium, albeit in a different order: Thompson-Herah then beat Fraser-Pryce and Jackson.

Jamaican revenge

Jamaican speed had suffered a severe blow this Saturday in the men’s category, not only with the American hat-trick led by Fred Kerley (gold with 9.88), but also because two of their representatives had already fallen in the semifinals. Only the young Oblique Seville, 31, had made it to the final, and the one to stay just off the podium.

But the championship schedule offered Jamaica an immediate chance for redemption only 24 hours later, in the women’s sprint. With talents like Fraser-Pryce, Thompson-Herah and Jackson, an American-like sweep in men could not be ruled out.

Thompson-Herah (10.82) and Jackson (10.84) were the fastest in the semifinals, while Fraser-Pryce spent just enough to win his series in 10.93 and have the best energy to confirm his hegemony two hours and 20 minutes later, in the final.

The United States scored a decline in the women’s 100m final. Aleia Hobbs was sixth with 10.92 and Melissa Jefferson finished the ranking with 11.06, the only one not to break the 11 second barrier.

Katie Nageotte clung to gold in the pole vault

the American Katie Nageottegold in Tokyo 2020, was proclaimed pole vault champion at the World Athletics Championships, after winning the victory this Sunday in front of compatriot Sandi Morris, who took the silver, and the Australian Nina Kennedy, who took the bronze.

Nageotte freed 4.85 meters on his first attempt and Morris did the same, but on his second jump. The two Americans failed at 4.90. The winner and her escort now share the best record of the year.

Eugene’s result was particularly bittersweet for Morris, who adds a new silver to his runner-up collection since finishing second in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and also at the 2017 London World Cup and Doha 2019. For his part, Kennedy scored. the bronze with 4.80 on the first attempt.

The Russian Anzhelika Sidorova, champion at the Doha 2019 World Championships, was not in Eugene for sanctions due to the invasion of Ukraine.

For its part, the double Olympic champion of shot put in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2020, Ryan Crouser took gold this Sunday and so he obtained the last scepter that was missing from his record.

In this test the United States took exclusive possession of the podium thanks to the silver medal of Joe Kovacs and the bronze of Josh Awotunde.

While, American Grant Holloway reconfirmed his 110m hurdles world title with a time of 13.03, in a final with two important victims, one due to injury and the other due to a false start, in which Trey Cunningham (13.08) closed an American double and won the young Spaniard Asier Martínez (13.17) on the international scene with the bronze medal.

Bad luck hit the Olympic champion, the Jamaican Hansle Parchment, who was injured a few minutes before the final, already on the track during the warm-up, and was unable to start. Even with the American Devol Allen, eliminated for a false start for a thousandth of a second.

With information from EFE and AFP.

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