The World Championships in Athletics will be held in Budapest from the 19th to the 27th. August. broadcasts all race events.
The two most powerful rod incomes in the United States are held by KC Lightfoot (607) and Sam Kendricks (606) will not participate in the World Championships in Budapest. The duo tied for fourth place in the pole vault of the US championships in Eugene, when the three best athletes claimed the right to compete on the World Championship stage.
Won the competition Chris Nilsen with a score of 591. Zach McWhorter was second with a score of 586. He took the last place in the competition Zach Bradford, who crossed a height of 581 in his first. Lightfoot and Kendricks also finally bent over the height of 581, but compared to the duo’s level, the sticky performance was not enough for the WC ticket.
Lightfoot attempted once from a height of 586, after which he withdrew from the competition for an as yet unknown reason. Kendricks dropped the bar from the same height three times.
Especially Lightfoot, who was at his peak, was considered one by Armand Duplantis of the toughest challengers for the World Championships. The 23-year-old American brought a sense of competition to the usually superior Swede when he surpassed the world’s all-time triple score of 607 in Nashville in early June. It is also a US record.
After that, the Olympic quadruple from Tokyo appeared in the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, among others, where he exceeded the height of 590.
The absence of two-time world champion Kendricks is also a hard blow to the pole vault competition in Budapest. Kendricks is the previous athlete who has managed to defeat Duplantis in a prestigious competition (Doha World Championships 2019).
Tough competition requires tough qualifying
USA track and field’s qualifying system requires success at the perfect moment. The competition is extremely tough, because only the reigning world champion has a free ticket to the prestige races. The others have to place in the national championships in three chess.
In the frighteningly famous qualification system, old sea rites or performances do not count. There are many athletes who qualify for statistics, and the elites say that the qualifiers are more exciting than the World Cup itself. The purpose of the system is to test the athletes’ ability to withstand pressure, because the mental side is at the center of value competitions. Sometimes, however, we go into the forest, because even the peaks have dark moments.
For example, in 2016 the United States Kendra Harrison broke the distance world record a month before the Rio Olympics, but was sidelined due to an unsuccessful qualifying run.
Lightfoot’s elimination has also sparked criticism of the system on social media.
Top results were seen on fast trips
Despite everything, the USA will go to the World Cup starting in a little over a month with a rock-hard team again. In the 100-meter races, we saw surprise on the men’s side and dominance on the women’s side.
In Eugene, the athletics capital of the USA, there was a rush to the championship on the men’s side Cravont Charleston. The 25-year-old runner defeated the 2019 world champion by Christian Coleman in a tight fight. Charleston’s winning time was 9.95, runner-up Coleman’s 9.96. He came third in the men’s hundred meters Noah Lyleswho said earlier this week that he was aiming for Budapest Usain Bolt’s a rare achievement, gold in both 100 and 200 meters.
The women’s 100 meters was proven by Sha’Carri Richardson superiority. Richardson clocked a season’s best time of 10.71 in the preliminaries and also improved it in the semifinals (10.75). A new top time was not created in the final, but Richardson took the US championship with a time of 10.82. In Budapest, he gets to chase the first prize medal after squatting in last year’s qualifiers and the 2021 cannabis race.
Richardson ran for second Brittany Brown and thirdly Tamara Davis. Presumably, in this six, the United States will go to challenge the Jamaican speedsters.
McLaughlin-Levrone’s travel options still open
Has broken numerous world records in the 400 meter hurdles Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was also in full swing early on Sunday Finnish time. McLaughlin-Levrone ran a record 48.74 on the smooth course lap, which is the season’s best result.
It is also the world’s tenth fastest time of all time, with which the fence specialist was only four hundredths behind By Sanya Richards-Ross of the US record.
The sovereign superiority of McLaughlin-Levrone in the previous two seasons made even the experts consider whether the height of the fences should be raised. The 23-year-old American set a world record of 50.68 in the women’s 400-meter hurdles at last year’s World Championships and won the gold by more than a second and a half.
– The great ones have always beaten themselves, and I want to be one of them, he told AFP.
The women’s 400m world record of 47.60 is one of the oldest in athletics, as Marita Koch pinked it in October 1985.
McLaughlin-Levrone will no doubt be aiming for that record, though not necessarily on the World Championships in Budapest. A runner’s coach Bobby Kersee said last month that McLaughlin-Levrone would compete in either the 400-meter hurdles or the flat at the World Championships in Budapest, but no decision had been made at the time.
The World Championships in Athletics will be held in Budapest from the 19th to the 27th. August. broadcasts all race events.