The ninth day of the World Championships saw no less than six final competitions. For Finns, the interest was in the javelin final, but a lot of other interesting things happened. Urheilu gathered the highlights of the night.
Anu Karttunen,
Joska Saarinen
On the ninth day of the World Athletics Championships, the biggest interest for Finns was the javelin throw. Lassi Etelätalo was sixth in the javelin final and Oliver Helander eighth.
Grenada Anderson Peters won the WC gold in the javelin throw with a score of 90.54. The winning throw came in the last round.
Etelätalo’s best result came in the second round, when the Finn threw 82.70.
You can read more about the javelin final at this link. In this article, we review the other events of the night of the World Cup, which could be overshadowed by the javelin final in the Finnish stands.
Damian Warner’s golden dream shattered
Tokyo Olympic champion Damian Warner had a tough 10-match 400m. The Canadian started the 400 meters very well, but his hamstring failed mid-run.
The situation can be seen in the video that is the main image of this story. Warner had to stop.
– I haven’t had time to process what happened, but this is difficult to deal with. I was in good shape and the race was going well before the injury, Warner said in a TV interview.
Warner led the decathlon after four events. He wondered where the injury actually came from.
– I have never had problems with the left thigh muscle. The injury came out of nowhere.
– I thought it was a cramp. I tried to run regardless, but it got worse and worse. I just couldn’t go on.
After five races in Puerto Rico Ayden Owens-Delerme leads the decathlon with 4606 points. He ran the 400 meters in a wild time of 45.07.
Second is Canada Pierce Lepage (4485 points) and third in the United States Zachery Ziemek (4469 points).
Pichardo solved the triple jump with his first
Portuguese Pedro Pichardo was in a class of its own in the triple jump. He decided to win in the first round with a season’s best result of 17.95.
Others had no say in this, even the silver medalist from Burkina Faso Hugues Fabrice Zango (17.55) and China’s bronze medalist Yaming Zhu (17.31) reached their best of the season.
De Grasse anchored Canada to the men’s relay championship
The United States was the early favorite in the men’s 4×100 meters, but neighboring Canada stole the World Cup gold and silenced the home crowd. Canada took gold with a season-best time of 37.48.
The victory of the men’s relay was decided by exchanges, because the Canadian foursome Aaron Brown – Jerome Blake – Brendon Rodney – Andre De Grasse did well in them. In the United States, the last exchange did not go well of Elijah Hall and by Marvin Bracy in between and it was enough to dim the color of the medals.
Great Britain, who took silver at the World Championships in Doha, got bronze this time.
In the women’s relay, the United States took gold as a team Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner, Jenna Prandini and Twanisha Terry. The foursome’s winning time is the season’s top time of 41.14.
The time for the United States is third on the all-time list.
Jamaican anchor Shericka Jackson managed to get really close to Terry but couldn’t catch the USA. Jamaica’s silver time is 41.18. Jamaica’s first exchange failed and was a costly mistake.
Germany surprised and took bronze with a time of 42.03. It was the country’s first medal at these World Championships.
The Olympic champion is now also a world champion
of Kenya Emmanuel Korir celebrated the Olympic gold in Tokyo last summer in the 800 meters and now he is also the world champion of the distance. Korir’s winning time is his season’s best 1:43.71.
Algerian Slimane Moula came out on top in the first round, but Canada’s Marco Arop wanted to be a pacesetter.
Arop was looking for success in a long stretch, but Korir got alongside him at the end of the straight and in the last meters also the Algerian Djamel Sedjati rose past Arop. However, the Canadian got bronze.
Hassan was again left without a medal, Tsegay the world champion
Gudaf Tsegayn kiri was the strongest, and the Ethiopian took the world championship in the women’s 5,000 meters with a time of 14:46.29.
Six women went to the final round in one group, and in the 10,000 meters the fourth-placed Dutch Sifan Hassan came out on top.
Hassan opened the game with a back straight, but his drive was not enough until the end. In addition to Tsegay, Kenya also passed the Tokyo Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet and Margaret Kipkemboi and Ethiopia Dawit Seyaum and Letesenbet Gidey. Chebet took silver and Seyaum bronze.