Damian Warner is the first Indoor Athletics World Champion
The London, Ontario native finished third in the men’s 1000m, the final event at the heptathlon in Belgrade, Serbia, beating Simon Ehammer of Switzerland to win his first title in three world indoor meets.
Warner is the world leader this season with 6,489 points, 146 points ahead of his Canadian record. The 32-year-old finished second to five points behind French champion Kevin Mayer in 2018 and seventh in 2014.
“I go [to Serbia] Winning,” Warner, the reigning Olympic decathlon champion, recently told CBC Sports. “It’s not easy, but it never has been. He wants to achieve the best of himself, and winning is the icing on the cake. He also wants to see that he is in good shape. «
SEE | Warner finishes third in the 1,000m for the heptathlon title:
Damian Warner wins heptathlon gold with third in 1000m
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The Canadians won the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade with 6,489 points. 9:10
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Warner’s time in 1000 runs is 2:39.32, 2.20 seconds behind his 2018 indoor world personal best of 2:37.12. Ehammer was No. 9 in Saturday’s 1,000 runners in 2:53.54, the best time of the season. He posted 2:51.14 PB in February 2020.
Ehammer finished with 6,363 points, a Swiss record, and battled Warner at the start of all seven events on Friday.
Australia’s Ashley Moloney, the 2020 Olympic decathlon bronze medalist, won another bronze on Saturday with 6,344 points.
Set 7.61s PB in 60m hurdles
Before the World Indoors, Warner suggested that he might surprise himself with a performance in 1000 games.
“I’m still fast,” he said, “and I know I’m in good shape and form, so anything is possible.”
SEE | Warner starts his Saturday with victory in the 60 meter hurdles:
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Damian Warner takes first place in the 60m hurdles at the World Indoor Athletics Championships
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Damian Warner, a native of London, Ontario, topped the men’s 60m hurdles with a score of 7.61. The event is part of the heptathlon and takes place on day 2 of the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. 2:47
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The Canadian started Saturday’s race with a personal best time of 7.61 seconds in the men’s 60m hurdles, 38 points ahead of Erhammer before seeing his opponent reach the final with a 23-point lead. in the pole vault of 5.10 meters. Warner’s best score in the pole vault is 4.90.
Mayer, who did not play this weekend, withdrew earlier this month with an Achilles tendon problem that worsened after contracting the coronavirus in January, following his second vaccination last September.
Seven months ago, Warner beat Meyer (8,726) for the first time at the Summer Olympics with an Olympic record 9,018 points.
The steps we have taken this year are correct, both from a technical point of view and from a training point of view.– Canadian heptathlete Damian Warner
In mid-February, Warner lost emotional control during training, telling his coach, Gar Leyshon, that he felt “very bad” and was “not ready” for the Indoor Worlds. But coach Dennis Nielsen, physical therapist Dave Zelibka and sports psychologist François Maynard support him, telling Warner that his body is in better shape than he thought.
“I think I still have some fear, but I am going in the right direction with the steps we have taken this year from a technical and training point of view,” Warner said.
In Saturday’s other Canadian race, Edmonton’s Marco Arrow took a 650m lead in the 800m final before finishing in 1:47.58 in the eight-man field, Toronto’s Lue Sia Stafford finished eighth in the 1500m final m Women’s and Lindsay Butterworth advanced to Sunday’s Women’s 800m Final.
Aropp won Friday’s Heat in 1:48.13 when he sprinted off the starting line and took an early lead before he was passed by Mariano Garcia to win in 1:46.20 and has since been the first Spaniard to win the race since Colomantrabado in 1985. (1:47.42).
Arop, 23, set a Canadian indoor record of 1:45.90 on February 9, 2019, in Clemson, South Carolina.
Kenyan Noah Kibet (1:46.35) and American Bryce Hoppel (1:46.51) completed the podium.
Stafford ranks 13th in Olympic debut
Stafford, also 23, missed 1,500 PBs in a time of 68-100 seconds in his first indoor world. She is the sister of Canadian record holder Gabriela DeBues-Stafford. A month ago, Lucia won the women’s mile in 4:24.42, the second-fastest time by a Canadian behind Gabriela in 4:19.73.
In Tokyo last August, Lucia failed to advance from the 1500 Olympic semifinals and finished 13th overall with a PB of 4:02.12.
Gudaf Tsegay stormed off the field on Saturday to lead Ethiopia to a podium sweep with an indoor world record time of 3:57.19. Axumawit Embaye and Hirut Meshhesha followed at 4:02.29 and 4:03.39 respectively.
Butterworth of North Vancouver, BC, crossed the finish line at 2:01.99 to take sixth place in the women’s 800-meter final, which is scheduled for Sunday at 1:05 pm ET.
The 2021 Canadian champion finished in 2:02.45 on his Olympic debut in Tokyo, but failed to advance to the semi-finals and finished in 32nd place.
In Saturday’s highly anticipated men’s 60m final, reigning world record holder Christian Coleman of the United States failed to defend his title, losing 6.41 seconds to Marcel Jacobs of Italy, who was the third men’s 100m champion. . Summer sports are practiced in the indoor world.
Coleman, suspended for a whereabouts anti-doping rule violation and ineligible for last summer’s Olympics, led 10 meters from the finish Saturday, but his shoulders were tense and the 6-foot-1 Jacob Booth raised his knees and pushed hard towards the goal. line.
Coleman, the 100-year-old world champion, is trying to become the first repeat indoor champion in 60 years since Canada’s Bruny Surin achieved the feat in Barcelona in 1995.
Coleman’s teammate Marvin Bracy was third at 6.44 PB on Saturday, and Bolade Ajomale of Richmond Hill, Ontario was seventh at 6.63.
Mahuchich wins high jump gold for Ukraine
Yaroslava Mahuchich, who was forced to flee her home in Dnipro after Russia invaded Ukraine, said she was fighting for her country at the stadium after winning gold in the women’s high jump on Saturday.
The 20-year-old, reigning European indoor champion of the event, holed up in a cellar for a few days before driving almost 2,000km to Serbia over three days.
On Saturday, Mahuchikh won gold over a distance of 2.02 meters, Australia’s Eleanor Patterson took silver and Kazakhstan’s Nadezhda Dubovitskaya took bronze.
“It’s very important to me, my family, my country,” Mahuchich, who won bronze at the Olympics last summer, told BBC Sport.
“I don’t think about racing and training. It’s hard for me to come here, a three-day trip, and it’s very difficult psychologically to jump here because my heart is still in my country.”
“It’s been tough, but I think I’m doing a good job for my country because I’m protecting my country on the track. I think it’s something very important for my country.”
Maria Rasitskny, who won gold at the Olympics on behalf of the Russian Olympic Committee team, was banned from the competition after World Athletics banned athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus.
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