In the duel between the two fastest sprinters of the season in the 100m, Sha’Carri Richardson beat Shericka Jackson at the Diamond League meeting in Chorzow (Poland), one month before the Worlds in Budapest (August 19-27) . Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the Norwegian middle-distance phenomenon, who has just celebrated his 25th birthday, continues to get closer over 1,500m to the mythical reference mark of Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj.
To the 10 sec 71 signed at the beginning of the month by Richardson in the series of American “trials” for Budapest, Jackson had responded the next day at a distance, from the Jamaican selections, by seizing in 10 sec 65 the best world performance of the season. In the sweltering Polish, the flamboyant American, without a wig this time but wearing long green braids, fought back by winning in 10 sec 76, two hundredths ahead of her Jamaican rival (10.78).
After two years in the background, Sha’Carri Richardson confirms race after race in 2023 his return to the front of the stage. In the 100m, she has even been undefeated since the start of the season.
“I had a great race, clean, I really had fun, appreciates the 23-year-old Texan, who took over Jackson at the end of the race. 10 sec 76, I like this timer. Overall, I’m satisfied. »
Both Richardson and Jackson have qualified for both the 100m and 200m, a distance in which the Jamaican is the reigning world champion, for the 2023 Worlds. The American will experience her first international competition in the Hungarian capital, after missing the 2021 Olympics, suspended for a positive cannabis test, and the 2022 Worlds, not qualified.
Kerley narrowly beaten
At the end of the men’s 100m, the reigning world champion, the American Fred Kerley, lost for the first time this year on the straight line, with extreme accuracy: for a hundredth, 9 sec 98 against 9 sec 97 for the South African Akani Simbine, he ranked second. He was decided in the thousandth with the Cameroonian Emmanuel Eseme (3rd).
Not enough to destabilize him: “I had a good race, nothing was missing, I did the job,” said Kerley. The recent surprise champion of the United States, Cravant Charleston, was also invited to the photo-finish, finally fourth in 9 sec 99.
A month after having improved his own European record in the 1,500m in Oslo, under the eyes of the Norwegian public, Ingebrigtsen (22) did it again on the Polish track, winning in 3 min 27 sec 14 (against 3 ’27”95).
Van Niekerk and progress
This time makes him the fourth best performer in history, behind the El Guerrouj-Bernard Lagat-Asbel Kiprop trio. And the 3 min 26 sec references of the Moroccan, which have held since 1998, are gradually approaching for the reigning Olympic champion.
“I wanted to run again under 3 min 28 sec. I knew that if I was able to, I had a great chance of improving my personal best. It was the best result I could hope for today (Sunday),” says Ingebrigtsen.
In search of his best level for many years, Wayde Van Niekerk ran – and won – his fastest 400m since his serious knee injury at the end of 2017, in 44 sec 08. Which places him less two tenths of the ERA (43.91) established in April by the surprising Zambian Muzala Samukonga, who had to stop his effort on the back straight on Sunday afternoon, visibly injured.
At the height, the Qatari Mutaz Essa Barshim, who has been rare since the beginning of the year, seized the best world performance of the season (MPM) with 2.36 m as the Worlds-2023 approach. .
In the triple jump, the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas improved by two centimeters, with 15.18 m, the MPM that she already held.
Armand Duplantis did not increase his pole vault, failing three times at 6.13 m, but collected one more victory, with 6.01 m.
2023-07-16 18:20:00
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