squeezed by Canada in Sunday’s quarterfinal on penalty kicks, 3-2, thanks to heroics from keeper Matt Turner. The Athletics Integrity Unit and the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya are working to process 5,000 tests for track and road running athletes this year, by far the most ever, to try and wipe out the doping scourge which has engulfed the country’s stars. There were also three world leads in the Jamaican nationals in Kingston from Shericka Jackson in the women’s sprints and Rasheed Broadbell in the men’s hurdles. IFSC ex-Med Comm member says “climbing has a RED-S problem”Ī fabulous USATF Nationals in Eugene closed on Sunday, with world-leading marks in four events and major statements made by Sha’Carri Richardson (100 m), Gabby Thomas (200 m), Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (400 m) and by Rai Benjamin in the men’s 400 m hurdles. Asian Games to welcome 500 Russians, Belarusians … maybeĥ. men overcome Canada, 2-2 (3-2) on penaltiesĤ. Kenyan T&F anti-doping testing to increase 7x in 2023ģ. Richardson, Thomas, McLaughlin-Levrone, Benjamin headline USATFsĢ. ★ To get The Sports Examiner by e-mail: sign up here! ★ġ. ★ Encouraging! Thanks to 20 donors, we’re at 52% of our summer fund-raising goal. ★ The Sports Examiner: Chronicling the key competitive, economic and political forces shaping elite sport and the Olympic Movement.★ Grant Lockwood completed the U-20 400 meters in 47.22, good for 11th.Sensational women's 200 m win for Tokyo bronze medalist Gabby Thomas! (Photo: Tim Healy for TrackTown USA) Sprinter Jameir Colbert fell just short of advancing in the men’s U-20 400-meter hurdles, running the eighth-best time of nine qualifiers (52.97 seconds) but coming in fourth within his own strong heat. He then finished 11th in the final at 3:55.71. In under-20 championship action, freshman distance runner Sawyer Schmidt advanced past the prelims in the men’s 1,500 meters with an automatic bid, taking fourth place in his heat and ninth overall at 3:53.07. The other Kansas alum competing over the weekend, Honour Finley, who was last on the Jayhawks’ roster in 2022, raced unattached in the women’s 800 meters and bowed out in the first round at 24th with a time of 2:03.91.Ĭlayton Simms came in 11th in the men’s senior pole vault at 5.61 meters. track and field championships in Eugene, Ore., Friday, July 7, 2023. Vashti Cunningham, center, who won the gold medal for the women’s high jump, poses with silver medalist Rylee Anderson and bronze medalist Jenna Rogers, during a medal ceremony during the U.S. The best showing by a current Jayhawk came from high jumper Rylee Anderson, an outgoing fifth-year senior who medaled by equaling her personal best with a 1.86-meter jump on Friday but fell short of world champion Vashti Cunningham (1.91).
However, Hoppel posted what proved to the best overall time in the event by any athlete at 1:45.26, then followed that up with his effort in Sunday’s final to claim the national championship.
Hoppel’s 1:47.87 and Green’s 1:48.52 were still good enough to send them through to the semifinals the next day, where Green fell short of a finals berth by a 0.02-second margin. 2 in the 800-meter preliminaries, which produced the three slowest qualifying times in the event. Green advanced alongside Hoppel from heat No. Several other current and former KU athletes competed in Eugene over the weekend. track and field championships in Eugene, Ore., Sunday, July 9, 2023. Bryce Hoppel reacts after winning the men’s 800 meters final during the U.S.
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