<p>Fred Kerley is an international man of mystery. He&rsquo;s a threat to win any race he enters, no matter if it&rsquo;s the 100m, the 200m or the 400m.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Fred is a Swiss Army knife,&rdquo; says US teammate Michael Cherry. &ldquo;He can do a lot of different sprint events.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Naturally, inquisitive minds want to know: What will Kerley run in June at the US Championships, where the team will be selected for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22?</p>
<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to wait and see,&rdquo; he says.</p>
<p>The meeting is only four days, with three rounds in each of Kerley&rsquo;s events. He quickly puts to rest any notion he&rsquo;d attempt the triple: &ldquo;No, it&rsquo;s a lot on the body.&rdquo;</p>
<p>And so the guessing game begins. Kerley is the only man in history who has won Wanda Diamond League races in the 100m, 200m and 400m.</p>
<p>In 2019, he contested only 400m races, culminating in the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships in Doha.</p>
<p>Then Kerley stunned the athletics world by skipping the 400m at the US Olympic Trials and placing third in the 100m and fourth in the 200m. He became the surprise silver medallist in the 100m at the Tokyo Olympics with a PB of 9.84. Switching back and forth between the two events, he finished his season with a spectacular 19.76 in the 200m at altitude in Nairobi.<br /><br /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6268010b2b23f0f3232fb15d.jpg" alt="USA's Fred Kerley secures 100m silver at the Tokyo Olympic Games" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">USA's Fred Kerley secures 100m silver at the Tokyo Olympic Games (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>On 16 April, the 26-year-old ran a sizzling 19.80 in the 200m at the USATF Golden Games in Walnut, California, bettering his own world-leading time of 20.04. Kerley chased down Michael Norman in the last 50 metres, his final burst taking him across the line at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event.</p>
<p>As Kerley&rsquo;s momentum carried him around the curve, he held his arms out wide as if to say, &ldquo;How do you like that?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Boy, is he a gamer,&rdquo; said Sanya Richards-Ross, the Olympic gold medallist and television commentator. &ldquo;He shows up in finals every single time. This young man always kind of has this chip on his shoulder. He keeps wanting to prove to us&hellip; &lsquo;Fred, we see you. You&rsquo;re a champion.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>Norman could feel him. Kerley was on his right, methodically gaining down the stretch. &ldquo;You just kind of get a sense of presence,&rdquo; the 24-year-old says, &ldquo;you know what I mean?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Norman ran 19.83 in his season opener and tweeted after the race that he &ldquo;can&rsquo;t be too mad&rdquo; because of his fast time. He added: &ldquo;Much respect for @fkerley99 but I&rsquo;m going to need that rematch sometime this year,&rdquo; to which Kerley replied: &ldquo;Respect.&rdquo;<br /><br /></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Respect <a href="https://t.co/ENZi0vGAtH">https://t.co/ENZi0vGAtH</a></p>
&mdash; Fred Kerley (@fkerley99) <a href="https://twitter.com/fkerley99/status/1515510175066517512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
<p><br />While Kerley is a prolific tweeter, favouring the hashtag #IAMHISTORY, he is a man of few words.</p>
<p>His thoughts on reeling in Norman? &ldquo;I got the W.&rdquo;</p>
<p>His goals for the rest of the season? &ldquo;Win.&rdquo;</p>
<p>What about time-wise? &ldquo;Win,&rdquo; Kerley repeats. &ldquo;Time is not my concern, it&rsquo;s all about the Ws that come.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The 6-foot-3 Kerley is undefeated so far this season across all three distances. In early March, he clocked 44.47 in the 400m in a meeting in Grenada, a time that was No.1 until Cherry went 44.28 at the Golden Games, while Olympic champion Steven Gardiner has since improved the world lead to 44.22. Kerley posted a time of 9.99 in the 100m, which ranks fifth on the world list, in a meet in Florida in late March.</p>
<p>His next race will be a 100m on 7 May at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi, this season&rsquo;s next World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting.</p>
<h2>Renewed rivalries</h2>
<p>Kerley says he decides which distance to run based on where his training is taking him. Of course, the 100m and the 400m place different demands on his body. One requires explosiveness, the other a tolerance to pain.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Both of them got to give and take,&rdquo; Kerley adds. &ldquo;One got your head spinning and one got your legs spinning, too.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Kerley believes his versatility can help promote his sport. He has rivals at every distance, from Norman, Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman in the US to Kirani James, Marcell Jacobs and Andre De Grasse from the international ranks.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Hey, I like to compete, so rivalry&rsquo;s rivalry,&rdquo; Kerley says. &ldquo;I feel like it&rsquo;s very important to have a rivalry in the sport because that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s going to get more attention to track and field&mdash; like football and basketball. They&rsquo;ve got rivalries. But if we have rivalries between us, we&rsquo;re going to be big.&rdquo;<br /><br /></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/626801f365219027c99d31f3.jpg" alt="Fred Kerley and Michael Norman go head-to-head at the USATF Golden Games" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">Fred Kerley and Michael Norman go head-to-head at the USATF Golden Games (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>Kerley and Norman are two of the three members of the exclusive, sub-10, sub-20, sub-44 second club. The other is Wayde van Niekerk, the 29-year-old 2016 Olympic champion from South Africa.</p>
<p>Head-to-head, Kerley has the faster time in the 100m &mdash; 9.84 to 9.86 &mdash; while Norman is quicker at the 200m &mdash; 19.70 to 19.76. Norman also has the better 400m time of 43.45 to 43.64. Van Niekerk&rsquo;s times, meanwhile, are 9.94, 19.84 and the world record of 43.03.</p>
<p>While Kerley and Norman are cordial, they are both also supremely competitive. &ldquo;He does the same events as me &mdash; everybody is my enemy once you touch the track,&rdquo; Kerley says.</p>
<p>Norman has a similar mindset. &ldquo;Nobody wants to lose to anybody,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;So every time we race each other, it&rsquo;s like who&rsquo;s going to get the best of who that race.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He adds of Kerley: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s cool. All respect to Fred, no beef or animosity, or nothing like that. He&rsquo;s a great competitor, he&rsquo;s a good guy.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Norman says their rivalry keeps the sport &ldquo;unpredictable&rdquo;.</p>
<p>&ldquo;When it comes having somebody who does an extremely similar thing as you,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;it just brings out the best in both of us and it elevates each other, so there&rsquo;ll be plenty more races down the road.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Kerley adds that marketability and popularity &mdash; the 100m is the more glamorous event in the public eye &mdash; will have no bearing on which events he will choose for the World Championships.</p>
<p>However, he did acknowledge last year that he does have a long-term goal.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I want to be a legend, like Usain Bolt,&rdquo; Kerley said.</p>
<h2>No secret to success</h2>
<p>Originally a 200m runner coming out of high school, Kerley moved up to the full lap in college. At Texas A&amp;M, he won two NCAA titles.<br /><br /></p>
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/626803120805e5d0c23187f2.jpg" alt="US sprinter Fred Kerley" />
<p style="font-size: 0.9em; color: #b2b2b2; text-align: right; margin: -15px 0 0px;">US sprinter Fred Kerley (&copy; Getty Images)</p>
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<p>He says there&rsquo;s no secret to how he is able to compete in three distances now. &ldquo;Training,&rdquo; Kerley explains. &ldquo;Training. And training.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But there has to be something else.</p>
<p>Michael Johnson was the Olympic gold medallist and world record-holder in both the 200m (19.32) and 400m (43.18), but his best time in the 100m was 10.09.</p>
<p>Usain Bolt holds the world records in the 100m (9.58) and 200m (19.19), but went no faster than 45.28 in the 400m. Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens were triple threats combined with the long jump, not the quarter-mile.</p>
<p>Kenny Bednarek, the Olympic silver medallist in the 200m, is a member of the sub-10, sub-20 and sub-45 club.</p>
<p>&ldquo;What Fred&rsquo;s been doing is pretty incredible,&rdquo; Bednarek says.</p>
<p>He adds that the transition between events requires a lot of adjustments. &ldquo;In the 400,&rdquo; Bednarek says, &ldquo;we&rsquo;re never really explosive. It&rsquo;s more maintaining your rhythm and the lactate and see who has the most guts to finish that last 150 stretch. In the 400, you can make a mistake, but you can correct it. In the 200 and the 100, you don&rsquo;t really have time.&rdquo;</p>
<p>After Kerley completed his Diamond League triple last year by winning the 100m at the Brussels meeting, a certain Twitter account posed a question.</p>
<p>&ldquo;So&hellip; which event will @fkerley99 focus on next year? Asking for a friend,&rdquo; wrote the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.</p>
<p>&ldquo;800,&rdquo; Kerley replied, followed by three laughing emojis. &ldquo;Naw I just playing.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Karen Rosen for World Athletics<br /><br /></strong></p>

World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

Fred Kerley is a threat to win any race he enters, no matter if it’s the 100m, the 200m or the 400m.

Versatile sprint force Kerley keeps Oregon options open

Two-time global medalist and University of Oregon alum Raevyn Rogers believes she’s just getting started 

Two-time global medalist Raevyn Rogers believes she’s just getting started 

<p>The local organizing committee (LOC) for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 has been working hard to develop and implement its sustainability plans for the event, some details of which were shared today in celebration of Earth Day.</p>
<p>The 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships will be held at the reimagined Hayward Field at the University of Oregon on July 15-24. This will be first time the World Athletics Championships are being held on U.S. soil.</p>
<p>One of the strategic initiatives for the LOC is to drive change, and part of that work is developing and executing a strong sustainability strategy that builds on the practices for which the state of Oregon is known.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We have the chance to set a new standard of sustainability for World Championships events, and we take that opportunity and responsibility to heart,&rdquo; said Sarah Massey, CEO of Oregon22, LCC. &ldquo;A key component of showcasing what makes Oregon so special is bringing sustainability into every aspect of the planning and delivery of this event.&rdquo;</p>
<p>WCH Oregon22 is working closely with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://bringrecycling.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BRING</a></strong></span>, a local nonprofit, to achieve its sustainability goals.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Working with BRING enhances and elevates our commitment to sustainability,&rdquo; Massey said. &ldquo;The expertise, breadth of knowledge in the local landscape, and creativity that we can tap into through BRING will undoubtedly enrich this event.&rdquo;</p>
<p>From an environmental sustainability standpoint, WCH Oregon22 is focusing on materials management, a strategy that looks at the lifecycle impacts of materials. This includes reducing toxic materials, reducing the number of materials, ensuring materials can be reused, and ensuring that what cannot be reused is recycled.&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;We have developed policies that support a sustainable materials management framework, meaning one that looks at the lifecycle impacts of materials and prioritizes those that prevent waste and toxics rather than emphasizing recycling alone,&rdquo; said BRING&rsquo;s Executive Director Carolyn Stein, who is working closely with the WCH Oregon22 team. &ldquo;For example, we are working with sign makers to prioritize materials that are less wasteful in the manufacturing process, or right sizing, as well as using the least toxic inks and designs that require minimal saturation.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The LOC will be launching a &ldquo;Bring Your Own Water Bottle&rdquo; campaign during the event. Fans, media, coaches, volunteers, and athletes are encouraged to bring their own empty water bottles and fill up at one of the many water stations that will be positioned around Hayward Field. There will be no restrictions on the size or dimensions of personal reusable bottles that people can bring into the stadium. In a significant effort to reduce the plastic waste associated with the World Championships, no single-use plastic water bottles will be sold inside the stadium.</p>
<p>The decision not to sell plastic water bottles in the stadium represents an unprecedented but necessary shift from previous large-scale sporting events.</p>
<p>Additionally, the LOC is working to minimize the impacts of transportation related to the operations of the event in several ways. Fans and participants will be encouraged to use alternative and active modes of transportation to get to the event, including walking and riding bicycles. Bike valets will be available as part of the event.</p>
<p>Reducing carbon emissions is also a top priority for the LOC in its sustainability strategy. In collaboration with local fuel providers, the use of renewable diesel, biodiesel blends, and ethanol will be prioritized for use in the buses, vans, and other large modes of transportation associated with the event. The LOC will also be purchasing 100 percent renewable power from the local utility company to power operations at event facilities.</p>
<p>WCH Oregon22 will be relying on the expertise of Lane County Master Recycler volunteers to assist food vendors in collecting food waste that will be sent to a local composting facility, rather than a landfill. Food service ware made from paper, or fibers, is a common waste material generated at large-scale events. All food service ware will be collected and sent to an advanced fiber processing facility and made into cardboard boxes.</p>
<p>The LOC has received BRING&rsquo;s Rethink certification and is working to achieve the Council for Responsible Sport&rsquo;s Evergreen status for the event.</p>
<p>Oregon&rsquo;s commitment to sustainability by local and statewide communities and organizations across all sectors created a foundation to support this vision, and it is through the collaborative work of sustainability experts and event operations specialists that this dedicated effort has been possible.</p>
<p>World Athletics, the international governing body for the sport of track and field, has also <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletics-better-world/news/world-athletics-earth-day-sustainability-requirements-sanctioned-events" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared details</a></strong></span> on their sustainability initiatives.</p>
<p>Sustainability plans will continue to be finalized in the lead-up to the World Championships. General event information on WCH Oregon22 can be found <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong></span>.</p>

The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 are prioritizing environmental sustainability for upcoming World Athletics Championships

WCH Oregon22 prioritizing environmental sustainability for upcoming World Athletics Championships

<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">John Geer has been to all but two World Athletics Championships.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Like many Americans who have attended most, if not all, of the previous World Athletics Championships, he looks toward this summer&rsquo;s event at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon with piqued curiosity.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">When the world&rsquo;s best descend on the reimagined Hayward Field for the 18</span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">th</span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"> iteration of the World Athletics Championships on July 15-24, it will be the first time the event will be held on U.S. soil. And it will only be the second time the event has been held in the Western Hemisphere &mdash;&nbsp; the first being Edmonton, Alberta, in 2001.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">When the world comes to Oregon this summer, it will see a unique </span><a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>event</strong></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&nbsp;&mdash; one held in a stadium dedicated to track and field, and in a city that is not a major global metropolis such as Rome, Paris, Berlin, or Tokyo.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Geer, 75, is a retired teacher who lives in San Carlos, California. Thanks to </span><strong><a href="https://trackandfieldnews.com/tours/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Track and Field News Tours</span></span></a></strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">, he&rsquo;s been to every Summer Olympics since the 1968 Mexico City Olympics except for the 1980 Moscow Olympics and last summer&rsquo;s Tokyo Olympics. He&rsquo;s also been to every World Athletics Championships except for 1997 in Athens, Greece, and 2019 in Doha, Qatar.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&ldquo;One of those things I am looking forward to is to see how many spectators attend this meet every day," Geer said via email.  &ldquo;This is a 10-day meet with no rest days, and I think it will be interesting to see who shows up for this World Championships.  By that I mean how many people from outside the United States will come to Eugene for these Championships.&rdquo;</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">One person who won&rsquo;t have to travel for the WCH Oregon22 is Mark Steinberg. The 66-year-old Eugene resident has been to every World Athletics Championships. The first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983 came between two Olympic boycotts &mdash; the U.S.-led Western boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, and the boycott by Eastern-bloc countries, such as the-then Soviet Union, of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&ldquo;I had the most anticipation and excitement for the first one,&rdquo; Steinberg said. &ldquo;The previous two Olympics and the following Olympics were diminished by boycotts. No boycotts for the first World Championships. All the top athletes were there.&rdquo;</span></div>
<div><a href="https://trackandfieldnews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Track &amp; Field News magazine</strong></span></span></a><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">, the self-proclaimed &ldquo;Bible of the Sport&rdquo; was created in 1948. In 1952, the first Track &amp; Field News Tour was launched to take people to the Helsinki Olympics. That first tour had 46 people on it. Four years later, when the Summer Olympics were in Melbourne, Australia, 69 people joined the tour. The tours were off and running.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Since 1952, Track &amp; Field News has been to every Summer Olympics except last summer&rsquo;s Tokyo Olympics because of the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Track &amp; Field News Tours has also taken people to every World Athletics Championships and will again this summer. Track &amp; Field News Tours include airfare, hotel lodging, and tickets to all sessions. This summer&rsquo;s World Championships tour is sold out, but there is a waiting list people can join for $150 in case anyone opts out.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Track &amp; Field News Tours does have openings for June&rsquo;s USATF Outdoor Championships on June 23-26, also at Hayward Field.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&ldquo;When you go to a World Championships and/or an Olympic Games, there are other factors besides the track and field that make that particular meet so memorable," Geer said. &ldquo;I love to travel, and track and field has helped me see a good part of our world.&rdquo;</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">One of the highlights of the Track &amp; Field News Tours is a gala group dinner party to which the world&rsquo;s best athletes are invited. Among the track and field royalty who have attended these parties and mixed with fans over the years include Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses, Michael Johnson, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mike Powell, Lee Evans, Ron Clarke, Bob Beamon, Dr. Roger Bannister, Tirunesh Dibaba, Justin Gatlin, Ashton Eaton, and Sanya Richards-Ross.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&ldquo;I've met a lot of great people through these tours,&rdquo; Geer said. &ldquo;When I started in 1968, I was 22 and one of the youngest people on the tour. Now, I seem to be one of the oldest on the tours.&rdquo;</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Ed Fox, 80, of Palo Alto, California, has been the Track &amp; Field News Tours leader since the 1970s. Two World Championships memories that stand out to Fox are the women&rsquo;s 1,500m and 3,000m victories by American Mary (Decker) Slaney in 1983, and Great Britain&rsquo;s </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi9KwAy5iQo" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Jonathan Edwards setting two men&rsquo;s triple jump</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"> world records in 1995 in Gothenburg, Sweden, when he became the first man to break 18m and 60 feet.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&ldquo;Our tour party in Helsinki in '83,&rdquo; was also a memorable moment, Fox said, listing Emil Zatopek, Carl Lewis, and Ron Clarke as guests of the gala dinner party that year.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Fans flocking to Hayward Field this summer are counting on seeing several moments that will be etched in history. Visitors to previous World Athletics Championships have witnessed some of track and field&rsquo;s greatest moments and rivalries from the epic men&rsquo;s long jump dual between </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFj6RzlWNtM" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Americans Mike Powell and Carl Lewis in 1991</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"> in Tokyo; to Usain Bolt&rsquo;s </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol9fiOAditk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">stunning world records in Berlin in 2009</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">; to the long-distance rivalry between the Ethiopians and Kenyans; to the 1-2 U.S. finish from Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs in the </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dCk4UYZEU" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">women&rsquo;s 3,000m steeplechase in London in 2017</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">; to the women&rsquo;s sprinting prowess of Jamaica&rsquo;s </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Yr1goBMCI" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"> and </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhBHIPUasjc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Allyson Felix</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none"> of the U.S.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&ldquo;Of course, I am looking forward to every single event &mdash; men and women,&rdquo; Geer said. &ldquo;I know the competition will be extreme and a lot of fun. I believe there will be at least one world record set in Eugene this July.  I am looking forward to seeing a lot of excellent track and field athletes in person.&rdquo;</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Mike Fanelli, 65, of Asti, California, said Eugene&rsquo;s love of track and field should make it a worthy World Athletics Championships host despite being the smallest host city.</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">&ldquo;As a major fan of the sport, more than any specific event or discipline, I mostly look forward to being in the Eugene big-meet environment,&rdquo; Fanelli said. &ldquo;Connecting with so many old friends from around the globe, morning runs on </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/listing/pres-trail/972/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">Pre's Trail</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">, quaffing post-meet microbrews while digesting all of that day's meet highlights while in the company of aficionados and athletes. You really just can't beat it.&rdquo;</span></div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">By Ashley Conklin</span></div>

Track and field fans excited to see World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon

Track fans excited to see World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at Hayward Field

<p>In partnership with ASICS, the local organizing committee (LOC) for the World Athletics Championships (WCH) Oregon22 is excited to announce the ASICS Uplift Oregon 5K, a mass participation race set to take place during the World Athletics Championships.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The ASICS Uplift Oregon 5K will take place on Sunday, July 17 during the men&rsquo;s marathon competition. An anticipated 2,000 runners will have the chance to race in the footsteps of the WCH Oregon22 competitors, running a 5K section of the same course on the same morning as the world's finest marathoners. ASICS will also play host to a two-day fan festival just steps from the finish featuring prime viewing, food vendors, athlete appearances and more. The men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s marathons will start and finish outside of Autzen Stadium on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.&nbsp;</p>
<p>"As a proud partner of World Athletics, we are excited to host the ASICS Uplift Oregon 5K during the World Athletics Championships Oregon22," said Richard Sullivan, President and CEO of ASICS North America. &ldquo;We are thrilled to offer runners this one-of-a-kind opportunity to experience the World Athletics Championships and create an environment for fans to join in the festivities with our fan festival just steps from the finish line.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This bespoke event is all about innovation and fan engagement, two of the main driving tenets of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22,&rdquo; said James Tolputt, COO of Oregon22, LLC. &ldquo;The incredible collaboration between the LOC and ASICS will enable us to bring to life a truly unique experience &ndash; one that will take place not just in the streets and parks of Eugene, but as part of the very footprint and fabric of these World Championships.&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Registration is now live and interested runners can register for the ASICS Uplift Oregon 5K <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://raceroster.com/events/2022/57460/uplift-oregon-5k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HERE</a></strong></span>. The entry fee for the race will be $50 and each runner will receive an ASICS Uplift Oregon 5K race T-shirt and bib.&nbsp; Participating runners are encouraged to use ASICS curated 5K training plans and guided workouts led by ASICS elite athletes. Training plans and guided workouts can be found <a href="https://runkeeper.com/cms/training/introducing-guided-workouts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a>.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Once runners complete the race, they will be ushered into the ASICS Uplift Oregon 5K Fan Festival, which will be located adjacent to the finish line. The fan festival is set to feature a big screen viewing experience, interactive recovery stations, post-race food and beverage options, social and shareable moments and much more. The fan festival will be open to the public during both the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s marathons and fans are encouraged to take advantage of this one-of-a-kind experience for witnessing those Championships races.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 will take place July 15&ndash;24; this iteration will mark the first time the event takes place on U.S. soil. General event information can be found <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>HERE</strong></span></a>. Further details regarding ASICS activations throughout the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 will be shared as the event approaches this summer.&nbsp;</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Oregon22, LLC</strong></span></p>
<p>Oregon22, LLC is the local organizing committee managing the 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships. The <a href="https://www.worldchampsoregon22.com/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>World Athletics Championships Oregon22</strong></span></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong> </strong></span>will be held at <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://hayward.uoregon.edu/">Hayward Field</a></strong></span> at the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.uoregon.edu/?utm_source=banner-module&amp;utm_campaign=banner">University of Oregon</a></strong></span> and will be delivered in partnership with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.usatf.org/">USA Track &amp; Field</a></strong></span>. It is the first time the competition will take place in the United States, with 2,000 athletes from more than 200 nations expected to compete July 15&ndash;24, 2022. Oregon22, LLC is committed to delivering an unmissable experience that will showcase the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://traveloregon.com/">State of Oregon</a></strong></span> and the sport of track and field globally.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>For more information, contact: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="mailto:media@worldchampsoregon22.com">media@worldchampsoregon22.com</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About ASICS</strong></span><br />Anima Sana In Corpore Sano, meaning "A Sound Mind in a Sound Body," is an old Latin phrase from which ASICS is derived and the fundamental platform on which the brand still stands. The company was founded more than 70 years ago by Kihachiro Onitsuka and is now a leading designer and manufacturer of performance athletic footwear, apparel and accessories. For more information, visit www.asics.com. Follow @ASICSamerica on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube for exclusive content and real-time news around ASICS products, events, and elite athletes.</p>
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ASICS Uplift Oregon 5K set to take place during the Men’s Marathon, a race within a race, utilizing the same course as the professional athletes

WCH Oregon22 and ASICS announce mass participation 5K race at World Athletics Championships

<p>The local organizing committee (LOC) for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (WCH Oregon22) is proud to announce that The Daily Mile Foundation supported by INEOS has officially signed on as an event supporter of WCH Oregon22, a collaboration that will come alive through the World Wide Welcome (WWW) Youth Relay. The deal has been concluded with World Athletics&rsquo; global commercial partner Dentsu Inc.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I am delighted to hear that The Daily Mile and the World Wide Welcome Youth Relay are partnering to maximize youth engagement opportunities for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 and beyond,&rdquo; said Oregon Governor Kate Brown. &ldquo;The programs bring people together as part of a global movement while improving health and wellbeing. I encourage educators and youth group leaders across the state to explore these programs with their students and kids.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Elaine Wyllie, Founder of The Daily Mile, said:</p>
<p>&ldquo;Working with the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, we hope to encourage children in Oregon, the rest of the U.S. and across the world to take part in The Daily Mile - a simple, free and effective way to improve wellbeing.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The Daily Mile is a simple, free, transformative initiative where children go outside to run, jog, roll or walk for fifteen minutes every day, in which time, most will average a mile or more.</p>
<p>Children and their teachers engage in the mile together, getting healthier while building relationships that result in better classroom management and academic performance. Today over 3 million children across 14,000 schools globally are now running a mile a day and now The Daily Mile is coming to the USA. And Oregon is leading the way.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The Daily Mile and the World Wide Welcome Youth Relay are a perfect match,&rdquo; said Sarah Massey, CEO of Oregon22, LLC. &ldquo;Both programs serve to encourage healthy activity in the younger generation, and we couldn&rsquo;t be prouder to collectively build this into the lead-up to these World Athletics Championships.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The WWW Youth Relay invites schools, youth program groups, or youth track teams across the globe to join together in welcoming the nations of the world to Oregon by taking on a one-mile leg of&nbsp;a relay that will span over the 100-day countdown to WCH Oregon22.&nbsp;Youth of all abilities and fitness levels are encouraged to participate&nbsp;by running, jogging, walking, utilizing adaptive equipment, or using other accommodations.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Each leg of the youth relay is dedicated to one of the 200-plus global track and field teams on their way to WCH Oregon22.&nbsp;Groups are assigned a nation to welcome; receive a relay leg kit&nbsp;and have the chance to submit a welcome message for their paired global nation that will be shared with these international athletes come event-time.</p>
<p>The Daily Mile and the WWW Youth Relay will be working together to engage new schools and community groups across Oregon in free youth engagement opportunities. The Daily Mile will present the finale of the WWW Youth Relay, which will be held as a community leg at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon on July 15, the opening day of WCH Oregon22.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About Oregon22, LLC</strong></span><br />Oregon22, LLC is the local organizing committee managing the 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.worldchampsoregon22.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics Championships Oregon22</a></strong></span> will be held at <a href="https://hayward.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Hayward Field</strong></span></a> at the <a href="https://www.uoregon.edu/?utm_source=banner-module&amp;utm_campaign=banner" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>University of Oregon</strong></span></a> and will be delivered in partnership with <a href="https://www.usatf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>USA Track &amp; Field</strong></span></a>. It is the first time the competition will take place in the United States, with 2,000 athletes from more than 200 nations expected to compete July 15&ndash;24, 2022. Oregon22, LLC is committed to delivering an unmissable experience that will showcase the <a href="https://traveloregon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>State of Oregon</strong></span></a> and the sport of track and field globally.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>For more information, contact: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="mailto:media@worldchampsoregon22.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media@worldchampsoregon22.com</a></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About The Daily Mile</strong></span><br /><a href="https://thedailymile.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mile</a> was first developed by Elaine Wyllie MBE when she was Principal of St Ninian&rsquo;s Primary School in Stirling, in February 2012. Since 2016, The Daily Mile Foundation has been supported by INEOS, which has enabled the free initiative to grow globally helping millions of kids to get active every day.</p>
<p>The initiative is simple &ndash; but can be transformational to children&rsquo;s health and wellbeing. It involves classes heading outside to jog or run around the school grounds for 15-minutes every day, at whatever pace suits the child best. It gets children active with their friends and teachers and refreshed for further learning. The Daily Mile is free, simple and effective and fits in the school day easily.</p>
<p>Though named &ldquo;The Daily Mile&rdquo; (as children tend to average running a mile in the 15-minutes), the distance isn&rsquo;t compulsory, and the ethos of the scheme is of inclusivity, enjoyment, and self-improvement over time. The Daily Mile is intended to help all children, no matter their age, ability or personal circumstances, enjoy getting active every day &ndash; getting fitter and healthier now, but also developing healthy habits for a lifetime.</p>
<p><strong>Media Contacts</strong> <br />Andrew McLachlan&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="mailto:andrew@mediazoo.tv">andrew@mediazoo.tv</a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 07931377162<br />Katy Thompson&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="mailto:katy.thompson@mediazoo.tv">katy.thompson@mediazoo.tv</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 07872927359<br />Eve Debbage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="mailto:eve.debbage@mediazoo.tv">eve.debbage@mediazoo.tv</a>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;07713336937</p>
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World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (WCH Oregon22) is proud to announce that The Daily Mile Foundation supported by INEOS has officially signed on as an event supporter of WCH Oregon22, a collaboration that will come alive through the Making Tracks World Wide Welcome (WWW) Youth Relay.

The Daily Mile to partner with the World Athletics Championships Oregon22

<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">A social awakening surrounding race began in the United States in late May 2020, spurred by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">But Taliyah Brooks was&nbsp;calling for change long before it was the &ldquo;in&rdquo; thing to do.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">The </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/sport/w-track/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">University of Arkansas</span></a></strong></span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"> graduate &ndash; who has a master&rsquo;s degree in communications and a minor in legal studies &ndash; wrote her master&rsquo;s project a few years earlier about athletes protesting.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;I wrote about Muhammad Ali, Colin Kaepernick and about teaching young kids about athletes protesting,&rdquo; Brooks said. &ldquo;I graduated with my master&rsquo;s degree in 2018, so that was something I was passionate about before.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">As a biracial professional track and field athlete, it was natural for Brooks to lend her voice to the conversation personally, and online.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;When all of that came to the forefront in 2020, I was able to do something good for my community in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and use the platform I have on social media to share the things that are important to me, and people of color, and things that I wanted people to see,&rdquo; she said.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Brooks took to social media, where she currently reaches an audience of nearly 70,000 between Instagram and Twitter as @love_tbrooks, to share the horrifying hardships her family has faced.</span>&nbsp;</div>
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<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">As the daughter of a Black father and white mother, the now 27-year-old Brooks has unique experiences to share from the oft-overlooked lens of being light-skinned.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;I think a lot of times people think biracial people don&rsquo;t go through struggles that full-blown African American people go through,&rdquo; Brooks explained. &ldquo;We have our own set of struggles, and we don&rsquo;t really get in with either crowd.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;I think that it&rsquo;s important for people to understand that, first of all, I do identify as Black, but also that my experiences aren&rsquo;t lessened because I&rsquo;m mixed. No matter the tone of your skin, you can still face hardships based off the color of your skin.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
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<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Brooks is a rising star in a sport that is traditionally diverse. The Wichita Falls, Texas, native was an eight-time all-American for the Razorbacks. She won the pentathlon at the 2018 NCAA indoor championships, and made NCAA championships podiums four other times in events ranging from the long jump to the heptathlon.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">She is attempting to qualify for her first World Athletics Championships team with the goal of competing in the heptathlon this summer at World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at the reimagined </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://hayward.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hayward Field</a></strong></span> <span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">at the University of Oregon.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just an amazing space,&rdquo; Brooks, who has competed there seven times already, said of the revered Eugene, Oregon, venue. &ldquo;The fans are always into all of the events. If you&rsquo;re somewhere else, people might not be into the multis or into the throws, but there, people are into everything, and it makes meets a lot more fun. They&rsquo;re out there at 10 a.m. with us or waiting for the 800-meter with us, and so it&rsquo;s a lot of fun competing in front of those fans.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Her personal best heptathlon score is 6,252 points; it took a score of 6,610 to make the U.S. World Championships team in 2019 and a score of 6,667 points to make the team for the Tokyo Olympics.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;It would mean a lot to make it, especially coming off the year I had last year,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I would just like to show people you can keep fighting and persevere even when things don&rsquo;t go your way.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Brooks was in second place after the first day of the heptathlon at the </span><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="none">U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track and Field last summer and in second place with two events remaining. However, Brooks was overcome by the oppressive heat on the final day of competition and was forced to medically withdraw from the heptathlon.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">If she makes it back to Hayward Field, Brooks will likely show up sporting a Black Lives Matter patch, something she did for much of the 2021 outdoor season, including at the U.S. Olympic Trials, with the support of her sponsor ASICS.</span>&nbsp;</div>
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<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a reminder,&rdquo; Brooks said. &ldquo;When I&rsquo;m on camera, being announced, it&rsquo;s just a simple touch for people to see on the TV.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">ASICS also supported Brooks by overnighting T-shirts for the &ldquo;Fayetteville in Living Color&rdquo; event she hosted in June 2020.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Brooks and former Arkansas Razorback Markus Ballengee attended a Black Lives Matter protest in Fayetteville and then, after coming up empty in a search for more events in the community, they planned their own &ndash; in just 10 days.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">The event was promoted as &ldquo;bringing unity to the NWA (Northwest Arkansas) area while bringing awareness to the Black Lives Matter movement and social equality for ALL people.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;It was probably the most stressful thing I&rsquo;ve ever done in my life, and it turned out to be a lot bigger than we thought,&rdquo; Brooks shared. &ldquo;We thought it was just going to be a low-key type of event, but we had the mayor there, we had a voter registration table there, the local police officers were in attendance, there were food trucks.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">The community raised over $6,000 that went directly to the Northwest Arkansas African American Heritage Association, which focuses on promoting and preserving the legacies of Black people in the area.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">During the event, a group of artists painted a massive mural on the side of a building. It includes such slogans as &ldquo;Black Trans Lives Matter,&rdquo; &ldquo;Police Reform Now,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The Children Are Watching.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s just a reminder that we are headed in the right direction, but we still have a lot of work to do,&rdquo; Brooks said. &ldquo;Every time I drive past it, I think, &lsquo;I can&rsquo;t believe I was responsible for that,&rsquo; and it looks so pretty and it&rsquo;s bright and people love it. I see them driving by and taking pictures &ndash; it&rsquo;s just really cool to see.&rdquo;</span>&nbsp;</div>
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<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Preparing for the Olympic Trials made it difficult for Brooks to put on &ldquo;Fayetteville in Living Color&rdquo; in 2021, but she still hopes to bring it back and make it an annual event.</span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">In the meantime, with the calendar pages quickly turning to WCH Oregon22, Brooks continues to prepare for her next opportunity to make a global U.S. team &ndash; this time on home soil. </span>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">By Brandon Penny</span>&nbsp;</div>
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Taliyah Brooks focused on making first global championship team, social justice 

Taliyah Brooks focusing on making first global championship team, social justice

<p>There was perhaps no better indication of Marybeth Sant-Price&rsquo;s inexperience on the global stage than when she took to the podium at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22.</p>
<p>The US sprinter&rsquo;s name was announced, but she hesitated before stepping on to the platform, looking around for some sort of confirmation that that&rsquo;s what she was supposed to do. After a brief nod and smile from her fellow medallists, Sant-Price took her place on the podium and received her bronze medal.</p>
<p>Those hesitant and uncertain few steps on to the podium were somewhat symbolic of the journey she had been on to reach that point.<br /><br /></p>
<p><img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62556a51192cf24aa77910d1.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /></p>
<p><br />Sant-Price&rsquo;s speed was initially discovered on the soccer pitch when she was 10 years old. Raised in the town of Parker, Colorado, she attended Valor Christian High School where she made a name for herself on the school&rsquo;s athletics team.</p>
<p>Before turning 18, and while in her final year of high school, Sant-Price reached the 60m final at the 2013 senior US Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, clocking a PB of 7.36. Outdoors, she went on to clock a 100m PB of 11.25 &ndash; the fastest time in the world by an U20 athlete that year.</p>
<p>She also earned an invitation to compete in the high school girls&rsquo; race at the Diamond League meeting in New York, where she placed second, just 0.03 behind Ky Westbrook, who went on to win the world U18 title that year. In a highly competitive field, Sant-Price beat several athletes who went on to achieve great things in the years that followed, including 2021 Olympic 4x100m silver medallist Javianne Oliver, 2014 world U20 200m champion Kaylin Whitney, 2017 world 4x100m champion Aaliyah Brown, and world indoor 60m silver medallist Mikiah Brisco.</p>
<p>But instead of thriving after that season like her fellow competitors, Sant-Price started to struggle.</p>
<p>She was recruited by the University of Oregon at the end of 2013 and she competed on the collegiate circuit throughout 2014. She became the university&rsquo;s lead leg runner in the 4x100m, teaming up with Phyllis Francis, Jenna Prandini and Jasmine Todd. But towards the end of that season, Sant-Price was diagnosed with a stress fracture in her right foot.</p>
<p>The 2015 season played out in similar fashion. Oregon reached the 4x100m final at the NCAA Championships on home soil in Eugene, and Sant-Price ran a strong lead leg for the hosts, but a botched second exchange ended in a disqualification for the team.</p>
<p>Further disappointment came when Sant-Price was diagnosed with another stress fracture, this time in her left shin. A follow-up bone density scan confirmed she had osteopenia (weak bones).</p>
<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s when the doctor said to me, &lsquo;for your health further down the road, I think you should consider medically retiring&rsquo;,&rdquo; recalls Sant-Price. &ldquo;So I did; I listened, and I took two years off.&rdquo;</p>
<p>She was put on a &lsquo;medical&rsquo; break, which allowed her to retain her scholarship while continuing to receive treatment for her injuries.</p>
<p>During her time away from competition, she called Karim Abdel Wahab, the sprints coach at Colorado State University (CSU), who had shown interest in Sant-Price when she was a high school athlete. Her sisters, Kristen and Emily, had also studied at CSU, so Sant-Price was familiar with the institution. But Brian Bedard, the head coach at CSU, was somewhat reluctant because of Sant-Price&rsquo;s unproven collegiate seasons to date.</p>
<p>Bedard asked Sant-Price to do a time trial in the summer of 2017 and told her that if she broke 12 seconds then she could join the squad. After Sant-Price clocked just 12.4, Wahab asked Bedard to reconsider and Sant-Price was eventually welcomed on to the team.<br /><br /></p>
<p><img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62556abf192cf24aa77910d7.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /></p>
<p><br />&ldquo;My time at Oregon was a really tough period of my life,&rdquo; says Sant-Price. &ldquo;There was definitely a point in time where I thought I&rsquo;d never be where I am now. In about 2016, when I was told to medically retire, I thought that I was done. And once I thought I was done, I thought I was never going to reach my goals and dreams and the things I knew I was capable of.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Once I started at Colorado State University and decided to return to track, I feel like that&rsquo;s where my comeback started.&rdquo;</p>
<p>A bone density scan in late 2017 showed clear progress and Sant-Price was given the all-clear to resume training and competing. Although she didn&rsquo;t set any PBs in 2018, her first full season at CSU, she was simply pleased and relieved to be back competing, doing what she loves most.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;d say 2019 was the turning point for me and things started moving in a positive direction,&rdquo; says Sant-Price, who is married to Hunter Price, a decathlete with a PB of 8035 and a fourth-place finish at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships.</p>
<p>When Wahab got a coaching job at South Carolina and left CSU, Sant-Price started training with Ryan Baily, the combined events coach at CSU (not to be confused with the former international sprinter with a similar name), and they clicked almost immediately.</p>
<p>Sant-Price set 60m PBs in her early season races, reducing her best to 7.31, then 7.26 and 7.18. For the first time in her career, she earned an individual spot at the NCAA Indoor Championships, where she competed in the 60m.</p>
<p>Her collegiate career concluded at the outdoor NCAA Championships later that year, where she competed in the 4x100m. CSU may not have reached the finals, but their relay team safely got the baton around in their heat, which went some way towards banishing the demons of Sant-Price&rsquo;s NCAAs experience from four years prior.<br /><br /></p>
<p><img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62556a95192cf24aa77910d4.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /></p>
<h2><br />World stage</h2>
<p>With her collegiate career &ndash; and her injuries &ndash; finally behind her, Sant-Price embarked on a professional career in 2020.</p>
<p>She competed outside the US for the first time, earning top-five finishes at races in Karlsruhe, Paris and Dusseldorf, and then finished sixth at the US Indoor Championships in Albuquerque &ndash; her highest placing at a national championships.</p>
<p>The Covid-19 pandemic effectively put an end to her 2020 competitive campaign, but she re-emerged in 2021, gradually chipping away at her times before clocking a 100m PB of 11.09. It was an ideal launch pad for the 2022 season.</p>
<p>Sant-Price&rsquo;s early season outings were encouraging to say the least. In mid-December last year, she set 60m PBs of 7.15 and 7.12. In January she set world-leading times of 7.11 and 7.08, then went even quicker in Fayetteville in February, running 7.06 and 7.04 to move into the top 30 on the world indoor all-time list.</p>
<p>Because she was still something of an unknown name internationally, she wasn&rsquo;t invited to compete on the international circuit, so all of her races were at collegiate invitational meetings. But Sant-Price was undeterred.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The race in Arkansas really showed me and taught me more about where I&rsquo;m at, the confidence I have in myself, and how fun this whole journey has been,&rdquo; she said at the time.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />She finished second at the US Indoor Championships in 7.08, earning a spot on the US team for the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22. And her good form continued in the Serbian capital, winning her heat (7.07), placing second in her semifinal (7.05) and finishing third in a highly competitive and high quality final in an equal PB of 7.04, just behind Mujinga Kambundji and Mikiah Brisco.</p>
<p>In an extremely close finish, four women clocked 7.04 and had to be separated by a photofinish. Sant-Price was two thousandths of a second ahead of pre-event favourite Ewa Swoboda. She also beat the likes of Olympic 100m bronze medallist Shericka Jackson and double world U20 champion Briana Williams.</p>
<p>All the pent-up determination and frustration from her years on the sidelines could well have been what gave Sant-Price the edge over her competitors in that close finish.</p>
<p>&ldquo;It has taken a lot of determination and confidence to mentally and physically get back to the point where I&rsquo;m at now,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m really proud of myself and how I went out and competed. It&rsquo;s my first senior team and my first World Championships, so I&rsquo;m happy to be on the podium.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I feel very proud of myself for how I handled the whole situation. We had three rounds and it was a long day, but I came out and competed really well &ndash; even though, physically, my hip didn&rsquo;t feel 100%. I still showed up and performed and that really gave me a lot of confidence.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I feel so vindicated and excited for outdoors and ready for what is next,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;And I know there&rsquo;s more, so that&rsquo;s even more exciting.&rdquo;</p>
<h2>Surprise package</h2>
<p>Usually when Sant-Price tells people she does athletics, they assume she competes in middle or long distances.</p>
<p>Standing at just 1.55m tall (5ft 1in), Sant-Price doesn&rsquo;t look like a typical sprinter. But she enjoys challenging people&rsquo;s perceptions of what a power-based athlete should be.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />&ldquo;I just don&rsquo;t look the part for a sprinter, but that drives me and makes me excited,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;I like to go out and prove to people that you don&rsquo;t have to look a certain way; if you have a talent, you have a talent. I&rsquo;m tiny, but I like to go out there and compete and use my talent.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But with a global medal now in her possession, it won&rsquo;t be long before the wider athletics world starts to take note of the deceptively strong and speedy Sant-Price.</p>
<p>The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 is a huge goal for her. Not just because it&rsquo;s a global event on home soil; but because it is also where, back in 2015, her career as a promising collegiate sprinter started to unravel. To say Sant-Price has unfinished business at Hayward Field is an understatement.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Never let anyone define your path,&rdquo; says Sant-Price, who is still unsponsored but currently exploring her options. &ldquo;I feel like I&rsquo;m just touching my potential, and I could have been done a long time ago.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />&ldquo;The possibilities are endless and I&rsquo;m just going to take it meet by meet. I think my form from the indoor season is going to translate really well. I feel like I&rsquo;m running confidently now, I&rsquo;m running healthy now, and I&rsquo;m really excited to see what I can do outdoors.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I feel vindicated now, but I want to feel vindicated in Oregon this year. I want to go back and be on US soil, especially in Eugene where I originally started, and prove to myself and to everybody else that I belong, I&rsquo;m ready and I&rsquo;m here.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics</strong></p>

With years of injuries now behind her, the US sprinter hopes to keep surprising people

Following global medal in Belgrade, Sant-Price ready to prove she belongs on world stage

<p>Ruth Chepngetich will defend her marathon title at the <strong>World Athletics Championships Oregon22</strong> in July.</p>
<p>The 27-year-old leads the four-strong women&rsquo;s team for Oregon, while Geoffrey Kamworor will contest his first major championship marathon as part of the men&rsquo;s squad.</p>
<p>As Chepngetich gets a wild card entry by virtue of being the defending champion, Kenya will be represented by seven athletes in the marathon events.</p>
<p>Chepngetich claimed the first gold medal of the World Championships in Doha in 2019, clocking 2:32:43 to gain her first major gold. She went on to win the Bank of America Chicago Marathon last October and then was just 10 seconds off her PB when winning the Nagoya Women's Marathon in 2:17:18 last month &ndash; the second-fastest ever women-only marathon.</p>
<p>In Oregon she will be joined by Maureen Jepkemoi, Judith Jeptum and Angela Tanui. Jeptum set a French all-comers&rsquo; record of 2:19:48 to win the Paris Marathon on Sunday, while Tanui won the 2021 TCS Amsterdam Marathon in 2:17:57.</p>
<p>After world medal wins in track, cross country and half marathon events, Kamworor will look to add further success to a marathon CV that so far includes two wins in New York and a PB of 2:05:23 set in Valencia in December.</p>
<p>Lining up alongside the three-time world half marathon champion and two-time world senior cross country winner in Oregon will be Olympic marathon fourth-place finisher Lawrence Cherono and Barnabas Kiptum, with Geoffrey Kirui named as a reserve.</p>
<h2>Kenyan marathon team for Oregon</h2>
<p><strong>Women: </strong>Ruth Chepngetich, Maureen Jepkemoi, Judith Jeptum, Angela Tanui<br /><strong>Men: </strong>Lawrence Cherono, Geoffrey Kamworor, Barnabas Kiptum, Geoffrey Kirui (reserve)</p>

Ruth Chepngetich will defend her marathon title at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 in July.

Chepngetich and Kamworor lead Kenya's marathon team for Oregon

<p>The local organizing committee for the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics Championships Oregon22</a></strong></span> is today celebrating 100 days to go until the start of competition for the spectacular global event.</p>
<p>The 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships will be held on U.S. soil for the first time, taking place July 15&ndash;24 at the reimagined <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://hayward.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hayward Field</a></strong></span> at the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Oregon</a></strong></span>. Tickets for WCH Oregon22 can be purchased <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/ticketing-info" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong></span>. Some sessions have already sold out, with tickets selling fast for other sessions. The complete schedule of events can be found <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/timetable" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a></strong></span>.</p>
<p>&ldquo;We are very excited to mark this milestone of 100 days until we welcome the world to Oregon,&rdquo; said Sarah Massey, CEO of Oregon22, LLC. &ldquo;We are now in the final push to the World Athletics Championships, and we cannot wait for the action to begin and to experience history-making moments with fans and participants from across the state, the country, and the globe.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Events are being held Friday in Portland in conjunction with the 100 days to go milestone. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/heritage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Museum of World Athletics</a></strong></span> (MOWA) will officially open their in-person heritage exhibit connected to WCH Oregon22 in Pioneer Place. The exhibit will be a stunning visual experience celebrating the sport of track and field and its history. MOWA also has a 3D fully virtual museum of athletics that takes people on an interactive journey through the history of athletics, highlighting legends of the sport including Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Irena Szewinska, Carl Lewis, Marie-Jose Perec, Jan Zelezny, Allyson Felix, and Usain Bolt.</p>
<p>On Friday, Portland will also be the site of the first leg of the <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/making-tracks/worldwidewelcome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">W<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>orld Wide Welcome (WWW) Youth Relay</strong></span></a>. Each leg of the relay will be dedicated to one of the 200-plus global track and field teams that will be making their way to WCH Oregon22. Registered youth groups are assigned a nation to welcome; receive a relay leg kit including an official WWW relay baton, banners, and flags; and have the chance to submit a welcome message for their paired nation that will be shared with athletes in the athlete village at WCH Oregon22. Registration for the WWW Youth Relay is still open <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/making-tracks/worldwidewelcome">here</a>.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, the second video in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/event-info/next-stop-oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Next Stop Oregon</a></strong></span> campaign was released. So far, the campaign has highlighted star U.S. athletes <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyy325Akq5U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Devon Allen</a></strong></span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a class="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVcGQ8tIz5c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taliyah Brooks</a></strong></span>, with more to come over the course of the next month.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Our team has been working hard to develop plans and programming to make this event the best of all Worlds,&rdquo; said Massey. &ldquo;From youth engagement to the athlete experience, from in-stadium innovations to digital transformation, we are aiming to be the new blueprint for the hosting of major sports championships in the future.&rdquo;</p>
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<h4><br />About Oregon22, LLC&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</h4>
<p>Oregon22, LLC is the local organizing committee managing the 18th edition of the World Athletics Championships. The <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.worldchampsoregon22.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Athletics ChampionshipsOregon22</a></strong></span> will be held at <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://hayward.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hayward Field</a></strong></span> at the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.uoregon.edu/?utm_source=banner-module&amp;utm_campaign=banner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Oregon</a></strong></span> and will be delivered in partnership with <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.usatf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Track &amp; Field</a></strong></span>. It is the first time the competition will take place in the United States, with 2,000 athletes from more than 200 nations expected to compete July 15&ndash;24, 2022. Oregon22, LLC is committed to delivering an unmissable experience that will showcase the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://traveloregon.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State of Oregon </a></strong></span>and the sport of track and field globally.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>For more information, contact: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="mailto:media@worldchampsoregon22.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media@worldchampsoregon22.com</a></strong></span></p>

The local organizing committee for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 is today celebrating 100 days to go until the start of competition for the spectacular global event.

100 days to go until World Athletics Championships Oregon22

<p>TDK Corporation has announced its official partnership with the world&rsquo;s most prestigious track and field event, the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.</p>
<p>Taking place 100 days from now, global athletes will come together from 15-24 July at the renowned Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, for a celebration of diversity, human potential, and athletic achievement. In recent years, technology has transformed the sports industry and athletic potential through electronics and sensor solutions that help perfect movement, track performance, and enhance communications.</p>
<p>This is the first time the World Athletics Championships will be hosted in the United States, and TDK has a long tradition, sponsoring the World Championships since the inaugural event in Helsinki in 1983.</p>
<p>Approximately 2000 top athletes from more than 200 countries will compete in 49 disciplines. TDK is proud to support global athletes who are pushing their personal limits, sponsoring the men&rsquo;s events, and presenting $100,000 to any male athlete who breaks a world record. The women&rsquo;s world record programme will be supported by a different partner of World Athletics.</p>
<p>In addition, LED boards powered by a TDK-Lambda power supply product will be at the 100m start line and around the stadium.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />TDK&rsquo;s main sponsoring activities include:</p>
<p>&bull; The TDK-Lambda AC-DC converter will be used as the power-supply device for the LED board at the race start line for 100m.</p>
<p>&bull; A movie titled &lsquo;Start Believing in Yourself&rsquo; that will project on the LED boards to showcase TDK's support toward not only the athletes, but everyone who is about to make a new start.</p>
<p>&bull; A <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.tdk.com/en/athletic/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">page on TDK's website</a></strong></span> that includes exclusive content including current and past winners, world records, and the relationship between athletics and electronic components, as well as the aforementioned video.</p>
<p>TDK will continue to leverage the competence in technology it has acquired in its cooperation with the WCH Oregon 22 for future projects. A sweepstakes for tickets will be held in the United States; more details coming soon.</p>

TDK is proud to support global athletes who are pushing their personal limits

TDK supports World Athletics Championships Oregon22 through official partner activities

<p>There are just 100 days to go until the <strong>World Athletics Championships Oregon22</strong> and the outdoor season starts in earnest this weekend when the 2022 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold calendar kicks off in Bermuda.</p>
<p>The World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 closed the curtain on an action-packed indoor season, with some riveting rivalries and record-breaking brilliance setting the scene for all there is still to look forward to as we transition from one season to the next.</p>
<p>So, what have the past few months told us about the World Championships season to come? We take a look at the current state of play.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Renewed rivalries</h2>
<p>Mu vs Hodgkinson, Holloway vs Allen, Thompson-Herah vs Thomas, Duplantis vs Nilsen&hellip; need we go on? Recent action has made some of the hottest head-to-heads even more tantalising and the outdoor season offers plenty of opportunity for those rivalries to be renewed.</p>
<p>Last year&rsquo;s top two will be picking up from where they left off during the Olympic season when they clash outdoors over 800m again. USA&rsquo;s Athing Mu is the Olympic 800m champion who chose not to do a full indoor season. Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson is the Olympic silver medallist who was among the favourites for the world indoor title until injury forced her to withdraw. So far, the pair have met just twice over two laps &ndash; once in the Olympic final and once at the Prefontaine Classic &ndash; with Mu winning on both occasions.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I am sure in the next couple of years, we are definitely going to push each other,&rdquo; said Mu after her Olympic win. &ldquo;That (world) record is going to go down, just because we are good athletes.&rdquo;<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />Grant Holloway equalled his own world indoor 60m hurdles record in the semifinals in Belgrade, while such is the US strength in the event, Devon Allen didn&rsquo;t manage to qualify. They led the 110m hurdles world top list 12.81 to 12.99 in 2021. With a World Championships on home soil this season, they will be racing to prove they are the best in their country, as well as the best in the world. Holloway leads their head-to-head, 7-2.</p>
<p>Jamaica&rsquo;s five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah used the indoor season to work on her start, running a 60m season&rsquo;s best of 7.04 in Torun. Gabby Thomas raced just once over the distance on the boards and has already turned her attention to outdoor action, clocking a wind-assisted 21.69 for 200m at the Texas Relays. They topped the 200m season list last year, with Thompson-Herah&rsquo;s 21.53 No.1 ahead of Thomas&rsquo;s 21.61. Thompson-Herah won the Olympic 200m title and Thomas bagged bronze. The Jamaican leads their head-to-head for the distance at 3-0 but with their focus on the World Championships in Oregon, how much will the home advantage count for?<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />Mondo Duplantis is the world pole vault record-holder, the Swedish star who raised his global mark to 6.20m to win the world indoor title in Belgrade. Chris Nilsen is the rising US talent who earlier this year set a North American indoor record of 6.05m, elevating him to fifth on the world indoor all-time list. Duplantis rarely loses, but Nilsen has inflicted two defeats on the Swede in recent years, and earned silver medals behind Duplantis at both the World Indoor Championships and Olympics. It will be intriguing to see what they are both capable of as they continue to push each other to new heights.</p>
<p>Want to learn more about the rivalries involving your favourite athletes? Head to their <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes-home">World Athletics profile</a></strong></span> and check out the &lsquo;head-to-head&rsquo; tool.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>World record-breakers</h2>
<p>Four athletes achieved world records during the indoor season &ndash; Duplantis in the pole vault, Grant Holloway in the 60m hurdles, Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1500m and Yulimar Rojas in the triple jump. Now the world waits to see what they can do outdoors.</p>
<p>It took Duplantis two years and 54 attempts to raise his own world record to 6.19m in Belgrade. His improvement to 6.20m in the same Serbian city took just two weeks and three attempts. The man with an outdoor best of 6.15m will be looking to maintain that momentum as he works towards a world outdoor title.<br /><br /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62379e01c7114dce1c0608fd.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /><br /><em>Mondo Duplantis and Grant Holloway at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 (&copy; Getty Images)</em><br /><img src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6236f968391aba627ef3f0c9.jpg" alt="" width="100%" /></p>
<p><br />Holloway is consistent. Consistently great. In 2021 he broke Colin Jackson&rsquo;s world indoor 60m hurdles record with 7.29 in Madrid. A year later he equalled it en route to winning the world indoor title. How will that translate to the 110m hurdles? In 2021 he improved to 12.81 &ndash; the fastest time in the world that year and a mark just 0.01 off Aries Merritt&rsquo;s world record set in 2012.</p>
<p>Running 3:30.60 in Lievin on 17 February, Olympic champion Ingebrigtsen took almost half a second off the previous world indoor 1500m record set by Samuel Tefera in 2019. &ldquo;This is my first world record,&rdquo; he said at the time. &ldquo;Hopefully, more will come.&rdquo; His outdoor best is the 3:28.32 European record he ran to get his Olympic gold, a mark that puts him eighth on a world all-time list topped by Hicham El Guerrouj&rsquo;s 3:26.00 from 1998.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />First she jumped 15.43m to break the world indoor record in Madrid, then she leapt 15.67m outdoors to win the Olympic title. Then, 13 months after her magnificent Madrid mark, she did it again, soaring 15.74m for an outright world record at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade. Rojas is the undisputed triple jump queen and 16 metres is in her sights.<br /><br /></p>
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<h2>Unfinished business</h2>
<p>The indoor season didn&rsquo;t go to plan for everyone. Shot put star Ryan Crouser had gone to Belgrade on the hunt for his first world indoor medal but despite his dominance, records and Olympic titles, he had to settle for a second world silver, finishing runner-up to Brazil&rsquo;s Darlan Romani.</p>
<p>How will he respond? Getting gold on home soil in Oregon would go some way towards redemption.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m from the US so obviously, the outdoor championships is something I am coming for,&rdquo; he said in Belgrade. &ldquo;This is something that gives me an extra motivation and I hope I stay injury free and will get ready for the next major championships on home soil."</p>
<p>Like Crouser, Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson had been a big Belgrade favourite in her event, the 800m. She had improved to 1:57.20 in Birmingham the month prior, breaking the British indoor record and moving to sixth on the world indoor all-time list, and was ready to go for her first global gold. At least, most of her was. The recurrence of a quad injury put paid to those plans and she withdrew as a precaution, in view of the busy season ahead. Fully fit and with some top competition to challenge her, Hodgkinson could soon be making even more history.</p>
<p>Having made the decision to compete in Belgrade just five days before the competition, Gianmarco Tamberi couldn&rsquo;t be too disappointed with bronze &ndash; and another shared medal &ndash; in Belgrade, but the charismatic high jumper will be looking to return to the sort of form that saw him claim joint Olympic gold when he returns to global competition in Oregon.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />He cleared 2.37m to win his Olympic title alongside Mutaz Barshim and had a best of 2.31m to bag bronze alongside Hamish Kerr in Belgrade.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I saw the results of all the guys who planned to be in Belgrade and thought the level wasn't so high. How wrong I was,&rdquo; he said in Belgrade. &ldquo;At least I fulfilled my goal to take a medal here. It was a great experience and a good kick-off for a very important season.&rdquo;</p>
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<h2>MIA</h2>
<p>Adding another layer of intrigue is that a number of 2021&rsquo;s stars decided not to compete indoors, saving themselves instead for another outdoor season with so much to fight for.</p>
<p>The women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles events were both taken to another level last year and all the leading contenders will have fresh focus as they return to the track in 2022.</p>
<p>USA&rsquo;s Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad have pushed each other to new limits over the past few years, Muhammad beating McLaughlin to win the 2019 world title in a world record of 52.16 and McLaughlin turning the tables at last year&rsquo;s US Olympic Trials and Tokyo Games, setting respective world records of 51.90 and 51.46 at each.<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />Both athletes sat out the indoor season, as did last year&rsquo;s men&rsquo;s top two: Norway&rsquo;s Karsten Warholm and USA&rsquo;s Rai Benjamin. Benjamin replaced Warholm as No.2 on the world all-time list with a 46.83 run at the 2021 US Olympic Trials but Warholm responded with 46.70 to break the world record just five days later. In Tokyo, both athletes improved even further, Warholm winning in 45.94 to Benjamin&rsquo;s 46.17.</p>
<p>Now they all have world titles to race for, on home soil for McLaughlin, Muhammad and Benjamin&hellip;</p>
<p>Another electric head-to-head in 2021 was the clash of Dutch star Sifan Hassan and Kenyan great Faith Kipyegon, who traded victories over 1500m before Kipyegon retained her Olympic title in the event in Tokyo and Hassan claimed bronze to go with her wins in the 5000m and 10,000m. They last met at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich, where Kipyegon won the 1500m title ahead of Hassan, and the Diamond League series together with the Continental Tour calendar will give them plenty of high-profile rematch opportunities when they return to competition.</p>
<p>USA&rsquo;s Olympic 800m champion Athing Mu might have restricted her indoor action to a couple of mile races but she&rsquo;s already easing nicely into her outdoor season, where world gold on home soil is the aim. After running 1:24.13 for 600m in Arizona, she went on to clock a 50.26 leg to anchor her team of Shamier Little, Dalilah Muhammad and Raevyn Rogers to a 3:24.60 4x400m win in Texas last month. On the calendar so far for Mu in her specialist event is the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting in Eugene on 27-28 May.</p>
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<h2>When and where?</h2>
<p>Mu is just one of the world&rsquo;s best athletes already announced for Diamond League and Continental Tour competitions over the next few months.</p>
<p>The Olympic 800m champion will take on Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson, Olympic bronze medallist Raevyn Rogers, world indoor champion Ajee Wilson, world champion Halimah Nakaayi, Natoya Goule and Kate Grace at the Prefontaine Classic &ndash; the season&rsquo;s third Diamond League meeting &ndash; on 28 May, when the men&rsquo;s pole vault will feature Mondo Duplantis, Chris Nilsen, Thiago Braz, Sam Kendricks, Renaud Lavillenie and KC Lightfoot.</p>
<p>Olympic and world champion Malaika Mihambo faces Ivana Vuleta, Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk and Lorraine Ugen at the Birmingham Diamond League, while Continental Tour Gold competition so far features eight individual Olympic medallists from the Tokyo Games at the&nbsp;USATF Bermuda Games on Saturday (9).<br /><br /></p>
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<p><br />Check out the calendars below to find out when and where the world&rsquo;s best will be competing.<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>Gold level meetings in the 2022 World Athletics Continental Tour</strong></p>
<p>9 April &ndash; USATF Bermuda Games, Devonshire (BER)<br />16 April &ndash; Golden Games, Mt SAC (USA)<br />7 May &ndash; Kip Keino Classic, Nairobi (KEN)<br />8 May &ndash; Seiko Golden Grand Prix, Tokyo (JPN)<br />31 May &ndash; Ostrava Golden Spike, Ostrava (CZE)<br />3 June &ndash; Irena Szewinska Memorial, Bydgoszcz (POL)<br />6 June &ndash; FBK Games, Hengelo (NED)<br />12 June &ndash; New York Grand Prix, New York (USA)<br />14 June &ndash; Paavo Nurmi Games, Turku (FIN)<br />8 August &ndash; Gyulai Istvan Memorial, Szekesfehervar (HUN)<br />4 September &ndash; Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, Silesia (POL)<br />11 September &ndash; Memorial Borisa Hanzekovica, Zagreb (CRO)</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/calendar-results?competitionSubgroupId=3781">Full 2022 World Athletics Continental Tour Gold calendar</a><br /><br /></strong></span></p>
<p><strong>2022 Wanda Diamond League</strong></p>
<p>13 May &ndash; Doha, QAT<br />21 May &ndash; Birmingham, GBR<br />28 May &shy;&ndash; Eugene, USA<br />5 June &ndash; Rabat, MAR<br />9 June &ndash; Rome, ITA<br />16 June &ndash; Oslo, NOR<br />18 June &ndash; Paris, FRA<br />30 June &ndash; Stockholm, SWE<br />30 July &ndash; Shanghai, CHN<br />6 August &ndash; Shenzhen, CHN<br />10 August &ndash; Monaco, MON<br />26 August &ndash; Lausanne, SUI<br />2 September &ndash; Brussels, BEL<br />7-8 September &ndash; Zurich, SUI&nbsp;<br /><br /></p>
<p><strong>World Athletics Championships Oregon22</strong></p>
<p>15-24 July &ndash; Hayward Field, Oregon, USA</p>

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<h1>OREGON WELCOMES THE WORLD: JULY 15&ndash;24, 2022</h1>
<h2><br />The World Athletics Championships are coming to the United States for the first time ever.</h2>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>WCH Oregon22 will be an unmissable global experience, and it will be taking place in the United States for the very first time. The best track and field athletes in the world will come together in a celebration of diversity, human potential, and athletic achievement. This extraordinary showcase will take center stage in the heart and home of the sport of track and field in the U.S: in Oregon, in Eugene, in Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usatf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Team USA</strong></span></a>, the world&rsquo;s #1 team, will have the opportunity to lay it all on the line on their home turf, in a setting that is both richly intimate and magnificently state-of-the-art. An incredible theater for the sport, the newly reimagined Hayward Field will become the epicenter of local, national, and global communities July 15&ndash;24, 2022.</p>
<p>The time is finally coming &ndash; make sure you don&rsquo;t miss a single glorious moment! <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/sign-up">Sign up for our newsletter </a></strong></span>to stay up to date on all the latest WCH Oregon22 information.</p>

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