Will there be another world record in the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles?&nbsp;
That&rsquo;s the question on most people&rsquo;s minds as the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdle final concludes Day 8 of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. The race is scheduled for 7:50 p.m.&nbsp;
There have been a combined five world records in the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles since 2019 with Dalilah Muhammad of the United State owning the first two of those, and Sydney McLaughlin of the U.S. owning the past three, including a 51.41-second clocking to win the U.S. Outdoor Championships last month.&nbsp;
Two of the three times McLaughlin has come away with the world record, she set it at the reimagined Hayward Field at the University of Oregon, the site&nbsp;of the first World Athletics Championships on U.S. soil.&nbsp;
This record run for the 400m hurdles began at the U.S. Outdoor Championships in 2019 when Muhammad ran 52.20 seconds in Des Moines, Iowa, to break the world record of 52.34 that had stood since 2003.&nbsp;
Later that year at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, Muhammad won in 52.16 seconds to break her own world record with McLaughlin close behind in 52.23 seconds.&nbsp;
At the U.S. Olympic Team Trials &ndash; Track &amp; Field last summer, McLaughlin took over the world record and became the first woman to run under 52 seconds when she ran 51.90 seconds. She lowered the world record even further at the Tokyo Olympics when she won in 51.46 seconds, just ahead of the 51.58 by Muhammad.&nbsp;
Femke Bol of the Netherlands became the third-fastest woman in history when she ran 52.03 seconds in Tokyo for the bronze medal.&nbsp;
McLaughlin, running nearly by herself, won the U.S. Outdoor Championships to qualify for WCH Oregon and lowered the world record again, this time to 51.41 seconds. She also has run 51.61 seconds this year, and won her semifinal heat Wednesday in 52.17 seconds, the fastest time in a qualifying race in history.&nbsp;
Bol has also had a strong season. She ran 52.61 seconds at the Oslo Diamond League meet on June 16, and on June 30, ran 52.27 seconds at the Stockholm Diamond League meet. Bol won her semifinal heat on Wednesday in 52.84 seconds, and Muhammad won her semifinal heat in 53.28 seconds, a season best.&nbsp;
If any of those three falters, Americans Shamier Little and Britton Wilson could pick up a medal. Little ran a season-best 53.61 seconds in the semifinals and is fifth-fastest performer in history with a best of 52.39 seconds from last year. Wilson was the NCAA champion for Arkansas, and ran a personal-best 53.03 seconds in McLaughlin&rsquo;s 51.41-second race at the U.S. Outdoor Championships.&nbsp;
Jamaica&rsquo;s Rushell Clayton ran a personal-best 53.63 in the semifinals, and Panama&rsquo;s Gianna Woodruff set a South American area record in the semifinals at 53.69 seconds.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Other events to watch on Friday:&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 400 METERS (Final, 7:35 p.m.)&nbsp;
Is this finally Michael Norman&rsquo;s time?&nbsp;
Norman has yet to win an individual medal at the outdoor World Athletics Championships or the Olympics, but is the favorite, having run 43.61 seconds at the Prefontaine Classic and 43.56 seconds at the U.S. Outdoor Championships, just off his personal best of 43.45 seconds.&nbsp;
Grenada&rsquo;s Kirani James was the 2011 World Athletics Championships gold medalist and the 2015 bronze medalist in Beijing. He also has a full set of Olympics medals with gold in 2012, silver in 2016, and bronze in 2020. He&rsquo;s the third-fastest in the world this year at 44.02 seconds.&nbsp;
South Africa&rsquo;s Wayde van Niekerk set the world record of 43.08 seconds in winning the 2016 Olympic gold medalist and won the 2015 and 2017 World Athletics Championships. He&rsquo;s been hampered by injuries since then but has begun to look like his championship self.&nbsp;
Champion Allison became the No. 10 performer all-time when he ran 43.70 seconds behind Norman at the U.S. Championships.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Great Britain&rsquo;s Matthew Hudson-Smith has had a strong season in re-setting the British national record to 44.35 seconds. Jonathan Jones of Barbados, who ran collegiately for Texas, has run 44.43 seconds this season.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 400 METERS (Final, 7:15 p.m.)&nbsp;
Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas is the favorite, and the 2016 and 2020 Olympic gold medalist. She&rsquo;s looking for her first World Athletics Championships gold medal after winning silver in 2015 and 2019.&nbsp;
Miller-Uibo is the only one with a personal best under 49 seconds (48.36) and ran a season-best 49.55 seconds in the semifinals.&nbsp;
Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic ran a 48.47-second leg on the winning 4x400m mixed relay team Friday night and is the world leader at 49.49 seconds. She ran 49.98 seconds in the semifinals, and was the only other runner under 50 seconds in the semifinals. Fiordaliza Cofil anchored that 4x400m mixed relay to victory with a 49.92-second leg and ran a personal-best 50.14 seconds in the semifinals.&nbsp;
This event could be a big medal haul for Jamaica with Stephenie Ann McPherson, and Candice McLeod. McLeod ran a season-best 50.05 seconds in the semifinals.&nbsp;
Sada Williams of Barbados ran a season-best 50.12 seconds in the semifinals, and Lieke Klaver of the Netherlands set a national record of 50.18 seconds.&nbsp;
No Americans made the final.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 4x100-METER RELAY (Heats, 6:05 p.m.)&nbsp;
When Noah Lyles anchored the win in Doha, it was the first World Athletics Championships gold medal for the United States since the 2007 Osaka World Athletics Championships.&nbsp;
The U.S. swept the medals in the 100m at WCH Oregon22, and even without 100m champion Fred Kerley, who suffered a quad injury in the 200m semifinals, the U.S. should still win this if the team gets the baton around the track. The absence of Kerley would almost assuredly point to Lyles being on the U.S. team in the final. Marvin Bracy-Williams won the silver medal in 100m, and Trayvon Bromell took the bronze.&nbsp;
Italy won this event in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but that was with a healthy Marcell Jacobs, who pulled out of the 100m semifinals at WCH Oregon22.&nbsp;
Great Britain, Canada, Japan, and Jamaica would appear to be other top medal contenders.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;s 4x100-METER RELAY (Qualifying, 5:40 p.m.)&nbsp;
After sweeping the medals in the 100m, Jamaica is a big favorite here with Shericka Jackson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah, and former University of Oregon standout Kemba Nelson.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The U.S. set the world record of 40.82 seconds at the 2012 London Olympics that included Allyson Felix and Carmelita Jeter. That record should be in serious jeopardy in the final.&nbsp;
The U.S. is the silver-medal favorite. Other top medal contenders include Great Britain, Switzerland, and Germany.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S POLE VAULT (Qualifying, 5:05 p.m.)&nbsp;
This is expected to be the Mondo Duplantis show, and why not? The Swedish superstar has done everything except win an outdoor World Athletics Championships gold medal. Sam Kendricks of the U.S., who is out with an injury, was the outdoor gold medalist in 2017 and 2019.&nbsp;
Duplantis raised the world record to 6.20m when he won the indoor World Athletics Championships gold medal in Belgrade, Serbia. On June 30, he improved the outdoor world record to 6.16m. He&rsquo;s also the reigning Olympic champion.&nbsp;
Chris Nilsen of the U.S. won the silver medal in Tokyo. Thiago Braz of Brazil was the bronze medalist in Tokyo, and won the 2016 Olympic gold medal on home soil at Rio de Janeiro. France&rsquo;s Renaud Lavillenie was the Olympic gold medalist in 2012 in London, and the silver medalists in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.&nbsp;
Mennno Vloon of Netherlands has a season best of 5.91m, and a lifetime best of 5.96m. Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines has cleared 5.92m this year, just off his personal best of 5.93m. Germany&rsquo;s Bo Kanda Lita Baehre has cleared 5.90m this year,&nbsp;&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 800 METERS (Semifinals, 6:35 p.m.)&nbsp;
Athing Mu of the United States looks to add the World Athletics Championships gold medal to the gold medal she won last year as a 19-year-old at the Tokyo Olympics.&nbsp;
Raevyn Rogers of the U.S. was the bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the silver medalist at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She&rsquo;s one of five iconic University of Oregon figures whose likeness is on the 10-story Hayward Tower at the track.&nbsp;
Ajee Wilson of the U.S. was the bronze medalist at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships, and was the gold medalist in March at the indoor World Athletics Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.&nbsp;
Uganda Halimah Nakaayi was the gold medalist in Doha. Great Britian&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson was the silver medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Kenya&rsquo;s Mary Moora is ranked third in the world behind Mu and Wilson at 1 minute, 57.45 seconds, just ahead of Hodgkinson and Rogers on this year&rsquo;s world list.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S JAVELIN (Final, 6:20 p.m.)&nbsp;
Maggie Malone of the U.S. is the world leader at 65.73m, but did not make the final.&nbsp;
A number of women could win this.&nbsp;
Kara Winger of the U.S. is fifth in the world rankings at 64.26m, which she threw in winning the U.S. title. Australia&rsquo;s Kelsey-Lee Barber is the defending champion from Doha and was Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist. Barber has the best personal best of the finalists at 67.70m.&nbsp;
Japan&rsquo;s Haruka Kitaguchi is ranked fourth in the world this year at 64.32m and has a lifetime best of 66.00m. China&rsquo;s Shiying Liu was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist and had thrown 63.86m this year and has a lifetime best of 67.29m.&nbsp;
Lithuania&rsquo;s Liveta Jasiunaite set a season-best of 63.80m in the qualifying round, just off her lifetime best of 63.98m.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 35km RACEWALK (Final, 6:15 a.m.)&nbsp;
This event is being held for the first time at a World Athletics Championships, replacing the 50km walk. The racewalk will start and end outside of Autzen Stadium.&nbsp;
Peru&rsquo;s Kimberly Garcia Leon won the 20km racewalk on the opening day of WCH Oregon22 and is going for the double here.&nbsp;
By Ashley Conklin

World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

WCH Oregon22 Day 8 Preview: World record will be under attack again in women’s 400m hurdles final

Do you like the &lsquo;two&rsquo;, the 200 metres?
Yes, well have we got just the day for you. Day seven has just two finals, two gold medals to be decided. And both of them are 200s, one for the women, one for the men. Can&rsquo;t say fairer than that on any measure.&nbsp;
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<h2>Lyles favourite, but plenty of chances in men&rsquo;s race</h2>
The men&rsquo;s 200m could go any number of ways. It could be a local clean sweep with Noah Lyles leading home teammates Erriyon Knighton and Kenny Bednarek (warning: order may change without notice) and even though it is hard to imagine the home team being locked out of the medals, almost any of the other five finalists is capable of medalling.
Knighton&rsquo;s 19.49 early this year hit like a thunderclap. He hasn&rsquo;t done anything quite like that again, though a next best of &lsquo;only&rsquo; 19.69 is anything but shabby). The 18-year-old made the world sit up and pay attention. Inevitably, one of those who&rsquo;s alarm clock went off was defending champion Lyles. If he didn&rsquo;t see the treat from his precocious rival before, he certainly did then. Lyles worked particularly hard and celebrated quite boisterously in defeating Knighton by just 0.02 at the US championships.
And Kenny Bednarek is, well, just Kenny Bednarek: rock solid with flashes of brilliance often enough to dazzle any rival.
So the sweep is possible. Equally, any of the other five finalists could play the disruptor to this US dream. Jereem Richards, Aaron Brown, Joseph Fahnbulleh, Luxolo Adams and Alexander Ogando all have the ability to medal and, who knows, even win. 
<h2>Speed v speed endurance in women&rsquo;s 200</h2>
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce bring the speed to the women&rsquo;s 200m; Shericka Jackson and Abby Steiner 100/200 speed and speed endurance from the 400m end.
Defending champion Dina Asher-Smith and Majinga Kambundji have both had excellent lead-in form in both sprints; Aminatou Seyni and Tamara Clark have shown impressive form here.
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It is predictable how things will go. Fraser-Pryce will lead, but can she hang on? Asher-Smith and Thompson-Herah will be strong in all phases of the race; Jackson will come on strong in the last 50 metres. They&rsquo;ll play to their strengths; twenty seconds is not enough time to play around with changes to race patterns anyway.
Fraser-Pryce and Thompson-Herah have tended to win their world and Olympic titles with sprint doubles, a good enough reason to think it may happen again in Eugene. 
<h2>Plenty of preliminary drama</h2>
Pick of the preliminary action is probably the semi-finals of the 800m. Three races, first two straight to day nine&rsquo;s final, plus the next two fastest. It&rsquo;s always high pressure, mistakes are almost always punished, and then you&rsquo;ve got to do it again in the final. Great to watch; insane to run.
There&rsquo;s also first round action in the women&rsquo;s 800m, the men&rsquo;s 5000m, men&rsquo;s javelin and triple jump. Happy days.&nbsp;
Len Johnson for World Athletics

Preview of day action at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22

Three things to watch on day seven in Oregon: two’s the number

There will be plenty of speed on display Thursday night as the women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s 200m races close out Day 7 of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at the reimagined Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.&nbsp;
The 200m races are the only finals on the docket for Thursday at the first World Athletics Championships on U.S. soil.&nbsp;
Also on the track Thursday at the opening heats in the women&rsquo;s 800, the men&rsquo;s 5,000m, and the semifinals of the men&rsquo;s 800m. Field-event qualifying will happen in the men&rsquo;s javelin and men&rsquo;s triple jump.&nbsp;
The United States swept the medals in the men&rsquo;s 100m, and Jamaica swept the women&rsquo;s 100m medals. Those two countries will be looking to do the same in the 200m.&nbsp;
In the men&rsquo;s 200m at 7:50 p.m., the U.S. will go for a medal sweep with Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, and Kenny Bednarek, and is still in outstanding position for a medal sweep despite 100m champion Fred Kerley suffering a hamstring injury in the semifinals.&nbsp;
Lyles is the defending champion in this event from the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar, and he always runs well at Hayward Field, where he&rsquo;s the stadium record-holder at 19.52 seconds from last year&rsquo;s Prefontaine Classic. Lyles, who was the bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has broken 20 seconds in all eight of his races this season, with a season best of 19.61 seconds, and two other races where he ran 19.62 seconds and 19.67 seconds. He&rsquo;s the fifth-fastest performer ever at 19.50 seconds.&nbsp;
Knighton, the teenage sensation, has the world lead at 19.49 seconds to break Usain Bolt&rsquo;s U20 world record. Knighton also ran 19.69 seconds to finish second to Lyles at the U.S. Outdoor Championships, and won his semifinal heat in 19.77 seconds.&nbsp;
Bednarek was the silver medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics where he set his personal best of 19.68 seconds. His best this season is 19.87 seconds when he was fourth at the U.S. Outdoor Championships. This is his second World Athletics Championships appearance and his first finals appearance.&nbsp;
The top challengers to the U.S. sweep are South Africa&rsquo;s Luxolo Adams, Liberia&rsquo;s Joseph Fahnbulleh, and Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s Jereem Richards. Adams has run a personal-best 19.82 seconds this year, Fahnbulleh, the 100m and 200m NCAA champion for Florida, has run 19.83 seconds this year, and Richards, the indoor World Athletics Championships 400m gold medalist, has also run 19.83 seconds this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;
On the women&rsquo;s side, Jamaica will be going for a sweep of the medals with Shericka Jackson, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson-Herah when that race starts at 7:35 p.m.&nbsp;
Jackson, who finished second to Fraser-Pryce in Sunday&rsquo;s 100m final, ran 21.55 seconds to win the Jamaican championships to become the No. 3 performer all time. She was also the bronze medalist in the 400m at the 2015 and 2019 World Athletics Championships.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Fraser-Pryce won her fifth 100m World Athletics Championships gold medal on Sunday. She was also the 2013 World Athletics Championships 200m gold medalist, and won her semifinal heat on Tuesday in 21.82 seconds, just off her personal best of 21.79 seconds set last year.&nbsp;
Thompson-Herah is history&rsquo;s No. 2 performer at 21.53 seconds, a time she ran to win the 200m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She also won the 200m at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and won the 100m at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics. She&rsquo;s run 21.97 seconds this year but is still searching for her first individual gold medal at the World Athletics Championships. She was third in Sunday&rsquo;s 100m, and third in this race at the 2015 World Athletics Championships.&nbsp;
Great Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith is the best bet to break up a Jamaican sweep. She is the defending champion from Doha, was second in her semifinal in 21.96 seconds, a season best, and has a 21.88 personal best.&nbsp;
Abby Steiner of the U.S. is ranked No. 2 in the world this year at 21.77 seconds, and has run 21.80 seconds two other times. Teammate Tamara Clark equaled her personal best of 21.92 seconds in winning her semifinal heat over Asher-Smith.&nbsp;
Everyone in this final has a personal best under 22 seconds except Switzerland&rsquo;s Mujinga Kambundji, who set a national record of 22.05 seconds in the semifinals. She was the bronze medalist in Doha.&nbsp;
Before Tuesday, no one had run faster than 22.12 seconds in a World Athletics Championships semifinal. Only Steiner ran slower than that Tuesday to advance. The Hayward Field record of 21.61 seconds was set by Gabby Thomas at last year&rsquo;s U.S. Olympic Team Trials &ndash; Track &amp; Field. The World Athletics Championships record of 21.63 seconds was set by Dafne Schippers of the Netherlands in 2015.&nbsp;
Other events to watch on Thursday:&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 800 METERS (Semifinals, 7 p.m.)&nbsp;
Donavan Brazier of the U.S., the defending champ and World Championships record-holder at 1:42.34, did not advance to the semifinals and neither did Bryce Hoppel, the indoor World Athletics Championships bronze medalist. None of the four Americans advanced to the semifinals. Also failing to advance was Poland&rsquo;s Patryk Dobek, the bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.&nbsp;
Kenya&rsquo;s Emmanuel Korir won the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won his qualifying heat Wednesday. Kenya&rsquo;s Wyclife Kisasy is ranked second in the world at 1:43.54, and teammate Emmanuel Wanyonyi is ranked eighth in the world at 1:44.01.&nbsp;
Canada&rsquo;s Marco Arop has run 1:43.61 this year to rank No. 3 in the world, one spot ahead of Morocco&rsquo;s Moad Zahafi, the NCAA champion for Texas Tech, who has run 1:43.69. France&rsquo;s Benjamin Robert is ranked sixth in the world at 1:43.75, and Australia&rsquo;s Peter Bol has clocked 1:44,00, No. 7 on the world list.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S JAVELIN (Qualifying, 5:05 p.m. and 6:35 p.m.)&nbsp;
This should be one of the more thrilling and closely contested field events with six men having thrown over 89m this year and two others over 87m.&nbsp;
Grenada&rsquo;s Anderson Peters is the defending champion from Doha and the world leader at 93.07m. Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic was the 2020 Olympic silver medalist, and has thrown 90.88m this year. India&rsquo;s Neeraj Chopra, the Olympic gold medalist, is third on the world list at 89.94m.&nbsp;
Finland&rsquo;s Oliver Helander is fourth on the world list at 89.83m, followed by Germany&rsquo;s Julian Weber (89.54m), Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s Keshorn Walcott (89.07m), Curtis Thompson of the United States (87.70m), and Germany&rsquo;s Andreas Hoffman (87.32m).&nbsp;
The great Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic holds the World Athletics Championships record at 92.80m.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 800 METERS (Heats, 5:10 p.m.)&nbsp;
Athing Mu of the United States looks to add the World Athletics Championships gold medal to the gold medal she won last year as a 19-year-old at the Tokyo Olympics.&nbsp;
Raevyn Rogers of the U.S. was the bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and the silver medalist at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. She&rsquo;s one of five iconic University of Oregon figures whose likeness is on the 10-story Hayward Tower at the track.&nbsp;
Ajee Wilson of the U.S. was the bronze medalist at the 2017 and 2019 World Athletics Championships, and was the gold medalist in March at the indoor World Athletics Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.&nbsp;
Uganda Halimah Nakaayi was the gold medalist in Doha. Great Britian&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson was the silver medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Kenya&rsquo;s Mary Moora is ranked third in the world behind Mu and Wilson at 1 minute, 57.45 seconds, just ahead of Hodgkinson and Rogers on this year&rsquo;s world list.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 5,000 METERS (Heats, 6:10 p.m.)&nbsp;
Uganda Joseph Cheptegei is the world record-holder in this event and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist. On Sunday, he successfully defended his 10,000m World Athletics Championships title.&nbsp;
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Muktar Edris is the two-time defending World Athletics Championships gold medalist. Ethiopia&rsquo;s Selemon Barega was the silver medalist in Doha in 2019, and Canada&rsquo;s Mo Ahmed, who runs for the Portland-bases Bowerman Track Club, was the bronze medalist in Doha and the silver medalist in Tokyo.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Kenya&rsquo;s Nicholas Kipkorir and Jacob Krop have the top two times in the world this year, set at the June 9 Rome Diamond League meet. Ethiopia&rsquo;s Berihu Aregawi is third in the world rankings, having run 12 minutes, 50.05 seconds in the Saturday section of the Prefontaine Classic to set the Hayward Field record. Yomif Kejelcha, the 2014 World U20 champion at Hayward Field, is ranked fourth in the world, and American Grant Fisher will be a contender, as will Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who took the silver in Tuesday&rsquo;s 1,500m. Ingebrigtsen ran what was then a world-leading time of 13:02.03 in May.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S TRIPLE JUMP (Qualifying, 6:20 p.m.)&nbsp;
Portugal&rsquo;s Pedro Pichardo is the favorite after winning the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medal. He was the silver medalist for Cuba at the 2013 and 2015 World Athletics Championships. His season best of 17.49m is the best in the WCH Oregon22 field. He has a career best of 18.08m from 2015.&nbsp;
Christian Taylor of the U.S. is a four-time champion, the second-longest jumper ever at 18.21m, and the Olympic gold medalist in 2012 and 2016. He is a longshot for his fourth consecutive World Athletics Championships title as he&rsquo;s working his way back from a ruptured Achilles tendon and is 59th on the world list this season at 16.54m.&nbsp;
Cuba&rsquo;s Lazaro Martinez won the indoor World Athletics Championships gold medal in March when he jumped 17.64m.&nbsp;
Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso was the bronze medalist behind Taylor and Will Claye of the U.S. in Doha. He also finished third at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and has a career best of 18.07m. Claye was the silver medalist in 2017 and 2019 after winning bronze medals in 2011 and 2013.&nbsp;&nbsp;
China&rsquo;s Zhu Yaming was the silver medalist at the 2020 Olympics, and Algeria&rsquo;s Yasser Triki was fifth in Tokyo.&nbsp;
By Ashley Conklin

Day 7 of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 will be highlighted by 200m finals for women, men

Day 7 of the WCH Oregon22 will be highlighted by 200m finals for women, men

Day six of Eugene 2022 begins with another good sleep-in opportunity &ndash; just an evening session with only two gold medals to be decided. But for those for whom the build-up is as interesting as the ending, there&rsquo;s abundant first-round and semi-final action. Last chance to assess the contenders&rsquo; form and amend your medal tips.&nbsp;
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<h2>Can anyone challenge Allman?</h2>
 It seems only yesterday that Sandra Perkovic ruled the women&rsquo;s discus throw. Champion of just about everything, defeats as big a story as her many victories.
Suddenly, the momentum is running the way of Valarie Allman. Olympic champion in Tokyo, a best of 71.46m, an imposing run of victories with throws in the high-60 metre range. Can anyone stop her becoming world champion in Eugene?
Well, don&rsquo;t write Perkovic off just yet. She has a victory over Allman this year &ndash; at Oslo&rsquo;s Bislett Games Wanda Diamond League, no less &ndash; and is churning out big throws with regularity. Regaining the upper hand will prove difficult, to be sure, but it&rsquo;s not unimaginable for an athlete like Perkovic. It&rsquo;s just that there is a sense that we have seen the best of Perkovic and other contemporaries such as Yaime Perez and are moving into the era of Allman.
There&rsquo;s a third thrower in the final with a lifetime PB beyond 70 metres. Jorinde van Klinken of the Netherlands threw 70.22 last year. She hasn&rsquo;t approached that again so far in 2022, but at 22 she clearly can figure in the event in the coming years.
But it&rsquo;s difficult to see the Allman era coming to an end at Hayward Field on day six.
<h2>Can everyone win the steeple?</h2>
 No. Obviously there can only be one winner on the day, but you can easily make a case for a large number of the 15 women in the final as world champion.
Winfred Yavi and Nora Jeruto are the only two under nine minutes this season. There&rsquo;s two obvious possibilities. Emma Coburn, Courtney Frerichs and Courtney Wayment will get massive home support from the crowd at Hayward Field. There&rsquo;s three more. Peruth Jemutai won the Olympic gold medal last year in Tokyo in a similarly wide open race. Mekides Abebe and Werkuha Getachew will obviously be in contention for a long way, too.
You get the picture. Fifteen finalists, no obvious stand-outs (on 2022 form, anyway), few you would declare who cannot win. It seems there will be six or more in contention at the bell and three or more at the last water jump.
Should be a barnstormer of a race.
<h2>Men&rsquo;s 800 another open affair</h2>
 The men&rsquo;s 800m kicks off with first-round heats. It&rsquo;s another event in which there is no obvious winner and a host of chances.
Olympic champion Emmanuel Korir appears to be coming into top form, but it&rsquo;s another Emmanuel, his 17-year-old teammate Wanyoni, who is attracting great interest too. With Wyclife Kinyamal Kisasy, and Noah Kibet, the Doha Diamond League winner, Kenya fields a strong quartet.
Max Burgin heads the 2022 list from Kinyamal and Marco Arop. They are three of the six to have broken 1:44 this year, which has not been a stellar season for 800 it must be admitted.
Peter Bol, fourth in Tokyo last year, has been one of the more consistent performers. US trio Donavan Brazier, Bryce Hoppel and Jonah Koech will get plenty of support.
The first round &ndash; first three in each of six heats and next six fastest &ndash; will be relatively straightforward. Look for the next day&rsquo;s semi-finals to clarify the form lines.
One thing can be guaranteed &ndash; it won&rsquo;t be boring: 800m running never is.
Len Johnson for World Athletics

Three things to watch for on day 6 at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22

Three things for day 6: Allman in the discus, a wide open steeplechase and 800m opening round action

The United States will look to add to its dominance of the women&rsquo;s throwing events at the World Athletic Championships Oregon22 when the women&rsquo;s discus final is held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.&nbsp;
The U.S. women have already picked up a shot put gold from Chase Ealey during the first World Athletics Championships on U.S. soil, and a 1-3 finish from Brooke Andersen and Janee&rsquo; Kassanavoid, respectively, in the hammer throw.&nbsp;
Now it&rsquo;s Val Allman&rsquo;s turn.&nbsp;
Allman became only the third American woman to win the Olympic gold medal in the discus, and the first since 2008, when she was victorious at the Tokyo Olympics. The U.S. has never won a women&rsquo;s discus medal at the World Athletics Championships.&nbsp;
Allman will enter the final as the favorite. She&rsquo;s the world leader at 71.46m after improving her American record by 30 centimeters this year. Allman easily had the top throw in Monday&rsquo;s qualifying, she&rsquo;s won three of the four Diamond League meets she&rsquo;s competed in this year, and she&rsquo;s undefeated at the reimagined Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.&nbsp;
Croatia&rsquo;s Sandra Perkovic is the only thrower to beat Allman this year, and was the 2015 and 2017 World Athletics Championships gold medalist and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic gold medalist. She and Allman are the only throwers in the field with personal bests over 71m. Perkovic&rsquo;s season best is 68.19m, ranking second in the world behind Allman.&nbsp;
Jorinde van Klinken of Netherlands, the former Arizona State collegiate star, was second in qualifying with a season-best of 65.66m, and threw 70.22m last year to set a national record. She&rsquo;s ranked fifth in the world this year.&nbsp;
Cuba&rsquo;s Yaime Perez is the defending World Athletics Championships gold medalist and had a season best of 65.32m in qualifying. She also won the bronze medal in Tokyo. Germany has three throwers in the final in Kristin Pudenz, the silver medalist from the Tokyo Olympics, Claudine Vita, and Shanice Craft. Pudenz is ranked third in the world this year, Craft eight, and Vita ninth.&nbsp;
China&rsquo;s Bin Feng was the eighth thrower to hit the automatic qualifying standard of 64.00m on Monday. She&rsquo;s ranked fourth in the world at 66.00m.&nbsp;
Here&rsquo;s what else to watch for on Wednesday:&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 3,000-METER STEEPLECHASE (Final, 7:45 p.m.)&nbsp;
The only track final on the Wednesday schedule is the women&rsquo;s 3,000m steeplechase where Norah Jeruto of Kazakhstan is a big favorite. She set her personal best of 8 minutes, 53.63 seconds in winning last year&rsquo;s Prefontaine Classic, has run 8:57.97 this year, and ran a blistering 9:01.54 in Saturday&rsquo;s heats.&nbsp;
Uganda&rsquo;s Peruth Chemutai was the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist and has a personal best of 9:01.45. Kenya&rsquo;s Celiphine Chespol is sixth on the all-time list at 8:58.78.&nbsp;
Emma Coburn, Courtney Frerichs and Courtney Wayment will all be in the medal hunt for the U.S. Coburn and Frerichs went 1-2, respectively, at the 2017 World Athletics Championships, Coburn was the silver medalist in Doha in 2019, and Frerichs was the Olympic silver medalist in Tokyo. Frerichs set the American record of 8:57.77 behind Jeruto at last year&rsquo;s Pre Classic, and is fifth on the all-time list. Wayment dominated the collegiate season, setting the NCAA record at 9:16.00 in the championship final, then ran 9:12.10 at the U.S. Championships and 9:14.95 in Saturday&rsquo;s qualifying.&nbsp;
Burundi&rsquo;s Winfred Yavi is the only other runner in the field with a personal best under 9 minutes at 8:56.55 and is fourth on the all-time list.&nbsp;
France&rsquo;s Alice Finot (9:12.14) and Great Britian&rsquo;s Aimee Pratt (9:18.91) both set national records in Saturday&rsquo;s qualifying heats.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 400-METER HURDLES (Semifinals, 6:15 p.m.)&nbsp;
Americans Sydney McLaughlin and Daliliah Muhammad have combined to break the world record five times in this event beginning with the 2019 U.S. Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. McLaughlin set the world record for the third time when she ran 51.41 seconds at Hayward Field in the U.S. Championships last month.&nbsp;
Muhammad, as the defending champion, from Doha, had a bye into this event and pulled out of the U.S. Championships with a minor injury. She cruised through her opening heat on Tuesday.&nbsp;
Femke Bol of Netherlands was third behind McLaughlin and Muhammad when both broke the world record at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, won by McLaughlin. Bol ran 52.03 seconds in the Olympic final. In two European Diamond League meets 15 days apart last month, Bol ran 52.61 seconds and then 52.27.&nbsp;
Britton Wilson of the U.S. was the NCAA champion for Arkansas and ran 53.02 seconds behind McLaughlin&rsquo;s world record at the U.S. Championships. Jamaica&rsquo;s Janieve Russell, Shiann Salmon and Rushell Clayton have run 53.63, 53.82, and 53.90, respectively, this season.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 400 METERS (Semifinals, 7:15 p.m.)&nbsp;
Michael Norman of the United States, the world leader this year at 43.56 seconds, is seeking his first individual medal. He also ran 43.61 at the Prefontaine Classic to set the Diamond League record and is a big favorite at a venue where he&rsquo;s always run well.&nbsp;
Grenada&rsquo;s Kirani James was the 2011 World Athletics Championships gold medalist and the 2015 bronze medalist in Beijing. He also has a full set of Olympics medals with gold in 2012, silver in 2016, and bronze in 2020.&nbsp;
South Africa&rsquo;s Wayde van Niekerk set the world record of 43.08 seconds in winning the 2016 Olympic gold medalist and won the 2015 and 2017 World Athletics Championships. He&rsquo;s been hampered by injuries since then but has begun to look like his championship self.&nbsp;
Champion Allison became the No. 10 performer all-time when he ran 43.70 seconds behind Norman at the U.S. Championships. Michael Cherry of the U.S. was the Diamond League champion last year.&nbsp;
Great Britain&rsquo;s Matthew Hudson-Smith has had a strong season in re-setting the British national record to 44.35 seconds.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 400 METERS (Semifinals, 6:45 p.m.)&nbsp;
Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas is the favorite, and the 2016 and 2020 Olympic gold medalist. She&rsquo;s looking for her first World Athletics Championships gold medal after winning silver in 2015 and 2019.&nbsp;
Miller-Uibo is the only one with a personal best under 49 seconds (48.36) and has run 49.91 this season.&nbsp;
Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic ran a 48.47-second leg on the winning 4x400m mixed relay team Friday night and is the world leader at 49.49 seconds. Fiordaliza Cofil anchored that relay to victory with a 49.92-second leg and has run a personal-best 50.38 seconds this year.&nbsp;
This event could be a big medal haul for Jamaica with Charokee Young, the NCAA star from Texas A&amp;M, Stephenie Ann McPherson, and Candice McLeod. All three have personal bests between 49.34 seconds and 49.87 seconds.&nbsp;
Talitha Diggs won the NCAA championship for Florida in 49.99 seconds, and was also the U.S. champ.&nbsp;
OTHER EVENTS&nbsp;
In other Wednesday events, heats will be held in the women&rsquo;s 5,000m at 4:25 p.m., and the men&rsquo;s 800m at 5:20 p.m. The women&rsquo;s javelin qualifying kicks off the day at 3:20 p.m.&nbsp;
Hellen Obiri of Kenya was the two-time women&rsquo;s 5,000m World Athletics Championships gold medalist entering WCH Oregon22, but ran the 10,000m here and was second in Saturday&rsquo;s final. The favorites include Ethiopia&rsquo;s Letesebet Gidey, the 10,000m champion on Saturday, and Gudaf Tsegay, second in Monday&rsquo;s 1,500m, and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands. Hassan won this event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with Tsegay third. Hassan, however, has raced sparingly this season and was a surprising fourth in the 10,000m final.&nbsp;&nbsp;
In the men&rsquo;s 800, Donavan Brazier of the U.S. is the defending champ and set the American and Championships record of 1:42.34 in Doha. Kenya&rsquo;s Emmanuel Korir won the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Poland&rsquo;s Patryk Dobek was the bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olympics.&nbsp;
In the women&rsquo;s javelin, Maggie Malone of the U.S. is the world leader at 65.73m, and Kara Winger of the U.S. is fifth in the world rankings at 64.26m, which she threw in winning the U.S. title. Australia&rsquo;s Kelsey-Lee Barber is the defending champion from Doha and was Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist.&nbsp;
By Ashley Conklin

Allman goes for gold in the discus to highlight Wednesday’s Day 6 of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22

Allman goes for gold in the discus to highlight Wednesday’s Day 6 of WCH Oregon22

It&rsquo;s sleep-in morning on day five, the day which brings us to the half-way point of Eugene 2022 and the first of three with no morning session.
You may need to be rested up to cope with an action-packed evening session offering four finals &ndash; including the clash of the discus big men Kristjan Ceh and Daniel Stahl &ndash; men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s 200m semis and the first round of the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles featuring Sidney McLaughlin, Dalilah Muhammad and Femke Bol.&nbsp;
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<h2>Mahuchikh versus Australia in the high jump</h2>
 Nicola Olyslagers (formerly McDermott) took the silver medal behind Mariya Lasitskene in Tokyo last year and Yaroslava Mahuchikh the bronze, but it is the Ukrainian athlete who carries the better form into Eugene.
With Eleanor Patterson taking the silver medal behind Mahuchikh at the World indoor championships earlier this year, the event has an element of an Australia v Ukraine dual match. Of course, there will be a few others &ndash; Iryna Gerashchenkov and Elena Vallortigara among them &ndash; with the potential to shatter any such notion.
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A glitch at the Stockholm Wanda Diamond League meeting aside, Mahuchikh has been in excellent form outdoors, winning in Eugene (with 2.00m), Rabat, Paris (2.01m) and Brno (2.03m). Olyslagers has been a bit more subdued this season than last, but her last two competition coming into Eugene were wins at 1.96m and 1.95m. Patterson, a former World U18 champion, reached the 2.00m mark at the world indoors then made a late start to her world championships build-up with a win at 1.96m in Stockholm. That, and qualifying two days ago, have been her only outdoor competitions coming into Eugene.
As ever, the most prudent tactics are to attack the medal heights confidently and clear them first time.
<h2>Warholm, Benjamin, Dos Santos &ndash; which one?</h2>
 It&rsquo;s only a few days since we stopped worrying whether Karsten Warholm would be in shape to defend his world title. Now, here he is, in the final having run 48.00 in the semis to get there.
The only remaining question is whether he can run fast enough to beat all his rivals, which is sort-of the same question we ask before every race, jump or throw, anyway.
Alison Dos Santos has been the form man in the event all season and Rai Benjamin won his US championship at Hayward Field. Indeed, counting prelims, five of his seven hurdles competitions have been there, so he should know his way round by now.
These three know their own race and know each other&rsquo;s race, so there should be no surprises in the final. Which of the three can execute best on the day is the critical question, along with whether any of the other five can bridge the gap and challenge.
<h2>Men&rsquo;s 1500m: has the door been left ajar?</h2>
 At the start of the season, the men&rsquo;s 1500m looked like a decider between Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Timothy Cheruiyot after Cheruiyot triumphed in Doha in 2019 and Ingebrigtsen at Tokyo 2020, an impression seemingly confirmed when the Norwegian opened his season with wins at the Pre Classic and the Bislett Games.
Now, not so much. Maybe it still will be a two-man war, but Ingebrigtsen has come through the rounds with two third place results (not that there&rsquo;s necessarily anything wrong with that) and Cheruiyot without a big win for the season at all. Two other potential challengers, Ollie Hoare and Samuel Tefera bowed out in the semis.
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Suddenly, other winners look at least a possibility, if not a probability. Cheruiyot&rsquo;s teammate Abel Kipsang, for example, Josh Kerr, Jake Wightman and a now recovered from illness Stewart McSweyn.
The door seems to have been left ajar. If, indeed, it has been, is anyone good enough to walk through it?
Len Johnson for World Athletics

Titles up for grabs in the men's 400m hurdles, 1500m and discus throw and women's high jump

After a sleep-in morning, a big night to follow – three things to watch for on day 5

Two of the marquee men&rsquo;s events of World Athletics Championships Oregon22 will have their finals on Tuesday night.&nbsp;
The final two events of Tuesday are the men&rsquo;s 1,500m final at 7:30 p.m. and the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdle final at 7:50 p.m.&nbsp;
The last time Karsten Warholm of Norway and Rai Benjamin of the U.S. raced each other on the track, it was their iconic final of the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Warholm, who had set a world record of 46.70 seconds early in the summer, won the gold medal in Tokyo in a staggering 45.94 seconds. Before coming to Hayward Field at the University of Oregon for the first World Athletics Championships on American soil, Warholm hadn&rsquo;t completed a race this year, pulling up after the first hurdle in a Diamond League meet on June 5 with what was called a hamstring injury.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Warholm has looked good so far at WCH Oregon22, winning his first-round heat in 49.34 seconds Saturday, and his semifinal heat in 48.00 seconds on Sunday.&nbsp;
Benjamin, second in Tokyo in 46.17 and also well under Warholm&rsquo;s previous record, was slowed by hamstring tendonitis and COVID-19 earlier this year, but ran 47.04 to win at the U.S. Outdoor Championships. Benjamin won his opening heat at WCH Oregon22 in 49.06 seconds and took his semifinal heat in 48.44 seconds.&nbsp;
Warholm is the two-time World Athletics Championships gold medalist, and defeated Benjamin in Doha in 2019 to take the gold medal.&nbsp;
Alison dos Santos of Brazil, third in Tokyo in 46.72, opened the season running 47.24 seconds, won the Prefontaine Classic in 47.23 and then ran a world-leading 46.80 at the June 30 Diamond League meet in Stockholm, Sweden. In the opening round, dos Santos ran 49.41, and then posted the fastest semifinal time at 47.85.&nbsp;
If any of those top three falter, the other medal contenders are Americans Trevor Bassitt and Khalifah Rosser, Estonia&rsquo;s Rasmus Magi, and France&rsquo;s Wilfried Happio.&nbsp;
Here&rsquo;s other key things to watch on Tuesday:&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 1,500 METERS (Final, 7:30 p.m.)&nbsp;
Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who was the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist and set the indoor world record in the mile this year, is the favorite, especially after Australia&rsquo;s Oliver Hoare shockingly didn&rsquo;t make the final. Ingebrigtsen is also the outdoor mile world leader at 3:46.46, making him the sixth-fastest man ever.&nbsp;
Kenya&rsquo;s Timothy Cheruiyot was the 2019 gold medalist at the World Athletics Championship in Doha, and his teammate, Abel Kipsang, has the world&rsquo;s fastest time at 3 minutes, 31.01 seconds. Great Britain&rsquo;s Josh Kerr was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics silver medalist, and teammate Jake Wightman has the world&rsquo;s second-fastest time this year.&nbsp;
Australia&rsquo;s Stewart McSweyn should also be in the medal hunt. Josh Thompson of the Bowerman Track Club is the only American in the final.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S HIGH JUMP (Final, 5:40 p.m.)&nbsp;
This could be a big medal event for Ukraine with indoor World Athletics Championships gold medalist Yaroslava Mahuchikh being a big favorite. She&rsquo;s ranked No. 1 in the world at 2.03m and has a personal best of 2.06m. Teammate Iryna Gerashchenko has cleared 1.98m this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Australia&rsquo;s Eleanor Patterson has cleared 2.00m this year, a personal best. Teammate Nicola Olyslagers has cleared 1.96m this season and has a personal best of 2.02m. Italy&rsquo;s Elena Vallortigara has a career best of 2.02m, and Kazakhstan&rsquo;s Nadezhda Dubovitskaya has a career best of 2.00m.&nbsp;
Vashti Cunningham of the U.S. did not qualify for the final.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S DISCUS (Final, 6:33 p.m.)&nbsp;
Wins and world-leading marks have gone back and forth this season between Sweden&rsquo;s Daniel Stahl (season-best 71.47m), Slovenia&rsquo;s Kristjan Ceh (71.27m), and Lithuania&rsquo;s Mykloas Alekna (69.81m) and Andrius Gudzius (69.39m).&nbsp;
Stahl was the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist and is the defending World Athletics Championships gold medalist after winning the silver medal in 2017.&nbsp;
Alekna was second in the NCAA meet for the University of California-Berekley this season as a freshman. His father, Virgilijus, was the 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist for Lithuania, and was the World Athletics Championships gold medalist in 2003 and 2005 after being the silver medalist in 1997 and 2001.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Austria&rsquo;s Lukas Weibhaidinger was the bronze medalist in Tokyo, and is ranked fifth in the world at 69.11m, Sam Mattis of the U.S. is sixth on the world list this year at 68.69m, Simon Pettersson of Sweden, the silver medalist in Tokyo, is ranked seventh in the world at 68.11m.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 400-METER HURDLES (Heats, 5:15 p.m.)&nbsp;
Americans Sydney McLaughlin and Daliliah Muhammad have combined to break the world record five times in this event beginning with the 2019 U.S. Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. McLaughlin set the world record for the third time when she ran 51.41 seconds at Hayward Field in the U.S. Championships last month.&nbsp;
Muhammad, as the defending champion, from Doha, had a bye into this event and pulled out of the U.S. Championships with a minor injury. All eyes will be on her in the heats to try and get a gauge on her health and fitness.&nbsp;
Femke Bol of Netherlands was third behind McLaughlin and Muhammad when both broke the world record at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, won by McLaughlin. Bol ran 52.03 seconds in the Olympic final. In two European Diamond League meets 15 days apart last month, Bol ran 52.61 seconds and then 52.27.&nbsp;
Britton Wilson of the U.S. was the NCAA champion for Arkansas and ran 53.02 seconds behind McLaughlin&rsquo;s world record at the U.S. Championships. Jamaica&rsquo;s Andrenette Knight, Janieve Russell, Shiann Salmon and Rushell Clayton have run 53.39, 53.63, 53.82, and 53.90, respectively, this season.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 200 METERS (Semifinals, 6:05 p.m.)&nbsp;
This may be the true marquee women&rsquo;s sprint event at WCH Oregon22.&nbsp;
Jamaica&rsquo;s Shericka Jackson has the world lead at 21.55 seconds to become the third-fastest performer in history. She ran that while defeating two-time reigning Olympic gold medalist Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Jamaican Championships.&nbsp;
Fraser-Price won her fifth World Athletics Championship 100m gold medal on Sunday over Jackson, the silver medalist, and Thompson-Herah, who ran 21.53 in winning the 200m in Tokyo. Fraser-Pryce ran a 21.79 personal best last year.&nbsp;
Abby Steiner, who won the NCAA Outdoor Championships and the U.S. Outdoor Championships, both at Hayward Field, is ranked No. 2 in the world at 21.77 seconds.&nbsp;
Tamara Clark and Jenna Prandini ran 21.92 seconds and 22.01 seconds, respectively, at the U.S. Championships. Nigeria&rsquo;s Favour Ofili, the NCAA runner-up for LSU, has run 21.96 seconds this year.&nbsp;
Great Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith, fourth in Sunday&rsquo;s 100m, is the defending champion. Switzerland&rsquo;s Maujinga Kambundji was the Doha bronze medalist.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 200 METERS (Semifinals, 6:50 p.m.)&nbsp;
After sweeping the 100m medals on Saturday, it&rsquo;s hard seeing the U.S. not doing the same here with defending champion Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, who has run 19.49 seconds this year, Fred Kerley, who won the 100m on Sunday, and 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Kenny Bednarek.&nbsp;
The best bets to prevent the U.S. sweep are 400m indoor World Athletics Championships gold medalist Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago, Liberia&rsquo;s Joseph Fahnbulleh, the reigning two-time NCAA Outdoor champion for Florida, Great Britian&rsquo;s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, and South Africa&rsquo;s Luxolo Adams.&nbsp;
By Ashley Conklin

What to watch for on Tuesday’s Day 5 of World Athletics Championships Oregon22

What to watch for on Tuesday’s Day 5 of WCH Oregon22

Day four brings a well-balanced diet for the most finicky of track and field fans &ndash; and isn&rsquo;t that all of us?
The women&rsquo;s marathon kicks the day off (if your day starts at 6:15, that is) and the evening session at Hayward Field closes with the men&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase and women&rsquo;s 1500m. One of the expected stars of the show &ndash; Yulimar Rojas &ndash; starts as overwhelming favourite in the women&rsquo;s triple jump and the heptathlon, which over its two days tests all of the elements of athletics, comes to a conclusion with the 800m.&nbsp;
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<h2>How far can Rojas go?</h2>
 Yulimar Rojas is one of the stars of world athletics. She has probably done enough already to be accorded legend status &ndash; certainly, you would get no argument against in her native Venezuela &ndash; with world record victories in the Tokyo Olympics and the World indoor championships earlier this year in Belgrade.
Rojas went 15.74m in the Serbian capital, which puts her now in reach of 16 metres, one of the round figure &lsquo;barriers&rsquo; which appeal to athletics&rsquo; followers. Could it come in Eugene? Maybe that is expecting too much, but she may go a step closer than she is now. Her outdoor season so far has been limited and by the standards she has hit in recent time, a 14.83m in La Nucia and 14.72m to top the qualifiers in Eugene, is a touch mundane.
The triple jump can be a tricky event, but such is the margin between Rojas and her rivals that she would have to be well off form on the day to be defeated.
<h2>Can Woo Come Through?&nbsp;</h2>
 The Tokyo Olympic men&rsquo;s high jump was acclaimed around the world last year when Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy opted for a tie and shared gold medal rather than going for a winner-take-all jump-off.
Barshim and Tamberi are back in contention this year but, on form at least, are playing second fiddle behind South Korea&rsquo;s Woo Sanghyeok. Woo led the world indoor list with 2.36m and won the gold medal at the World Indoor Championships. Outdoors, he cleared 2.33m to defeat the co-Olympic champions, among others, in the Doha WDL. He should progress to a world outdoor championships medal in Eugene, and there&rsquo;s a good chance it will be the gold.
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After a handful of jumpers went 2.40m or better in the recent past, culminating with Barshim&rsquo;s 2.43m, the nearest threat to Javier Sotomayor&rsquo;s long-standing world record, the overall level of the event has settled back. The plus side is that the competition has tightened as more athletes are clearing the heights at which medals are decided.
<h2>Kipyegon the one to beat in the 1500m</h2>
 There used to be an old joke that the football World Cup was a tournament played every four years among the world&rsquo;s best nations and won by Germany. There&rsquo;s a similar inevitability developing around 1500m races in which Faith Kipyegon is involved.
Kipyegon lost to Sifan Hassan in the 1500m at the Doha 2019 World championships but has been the dominant force since. Her ability to take up a position and then deploy her explosive finishing speed makes her a lethal opponent. With Hassan opting out of the 1500m this year the way seems clear for Kipyegon to add Oregon22 gold to her Olympic triumph last year.
Kipyegon beat Gudaf Tsegay decisively at the Prefontaine Classic Wanda Diamond League fixture; Laura Muir, another potential threat, has run well at 800m in recent races but Kipyegon appears to have her measure. Australia&rsquo;s Jessica Hull is in the medal mix.
But can anyone beat Kipyegon? We&rsquo;ll see on Monday night, but it&rsquo;s hard to see it from here.
Len Johnson for World Athletics

Seven more titles on the line on the fourth day action at Oregon22.

Rojas, Kipyegon and Woo - three things to follow on day four

Women will be in the spotlight during Monday&rsquo;s Day 4 of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, the first World Athletics Championships held on U.S. soil.&nbsp;
The day kicks off at 6:15 a.m. with the women&rsquo;s marathon beginning and ending outside of the University of Oregon&rsquo;s Autzen Stadium. The scene then shifts to the reimagined Hayward Field where the day will be capped by Kenyan superstar Faith Kipyegon looking to add more gold to her collection in the women&rsquo;s 1,500m.&nbsp;
World record-holder and Olympic gold medalist Yulimar Rojas will lead the field in the women&rsquo;s triple jump final, and American Val Allman, also a 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist, leads the discus qualifying.&nbsp;
Monday also has the final three events of the two-day heptathlon, with the only events at Hayward Field in the morning being the heptathlon long jump and javelin.&nbsp;
Other finals on tap Monday are the men&rsquo;s high jump and the men&rsquo;s 3,000m steeplechase. The heats of the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s 200m are also Monday night.&nbsp;
Here&rsquo;s a closer look at Monday&rsquo;s key events:&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S MARATHON (Final, 6:15 a.m.)&nbsp;
If Sunday&rsquo;s men&rsquo;s marathon was any indication, expect fast times in Monday&rsquo;s morning women&rsquo;s marathon that starts and finishes outside of Autzen Stadium.&nbsp;
Kenya&rsquo;s Ruth Chepngetich is the defending champion from the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha. She was also third at the 2020 London Marathon and won last year&rsquo;s Chicago Marathon. She also ran 2 hours, 17 minutes, 18 seconds in winning the Nagoya Women's Marathon, the second-fastest ever women-only marathon.&nbsp;
Also on the Kenyan team are Judith Jeptum, who won this year&rsquo;s Paris Marathon, and Angela Tanui, the 2021 Amsterdam Marathon winner.&nbsp;
Leading Ethiopia will be Gotytom Gebreslase, who won the 2021 Berlin Marathon in her debut and finished third in this year&rsquo;s Tokyo Marathon, Ababel Yeshaneh, second at the 2019 Chicago Marathon, and Ashete Bekere, third in last year&rsquo;s London Marathon.&nbsp;
American record-holder Keira D&rsquo;Amato, age 37, was a late replacement for 2020 Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel, who is injured. Sara Hall, third on the all-time U.S. marathon list, is making her World Athletics Championships debut at age 39 and was third in last year&rsquo;s Chicago Marathon. Emma Bates was second in Chicago last year and completes the U.S. team.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 1,500 METERS (Final, 7:50 p.m.)&nbsp;
Kipyegon is the two-time reigning Olympic gold medalist and is nearly 2 seconds faster this season than anyone else in this race. In May, she broke her own Prefontaine Classic and Hayward Field records when she ran 3 minutes, 52.59 seconds, and she has a career best of 3:51.09. Kipyegon won the 2017 gold medal at the World Athletics Championships, and took silver in Beijing in 2015 and in Doha in 2019.&nbsp;
Kipyegon&rsquo;s biggest challengers will be Ethiopia&rsquo;s Gudaf Tsegay and Great Britain&rsquo;s Laura Muir. Tsegay ran 3:54.21 behind Kipyegon at the Pre Classic, was the bronze medalist in Doha, and was the indoor World Athletics Championships gold medalist in March. Muir won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and has a career best of 3:54.50.&nbsp;
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Freweyni Halu and Hirut Meshesha will be in the medals mix as well. Meshesha has run a personal best 3:57.30 this season, and Halu has run 3:58.18. Jessica Hull of Australia and Sinclaire Johnson of the U.S. are teammates on the Portland-based Union Athletics Club and are having the best seasons of their careers. Hull, a University of Oregon standout, will have the crowd behind her.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S TRIPLE JUMP (Final. 6:20 p.m.)&nbsp;
Rojas has redefined this event over the past five years. She&rsquo;s the indoor and outdoor world record-holder, the two-time defending outdoor World Athletics Championships gold medalist and the 2020 Tokyo Olympic gold medalist. In March, she jumped 15.74m to win the indoor World Athletics Championships gold medal and re-set the indoor world record. She set the outdoor record of 15.67m in winning in Tokyo. The last time she did not win a triple competition was on Feb. 2, 2019.&nbsp;
A win here would make her the first woman to win three outdoor World Athletics Championships in the triple jump.&nbsp;
Portugal&rsquo;s Patricia Mamona (15.02m), the Tokyo Olympic silver medalist, is the only other jumper in the field with a career best over 15m. Jamaica&rsquo;s Shaneika Ricketts was the silver medalist in Doha, and compatriot Kimberly Williams is also a medal threat. Ukraine&rsquo;s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk has had a strong season transitioning from the long jump. The U.S. is still looking for its first medal in this event. What better time for Keturah Orji and Tori Franklin to break through?&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 3,000-METER STEEPLECHASE (Final, 7:20 p.m.)&nbsp;
Will we see the first sub-8-minute steeplechase on U.S. soil? It may require it to win this event.&nbsp;
Morocco&rsquo;s Soufinae El Bakkali was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist and has run 7:58.28, just off his personal best of 7:58.15. He was the silver medalist in London in the 2017 World Athletics Championships and the bronze medalist in Doha in 2019.&nbsp;
Kenya&rsquo;s Conseslus Kipruto is the two-time defending champion, and also won silver medals in 2013 in Moscow and 2015 in Beijing. His career best is 8:00.12.&nbsp;
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lamecha Girma has been under 8 minutes three times this season in improving his personal best to 7:58.68.&nbsp;
A number of other men in the field have career bests under 8:10.00, including American record-holder Evan Jager. Jager, the 2016 Olympic silver medalist, has been beset by injuries recently but was the U.S. runner-up to Hillary Bor and looked strong in his semifinal heat, as did Bor.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S HIGH JUMP (Final, 5:45 p.m.)&nbsp;
One of the lasting images of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics was the celebratory embrace between Qatar&rsquo;s Mutez Essa Barshim and Italy&rsquo;s Gianmarco Tamberi when they were tied for the lead and decided to share the gold medal rather than continue on competing. All eyes will certainly be on them here.&nbsp;
Barshim has been a Hayward Field favorite over the years at the Pre Classic. A win here would make him the first men&rsquo;s high jumper with three outdoor World Athletics Championships titles after he won gold in London and Doha.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Korea&rsquo;s Sanghyeok Woo, the indoor World Athletics Championships gold medalist in March, is the world leader at 2.36m, 3 centimeters ahead of Shelby McEwen. JuVaughn Harrison of the U.S. could be in the medal hunt, along with a host of others who have jumped between 2.27m and 2.33m this season.&nbsp;
HEPTATHLON (Day 2 begins at 9:35 a.m.)&nbsp;
Belgium&rsquo;s Nafi Thiam won the 2017 World Athletics Championships gold medal and is the reigning two-time Olympic gold medal. She enters the final three events of the heptathlon with 4,071 points.&nbsp;
Anouk Vetter of Netherlands took silver behind Thiam in Tokyo, and is second with 4,010 points. Anna Hall hopes to give the U.S. its first World Athletics Championships medal since Sheila Burrell in 2001. She&rsquo;s in third place with a first-day personal best of 3,991 points. Poland&rsquo;s Adrianna Sulek is fourth with 3,982 points, and Belgium&rsquo;s Noor Vidt is fifth with 3,921 points.&nbsp;
Great Britain&rsquo;s Katerina Johnson-Thompson was the 2019 World Athletics Championships gold medalist and has been working her way back from a ruptured Achilles tendon in 2020. She&rsquo;s sixth with 3,798 points, and Emma Oosterwegel of the Netherlands, who took bronze in Tokyo, sits seventh with 3,791 points&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S DISCUS (Qualifying, 5:10 p.m. and 6:35 p.m.)&nbsp;
The U.S. has never won a women&rsquo;s discus medal at a World Athletics Championships, but Allman figures to end that drought.&nbsp;&nbsp;
After becoming the first U.S. women to win an Olympic discus gold medal since 2008 and the third overall, Allman re-set her American record to 71.46m this season, and she&rsquo;s won three of the four Diamond League meets she&rsquo;s competed in. She&rsquo;s the Hayward Field record-holder and undefeated in Eugene as a professional.&nbsp;
Croatia&rsquo;s Sandra Perkovic, the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medalist, is the only person to defeat Allman this season. Perkovic has won four straight World Athletics Championships medals, including gold in 2013 and 2017. Cuba&rsquo;s Yaime Perez won the gold medal in Doha and was the bronze medalist at the Tokyo Olymics.&nbsp;
Germany&rsquo;s Kristin Pudenz was the Tokyo silver medalist. Jorinde van Klinken of Netherlands, the former Arizona State collegiate star, threw 70.22m last year, and is a definite medal threat. American Rachel Dincoff is having her best season, improving her personal best to 65.46m.&nbsp;
By Ashley Conklin

What to watch on Monday’s Day 4 of World Athletics Championships Oregon22 

What to watch on Monday’s Day 4 of WCH Oregon22 

Three gold medal events on opening day, five on day two, but it&rsquo;s a veritable gold rush on day three with seven up for grabs, including a men&rsquo;s distance double with the early-morning marathon and a late-morning 10,000m final. Remember the days when distance runners could &ndash; and did - do both events. Strictly speaking, you could double in Eugene, but it would be tough with just a few hours recovery between marathon finish and 10,000m start.&nbsp;
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<h2>Uganda or Ethiopia in men&rsquo;s 10,000m?</h2>
 Two years ago in Doha, Joshua Cheptegei and Rhonex Kipruto ran Yomif Kejecha ragged before Cheptegei went on to take the gold medal. At the Olympics last year, Selemon Barega kicked early and hung on to defeat Cheptegei and Kiplimo.
The three Olympic medallists are back in Eugene, as are the next four finishers &ndash; Berihu Aregawi, Grant Fisher, Moh Ahmed and Rodgers Kwemoi. Fisher has the world lead at 26:33.84, just ahead of Ahmed when the pair went 1-2 in San Juan Capistrano on 6 March. The next three on the list &ndash; Barega, Tadese Worku and Aregawi were the first three across the line in the Ethiopian trial in Hengelo.
With the race in the middle of the day, much will come down to conditions. Hot, clear and sunny may dictate a cautious race, but if it is a little cooler, the two Ugandans, Cheptegei and Kiplimo, will be looking for the opportunity to run the kick out of the others. Cheptegei knows how successful that tactic was against Kejelcha in Doha. Cheptegei has a decent kick but he probably won&rsquo;t want to let it come down to a last-lap sprint unless, of course, he has done some damage to the kickers by then.
<h2>Can Jamaica repeat Olympic sweep in the women&rsquo;s 100m?</h2>
 Yes, they can. Last year in Tokyo it was Elaine Thompson-Herah first, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce second and Shericka Jackson third. On form it could be a repeat in Eugene: the trio sit atop the world list. But the order could change as all three have claims to the gold medal. Of course, there are rounds to negotiate first, including a semi-final tonight, but again, these three have plenty of experience in championship racing.
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Looking for those who might disrupt the Jamaican order, Switzerland&rsquo;s Mujinga Kambundji is in great form and Aleia Hobbs cannot be discounted despite finishing 0.03 behind teammate Melissa Jefferson who ran a wind-aided 10.69 in the US Trials.
Hayward Field may have built its reputation on distance running, Steve Prefontaine and Bill Bowerman&rsquo;s Men of Oregon, but in recent years it has produced a slew of fast sprint times, too. It helps that the major US national championships &ndash; both Collegiate and Open &ndash; have been run there, but the combination of a fast track, championship rounds and a trio of super-fast Jamaicans could produce something special.
<h2>... a US men&rsquo;s hurdles sweep, too?</h2>
 If a Jamaican 1-2-3 is &lsquo;on&rsquo; in the women&rsquo;s 100, the Caribbean nation may be beaten to the punch in the preceding event &ndash; the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles. World champion Grant Holloway and world leader &ndash; at 12.84, if you don&rsquo;t mind - Devon Allen are a good thing to go 1-2 and Trey Cunningham and Daniel Roberts sit in second and third behind Allen on the world list.
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This is the hurdles, however, where things can go horribly right in one race and horribly wrong in another. Look no further for an example than the difference between Holloway&rsquo;s blitz of the final in Doha 2019 and his run in the Olympic final. Favoured to win and leading until the latter stages, Holloway lost form and tied up badly to be grabbed by Hansle Parchment. Ronald Levy also pipped Allen for the bronze medal. Parchment looks best placed to deny the US a medal sweep at home.
One to watch is 20-year-old world U20 champion Sasha Zhoya of France. Zhoya has already run 13.17 over the senior barriers in winning the French title and has shown he can rise to the big occasion.
Len Johnson for World Athletics

Seven titles up for grabs on day 3 of the World Athletics Championships Oregon 22

Three things to watch for as gold rush set to begin

From the men&rsquo;s marathon beginning at 6:15 a.m. Sunday to the day&rsquo;s final event, the women&rsquo;s 100m dash at 7:50 p.m., the third day of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at the reimagined Hayward Field will be jam-packed with plenty of exciting action on the road, on the track, and in the field.&nbsp;
Here&rsquo;s what to watch for on Sunday:&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S MARATHON (6:15 a.m., final)&nbsp;
Always one of the marquee events at any major global championships, the men&rsquo;s marathon is the first of two-straight marathon days with the women up next on Monday morning. Both races begin and end outside of Autzen Stadium, where the University of Oregon football team plays. The team consists of three 14km loops and will run through Eugene and Springfield.&nbsp;
The overwhelming fan favorite will be former University of Oregon star Galen Rupp, who was the silver medalist in the 10,000m at the 2012 London Olympics and the bronze medalist in the marathon at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.&nbsp;
Rupp, the 2017 Chicago Marathon winner, will be competing in his sixth World Athletics Championships but his first in the marathon and first since 2015. Rupp was eighth in the marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and was second in the 2021 Chicago Marathon. With a personal best of 2 hours, 6 minutes, 7 seconds, he is the second-fastest U.S. marathoner ever.&nbsp;
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lelisa Desisa is the defending World Athletics Championships gold medalist and was the 2018 New York Marathon champion. His teammates, Tamirat Tola, Mosinet Geremew and Seifa Tura will be formidable with Tola winning the silver medal at the 2017 World Athletics Championships and Olympic bronze in 2016; Geremew took silver behind Desisa in Doha and was second in the 2019 London Marathon in 2:02.55; Tura won the Chicago Marathon over Rupp in 2021.&nbsp;
Abdi Nageeye of the Netherlands and Bashir Abdi of Belgium surprised many by taking the silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Abdi then won the 2021 Rotterdam Marathon in a European record of 2:03.36. Nageeye then beat Abdi to win this year&rsquo;s Rotterdam Marathon.&nbsp;
The Kenyan trio of Geoffrey Kamworor, Lawrence Chorno, and Barnabas Kiptum will also be in the hunt. Kamworor is coming back from a broken leg suffered when he was hit by a motorbike in June 2020. He won the New York Marathon in 2017 and 2019 and won world half-marathon titles in 2014, 2016, and 2018.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S 100 (Final, 7:50 p.m., Semifinals, 5:33 p.m.)&nbsp;
Will Jamaica&rsquo;s trio of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shericka Jackson sweep this event like they did at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? They are the three-fastest women in the world this season with bests of 10.67 for Fraser-Pryce, 10.77 for Jackson and 10.79 for Thompson-Herah.&nbsp;
Fraser-Pryce is going for her fifth World Athletics Championships gold medal in this event and is the defending champion. Thompson-Herah is the two-time defending Olympic champion, but her only individual World Athletics Championships medal was a 200m silver medal in 2015. Jackson is seeking her third World Athletics Championships individual medal after bronzes in the 400m in 2015 and 2019.&nbsp;
Julian Alfred, the NCAA champion for Texas who runs for Saint Lucia, is fourth on the world list at 10.81 seconds. Great Britian&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith was the silver medalist in Doha in 2019, and Maree Josee-Talou of Cote D&rsquo;ivoire was the bronze medalist in Doha after winning silver in London in 2017.&nbsp;
The only years the U.S. hasn&rsquo;t won a medal in this event were 1987, 2001, and 2019. Melissa Jefferson, the U.S. champion, is ranked sixth in the world at 10.82 seconds, just behind U.S. teammate Aleia Hobbs who ran 10.81 during the rounds of the U.S. championships.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S SHOT PUT (Final, 6:27 p.m.)&nbsp;
A World Athletics Championships gold medal is the only thing that has eluded native Oregonian Ryan Crouser in his career and is the favorite here with his season best of 23.12m, just off his 23.37 world record from last year.&nbsp;
American Joe Kovacs won on his last throw in Doha, when he threw a personal-best 22.91m to edge Crouser and New Zealand&rsquo;s Tomas Walsh by one centimeter. Kovacs has a season best of 22.87. These three won all of the medals at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics as well. Kovacs was also the 2015 World Athletics Championships. In 2017, Walsh won over Kovacs. It would take a major upset for these three not to be the medalists again.&nbsp;
The biggest threat to the top three will be Brazil&rsquo;s Darlan Romani, who upset Crouser to win the indoor World Athletics Championships gold medal in March in Belgrade, Serbia.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 110M HURDLES (Final, 7:30 p.m., Semifinals, 5:05 p.m.)&nbsp;
The U.S. is looking for a medal sweep with its trio of Grant Holloway, Devon Allen and Trey Cunningham advancing out of Saturday&rsquo;s first round. Holloway is the defending champion, and Hayward Field record-holder at 12.81 seconds, the second-fastest time in history. Allen, the former University of Oregon star, ran the third-fastest time in history last month when he beat Holloway in New York and ran 12.84. Cunningham was the NCAA champion for Florida State and has run 13.00 this year, No. 2 in world. Roberts, the U.S. Outdoor Championships champ, did not advance after suffering a fall in his first-round heat.&nbsp;
They are the four fastest hurdlers in the world this season.&nbsp;
Jamaica&rsquo;s Hansle Parchment, the second-fastest qualifier from the first round, was the 2020 Olympic gold medalist with Holloway second. Parchment also won the bronze at the 2015 World Athletics Championships, and is the only non-American in the top eight in the world this year.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S POLE VAULT (Final, 5:25 p.m.)&nbsp;
Sandi Morris of the U.S. is looking for her first outdoor World Athletics Championships gold medal after winning the event at the indoor World Athletics Championships in March. Morris, one of only three women in history to clear 5m, was also the silver medalist at the outdoor World Athletics Championships in 2017 and 2019.&nbsp;
Morris, who is the world leader at 4.82m, also was the silver medalist at the 2016 Olympics. Her main competition figures to be training partner and 2020 Olympic gold medalist Katie Nageotte, who has cleared 4.65m and had a personal best of 4.95m last year.&nbsp;
Greece&rsquo;s Aikaterini Stefanidi. Stefanidi was the 2016 Olympic gold medalist, the 2017 World Athletics Championships gold medalist, and the 2019 bronze medalist in Doha.&nbsp;
Slovenia&rsquo;s Tina Sutej is ranked third in the world at 4.72m this year. A number of vaulters have season bests between 4.60m and 4.70, including American Gabriel Leon, the NCAA champion for Louisville.&nbsp;
WOMEN&rsquo;S HAMMER (Final, 11:35 a.m.)&nbsp;
This could be an all-North American affair.&nbsp;
United States champion Brooke Andersen is the world leader at 79.02m. American Janee Kassanavoid is ranked third in the world at 78.00m, and was the top qualifier for the final, just ahead of Andersen, Canada&rsquo;s Camryn Rogers is the three-time defending NCAA champ for California. She completed her college career last month after re-setting the collegiate record a number of times and is ranked fourth in the world at 77.67m.&nbsp;
Italy&rsquo;s Sara Fantini has thrown 75.57m this season, and Finland&rsquo;s Krista Tervo was third in Friday&rsquo;s qualifying. Several other throwers are close behind, making this one of the more wide-open events for medals.&nbsp;
For those who regularly attend meets at Hayward Field, there will be noticeable change as per World Athletics Championships requirements, the hammer throw will be inside the stadium at WCH Oregon22, instead of the field adjacent to the stadium where the hammer is normally thrown.&nbsp;
MEN&rsquo;S 10,000 METERS (Final, 1 p.m.)&nbsp;
Uganda&rsquo;s Joshua Cheptegei is the defending champion and the world record-holder at 26 minutes, 11 seconds, but he was upset by Ethiopia&rsquo;s Selemon Barega at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and took the silver medal. Cheptegei will be a strong favorite in this race.&nbsp;
Grant Fisher of the U.S., who set the American record of 26 minutes, 33.84 seconds earlier this year, is the world leader, followed by Canada&rsquo;s Mo Ahmed. They are teammates at the Bowerman Track Club in Portland, Ore., and the Bowerman Track Club will soon be relocating to Eugene. The U.S. has never had a medalist in this event at the World Athletics Championships. Ahmed was the 5,000m bronze medalist in Doha, and the silver medalist in the 5,000m at the Tokyo Olympics.&nbsp;
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Berihu Aregawi set the Hayward Field record in the 5,000m at the Prefontaine Classic in May. Other top 10,000m contenders include Uganda&rsquo;s Jacob Kiplimo, the Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist, and Kenya&rsquo;s Rodgers Kwemoi, Stanley Mburu and Daniel Mateiko.&nbsp;
HEPTATHLON (Day 1 begins at 10:35 a.m.)&nbsp;
NCAA Outdoor heptathlon and NCAA indoor pentathlon champion Anna Hall of Florida enters No. 2 in the world after winning the U.S. championships in May with 6,458 points, the highest total ever by an American collegian. She was also second at the NCAA meet in the 400 hurdles just 20 minutes before running the 800 in the heptathlon to wrap up her NCAA crown. Since Jackie Joyner-Kersee's retirement, the only World Athletics Championships medalist in the heptathlon for the U.S. came from Sheila Burrell in 2001.&nbsp;
Anouk Vetter of Netherlands, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medalist, is the world leader at 6,693 points. Great Britian&rsquo;s Katerina Johnson-Thompson is working her way back after suffering a ruptured Achilles tendon in 2020. She&rsquo;s scored 6,174 points this year, but is the defending champion from Doha when she scored 6,981 points to make her the No. 6 performer all-time.&nbsp;
The No. 3 performer all time is Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium, who has a personal best of 7,013 points, and is the reigning two-time Olympic gold medalist. Thiam was also the 2017 World Athletics Championships gold medalist, and the silver medalist in Doha. Emma Oosterwegel of Netherlands scored 6,590 points in winning the bronze medalist in Tokyo.&nbsp;
American Kendell Williams could also be in the hunt for a medal.&nbsp;
OTHER EVENTS&nbsp;
The men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s 400m heats will begin in the morning session with the men&rsquo;s heats beginning at 11:05 a.m., and the women beginning at noon.&nbsp;
Qualifying in the men&rsquo;s discus helps lead off the evening session at 5:05 p.m. At 6:03 p.m., medal favorites Rai Benjamin of the U.S., Karsten Warhlom of Norway, and Alison dos Santos of Brazil lead the way in the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdle semifinals.&nbsp;
The men&rsquo;s 1,500m semifinals will begin at 7 p.m.&nbsp;
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By Ashley Conklin
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From the men’s marathon beginning at 6:15 a.m. Sunday to the day’s final event, the women’s 100m dash at 7:50 p.m., the third day of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 at the reimagined Hayward Field will be jam-packed with plenty of exciting action on the road, on the track, and in the field. 

What to watch for on Day 3 at WCH Oregon22 

Have you had a hearty breakfast? That&rsquo;s good, my friends, because we have a couple of heavy issues to decide before we break for lunch. Then, this evening, there&rsquo;s the little matter of deciding who leaves Eugene 2022 in (temporary) possession of the &ldquo;world&rsquo;s fastest man&rdquo; title. Along with finals in the shot put on the women's side and the hammer throw and long jump on the men's.
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If that&rsquo;s not enough to keep your energy levels high there&rsquo;s a tempting array of snacks in the form of preliminaries and qualifying rounds. Among the tastiest the women&rsquo;s 100m and high jump, the men&rsquo;s 1500m and hammer throw.
<h2>How ready is Hassan?</h2>
 Six years ago at the Rio 2016 Olympics, Almaz Ayana gave the first day early-risers a rousing wake-up with a world record in the women&rsquo;s 10,000m. In last year&rsquo;s form, Sifan Hassan may have been capable of a similar performance, but she has cut back from an ambitious Olympic treble attempt to a world championships double, her one and only race for 2022 a &lsquo;tempo&rsquo; 5000m in 15:13 a week or so ago up the road in Portland. Impressive, but she will probably need back-to-back splits faster than that to prevail here.
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This year&rsquo;s world list is not a reliable guide either. Elise Cranny leads it, but is running the 5000m. Eilish McColgan beat Letsenbet Gidey by 25 seconds in Hengelo and is a medal chance should she maintain that edge here. Hellen Obiri prevailed in a close finish in the Kenyan championships at altitude in Nairobi.
The form is muddled, the result unpredictable. Which will probably make for a great race.
<h2>Is Warholm ready at all?</h2>
 If Sifan Hassan&rsquo;s form-book is hard to read, Karsten Warholm&rsquo;s is a blank sheet. His only start for the season, in the Rabat Wanda Diamond League, resulted in a pull-up after catching his trailing leg on the first hurdle.
A cramp? A hamstring? Something else? Whatever it was, Warholm came to the Norwegian training camp in California recently professing confidence he could get to Eugene to defend his world title. And now, here he is. After his fabulous world record win in last year&rsquo;s Olympic final, who would be game to write him off.
In the interim, Tokyo silver medallist Rai Benjamin has not gone away and bronze medallist Alison Dos Santos has gone from strength to strength.
The first-round heats will not tell us everything, may not tell us anything at all. But at least we may find out just how healthy Karsten Warholm is. Fit and confident, he remains the one to beat. And, as he reminded everyone at a sponsor media event this week, he ran a world record first-up last year.
<h2>The world&rsquo;s fastest man</h2>
 Fred Kerley cuts an imposing figure on the track. He also has the performances to match, at 100 (PB 9.76), 200 (19.76) and 400m (43.64). He had a metre to spare over anyone else in the heats on day one. Kerley won his heat in 9.79, next fastest his teammate Trayvon Bromell with 9.89. Five others went sub-10, perhaps the most intriguing Letsile Tebogo of Botswana with a world U20 record 9.94.
Speaking of intrigue, what to make of Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs. A 10.04 behind Jamaica&rsquo;s Oblique Seville (9.93) doesn&rsquo;t look too impressive, but maybe he was holding something back after a season disrupted by illness and injury. Others who may be lurking in the shadows, so to speak, include Kenya&rsquo;s Ferdinand Omanyala who ran &lsquo;only&rsquo; 10.08 for third in his heat but arrived in Eugene only a couple of hours before his race after a race against time to by granted a US visa.
Heats can tell us only so much. Some sprinters got all out, then hold something back, Omanyala was, literally, held back by red tape. Finals&rsquo; day is the time to perform.
But first, there&rsquo;s the potentially tricky matter of the semi-finals. The finals are the second event on day two&rsquo;s evening program. The final brings down the curtain and, perhaps, the house at the end of the night.
Len Johnson for World Athletics

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