When Athing Mu saw Keely Hodgkinson cut inside and edge ahead of her in the women&rsquo;s 800m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, the US athlete's competitive instincts kicked into their highest gear.
Mu, who says she is &ldquo;competitive in everything&rdquo; &mdash; even racing her boyfriend to see who can get ready for practice the fastest &mdash; kept her unbeaten streak alive with a furious finish on Sunday (24).
She ran a world-leading 1:56.30 to win her 22nd&nbsp;straight race as a professional and capture the first World Championships gold medal for the US in the women&rsquo;s 800m. Mu, who was emotional at the finish, has not lost an outdoor race since September 2019 and her streak includes heats and finals at various distances.
Hodgkinson clocked a season's best 1:56.38 to win Great Britain&rsquo;s first silver medal in the event since Kelly Holmes' in 2003. Mary Moraa captured the bronze for Kenya&rsquo;s first medal since 2015 with a PB of 1:56.71.
&ldquo;I love competing against other fast women,&rdquo; Mu said. &ldquo;I really just wanted to be consistent this year and to continue with the wins that I have been having. Today, it was a little bit harder for me, but I wanted to make sure that when I came on the track, I just do my best.&rdquo;&nbsp;
The race between the top two finishers was a rematch of the Olympic final, when both were teenagers. They have since turned 20 and this was their first head-to-head competition of the year since a bout with Covid forced Mu to withdraw from the Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field in May.&nbsp;
Mu became the youngest woman in history to own both Olympic and world titles in an individual athletics event. Only Kirani James of Grenada, who won the 400m in 2011 and 2012, was younger, and he added another silver medal in Eugene.
While Mu thrives as a front-runner, she could not take immediate control of the race. Ethiopia&rsquo;s Diribe Welteji held the lead at 200m, followed by Hodgkinson and then Mu. Welteji was still out front at the bell, with a time of 57.09, with Mu 0.07 behind and looking comfortable. Mu made her move on the back stretch and Hodgkinson went with her, with Moraa just behind.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Mu held the lead rounding the turn, but Hodgkinson found a gap inside and they were shoulder-to-shoulder with 100m to go. For a moment, Hodgkinson had the lead.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I thought I could get her in the last 100,&rdquo; said the British record-holder, who lost to Mu by 0.67 in Tokyo last year. &ldquo;I gave it everything. I&rsquo;m a bit gutted because I was so close. But it is what is. We&rsquo;ve got World Champs next year, so we&rsquo;ll go again.&rdquo;
All three medallists ran faster than Mu&rsquo;s previous world-leading time of 1:57.01, while Welteji placed fourth with a PB of 1:57.02.
Moraa, who trains in the same camp as 1500m champion Faith Kipyegon, fought to pass Welteji and then knelt on the track covered by her nation&rsquo;s flag. &ldquo;This is a very special achievement for me and my village,&rdquo; said Moraa. &ldquo;The race was tough, but I tried to push myself to finish like this.&rdquo; 
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 The US had three finalists, including two podium finishers from 2019. Doha silver medallist and Olympic bronze medallist Raevyn Rogers, whose image is on the Hayward Field tower as a University of Oregon standout, placed sixth in 1:58.26 and Ajee Wilson, the world indoor champion and the two-time world bronze medallist, faded to eighth in 2:00.19.&nbsp;
US athletes had reached the podium six times before at the World Championships, but never the top step.
With&nbsp;1968 Olympic gold medallist Madeline Manning Mims cheering from the stands, Mu finally accomplished that goal.
However, she said she didn&rsquo;t quite feel like herself. &ldquo;I just physically wasn&rsquo;t where I wanted to be,&rdquo; Mu said. &ldquo;I just didn&rsquo;t feel my best, and so I knew it was going to be a little tough. I just wanted to make sure I didn&rsquo;t leave anything out on the track and what was going to happen today was going to happen, and I just wanted to make sure I did my best, run how I usually run and thankfully I got the gold.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Mu&rsquo;s boyfriend, US team-member Brandon Miller, did not get out of the heats in the men&rsquo;s 800m.&nbsp;
She said after the first round that Miller, with whom she will celebrate a one-year anniversary next month, &ldquo;just tells me to be me. &lsquo;Do your thing, just have fun out there.&rsquo;&rdquo;
Being the Olympic gold medallist, she said, is &ldquo;not something I think about every day. So whenever I do hear it, it&rsquo;s like, &lsquo;Oh, OK, that&rsquo;s fun! I am!&rsquo;&rdquo;
Now she has double the fun.
And Hodgkinson, who is preparing herself mentally for the Commonwealth Games, has to wait for a rematch.
&ldquo;This time, I ran for the gold,&rdquo; Hodgkinson said. &ldquo;Unfortunately, I didn&rsquo;t get it. But I&rsquo;m proud of myself for going out there and giving myself that chance. I believed in myself. She&rsquo;s a great athlete. We&rsquo;ve got many, many years ahead of us.&rdquo;
Karen Rosen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Athing Mu 🇺🇸 USA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">1:56.30 WL</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Keely Hodgkinson 🇬🇧 GBR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">1:56.38 SB</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Mary Moraa 🇰🇪 KEN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">1:56.71 PB</td>
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World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

When Athing Mu saw Keely Hodgkinson cut inside and edge ahead, the US athlete's competitive instincts kicked into their highest gear

Mu holds off Hodgkinson to win world 800m title in Oregon

When Champion Allison grabbed the baton for the anchor leg of the men&rsquo;s 4x400m final, he took off on what was essentially a victory lap.
Elija Godwin, Michael Norman and Bryce Deadmon had combined to give the US team such a huge lead that Allison ran the final 400m virtually alone on Sunday (24) to secure yet another gold for the home country at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
With a lead of about 20m and the Hayward Field crowd roaring him on, Allison crossed the finish line in a world-leading 2:56.17 to give the US men their eighth 4x400m relay title in the last nine championships &ndash; and 11th out of 18.
&ldquo;I was hungry and blessed to bring it home for my team,&rdquo; Allison said.
Jamaica took silver in 2:58.58 and Belgium grabbed bronze in 2:58.72. Japan finished fourth in an Asian record 2:59.51.
With such an impressive depth of one-lap runners, the US started as huge favourites and the result was never in doubt. The handoffs were clean and each of the four US runners did their part to extend the country&rsquo;s dominance in the event.
The win came in the last men&rsquo;s track event on the final day of the championships, the first held on US soil. The US women followed with gold in the 4x400m relay.
Godwin led off with a 44.28 split, new 400m champion Norman followed with a 43.68 leg to build a sizeable lead, Deadmon ran 43.82 on the third leg and Allison closed it out in 44.43.
There was no repeat of the baton exchange problems that have so often bedevilled US relay teams. A day earlier, the US men&rsquo;s 4x100m team settled for silver behind Canada after a sloppy final handoff.
Deadmon said the crowd noise was &ldquo;crazy&rdquo;.
&ldquo;It was definitely a help to have a home crowd here,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All our transitions went smooth. Pace was good, time was good, I mean it felt like we came out to win.&rdquo;
&ldquo;I definitely felt the energy today,&rdquo; Norman said. &ldquo;It was a great experience and my No.1 in terms of the interaction with the fans.&rdquo;
The victory meant a second gold medal from the championships for Norman, who finally lived up to his reputation as one of the best quarter-milers of his generation to win his first global 400m title on Friday night.
&ldquo;It has been a great championships in overall for the team USA,&rdquo; Norman said. &ldquo;Especially on the men's side after some disappointing championships, it was like a turn around. I think there is a huge potential of the whole team for growth. The time is coming. Maybe the next four, five or six years, it is going to be an amazing time for the USA team.&rdquo;
Jamaica ended up with its eighth silver medal in the event, to go with three bronze. The Jamaicans are still without a gold in the relay.
&ldquo;I think it was OK today under the given circumstances,&rdquo; third-leg runner Jevaughn Powell said. &ldquo;It is always a tough task running with the USA team, but we are trying to challenge them as much as possible. And I think we did that.&rdquo;
It was Belgium&rsquo;s second 4x400m bronze in a row at the World Championships.
&ldquo;It was a great race at a great stadium. To get another medal, that is really great for our country,&rdquo; anchor leg runner Kevin Borlee said. &ldquo;We were very well prepared and tried to stay focused to keep the rhythm. For such a small country, we keep on going for so many years. So it is awesome.&rdquo;
Steve Wilson for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">United States 🇺🇸</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">2:56.17 WL</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Jamaica 🇯🇲</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">2:58.58 SB</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Belgium 🇩🇪</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">2:58.72 SB</td>
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When Champion Allison grabbed the baton for the anchor leg of the men’s 4x400m final, he took off on what was essentially a victory lap

US team dominates in Oregon to win 11th men's world 4x400m gold

Norway&rsquo;s Jakob Ingebrigsten had an Olympic title, but he had never won a World Championships gold medal.
After being upset in the 1500m by Jake Wightman only a few days ago at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, a world gold still eluded him.
If he wanted to end his drought, he was going to have to topple a star-studded field in the men&rsquo;s 5000m that included the world record-holder, Uganda&rsquo;s Joshua Cheptegei, who had earned gold over 10,000m earlier in the championships.
But Ingebrigtsen did exactly that, winging up the pace in the final kilometre to win in 13:09.24. Kenya&rsquo;s Jacob Krop took silver in 13:09.98, while Uganda&rsquo;s Oscar Chelimo earned bronze in 13:10.20, a season&rsquo;s best.
Ingebrigtsen spent almost half the race towards the back of the pack and didn't make his move until after the field had covered two kilometres, going from 10th place into fifth. He remained near the front over the next few laps, then he moved into first with 600 metres left.
From then on, he never relinquished the lead. Ingebrigtsen led 11 men through the bell, less than a second spread among them. As the pack strung out and the finalists started to unleash their finishing kick, Ingebrigtsen held off all of them and extended his lead as he neared the line.
The Norwegian could even afford to take a couple of last looks behind him, before flashing a &lsquo;No.1&rsquo; gesture to the fans on the homestretch.
&ldquo;It feels amazing to win this gold,&rdquo; said Ingebrigtsen. &ldquo;This is already my fifth attempt to become a world champion outdoors and my third World Championships. So finally, I became the world champion.&rdquo;
Cheptegei led through the first three laps, but by the halfway mark, he had dropped to eighth. Leading the pack was Kenya&rsquo;s Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli and Daniel Simiu Ebenyo, who often took turns at the front early on. In pursuit were Guatemala&rsquo;s Luis Grijalva, Ingebrigsten and USA&rsquo;s Grant Fisher.
Through 4000m, just 0.75 separated the top 12. Krop had taken the lead, but the race remained conservative, with no one looking to push the pace, setting the stage for the raucous bell lap.
Ingebrigtsen and Krop passed through the bell first, holding their positions the rest of the way. However, Chelimo was still in ninth, and Fisher was in third, only 0.11 behind the top two. Chelimo remained in eighth until the final 200 metres, where he moved into fifth, still trailing Fisher and Canada&rsquo;s Mohammed Ahmed.
As the three men came around the curve, with the bronze still up for grabs, Fisher hit the inside rail, causing the American to drop behind. Chelimo took advantage, as did Grijalva, and both men moved ahead. Chelimo&rsquo;s kick was too strong for either Grijalva or Ahmed to handle, as he edged both men by less than 0.25.
Grijalva finished fourth, achieving the best finish for his country in any event at the World Championships.
&ldquo;It feels amazing. I have always run a PB in the races,&rdquo; said Grijalva. &ldquo;I almost won a medal, the first for Central America.&rdquo;
Krop said he knew the race would be tactical, but he was ready for it.
&ldquo;They just made me push on the last lap and attack,&rdquo; said Krop. &ldquo;In the end, it looked like everybody wanted to get to the podium. I had my position and when I kicked, I wanted to maintain the spot, but Jakob had a strong kick too.&rdquo;
For Chelimo, the bronze finish comes after a few disappointing outings recently.
&ldquo;I had some difficult times in the past years, I was happy last year to qualify in Tokyo, but then I came last so I had to ask why,&rdquo; said Chelimo. &ldquo;But my coach told me that I am a champion. He said, &lsquo;forget about the past, just continue racing&rsquo;.&rdquo;
Elias Esquivel for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Jakob Ingebrigtsen 🇳🇴 NOR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">13:09.24</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Jacob Krop 🇰🇪 KEN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">13:09.98</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Oscar Chelimo 🇺🇬 UGA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">13:10.20 SB</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/men/5000-metres/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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Men's 5000m report

Ingebrigtsen wins first world title with 5000m gold in Oregon

He may have broken the world record and earned Olympic silver in recent years, but Kevin Mayer has also had his fair share of bad luck.
The French decathlete bowed out of the 2018 European Championships after failing to record a valid mark in the long jump. Little more than a year later, he was forced to withdraw from the World Championships in Doha when an injury prevented him from competing in the pole vault.
But in retaining his decathlon title at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, Mayer showed that he is still a major force in the combined events world.
The 30-year-old navigated his way up the overall standings as the competition progressed. He was sixth at the end of day one, then moved up to fifth after the 110m hurdles on Sunday, fourth after the discus, and third after the pole vault before finally moving into first after throwing 70.31m in the javelin, overtaking Canada's Pierce LePage.
He went on to win with 8816, his best score since setting his world record of 9146 four years ago. LePage took silver with a PB of 8701 and USA&rsquo;s Zach Ziemek achieved his first major podium finish by earning bronze with a PB of 8676.
The contest was blown wide open when Olympic champion and pre-event favourite Damian Warner pulled up injured in the 400m at the end of the first day, having been in the leading position in the overall standings up until that point.
It meant that Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Ayden Owens-Delerme found himself as the surprising day-one leader with 4606, having put together a superb series which included a stunning 45.07 run in the 400m.
Before his 400m catastrophe, Warner had been in good form. The Canadian posted the fastest time of the day in the 100m, 10.27, and then followed it with the best long jump of the day, 7.87m. He then produced season&rsquo;s bests of 14.99m in the shot and 2.05m in the high jump, giving him a lead of 62 points over USA&rsquo;s Zach Ziemek at that point in the competition.
Ziemek, a top-seven finisher at the past two Olympics, enjoyed one of his best ever starts to a decathlon. He placed in the top five in the first four disciplines and was close to his PBs in the 100m (10.57) and long jump (7.70m), then set a PB of 15.37m in the shot, ending the day in third place.
Mayer, by contrast, placed outside of the top five in all of the disciplines on day one, but was nevertheless pleased with his 10.62 run in the 100m, 7.54m leap in the long jump, 14.98m throw in the shot put, 2.05m clearance in the high jump and 49.40 clocking in the 400m. He also knew he had some of his best events yet to come.
Defending champion Niklas Kaul was down in 16th place at the end of Saturday&rsquo;s action, but his 4147 tally was not far off his day-one score from Doha three years ago when he won the world title with 8691. Season&rsquo;s bests of 2.05m in the high jump and 48.39 in the 400m helped the German&rsquo;s campaign.
Owens-Delerme, however, enjoyed the series of his life. His 10.52 clocking in the 100m was a quarter of a second shy of his PB, but he followed it with a lifetime best of 7.64m in the long jump, a 14.97m throw in the shot put and a 2.02m outdoor PB in the high jump before ending his day with his blinding 45.07 run in the 400m.
Not only was it the second-fastest 400m ever recorded within a decathlon, it also broke the Puerto Rican record.
While Warner&rsquo;s dreams of winning his first outdoor world title were dashed, LePage kept Canadian medal hopes alive at the start of day two by speeding to the fastest 110m hurdles clocking of 13.78. Owens-Delerme and Mayer were just a fraction behind with 13.88 and 13.92 respectively, while Ziemek ran 14.47.
Australia&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Ashley Moloney was a non-starter for the discus, but it nevertheless proved to be a high-quality competition as Jiri Sykora set a championship decathlon best of 54.39m. Lindon Victor&rsquo;s 53.92m was also in excess of the previous record, moving the Grenadian up to fifth.
LePage set a PB of 53.26m, moving him into the overall lead, while Mayer&rsquo;s 49.4mm moved him up to fourth.
Mayer and Ziemek moved up another place in the standings after they both cleared 5.40m in the pole vault. LePage cleared 5.00m, which was enough to stay in the lead, but the gap between the top three reduced to 86 points. Owens-Delerme (4.50m) and Kaul (4.80m) were some way off their bests in the pole vault, which proved costly in their hunt for medals.
Mayer produced the best throw of the day in the javelin, sending his spear out to 70.31m. With LePage managing 57.52m, it meant Mayer moved into the lead with a 107-point margin going into the 1500m.
LePage dropped to second place and Ziemek moved to third, throwing 62.18m. A 50.98m effort from Owens-Delerme essentially ended the Puerto Rican&rsquo;s medal ambitions, but he was still determined to give his all in the 1500m as it&rsquo;s one of his best events.
Owens-Delerme led from the outset in the final discipline. Kaul made up ground in the closing stages, but the Puerto Rican held on to cross the line first in 4:13.02, 0.79 ahead of Kaul.
But the real action was happening further behind. Mayer got around in 4:41.44, securing the title with 8816. LePage ensured he stayed ahead of Ziemek (4:42.77 to 4:44.97) to land the silver medal with 8701. ZIemek held on to third place overall with 8676.
Owens-Delerme may have missed out on a medal, but he was rewarded with another national record, scoring 8532 to finish comfortably ahead of Victor (8474), Kaul (8434) and 2019 world silver medallist Uibo (8425).
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">1</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Kevin Mayer 🇫🇷 FRA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">8816 SB</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">2</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Pierce LePage 🇨🇦 CAN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">8701 PB</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">3</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Zachery Ziemek 🇺🇸 USA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">8676 PB</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/men/decathlon/1500-metres/points" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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Medals for Pierce LePage and Zach Ziemek

Mayer regains world decathlon title in Oregon

Olympic champion Mondo Duplantis added a centimetre to his own world pole vault record to claim his first outdoor world title, soaring over 6.21m* as the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 came to a close on an incredible high on Sunday (24).
The 22-year-old had improved his own record mark to 6.20m when winning world indoor gold in Belgrade in March and he carried that remarkable form through to the outdoor championships at Hayward Field. Afterwards he insisted that he only had that medal in mind &ndash; the world record not his focus this time &ndash; but with victory secured at 6.00m, he had the bar moved 21 centimetres higher and took the title in sensational style.
It is the fifth time that Duplantis has improved the world record, the Swedish star first breaking it with his 6.17m clearance in Torun in February 2020. That added a centimetre to the record set by Renaud Lavillenie in Donetsk in 2014.
But it is the first time that Duplantis has broken it outdoors &ndash; the last time an outdoor performance led to a world record was when pole vault great Sergey Bubka soared over 6.14m in July 1994, more than five years before Duplantis was even born.
Duplantis has now also overtaken Bubka when it comes to career six metre-plus clearances, having managed that feat 48 times to Bubka&rsquo;s 46.
&ldquo;It is the medal I was missing,&rdquo; said Duplantis, who had earlier cleared a championship record of 6.06m on his first attempt and received a world record cheque for US$100,000 along with his gold medal. &ldquo;Usually, it (the world record) is always somewhere in the back of my mind, but today I was focused on the win.&rdquo;
In front of a passionate home crowd, USA&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Chris Nilsen secured a world medal of the same colour after clearing 5.94m. That height was also managed by Philippines&rsquo; Ernest John Obiena, who added a centimetre to his own Asian record to win bronze &ndash; the first ever World Championships medal for his nation. 
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 Duplantis entered the competition at 5.70m and decided to pass at 5.80m. The only blemish on his way to victory was a first-time failure at 5.87m, but he soon regained composure with a huge clearance of that height on his second try, moving him into a share of the bronze medal position at that stage.
Sitting with a towel over his head, he waited for his turn to attempt 5.94m and achieved it on his first go, again with plenty of room to spare. Nilsen had been the first to clear that height and so Duplantis joined him at the top of the results board, the US champion also needing two tries at 5.87m.
Obiena placed 11th in last year&rsquo;s Olympic final but he launched himself into the medals in Oregon with his Asian record performance. Clearing 5.94m on his second try, his podium place was confirmed when 2012 Olympic champion Lavillenie and Germany&rsquo;s Bo Kanda Lita Baehre both failed their third attempts at the height and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Thiago Braz was unable to make it over 6.00m, the Brazilian having passed straight to that attempt rather than try 5.94m for a third and final time.
Duplantis achieved the 46th six metre-plus clearance of his career on his first try and then put his hands on his hips and nodded to the crowd before punching the air. He then clapped in support as Nilsen started off on his second attempt at 6.00m, but it wasn&rsquo;t to be, and Duplantis was confirmed as champion when both Nilsen and Obiena failed their third and final attempts.
The bar then moved to a championship record height &ndash; 6.06m to add a centimetre to the mark achieved by Australia&rsquo;s Dmitri Markov in Edmonton in 2001. Again, Duplantis made it look so easy &ndash; clearing the bar on his first try and spreading his arms wide before bowing to the crowd.
There was no surprise as to what height he attempted next.
With the bar at 6.21m, all eyes were on the runway as Duplantis tried to launch himself skyward, but he aborted the attempt. He sat chatting with Lavillenie as he waited for his second go and then, with all other action having concluded, he returned to the track.
In the spotlight once again, the world watched as he launched himself up and over. As Duplantis fell, the bar stayed still and the pole vault star bounced straight back up before sprinting down the track and doing a forward flip in celebration.
&ldquo;I love jumping in Eugene and it was amazing here,&rdquo; he said.&nbsp;"I was getting a bit tired towards the end, but I really appreciate the crowd. You guys lifted me and gave me the energy I needed to get over the bar."
Nilsen was also delighted with his own result on home soil. &ldquo;Mondo is going to keep breaking records and I am just going to keep doing my thing,&rdquo; said the 24-year-old, who also claimed world indoor bronze in Belgrade. &ldquo;This medal means that I am very consistent in what I am doing &ndash; to be the top three in the world.&rdquo;
Obiena, who missed out on the final in Doha three years ago, returned to the world stage with the performance of his life and said: &ldquo;I did not expect that I would jump that high. And I would not think that it would actually take that high to win a medal. So I am definitely happy.&rdquo;
Four athletes cleared a best of 5.87m, Braz finishing fourth on countback ahead of Germany&rsquo;s Oleg Zernikel, Lavillenie and Lita Baehre.
With a total of seven athletes achieving 5.87m or higher and nine men clearing 5.80m, it was the deepest men's pole vault competition in history.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Mondo Duplantis 🇸🇪 SWE</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">6.21m WR</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Chris Nilsen 🇺🇸 USA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">5.94m</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Ernest John Obiena 🇵🇭 PHI</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">5.94m AR</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/men/pole-vault/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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*Subject to the usual ratification procedure

Mondo Duplantis adds a centimetre to his own world pole vault record

Duplantis breaks world pole vault record with 6.21m in Oregon

As Tobi Amusan crossed the finish line in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles final on Sunday (24) at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, she looked shocked.
Her time popped up on the clock at 12.06 &ndash; 0.06 faster than the world record* time she had set less than two hours prior in the first heat of the semifinals.
Her attention flipped to the wind-gauge, which read 2.5m/s, and she realised her time in the final would not count as a world record because it was not wind legal.
However, Amusan was still delighted. She had already set the world record, 12.12 (0.9m/s), and she followed up with her first World Championships gold.
&ldquo;The goal was to come out and to win this gold. I just did it,&rdquo; said the Nigerian. &ldquo;Honestly, I believe in my abilities, but I was not expecting a world record at these championships.&rdquo;
Hence the look of utter surprise.
Three years ago, Amusan finished fourth at the World Championships in Doha. Her form only improved from there, and she posted a personal best of 12.41 at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Paris in June before traveling to Eugene for the World Championships. Here her times began to get faster.
She topped that PB by .01 in the qualifying rounds on Saturday, breaking the African record in the process, before breaking the world record in the semifinal and running the wind-aided 12.06 in the final.
In the final, Amusan accelerated ahead of the field after clearing the sixth hurdle. She held off Jamaica&rsquo;s Britany Anderson and Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, both of whom were officially timed at 12.23 but separated in a photo finish by five thousandths of a second.
Before coming to the World Championships, Anderson won her first Jamaican title with a PB of 12.45. She then improved on that time in the semifinal as she ran a national record of 12.31.
&ldquo;In the middle it was not the best because I kept hitting the hurdles, but thank God I came full through with the silver medal,&rdquo; Anderson said. &ldquo;I am just taking it step by step, and I&rsquo;ll learn from this experience. It is overwhelming to get this experience from the Olympics and now to be a part of this race.&rdquo;
Camacho-Quinn has enjoyed a steady stream of success in recent years in the form of three NCAA titles and a string of victories on the international circuit. She won the Olympic title last year in 12.37, having broken the Games record with 12.26 in the semifinals.
However, the World Championships was a stage she had not yet experienced.
&ldquo;I got nervous, to be honest,&rdquo; Camacho-Quinn said. &ldquo;It kind of showed on my face, but I am just glad to come out here. I hit the last hurdle, but I ended up with a medal and I&rsquo;ll take it.&rdquo;
Former world record-holder Keni Harrison, who clocked 12.27 to finish behind Amusan in the semifinals, was in contention in the first half of the final but then faded and jogged over the line in last place. She was later disqualified for knocking down a hurdle with her hands.
After watching her world record fall in the semifinals, she flashed a wide grin and embraced Amusan.
Alia Armstrong, who won the NCAA title at Hayward Field earlier this summer, returned to Eugene for her first World Championships and finished just off the podium in fourth place in a wind-aided 12.31. Armstrong also ran a personal best of 12.43 to win the second heat of the semifinals.
&ldquo;Coming into this race, I knew I could win,&rdquo; Armstrong said. &ldquo;Even though some can run 12.12, I can run 12.0. It doesn't matter who you are up against, you can do all things.&rdquo;
After competing as the youngest woman in the field, Armstrong will return to her final year at Louisiana State University.
The entire final was a speedy one. To put that in context, Danielle Williams&rsquo; sixth-place finish of 12.44 was faster than the gold-medal time at the World Championships in 1991, 1995, 2003, 2005, 2015 and 2017.
&ldquo;Last year, after the Olympics, I said that hurdles is evolving,&rdquo; Camacho-Quinn said. &ldquo;So I feel like, from this point on, it is only going to be faster. We did pretty good. There were a lot of PRs out there today. I think we had the best event of the whole world champs. Just because of the times we put on, and I am very thankful.&rdquo;
Aaron Heisen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Tobi Amusan 🇳🇬 NGR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">12.06w</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Britany Anderson 🇯🇲 JAM</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">12.23w</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Jasmine Camacho-Quinn 🇵🇷 PUR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">12.23w</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/women/100-metres-hurdles/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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Women's 100m hurdles report

Amusan wins world 100m hurdles title after breaking world record in semis

Italy&rsquo;s Olympic 20km race walk champion Massimo Stano won the first men&rsquo;s 35km race walk to be held at the World Athletics Championships, clocking 2:23:14 to hold off Japan&rsquo;s Masatora Kawano in Oregon on Sunday (24). Kawano&nbsp;collapsed over the line one second later for silver in an Asian record of 2:23:15.
The Italian was the first to help his stricken rival to his feet.
Sweden&rsquo;s Perseus Karlstrom, who had won bronze in the opening day&rsquo;s men&rsquo;s 20km race walk behind the Japanese pair of Toshikazu Yamanishi and Koki Ikeda, earned a second in a personal best of 2:23:44.
Kawano&rsquo;s compatriot Daisuke Matsunaga had gambled hugely in the first half of the race, establishing a lead of over a minute by the 13th kilometre, but by the 21st kilometre he was passed by the pack and eventually finished 26th, more than 10 minutes off the pace.
But it was a brave effort from the man who had started the race second in the 2022 top list, having finished runner-up to Kawano at the Japanese trials in April in 2:27:09.
Brian Pintado of Ecuador, finishing fourth, had the consolation of setting a South American record of 2:24:37, while China&rsquo;s He Xianghong set an Asian record of 2:24:45 in fifth place and Evan Dunfee of Canada, who took bronze in the last ever Olympic men&rsquo;s 50km race walk in Sapporo last summer, was sixth in a North American record of 2:25:02.
Karlstrom, who was soon celebrating with a giant blue and yellow Viking hat on his head, had been the man who had done most to catch the lone figure of Matsunaga, whose bold effort looked for a few kilometres as if it might even work.
The 27-year-old Japanese athlete, who finished seventh in the Rio 2016 men&rsquo;s 20km race walk after winning the Asian title earlier in the year, was a man on a mission from the off, rocketing along the 1km looped course on Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard in downtown Eugene to create a significant lead of almost half a minute after the first kilometre, which he covered in 3:59, with the pack more than 25 seconds behind.
That lead grew steadily as the pack remained tight, but shortly after the 20km marker the balance of the race tipped and the chasing group became the leading group.
Gradually the pack of eight reduced, to the point that with 5km to go there were five contenders left - Stano, Kawano, Karlstrom, Pintado and He.
He was first to go, then Pintado. And as the front three moved through the 33km marker the field was reforming into a duo, with the Swede adrift.
Stano, impassive, inexorable, was an immoveable object. Kawano, desperate to emulate Yamanishi&rsquo;s earlier victory, showed the pain involved on his face and was an utterly spent force as he crossed the line having managed a despairing final surge over the last 10 metres.
Unlike Karlstrom, Stano had elected to concentrate his energies on the longer race, which is now the official companion of the 20km event for both men and women at major championships.
Mike Rowbottom&nbsp;for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Massimo Stano 🇮🇹 ITA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">2:23:14 CR</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Masatora Kawano 🇯🇵 JPN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">2:23:15 AR</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Perseus Karlstrom 🇸🇪 SWE</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">2:23:44 PB</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/men/35-kilometres-race-walk/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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Italy’s Olympic 20km race walk champion Massimo Stano won the first men’s 35km race walk to be held at the World Athletics Championships

Relentless Stano wins first men's world 35km race walk title in Oregon

The Dream Team couldn&rsquo;t overcome the American Dream on Saturday night.&nbsp;
The U.S. women&rsquo;s 4x100m relay team shocked Jamaica in the biggest upset of the first World Athletics Championships to be held on American soil.&nbsp;
The American team of veteran Jenna Prandini and three sprinters &mdash; Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner, and Twanisha Terry &mdash; running in their first World Championships, upset the Jamaican team loaded with veteran superstars with tons of medals and records galore.&nbsp;
But instead of the decorated Jamaicans stepping into another coronation and perhaps breaking the United States&rsquo; world record of 40.82 seconds, the upstart U.S. team road the wave of home crowd support at the reimagined Hayward Field at the University of Oregon to knock off sprinting royalty on a marquee stage.&nbsp;
The U.S. got the baton around the track in 41.14 seconds to edge the Jamaican quartet of Kemba Nelson, Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Shericka Jackson, who finished in 41.18 seconds. Germany was third in 42.03, and Nigeria set an African record of 42.22 seconds in fourth.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s special,&rdquo; said Prandini, who was a star at the University of Oregon and won The Bowerman Award in 2015 as the top women&rsquo;s college track and field athlete.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Not only is it U.S. soil, it&rsquo;s Hayward Field and Hayward Field is home for me. I love coming back for any race and to be able to have World Champs, the biggest race of the whole year, it&rsquo;s definitely really special. The Hayward magic was real for me.&rdquo;&nbsp;
WATCH: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnCilaL_3yo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The U.S. wins the women&rsquo;s 4x100m relay</a> at WCH Oregon22&nbsp;
Prandini is 29 and has 4x100m relay silver medals from the 2015 World Athletics Championships and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Terry, who ran the anchor leg, is 23 and in her first professional season. Steiner is 22 and just completed a standout collegiate career at Kentucky. She ran the second leg and replaced Aleia Hobbs, who ran that leg in Saturday&rsquo;s heats. Jefferson, the leadoff runner, is 21 and just turned pro after competing collegiately at Coastal Carolina.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t really shocked with the outcome because I knew we were going to do something special as long as we got the baton around the track,&rdquo; Terry said. &ldquo;I had already told myself months ago that at World Championships, I was going to shock the world.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know if it was going to be in the 100 or the 4x1. The 100 wasn&rsquo;t the outcome I wanted, so the 4x1 was the next option, and that&rsquo;s what we did.&rdquo;&nbsp;
What they did was knock off the greatest women&rsquo;s sprinters in history.&nbsp;
Fraser-Pryce won the 100m on Sunday for the fifth time in World Athletics Championships history and is the only woman to win an event five times at the outdoor World Championships. Her winning 100m time Sunday of 10.67 second was a Championships record. She was also the 2008 and 2012 100m Olympic gold medalist.&nbsp;
Thompson-Herah was the 2016 and 2020 Olympic gold medalist in the 100m and the 200m. She is history&rsquo;s second-fastest performer in the 100m at 10.54 seconds and the third-fastest 200m runner ever at 21.53 seconds.&nbsp;&nbsp;
At the 2020 Olympics, Jamaica swept the 100m medals with Thompson-Herah taking gold, Fraser-Pryce winning silver, and Shericka Jackson taking bronze. Jamaica swept the 100m medals at WCH Oregon22, with Jackson winning silver and Thompson-Herah taking bronze.&nbsp;
Jackson is the only sprinter with World Athletics Championships medals in the 100m, 200m, and 400m. She won bronze in the 400m at the 2015 and 2019 World Athletics Championships. On Thursday, she and Fraser-Pryce went 1-2 in the 200m with Jackson running the second-fastest time ever in 21.45 seconds and setting another Championships record.&nbsp;
Jamaica had won three of the past four 4x100m relays at the World Athletics Championships, too, with only a U.S. win in 2017 interrupting that streak.&nbsp;
Meanwhile, the U.S. was shut out of the sprint medals at WCH Oregon22, failing to win any in the 100m, 200m, or 400m for the first time in World Athletics Championships history.&nbsp;
It was a daunting task before the U.S. 4x100m relay team Saturday night, but the team was undaunted.&nbsp;
&ldquo;We came out with the gold medal, so obviously we executed well,&rdquo; Prandini said. &ldquo;We were really confident with everyone coming in, so I knew if we were able to get the stick around, we had a really good shot at getting that gold medal.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Hobbs and Jefferson finished sixth and eighth, respectively, in the 100m final, and Terry was knocked out in the semifinals. Steiner finished fifth in the 200m final, and Prandini was ninth in the 200m semifinals when only eight went to the final.&nbsp;
Even a move by the U.S. coaching staff to have Steiner, a veteran of successful 4x100m and 4x400m relays in college at Kentucky, didn&rsquo;t throw the U.S. off its game despite running so well with Hobbs on the second leg in the heats.&nbsp;
&ldquo;We had practiced this order of people at relay camp, so I knew that it was a possibility,&rdquo; Steiner said, &ldquo;so, I was ready for anything. I kind of had an idea throughout the week that this was going to be the plan, give myself the day off between the 200 and (relay) finals day so the most important thing is just to stay ready.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;The great thing about Team USA is that we have so many interchangeable parts, so if anyone needed to step up, they were going to be able to do it.&rdquo;&nbsp;
The U.S. may have had an added an advantage besides the crowd support, in being in lane 3 with Spain in lane 4 and Jamaica in lane 5. Jefferson got the U.S. off to a strong start, Steiner stayed with Thompson-Herah on the backstretch, and Prandini burned the curve and was able to give the baton to Terry in the lead despite having to run against Fraser-Pryce.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I was really happy with the position we got, because for me, I can see the people on the curve and go and work it as hard as I can,&rdquo; Prandini said. &ldquo;I knew we were in the lead, and I knew that (Terry) was going to take it home.&rdquo;&nbsp;
That she did with crowd urging her on at every step with Jackson charging hard trying to overtake Terry and the U.S. team.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was electrifying,&rdquo; Terry said. &ldquo;I knew it was going to be crazy because before we even took off, and they were just doing announcements, the crowd went crazy. So, once I got the baton, I heard the crowd go even more crazy. I knew I just had to stay relaxed and that brought me through the line.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I knew they were rooting for us, just run all the way through the line and do your thing.&rdquo;&nbsp;
And pull of the biggest upset of the World Athletics Championships in the process.&nbsp;
By Ashley Conklin

U.S. women stun Jamaica to win 4x100m relay at World Athletics Championships Oregon 22 

U.S. women stun Jamaica to win 4x100m relay

The United States dethroned the queens of the sprints, the Jamaican women&rsquo;s 4x100m, with fresher legs and crisper handoffs at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Saturday (23).&nbsp;
As Twanisha Terry held off Shericka Jackson on the home stretch, the crowd at Hayward Field produced the loudest roar in nine days of competition.&nbsp;
The US clocked a world-leading 41.14, the fifth-fastest time ever and the fastest time on US soil, to edge defending champion Jamaica, which came in at 41.18, the sixth-fastest all-time. They reversed positions from the Tokyo Olympics, where Jamaica claimed the gold and the US won the silver.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;Coming into here, we knew we had to have the chemistry,&rdquo; said Terry. &ldquo;We had to move the baton through the exchanges. You can have the fastest four legs, but if you don&rsquo;t move the baton around the track, then what are you doing?&nbsp;
&ldquo;So we knew we had to focus on ourselves and trust one another.&rdquo;
The US won its eighth gold medal and 13th&nbsp;overall in the event after placing third in 2019.
But all eyes were on Jamaica with its all-star line-up.
Jamaica not only fielded the three world and Olympic medallists in the 100m, but in Elaine Thompson-Herah, the nation had the fastest woman alive in the 100m. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the five-time and reigning world champion in the 100m and Jackson is the fastest woman alive in the 200m. They had five individual medals from this World Championships between them.
Kemba Nelson, the lead-off leg, was the 60m champion for the University of Oregon in 2021 and running on her home track.
Thompson-Herah, Fraser-Pryce and Jackson had already run six races apiece.
The members of the US team, by comparison, had not won any medals in individual events in Eugene and had run fewer races.&nbsp;Lead-off leg&nbsp;Melissa Jefferson was eighth in the 100m, Abby Steiner placed fifth in the 200m, Jenna Prandini did not reach the final in the 200m and Terry did not make the 100m final.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was not expected of us today and I am glad we pulled it through,&rdquo; said Jefferson.
But the US team had experience from the preliminary round, with Steiner replacing Aleia Hobbs as the only difference in team composition. For Jamaica, Nelson was the only carryover.
&ldquo;Of course, we wanted to win,&rdquo; said Thompson-Herah. &ldquo;But we are glad for the silver tonight and we cannot complain.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Jefferson produced the fastest lead-off leg of 11.35, and although the first pass could have been better, Steiner clocked 9.86 on the second leg. Prandini ran 10.05 and Terry came home in 9.88.
Jamaica&rsquo;s splits were 11.45 for Nelson, who had a messy exchange with Thompson-Herah, forcing the Olympic gold medallist to slow in order to stay in the zone. Thompson-Herah clocked 10.10, then Fraser-Pryce&rsquo;s split was 9.97 and Jackson produced a sizzling 9.66.
Steiner, who had won NCAA and US national titles on the Hayward Field track earlier this season, said she could hear the crowd chanting her name. &ldquo;I got a boost of energy right before I ran to know so many people were watching us and rooting for us,&rdquo; she said.&nbsp;
Prandini, running on her home track at the University of Oregon, had a nearly flawless exchange with Terry, giving her such a head start on Jackson that the Jamaican could not close the gap.&nbsp;
&ldquo;The race was electrifying,&rdquo; said Terry. &ldquo;You heard the stadium. The stadium went crazy. We just brought it home.&rdquo;
Jamaica won its 16th medal in the event. Fraser-Pryce won her third medal in Eugene &mdash; one gold and two silvers &mdash; for a total of 14 World Championships medals, tying compatriot Usain Bolt. Fraser-Pryce also made her seventh appearance in the event, equalling the event record of her compatriots&nbsp;Beverly McDonald and Kerron Stewart.
Germany won its first medal since 2009 in the 4x100m, clocking 42.03, and the team members were crying with joy. Nigeria placed fourth with an African record of 42.22.&nbsp;
Dina Asher-Smith pulled up with an injury ahead of the final hand-off for Great Britain, the team going on to finish sixth.&nbsp;
Daryll Neita, anchoring for Great Britain, ran the fastest split of 9.57.
Karen Rosen for World Athletics
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<td style="background-color: #fd5249; text-align: center;" colspan="3">WOMEN'S 4x100m MEDALLISTS</td>
</tr>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">United States 🇺🇸</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">41.14 WL</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Jamaica 🇯🇲</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">41.18 SB</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Germany 🇩🇪</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">42.03 SB</td>
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<tr>
<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/women/4x100-metres-relay/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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The United States dethroned the queens of the sprints

US team pips Jamaica to women's world 4x100m gold in Oregon

It all came down to a final dash on the anchor leg between Canada&rsquo;s Andre De Grasse and US rival Marvin Bracy-Williams.
In the final stage of the men&rsquo;s 4x100m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, De Grasse took the baton cleanly from Brendon Rodney, while Bracy-Williams struggled mightily to receive the handoff from Elijah Hall.
That gave De Grasse, the Olympic 200m champion, an opening and he took it, surging ahead of the US sprinter and charging down the Hayward Field straight.
Just before the finish, De Grasse glanced to his left at Bracy-Williams in the next lane and raised both arms as he crossed the line.
A few weeks ago, De Grasse was battling a bad case of Covid-19. Now, here he was, running a scorching last leg of 8.79 as Canada upset the favoured US team on Saturday (23) to claim the country&rsquo;s first gold of the championships.
As De Grasse celebrated, Bracy-Williams grimaced, realising the US team would have to settle for the silver in an event they are almost always expected to win.
The Canadian team of Aaron Brown, Jerome Blake, Rodney and De Grasse triumphed in a world-leading 37.48, while the US team clocked a season&rsquo;s best of 37.55. Britain earned the bronze in 37.83.
&ldquo;We had that team chemistry,&rdquo; De Grasse said. &ldquo;It's special to win here. There are many Canadians cheering us on. It's not on home soil, but it felt like it.&rdquo;
Jamaica was fourth in 38.06, while Ghana was fifth in a national record of 38.07, equalling its best finish at the championships.
It was Canada&rsquo;s third gold in the event after previous victories in 1995 and 1997.
&ldquo;After injuries and Covid, it was great to finish the championships like this,&rdquo; said De Grasse, who contracted the coronavirus for the second time less than a month ago, failed to qualify for the men&rsquo;s 100m final and pulled out of the 200m.
Canada earned silver in the sprint relay at the Tokyo Olympics last year, and De Grasse said that result had given the team inspiration to go one better at these World Championships.
&ldquo;We spoke about it last year and what a great shot we had at being on top of the podium,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;With many of us being more fresh, me not running six races, Brendon coming here for the relay also helped us. We were able to practice the relay more.&rdquo;
The US led off with 2019 world 100m champion Christian Coleman, followed by two-time world 200m champion Noah Lyles, Hall and 100m bronze medallist Bracy-Williams.
US relay teams have a history of botched handoffs, falls and other technical gaffes that have wrecked their gold medal chances. The runners got the baton around this time, but the final sloppy handoff may have been the difference between gold and silver.
Hall had a slight lead on the third leg when he held out the baton. Bracy-Williams missed on his first attempt to grab the baton, then reached again and had to twist his body. Hall tumbled to the track after finally completing the handoff.
&ldquo;We have a few things to clean up, the changes,&rdquo; Bracy-Williams said. &ldquo;Mine was not very good and that may have cost us the race. Nonetheless, we got a medal, got the stick around. We will win next time.&rdquo;
De Grasse made the most of his clean handoff from Rodney.
&ldquo;I was hoping not to get caught,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was tightening up a little bit. Once these guys did the work, I just had to make sure I stayed relaxed. I got the baton from Brendon and brought it home. We spoke about this moment so many times, waiting for the gold medal.&rdquo;
The result spoiled US chances of sweeping the two sprint relays. A few minutes earlier, the US women&rsquo;s 4x100m team upset the heavily favoured Jamaicans to take gold. The men watched the women&rsquo;s race on a TV screen and celebrated, but couldn&rsquo;t make it two wins out of two.
&ldquo;Of course we wanted gold,&rdquo; Lyles said. &ldquo;This is a really good team, but we didn't get to show our best ability. We still went out there and put it together. We won silver. I am actually pretty happy with that. It's not about gold every day.&rdquo;
Lyles had predicted big things for the relay before the championships.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been saying this for years: when I&rsquo;m on the relay, we ain&rsquo;t losing,&rdquo; he had said. &ldquo;Point blank. And we might break the world record, just saying.&rdquo;
To be fair, the US team was without the world&rsquo;s fastest man Fred Kerley, who won the 100m title last weekend but pulled out of the rest of the championships after sustaining a quadriceps injury in the semifinals of the 200m.
Left off the US team on Saturday were 100m bronze medallist Trayvon Bromell, 200m silver medallist Kenneth Bednarek and 200m bronze medallist Erriyon Knighton.
Britain&rsquo;s team consisted of Jona Efoloko, Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake and Reece Prescod.
&ldquo;It was great as this is my first World Championships and first medal,&rdquo; Efoloko said. &ldquo;It is too surreal and I am hoping for more. I believe in this team and we will keep pushing. I am just excited what more we have to bring on.&rdquo;
Steve Wilson for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Canada 🇨🇦</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">37.48 WL</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">United States 🇺🇸</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">37.55 SB</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Great Britain &amp; NI 🇬🇧</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">37.83 SB</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/men/4x100-metres-relay/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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Storming finish sees Canada overtake hosts USA

De Grasse leads Canada to 4x100m gold in Oregon

On paper, Jamaica&rsquo;s women&rsquo;s 4x100m team looked unbeatable. The US squad shredded those predictions, using better teamwork to win the gold medal at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Similarly, the Canadian team claimed an upset in the men's 4x100m&nbsp;on Saturday (23), as Andre De Grasse anchored the quartet to gold ahead of USA.
On a day of 4x100m surprises, there was also a second world javelin title for Anderson Peters, Pedro Pichardo added world gold to his Olympic triple jump title, Gudaf Tsegay took the 5000m title and Emmanuel Korir kicked to 800m victory.
In the women&rsquo;s 4x100m final, as Twanisha Terry held off a hard-charging Shericka Jackson on the home stretch, the crowd at Hayward Field produced the loudest roar in nine days of competition.
&ldquo;It was not expected of us today and I am glad we pulled it through,&rdquo; said Melissa Jefferson, who ran the first leg for USA.
She added that she and her teammates &ldquo;have a lot of confidence in ourselves and I knew we would show the world what we are capable of.&rdquo;
The US team ran a world-leading 41.14, the second-fastest ever at a World Championships, with Jamaica clocking 41.18. They reversed positions from the Tokyo Olympics, where Jamaica claimed the gold and the US won the silver.&nbsp; 
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 &ldquo;The race was electrifying,&rdquo; said Terry. &ldquo;You heard the stadium. The stadium went crazy. We just brought it home.&rdquo;
The US won its eighth gold medal and 13th overall in the event after placing third in 2019.
Jamaica, which captured its 16th medal, not only fielded the three world and Olympic medallists in the 100m, but in Elaine Thompson-Herah, the nation had the fastest woman alive in the 100m. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is the five-time and reigning world champion in the 100m and Jackson is the fastest woman alive in the 200m. They had five individual medals from this World Championships between them.
Kemba Nelson, the leadoff leg, was the 60m champion for the University of Oregon in 2021 and running on her home track.
The members of the US team, by comparison, had no hardware to show from their individual events in Eugene. Jefferson was eighth in the 100m, Abby Steiner placed fifth in the 200m, Jenna Prandini did not reach the final in the 200m and Terry did not make the 100m final.
But the US team had experience from the preliminary round, with Steiner replacing Aleia Hobbs as the only difference in team composition. For Jamaica, Nelson was the only carryover.
&ldquo;Of course, we wanted to win,&rdquo; said Thompson-Herah. &ldquo;But we are glad for the silver tonight and we cannot complain.&rdquo;
Fraser-Pryce won her third medal in Eugene &mdash; one gold and two silvers &mdash; for a total of 14 World Championships medals, tying compatriot Usain Bolt.
Germany won its first medal since 2009 in the 4x100m, clocking 42.03, while Nigeria placed fourth with an African record of 42.22.
Dina Asher-Smith pulled up with an injury ahead of the final hand-off for Great Britain, the team going on to finish sixth.
With a better final handoff and a determined De Grasse, Canada reclaimed the top spot on the men&rsquo;s 4x100m podium for the first time since 1997.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not on home soil, but it felt like it,&rdquo; De Grasse said of the cheering Canadians who came down for the World Championships.
The tight-knit Canadian quartet, who have grown up together in the sport, clocked a world-leading 37.48, with De Grasse running a final leg of 8.79 to keep Marvin Bracy-Williams-Williams of the US in his rear-view mirror. The US ran 37.55, with Great Britain taking the bronze in 37.83.
Aaron Brown led off for Canada, followed by Jerome Blake, Brendon Rodney and De Grasse. The US had a formidable team of Christian Coleman, the 2019 world 100m champion, two-time world 200m champion Noah Lyles, Elijah Hall and Bracy-Williams, who was second in the 100m. Fred Kerley, the world 100m champ, suffered an injury in the 200m and was not available for the relay.
&ldquo;When Andre got (the baton) with the lead,&rdquo; said Brown, &ldquo;there&rsquo;s no way they are going to catch him.&rdquo;
However, De Grasse, who has struggled with injuries and Covid-19 this season, said he was tightening up a little bit. &ldquo;I was hoping not to get caught,&rdquo; he said.
With a semifinal exit in the 100m and withdrawal from the 200m, the Olympic 200m champion said it was an advantage to have fresh legs instead of running six races.
Bracy-Williams said the US had a &ldquo;few things to clean up&rdquo; on the exchanges. &ldquo;Mine was not very good and that may have cost us the race,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Nonetheless, we got a medal, got the stick around. We will win next time.&rdquo;
And after failing to make the final at the Tokyo Olympics, the US appreciated a medal of any kind. De Grasse&rsquo;s victory brought some joy to his household after his partner, defending world champion Nia Ali, crashed out of the 100m hurdles heats. 
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 Gudaf Tsegay won her first major outdoor world title with a thrilling victory in the women&rsquo;s 5000m, just five days after capturing the silver in the 1500m. The Ethiopian was the world U20 silver medallist in the 1500m on this same track in 2014, then captured world 1500m bronze in 2019, Olympic 5000m bronze in 2021, and the world 1500m silver earlier this week.
Her time was 14:46.29, including a 59.95 final lap, with Beatrice Chebet of Kenya taking the silver and Dawit Seyaum of Ethiopia, the world indoor silver medallist, claiming bronze in 14:47.36.
Olympic champion Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands launched her famous kick on the last lap, but could not stay with the leaders on the final stretch, finishing sixth in 14:48.12.
Hassan cut to the inside on the final lap and moved into the lead. Tsegay said that when her rival &ldquo;came in front, I speeded up even more and won the medal.&rdquo; She added that there were no difficult moments in the race. &ldquo;The hard times were at the Olympics in Tokyo because I was injured there. Not today.&rdquo;
Olympic gold medallist Emmanuel Kipkurui Korir won the first world title for Kenya in the men&rsquo;s 800m since David Rudisha in 2015.
Korir powered past Canada&rsquo;s Marco Arop on the final stretch to win with a season&rsquo;s best of 1:43.71, while Djamel Sedjati of Algeria moved from fifth to second, clocking 1:44.14. Arop took bronze in 1:44.28, an improvement over his seventh-place finish in 2019. 
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 Korir said he was expecting a faster race, with the first lap only 52.04, but had plenty left for the finish. &ldquo;I knew there were some guys behind me in the last 100m,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was expecting someone to come, but no one did.&rdquo;
Three years after Donavan Brazier won the first men&rsquo;s 800m title for his country, there were no US runners in the final.
Thanks to a prodigious first jump, Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo of Portugal won his first world title in the triple jump. His world-leading 17.95m stood up through all six rounds. Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso leaped a season&rsquo;s best of 17.55m, also in the first round, for the silver medal, an upgrade from his bronze in 2019. Zhu Yaming took China&rsquo;s first world medal in the event with a season&rsquo;s best of 17.31m.
&ldquo;This world title was elusive to me,&rdquo; said Pichardo, who won silver medals in 2013 and 2015 when he represented Cuba.
The island nation of Grenada has a population of just over 110,000 people, but put two athletes on the podium in Eugene. Anderson Peters of Grenada won his second straight gold medal in the men&rsquo;s javelin to go along with Kirani James&rsquo; silver in the men&rsquo;s 400m.
Like Pichardo, Peters unleashed a huge first attempt, but he saved the best for last. Although Peters&rsquo; throw of 90.21m in the first round was more than two metres better than anyone else in the field, he outdid himself by hurling the javelin 90.54m on his final attempt.
Peters, who threw a world-leading 93.07m in Doha in May, said he was hoping for even longer throws, but there was a headwind.
&ldquo;To defend the title is not an easy task,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I had to push myself. The last attempt, I already knew I was the champion, but I was working on my technique in every throw and I finally got it through.&rdquo;
Neeraj Chopra, the Olympic gold medallist from India, took the silver with a throw of 88.13m on his fourth attempt to move ahead of Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic, whose best was 88.09m. Chopra became the first Indian man to win a World Championships medal.
Eight days ago, fan thoughts they witnessed the last World Championships appearance of Allyson Felix. But the US legend, who won her 19th World Championships medal &ndash; a bronze &ndash; in the mixed 4x400m, now has a chance for a record No.20. She ran the second leg in the heats of the women&rsquo;s 4x400m, clocking the fastest split (50.61) as the US won its heat in 3:23.38. Felix, 36, had departed Eugene, attended the ESPY Awards, and returned home to Los Angeles, when she was asked to return.
Felix said she was &ldquo;having my first cheat meal of retirement,&rdquo; and &ldquo;had a hot wing in one hand,&rdquo; when she got the call. &ldquo;I jumped on the plane and here we go.&rdquo;
The US is expected to include hurdlers Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad in the final, but Felix could join them just as she did in their gold-medal winning performance in Tokyo.
&ldquo;As far as I know I&rsquo;m not going to be back, but who knows,&rdquo; she said.
Felix took the baton from US champion Talitha Diggs, the daughter of four-time Olympian Joetta Clark, whose last Olympics were in 2000. Felix&rsquo;s first Olympics were in 2004.
Great Britain had the second-fastest qualifying time of 3:23.92, followed by Jamaica, which won the second heat in 3:24.23.
The Netherlands dropped the baton on the second exchange and the team was disqualified, nullifying the phenomenal 49.38 anchor leg by Femke Bol. The rulebook says the baton must be passed, not dropped on the track and picked up by the next runner.
The US also had the fastest qualifying time in the men&rsquo;s 4x400m of 2:58.96. Anchor leg Trevor Bassitt, the bronze medallist in the 400m hurdles, was supposed to leave a day earlier, but was asked to stay.
With the USA winning comfortably, the drama was in the fight for second and third. Japan&rsquo;s Yuki Joseph Nakajima dueled Jamaica&rsquo;s Anthony Cox on the anchor leg. Relying on precision handoffs, Japan qualified second in 3:01.53, followed by Jamaica in 3:01.59.
Belgium, with a team including two Borlee brothers, Dylan and Kevin, won the second heat in 3:01.96. At least one Borlee brother has run on Belgian relays since 2009.
Czech Republic made its first final in the men&rsquo;s 4x400m by clocking 3:02.42.
On the first day of the decathlon, Canada&rsquo;s Damian Warner, the Olympic and world indoor champion, went down on the backstretch of the 400m after holding the top position through the first four events. Going into the 400m, Warner led Zachary Ziemek of the US by 62 points. Running in lane one, Warner grabbed his left hamstring and fell to the track. The 32-year-old was hoping to earn his first world decathlon title.
Ayden Owens-Delerme of Puerto Rico ran a superb 400m in 45.07 to move into the lead with 4606 points, followed by Warner&rsquo;s compatriot Pierce LePage, the Commonwealth silver medallist, at 4485. LePage was second-fastest in the 400m, clocking 46.84. Ziemek, who was in the top five in each of the first four events, dropped to third overall at the end of the first day. US teammate Kyle Garland is holding down fourth at 4413 thanks to a 2.14m high jump.
Karen Rosen for World Athletics

Highlights from the afternoon session on day nine of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22

USA and Canada claim 4x100m upsets on dramatic penultimate day in Oregon

As Portugal&rsquo;s Pedro Pichardo awaited his score on his first triple jump attempt, he stood with his hands on his hips staring into the crowd. He sported a confident look on his face and for good reason &ndash; he had produced a world-leading jump of 17.95m.
It was only the third attempt of the triple jump competition at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, but it stood tall for the remainder of the event.
&ldquo;I opened strongly,&rdquo; Pichardo said. &ldquo;Since I left my residence, my mindset was focused on 18 metres. It did not come out today, but more importantly, I won gold.&rdquo;
Pichardo outlasted Burkina Faso&rsquo;s silver medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango (17.55m) and China&rsquo;s bronze medallist Zhu Yaming (17.31m), to continue his reign at the top of the triple jump competition.
Pichardo won triple jump gold at the Tokyo Olympic Games, but the gold he earned on Saturday was his first on the World Championships stage. Prior to winning that gold, Pichardo had earned silver medals at both the 2013 and 2015 World Championships.
&ldquo;This world title was elusive to me,&rdquo; Pichardo said. &ldquo;I had two silver medals and tried to win gold and achieved it today.&rdquo;
After setting the tone with his first jump, Pichardo followed that up with a jump of 17.92m, which ended up being the second best attempt of the event.
The triple jump podium consisted of the same competitors as the one in Tokyo, where Zhu earned silver and Zango earned the bronze. That order flipped on Saturday.
Zango is one of two athletes at the World Championships from Burkina Faso. The other, Marthe Koala, did not participate in the women&rsquo;s long jump. Before taking bronze in Tokyo, Zango earned bronze in Doha, where he finished behind USA&rsquo;s Christian Taylor and Will Claye.
&ldquo;I was motivated to win gold, but there's not much left in my legs,&rdquo; Zango said. &ldquo;Looking at the season, I was a bit off my regular performance. I went out there to explore. To manage 17.55m is good.&rdquo;
In Tokyo, Zhu jumped a personal best of 17.57m to take the silver medal. On Saturday, he fell short of that mark by 26 centimetres on his way to earning bronze.
&ldquo;I am pretty happy with the medal,&rdquo; Zhu said. &ldquo;However, I am not satisfied with my performance today. It was a bit below average. The preparation did not go as well as I planned.&rdquo;
Italians Andrea Dallavalle and Emmanuel Ihemeje finished fourth and fifth respectively. Ihemeje, who won the NCAA title in June, entered the final round at his first World Championships in sixth place. On that jump he produced 17.14m, which vaulted him into fifth ahead of USA&rsquo;s Donald Scott.
Cuba&rsquo;s world indoor champion Lazaro Martinez fouled each of his three jumps, so didn&rsquo;t make it through to the final trio of attempts.
Aaron Heisen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Pedro Pichardo 🇵🇹 POR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">17.95m WL</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Hugues Fabrice Zango 🇧🇫 BUR</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">17.55m SB</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Zhu Yaming 🇨🇳 CHN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">17.31m SB</td>
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<td style="background-color: #34495e; text-align: left;" colspan="3">&nbsp;&nbsp;<a style="color: #ffffff;" href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/oregon22/results/men/triple-jump/final/result" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Full results</a></td>
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