Shaunae Miller-Uibo envisioned a dream close to a successful 2022 season as she accomplished that on home soil to highlight the second day of the NACAC Championships at Freeport&rsquo;s Grand Bahama Sports Complex, where nine championship records were broken.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist closed a competitive year as she wanted, taking the 400m title in a championship record of 49.40, ahead of world bronze medallist Sada Williams of Barbados (49.86) and Jamaica&rsquo;s 2021 Olympic fourth place Stephenie Ann McPherson (50.36).
It meant a lot for Miller-Uibo, who won her first world 400m title in Eugene and then travelled to see her husband Maicel Uibo of Estonia compete at the European Championships in Germany, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean again to finish the season on home soil.
Following the medal ceremony, Miller-Uibo took photos and signed autographs with local fans at the stadium and was greeted by Bahamas&rsquo; Primer Minister Philip Davis.
Miller-Uibo led a successful day of records on the second day of the area championships. Another new standard was set in the men&rsquo;s 400m, with Christopher Taylor adding his name to the record books with 44.63 in the one-lap race.
Taylor opened the golden path for Jamaica and was joined by world 200m champion Shericka Jackson (10.83) and Ackeem Blake (9.98) breaking championships records in the 100m finals.
The men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles also provided good fireworks to the full crowd at the stadium. Pan American Games silver medallist Freddie Crittenden rewrote the record book with a time of 13.00, a personal best for the US sprint hurdler. Teammate Jamal Britt (13.08) and Jamaica&rsquo;s Orlando Bennet (13.18) also ran faster than the previous record.
Other world-class performances came in the field with USA&rsquo;s World Championships finalist Rudy Winkler leading the men&rsquo;s hammer (78.29m) and US teammate Curtis Thompson winning the men&rsquo;s javelin with 84.23m, in a close battle with Trinidad and Tobago&rsquo;s 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott (83.94m).
Another championship record fell in the women&rsquo;s 10,000m, courtesy of USA&rsquo;s Stephanie Bruce (33:12.42), and Guatemala&rsquo;s Jose Ortiz in the men&rsquo;s 20,000m race walk (1:26.21.08). It was double celebration for the Ortiz family as Jose&rsquo;s aunt Mirna won the women&rsquo;s event (1:40:04.78).
Other winners on the day were USA&rsquo;s Alaysha Johnson in the 100m hurdles (12.62), USA&rsquo;s Jonah Koech (1:45.87) and defending champion Ajee' Wilson (1:58.47) in the 800m, their US compatriot Quanesha Burks in the long jump (6.75m), Woody Kincaid (14:48.58) in the men&rsquo;s 5000m and Alina McDonald in the women&rsquo;s pole vault (4.50m). For Burks, it was her third NACAC medal, having won in San Jose in 2015 and earned silver in Toronto in 2018.
The mixed 4x400m relay was contested for the first time at these championships, with the quartet of Quincy Hall, Jaide Stepter Baynes, Ismail Tuner and Kaylin Whitney taking gold for the USA in 3:12.05.
Tied at 2.25m, two World Championships finalists shared the gold in the men&rsquo;s high jump: Canada&rsquo;s Django Lovett and Cuba&rsquo;s Luis Enrique Zayas. Bahamas&rsquo; 2007 world champion and Grand Bahama native Donald Thomas joined them on the podium for third with the same height, achieved on his third attempt.
The NACAC Championships will conclude on Sunday with 17 more finals, including the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s 200m and 1500m, as well as the 4x100m and 4x400m relays.
Javier Clavelo Robinson for World Athletics

World and Olympic champion clocks 49.40 to win in Freeport

Miller-Uibo delights home crowd as nine more records fall at NACAC Championships

When Shaunae Miller-Uibo crossed the finish line in the women&rsquo;s 400m at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, she ticked off the final item on her 'to do' list.
Miller-Uibo was 16 years old in 2010 when she won the world U18 title. Over the years, the Bahamian added the U20 title, the gold medal in the World Indoor Championships and not just one, but two, Olympic gold medals. But the top step on the World Athletics Championships podium had always eluded Miller-Uibo, who won silver medals in 2015 and 2019 and was fourth in 2017.
The 28-year-old would not be denied on Friday (22) at Hayward Field. Miller-Uibo led wire to wire, her long green hair flowing behind her, to win with a world-leading time of 49.11.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;It has been a long time coming and the main thing for us this season was the world championships and a gold medal,&rdquo; Miller-Uibo said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s one thing we were missing, so I ran a very tactical race. To go out with the gold, I am very proud.&rdquo;&nbsp;
And with that, she announced that she would be shifting to the 200m. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s it for me running the 400m,&rdquo; Miller-Uibo said. &ldquo;The plans for me are the 200m, which has always been my first love, and get back into that.&rdquo;&nbsp;
She led a Caribbean sweep, with Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic taking the silver in 49.60 and Sada Williams of Barbados claiming the bronze with a national record of 49.75.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Paulino, who had come into Eugene with a world-leading time of 49.49, earned the first medal for her country in the event to go along with her gold in the mixed 4x400m relay. Her compatriot Fiordaliza Cofil, who also earned gold on the mixed relay, placed sixth in 50.57. They were the first women from their country to make a 400m final.&nbsp;
Paulino said she was thankful that she stayed injury-free after five 400m races. &ldquo;I am privileged to be able to represent my country and take it to the highest level,&rdquo; Paulino said. &ldquo;The Dominican Republic is a force to be reckoned with. Fiordaliza ran very well. This is a huge achievement. I was alone in the Olympics and she has now joined me.&rdquo;
Williams was the first woman from Barbados to make the final and her country has won only one other medal at the World Championships: Ryan Brathwaite&rsquo;s gold medal in the 110m hurdles in 2009.
Williams went under 50 seconds for the first time, with her previous PB being 50.11.&nbsp;&nbsp;
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a very overwhelming feeling; I can&rsquo;t even begin to describe it,&rdquo; Williams said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m super happy about my performance and the national record, of course. And it was a great experience.&rdquo;
Asked about her confidence, she replied: &ldquo;Confidence? Hmm. I just wanted to go out there and run under 50 seconds and if that got me on the podium, I&rsquo;d be super happy about that.&rdquo;
Williams recognised that the reception back in Barbados would also be overwhelming. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t even want to look at my phone right now,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;but I can only imagine how happy they are.&rdquo;
Miller-Uibo blasted out of the blocks with the second-fastest reaction time and quickly made up the stagger, holding her advantage over&nbsp;Paulino.
Miller-Uibo, who is now 2-1 against Paulino, said the times didn&rsquo;t matter to her. &ldquo;It was all about making sure we secured the gold medal,&rdquo; she said.
Her three medals in the 400m tie Allyson Felix, Ana Guevara, Jearl Miles-Clark and Lorraine Graham-Fenton. Miller-Uibo also captured the bronze in the 200m in 2017.&nbsp;
Lieke Klaver of the Netherlands was fourth in 50.33, followed by Stephenie Ann McPherson of Jamaica in 50.36.&nbsp;
The United States had no finalists for the first time since 2003.
Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s husband, Estonian decathlete Maicel Uibo, embraced her after the race. He will now begin two days of competition. In 2019, they both won silver medals at the World Championships.&nbsp;
His wife has set the bar high.&nbsp;
Karen Rosen for World Athletics
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World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

When Shaunae Miller-Uibo crossed the finish line in the women’s 400m in Oregon, she ticked off the final item on her 'to do' list.

Miller-Uibo gains missing gold with world 400m win in Oregon

Hands up if you saw this one coming. Not so much that Sydney McLaughlin would win gold in the 400m hurdles, adding the world title to her Olympic gold, and not just that she would break her own world record in Friday&rsquo;s final, but that the 22-year-old US superstar would break through an inconceivable, unfathomable barrier of 51 seconds for running one lap of the track and clearing 10 barriers &ndash; and not just break it, but utterly obliterate it.
50.68.
Let&rsquo;s just leave that time there, sitting on its own, because that&rsquo;s what it will now do on the all-time lists &ndash; by some distance the most spectacular performance to date at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
It&rsquo;s a performance that will be looked at by all other 400m hurdlers, and indeed fans of the sport, as something out of this world, and that&rsquo;s exactly what it is &ndash; to everyone but Sydney McLaughlin. Because ever since her early teens, this is an athlete who&rsquo;s been an outlier among outliers, a woman who&rsquo;s taken what is implausible to others and made it seem routine. A native of New Jersey, she&rsquo;s been shredding all-time best marks for the past nine years. 
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 McLaughlin holds the world 400m hurdles bests at every age from 14 to 19. She holds the world U18 record at 54.18 &ndash; no one has ever got within a second of it. She holds the fastest ever time by an U20 athlete at 52.75 &ndash; no one has got within 1.5 seconds of that.
And with a peerless, near-perfect performance at Hayward Field on Friday night, she again broke the senior world record for the third time in 12 months, her best mark now nine tenths of a second ahead of the next fastest in history &ndash; which equates to seven metres on the track.
Out there on her own &ndash; as it has so long been.
Silver went to Femke Bol of the Netherlands in 52.27, with bronze going to the previous world champion Dalilah Muhammad of USA in 53.13. USA&rsquo;s Shamier Little was fourth in 53.76.
After the race, McLaughlin sat on the track for considerable time. There were two reasons. &ldquo;I was just trying to process the lactic acid,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;and I was taking a moment to enjoy what had happened.&rdquo;
Later in the night, her fellow medallists were asked if they thought 50.68 was a time they ever thought possible. &ldquo;I definitely thought 50 was possible, and after that race I think 49 is possible &ndash; by Sydney,&rdquo; laughed Muhammad.
How close was it to the perfect race?
&ldquo;I think there&rsquo;s always more to improve upon,&rdquo; said McLaughlin. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s always more than can be shaven off, for sure. There&rsquo;s no such thing as a perfect race, but I don&rsquo;t think that was a super-clean race.&rdquo;
McLaughlin felt like she was in a &ldquo;flow state&rdquo; during those 50 seconds where she was &ldquo;putting everything you&rsquo;ve done in practice into the race, just letting your body do what it does &ndash; releasing the gifts and talents that God&rsquo;s given you.&rdquo;
What does the future hold after a performance like that?
McLaughlin said it could take any direction, either to a new event like the 400m or 100m hurdles or a possible double at the Paris Olympics, but she plans to heed the advice of her coach, Bobby Kersee.
&ldquo;There&rsquo;s talk of doubles, talks of switching,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Honestly, I have no clue.&rdquo;
There was more success for the home crowd to cheer in the men&rsquo;s 400m where Michael Norman achieved what has long seemed his destiny: a global title. The 24-year-old had to come through one hell of a scrap to get it, though. 
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 Kirani James ripped through the opening 200m in 20.95, with Norman a step behind at that point in 21.12, but as they turned for home the US sprinter launched his attack. He battled to the front just ahead of James, Matthew Hudson-Smith of Britain and Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa, whose challenge fell away over the last 50 metres &ndash; the world record-holder finishing fifth in 44.97.
Norman&rsquo;s technique became a little ragged as he fought fatigue down the home straight, but he held on to win in 44.29, with James second in 44.48 and Hudson-Smith taking bronze in 44.66. USA&rsquo;s Champion Allison finished fourth in 44.77.
&ldquo;It took a lot of work to get where I was,&rdquo; said Norman. &ldquo;Obviously last year was not a good year for me so I had to do a lot of hard work just to kind of get back to where I was. This moment here is going to be remembered forever.&rdquo;
Shaunae Miller-Uibo claimed her first world outdoor title with a dominant performance in the women&rsquo;s 400m, though the look on the Bahamian&rsquo;s face at the finish was more relief than elation.
The two-time Olympic champion utilised her rapid speed to shoot to the lead at halfway, but she had company coming off the turn with Sada Williams of Barbados just a step behind along with Marileidy Paulino of Dominican Republic.
However, Miller-Uibo showed her class down the straight and opened an advantage that was growing with every stride as she hit the line in a world-leading 49.11, with Paulino taking silver in 49.60 and Williams becoming the first ever Barbadian woman to earn a World Championships medal in third with a national record of 49.75. Lieke Klaver of the Netherlands was fourth with 50.33. 
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 &ldquo;The times didn't matter to me, it was all about making sure we secured the gold medal,&rdquo; said Miller-Uibo. &ldquo;That's one thing we were missing.&rdquo;
In the women&rsquo;s javelin, Australia&rsquo;s Kelsey-Lee Barber retained her world title with a dominant performance, launching a world-leading 66.91m in the third round to seize command. No one else came close to that, but there was still some last-round drama in the battle for the minor medals.
China&rsquo;s Liu Shiying went into it in second place with the 63.25m she threw in the fourth round but was suddenly demoted to fourth, with Japan&rsquo;s Haruka Kitaguchi throwing 63.27m to move into second, but in the end that only proved good enough for bronze. That was because USA&rsquo;s Kara Winger found something special when it mattered, her 64.05m in the final round raising the roof at Hayward Field and handing her silver.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I always believed I have the capacity to go back to back,&rdquo; said Barber. &ldquo;I am cementing my place as one of the world's best javelin throwers and I want to keep building on that. This season has been trial and error a little bit. Today was always the goal. I am quite pleased with the way I performed.&rdquo;
The women&rsquo;s 800m semi-finals saw Olympic champion Athing Mu of USA, Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson and Kenya&rsquo;s Mary Moraa all advance to the final with victories. Moraa used front-running tactics to advance in 1:59.65 ahead of USA&rsquo;s Ajee Wilson. Hodgkinson utilised her typical strong finish to edge Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule in 1:58.51, with USA&rsquo;s Raevyn Rogers also advancing in third with 1:58.77. Mu looked majestic while winning the third semi-final in 1:58.12, with Ethiopia&rsquo;s Diribe Welteji also highly impressive in second with a PB of 1:58.16. &ldquo;I feel there's a lot left in the tank,&rdquo; said Mu. &ldquo;I felt really comfortable.&rdquo; Slovenia&rsquo;s former 400m runner Anita Horvat had a breakthrough in third, her PB of 1:59.60 advancing her to the final on time.
In the men&rsquo;s 4x100m heats, a strong USA quartet of Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles, Elijah Hall and Marvin Bracy were highly impressive in winning in 37.87, and they should prove tough to stop with the same line-up expected in the final.
The British quartet followed them home in 38.49, while Ghana claimed the third automatic position in 38.58, with Japan and Nigeria both disqualified for changing the baton outside the zone. France claimed victory in the second heat in 38.09 ahead of Canada (38.10) and South Africa (38.31), with Jamaica advancing on time in fourth, clocking 38.33 after a botched second exchange that nearly cost them dearly. Brazil finished fifth in 38.41 and also advanced on time.
USA was also highly impressive in the women&rsquo;s 4x100m heats, their quartet of Melissa Jefferson, Aleia Hobbs, Jenna Prandini and Twanisha Terry taking victory in 41.56 ahead of Spain, who clocked a national record of 42.61, with Nigeria taking the third automatic spot in 42.68. Italy set a national record of 42.71 to advance in fourth with Switzerland also qualifying in fifth with 42.73. Great Britain and Northern Ireland took the win in the first heat in 41.99, with Jamaica second in 42.37 and Germany third in 42.44.
Mondo Duplantis made no mistake in pole vault qualification, advancing to the final with ease after his first-time clearance at 5.75m. Poland&rsquo;s Piotr Lisek was an early casualty after three failures at 5.65m, while 2016 Olympic champion Thiago Braz endured some nervous moments at 5.65m, clearing it on his third attempt before soaring over 5.75m to make the final. Christopher Nilsen, the only athlete besides Duplantis to clear six metres this season, made no mistake with three clearances at 5.50m, 5.65m and 5.75m to also advance.
&ldquo;If I am able to jump high, then I would jump high &ndash; that would be nice but the gold is the most important for me now,&rdquo; said Duplantis. &ldquo;I managed to save some energy for the final. I am feeling good, I cannot complain and I am ready for the final.&rdquo;
On Friday morning, Peru&rsquo;s Kimberly Garcia completed a special week of race walking when she won the 35km event in a South American record of 2:39:16 to add to her gold in the 20km. Poland&rsquo;s Katarzyna Zdzieblo took silver in 2:40:03 and China&rsquo;s Qieyang Shijie took bronze in an Asian record of 2:40:37. It was the first time the 35km event had been held at the World Athletics Championships, and Garcia made her decisive move shortly before the 20km event.
&ldquo;I have always dreamed of making history in a sport I am so passionate about and I have been practising since the age of five,&rdquo; said Garcia, who&rsquo;s coached by Ecuador&rsquo;s 2015 Pan-American Games 50km champion Andres Chocho, who is contesting the men&rsquo;s 35km on Sunday. &ldquo;I can't wait to celebrate with my family when I arrive home.&rdquo;
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

The 22-year-old US superstar broke through an inconceivable, unfathomable barrier of 51 seconds for running one lap of the track and clearing 10 barriers

50.68! McLaughlin runs earth-shattering world 400m hurdles record on day eight in Oregon

At 35, Jamaica&rsquo;s two-time Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has done it all. But she still hasn&rsquo;t finished, and her appearance at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Paris on Saturday (18) will represent another significant step in her campaign to defend her world 100m title in Oregon next month.
Fraser-Pryce established her name early on this season&rsquo;s world list when she ran in the rarified air of Nairobi and won in 10.67 - only seven-hundredths off the personal best she ran last year to put herself third on the all-time list.
Her Jamaican compatriot and twice successor as Olympic 100m champion, Elaine Thompson-Herah, has since made a good start to her pursuit of a first individual world title with a best of 10.79 on the Eugene track that will stage the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
But now Fraser-Pryce is back to make another impression in top-level competition at the Meeting de Paris on the ultra-fast blue track at Stade Charlety, which was renovated in 2019.
She will be taking on some talented sprinters including Switzerland&rsquo;s Mujinga Kambundji, the surprise &ndash; and surprised &ndash; winner of the world indoor 60m title in Belgrade earlier this year in a personal best of 6.96. Kambundji, who turns 30 on the day before the race, will be targeting her personal best of 10.94.&nbsp;
Also in the mix will be Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago, who has run 10.94 this season and has a personal best of 10.82, and Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast, who missed a 100m medal by one place in Tokyo as she ran 10.91.
Two-time Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, who has raced well but not exceptionally at 200m this season, will get down to serious business at her specialist event. 
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Shaunae Miller-Uibo wins the 2019 Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; Jiro Mochizuki)
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The 28-year-old Bahamian, who lowered her own continental record to 48.36 in Tokyo last summer, is third in this year&rsquo;s top list with her time of 49.91, but that was set in April and the Olympic champion will want to check in on her current form having run over 200m recently.
She faces a strong Polish trio of Natalia Kaczmarek, who ran a huge personal best of 50.16 in Ostrava and stands sixth in this year&rsquo;s world list, European champion Justyna Swiety-Ersetic and Anna Kielbasinska.
The Bahamas will be providing both Olympic 400m champions in Paris, with Steven Gardiner hoping to further fine-tune his world title defence in Oregon with a rare Diamond League appearance.
The leggy 26-year-old, who is 1.93m tall and has run 43.48, making him the sixth best performer of all time, did not compete in any Diamond League race last year and only raced once in Europe, at Szekesfehervar in Hungary.
His last appearance on the sport&rsquo;s top circuit was at Monaco in 2019, when he won. Gardiner is already in good shape, having run 44.22 at Baton Rouge in Louisiana on 23 April - the fastest time recorded so far this year.
Meanwhile, European champion Matthew Hudson-Smith, who recently took one hundredth of a second off the British record of 43.36, set by Iwan Thomas in 1997, could be in position to better a record of even longer standing, this time the European one of 44.33 set by East Germany&rsquo;s Thomas Schoenlebe in 1987.&nbsp;
Devon Allen of the United States, whose 12.84 clocking in last Saturday&rsquo;s New York Grand Prix &ndash; the third-fastest ever run &ndash; earned him a handsome victory ahead of world champion and compatriot Grant Holloway, maintained winning momentum over 110m hurdles in Oslo, although this victory was earned in 13.22 into a headwind of -1.2 m/s. 
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Devon Allen wins the 110m hurdles at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Oslo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Allen, who will take up a professional American football career at the end of this season as a wide receiver with National Football League side Philadelphia Eagles, is due to run in Paris against a field that includes home hurdler Wilhem Belocian.
Canada&rsquo;s Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse has been running 100m recently to sharpen up, but after clocking 10.24 at the Birmingham Diamond League on 21 May he dropped out of the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games on 5 June. On Thursday in Oslo, however, he returned to form in the 100m &ndash; in which he won Rio 2016 bronze &ndash; as he earned victory in 10.05 from Britain&rsquo;s Reece Prescod, who clocked 10.06.
On Saturday, like Miller-Uibo, he will get down to business in his main event against a field that includes Prescod, who produced a big personal best over 100m of 9.93 in blustery conditions at the Ostrava Golden Spike meeting on 31 May. Meanwhile, Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic will be seeking to build on what has been a good start to the season, in which he has run 20.07.
Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, who won the Ethiopian World Championships trials race in Hengelo and then finished fourth in the 5000m in Rome, is expected to race over the shorter distance in Paris.
Christian Taylor and Pedro Pichardo produced some of the most epic men&rsquo;s triple jump competitions when they met during 2015. It seemed only a matter of time before they prompted each other to surpass the 1995 record of 18.29m set by Britain&rsquo;s Jonathan Edwards.
They didn&rsquo;t manage that, although they came close, with Taylor recording 18.21m in Beijing before retaining his Olympic title in Rio the following year, and Pichardo reaching 18.08m. Taylor added two more world titles before his Tokyo Olympic hopes disappeared with a severe achilles tendon injury last season, from which he is now working his way back. 
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Christian Taylor in action in the triple jump in Szekesfehervar (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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The two men&rsquo;s fortunes diverged in 2021, as Pichardo, having switched from his native Cuba to represent Portugal, won the Olympic title, adding a world indoor silver earlier this year.
As the two men meet again in competition, the dynamics are different, as Taylor, now 31, is seeking to regain previous heights &ndash; or rather, lengths &ndash; and has a season&rsquo;s best of 16.11m, set in Montreuil on 2 June.
Pichardo is eighth in this season&rsquo;s list with 17.18m, but he will need to be on top form to fend off the challenge of his two Cuban former compatriots who currently top the list with 17.76m and 17.64m respectively, Jordan Diaz Fortun and Andy Diaz.
French-based Burkino Faso jumper Hugues Fabrice Zango, the Tokyo bronze medallist, is outside the top 10 right now with his outdoor best of 17.09m, but his recent victory in the African Championships &ndash; and his indoor personal best of 18.07m &ndash; makes it clear that this is an athlete capable, if he hits it right, of defeating all the foregoing.
Belgium&rsquo;s two-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam will take part in the women&rsquo;s high jump, which her best of 2.02m makes her entely capable of winning as she prepares to earn a second world title this summer.
But she has formidable opposition in the form of the respective Olympic silver and bronze medallists Nicola Olyslagers - nee McDermott - and Ukraine&rsquo;s 20-year-old Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who won the world indoor title in Belgrade in March and is the only jumper to have reached 2.00m this season.
The men&rsquo;s pole vault will see France&rsquo;s former world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie, fifth in Oslo on 5.60m, and his younger brother Valentin in action along with Brazil&rsquo;s Rio 2016 champion Thiago Braz and, assuming he can resume normal working after pulling out of the Oslo competition, two-time world champion Sam Kendricks of the United States.
Bahrain's Winfred Yavi is the favourite in the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase having run 8:58.71 this year, putting her second on the season&rsquo;s list. This could be a steep learning curve for France&rsquo;s 31-year-old European indoor 3000m silver medallist Alice Finot as she continues her late breakthrough to the highest levels of competition.
Valarie Allman of the United States, the Olympic women&rsquo;s discus champion who has set a North American record of 71.46m this season, suffered a surprise defeat to Croatia&rsquo;s London 2012 and Rio 2016 gold medallist Sandra Perkovic in Oslo, and the two rivals will resume competition in Paris. 
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Discus winner Valarie Allman at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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Home thrower Melina Robert-Michon, the Rio 2016 silver medallist, will be seeking to make a significant impact in front of French fans.
Japan&rsquo;s Haruka Kitaguchi, fifth in this year&rsquo;s women&rsquo;s world javelin list with 63.93m, has the best 2022 record of those assembled, but while Australia&rsquo;s Kelsey-Lee Barber has only reached 61.00m this season, she is world champion and has a personal best of 67.70m.
Also in the field are Barber&rsquo;s compatriot Mackenzie Little, who has thrown a personal best of 63.18m this season, and Nikola Ogrodnikova of the Czech Republic, who has thrown 62.80m this season and has a best of 67.40m. And last but not least, Ogrodnikova&rsquo;s compatriot Barbora Spotakova, double Olympic and three-time world champion, as well as being world record-holder with 72.28m. At 40, she is still a hugely competitive athlete.
Botswana&rsquo;s Nijel Amos, whose PB of 1:41.73 puts him third on the world all-time list, is always a winning possibility in any men&rsquo;s 800m race. But he faces Morocco&rsquo;s&nbsp;Moad Zahafi, who is bang on form and currently tops the 2022 world lists with 1:43.69, while Amos has run 1:44.92 this year.
Poland&rsquo;s Tokyo bronze medallist Patryk Dobek, who has run 1:44.49 this season, will also fancy his chances.
Meanwhile, home trio Benjamin Robert, Gabriel Tual and 2017 world champion and Tokyo finalist Pierre-Ambroise Bosse will be in the mix, with the latter two still requiring a World Championships qualifying time.
Nigeria&rsquo;s Commonwealth Games 100m hurdles champion Tobi Amusan, more recently African champion, won in a season&rsquo;s best of 12.57 at Tuesday&rsquo;s World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Turku and will be favourite here. 
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Tobi Amusan celebrates her 100m hurdles win at the Wanda Diamond League final in Zurich (&copy; Getty Images)
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But there are a clutch of challengers who won&rsquo;t be far away, including Poland&rsquo;s Pia Skrzyszowska, who has run 12.62 this year, Britain&rsquo;s Cindy Sember, who has gone one hundredth of a second slower, and Nadine Visser of the Netherlands, double European indoor champion, who has recorded a 2022 best of 12.72.
Sadly Poland&rsquo;s three-time Olympic gold medallist Anita Wlodarczyk will not be taking part in the evening&rsquo;s non-Diamond League hammer throw fest as she now has her entire left leg in plaster after injuring her thigh while chasing someone who was trying to steal her car.
That gives a big opportunity for Poland&rsquo;s Tokyo bronze medallist Malwina Kopron to shine, along with home talent Alexandra Tavernier, world bronze medallist in 2015.
The men&rsquo;s event features Poland&rsquo;s Tokyo champion Wojciech Nowicki and four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek along with France&rsquo;s world silver medallist Quentin Bigot, who recently threw a personal best of 80.14m in Forbach.
Meanwhile, France&rsquo;s world decathlon record-holder Kevin Mayer, who took a second Olympic silver at the Tokyo Games despite injury problems, is preparing for a second world title with his customary cluster of key events at this meeting.
In company with other top home decathletes he will compete in the shot put, long jump and 110m hurdles.
His last &ldquo;triathlon&rdquo; at Stade Charlety in 2019 saw him lower his personal bests in the 110m hurdles to 13.55 &ndash; it has since come down by 0.01 &ndash; and the shot put to 17.08m.
Mike Rowbottom for World Athletics

The next Diamond League meeting is another significant step on the road to Oregon

Fraser-Pryce aims to impress in Paris as she plans world 100m title defence

Something has to give. Someone has to lose. But when two great athletes line up against each other, with two laps of the track to separate the victor from the vanquished, the real winner is often the sport itself.&nbsp;
This is a 50-second showdown that will show athletics at its very finest.
On Saturday night (19), the brilliant Bahamian Shaunae Miller-Uibo is on a collision course with Dutch star Femke Bol in the women&rsquo;s 400m final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22.&nbsp;
Barring a major upset in Friday evening&rsquo;s semifinals, the pair look the standout picks in the hunt for gold. It&rsquo;s a title neither has won before, a title both of them very much want.&nbsp;
A title only one is going to get.&nbsp;
Great things often come along in twos, and this is a race that will likely be defined by their binary brilliance. The most memorable match-ups in sport tend to pit contrasting styles against each other &ndash; think Frazier-Ali, Federer-Nadal, Bolt-Gatlin &ndash; and on Saturday night at the Stark Arena, the lightning pace and power of Miller-Uibo will go up against the superb speed endurance of Bol.&nbsp;
Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s indoor best for the distance is 50.21. Bol&rsquo;s is 50.30.&nbsp;
But these are two very different athletes. Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s 200m PB is 21.71. Bol&rsquo;s is 23.16.&nbsp;
We know, with near certainty, who&rsquo;ll be leading at the bell. What we don&rsquo;t know is who&rsquo;ll be leading at the finish.&nbsp;
Miller-Uibo is the two-time Olympic 400m champion, and has not lost a 400m race in more than two years. Bol is the two-time European indoor 400m champion, the Olympic bronze medallist at 400m hurdles, and she hasn&rsquo;t lost an indoor 400m race in over two years.&nbsp;
The Bahamian&rsquo;s speed is the immovable object over the first 200m, but Bol&rsquo;s ability to sustain her speed tends to be an unstoppable force over the latter half.&nbsp;
As we said, something&rsquo;s got to give.&nbsp;
On Friday morning, both coasted to victory in their respective heats, Bol winning in 51.48 and Miller-Uibo clocking 51.74.&nbsp;
Even running well within themselves, their differing approaches were clear: Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s first 100m was 12.03, her last 14.47. Bol&rsquo;s first 100m was much slower at 12.47, her last much quicker at 14.15.&nbsp;
One thing that was clear is both athletes are happy to have the other against them in Belgrade.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m at the World Championships so you want to go against the best, and she&rsquo;s the best,&rdquo; said Bol. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m excited to go out there because I feel fit.&rdquo;
Miller-Uibo said indoors was &ldquo;not my favourite&rdquo;, explaining how she decided to retire from indoor 400m running after winning world indoor silver 2014. &ldquo;I came back again last year to give it another go, but after this season I think I&rsquo;ll put it back into retirement and concentrate on the outdoors,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;There are just too many turns for me and I never get a chance to really open out my legs. It is a lot of fun, though.&rdquo;
Miler-Uibo had not raced this indoor season before arriving in Belgrade, withdrawing late from World Athletics Indoor Tour meetings in Birmingham and Staten Island.&nbsp;
&ldquo;For me, this one is just a chance to see where we&rsquo;re at with training,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The main goal this season is to be ready (for) the World Championships in Oregon and this is about working towards that goal.&rdquo;
Miller-Uibo knows the strength of her opponents, but isn&rsquo;t getting carried away with focusing on Bol. After all, the race includes Poland&rsquo;s Justyna Swiety-Ersetic, who clocked a national indoor record of 51.04 earlier this month.
&ldquo;I try not to pin-point one rival or two,&rdquo; said Miller-Uibo. &ldquo;There are always a lot of girls coming up and a lot of talented athletes around. It&rsquo;s always a pleasure to compete with them and get the best out of each other.&rdquo;
Bol is in a similar frame of mind ahead of Saturday&rsquo;s showdown, aware that the presence of Miller-Uibo could elevate her to a new level. That was the case in Tokyo when she went third on the all-time list at 400m hurdles, clocking 52.03 behind Sydney McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad. &nbsp;
&ldquo;For sure, it will push me and make me more motivated,&rdquo; she said of Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s presence. &ldquo;I hope it pushes us to great times.&rdquo;
In her heat, Bolt looked at her absolute ease, coasting to the finish a wide-margin winner in&nbsp;51.48.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was good, a clean and an easy race,&rdquo; said Bol. &ldquo;I just wanted to be in front to avoid any kind of unexpected situations, to reach the semifinal without any incidents and save as much energy as possible.&rdquo;
Both she and Miller-Uibo know they will need everything they have on Saturday evening. The gun goes at 19:55 local time. In 50 seconds, maybe a little less, we&rsquo;ll have our answer.
But until then the question remains: who will it be?
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

World Athletics Indoor Championships

When two great athletes line up against each other, the real winner is often the sport itself. 

Bol and Miller-Uibo take one step closer to Belgrade 400m final showdown

Organisers of the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix have confirmed that two-time Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo will return to the World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting on Staten Island, New York, on 6 February.
Miller-Uibo is coming off a 2021 season that saw her go undefeated over 400m, starting with a Bahamian indoor record at last year&rsquo;s New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, and ending with the successful defence of her Olympic title, recording a remarkable 48.36 to break her own continental record.
Miller-Uibo will face stiff competition in Wadeline Jonathas, the 2020 US indoor 400m champion and Olympic 4x400m champion.
Other key additions the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix include Omar McLeod, the 2016 Olympic sprint hurdles champion, who will line up in the flat 60m against the previously announced Noah Lyles and Ronnie Baker.
Diamond League 110m hurdles champion Devon Allen will join world record-holder Grant Holloway in the 60m hurdles, while Eorupean and Commonwealth 1500m medallist Jake Wightman will step up in distance to contest the 3000m, where he&rsquo;ll take on Spain&rsquo;s 2017 European indoor champion Adel Mechaal and Luis Grijalva, the Guatemalan record-holder at 1500m, 3000m and 5000m.
The New Balance Indoor Grand Prix is the third World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2022. There are seven Gold level meetings across the series, starting with Karlsruhe on 28 January and culminating in Madrid on 2 March.
Organisers for World Athletics

2016 Olympic sprint hurdles champion Omar McLeod also confirmed for the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix

Miller-Uibo ready to return to Staten Island

This week marks the opening of the voting process for the 2021 World Athletes of the Year ahead of the&nbsp;World Athletics Awards 2021&nbsp;to be held in December.
World Athletics is pleased to confirm a list of 10 nominees for Female World Athlete of the Year who were selected by an international panel of athletics experts, comprising representatives from all six continental areas of World Athletics.
The nominations reflect the remarkable range of exceptional performances that the sport has witnessed this year, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, one-day meeting circuits and other events around the world.
Commenting on the Awards, World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said: &ldquo;As always, the World Athletics Awards will recognise athletes who have performed at the highest level across the year, taking into account not only the Olympic Games, but the one-day meeting circuits. We do recognise that athletes in some parts of the world faced greater challenges than others in accessing international competition this year, which complicated the nomination process. However, we saw some impressive breakthroughs at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and we look forward to those athletes having more opportunities to shine next year, with five World Athletics Series events and a full schedule of one-day meetings on the calendar."
The nominees for 2021 Female World Athlete of the Year are (in alphabetical order):
Valarie Allman, USA - Olympic discus champion - Diamond League discus champion - North American discus record&nbsp;
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, PUR - Olympic 100m hurdles champion&nbsp; - Broke the Olympic 100m hurdles record - National record 12.26 moved to equal fourth on the world all-time list
Sifan Hassan, NED - Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion - Olympic 1500m bronze medallist - Broke the world 10,000m record
Faith Kipyegon, KEN - Olympic 1500m champion - Diamond League 1500m champion - Kenyan 1500m record
Mariya Lasitskene, ANA - Olympic high jump champion - Diamond League high jump champion - Jumped world-leading 2.05m
Sydney McLaughlin, USA - Olympic 400m hurdles champion - Olympic 4x400m champion - Set two world 400m hurdles records
Shaunae Miller-Uibo, BAH - Olympic 400m champion - North American 400m record - North American indoor 400m record
Athing Mu, USA - Olympic 800m and 4x400m champion - World U20 indoor 800m record - North American U20 records at 400m and 800m
Yulimar Rojas, VEN - Olympic triple jump champion - Diamond League triple jump champion - World triple jump record
Elaine Thompson-Herah, JAM - Olympic 100m, 200m and 4x100m champion - Diamond League 100m champion - National 100m and 200m records, second fastest of all time
A three-way voting process will determine the finalists.
The World Athletics Council and the World Athletics Family will cast their votes by email, while fans can vote online via the World Athletics social media platforms. Individual graphics for each nominee will be posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram this week; a 'like' on Facebook and Instagram or a retweet on Twitter will count as one vote.
The World Athletics Council&rsquo;s vote will count for 50% of the result, while the World Athletics Family&rsquo;s votes and the public votes will each count for 25% of the final result.
Voting for the World Athletes of the Year closes at midnight on Saturday 6 November. At the conclusion of the voting process, five women and five men finalists will be announced by World Athletics.
The female and male World Athletes of the Year will be announced live at the World Athletics Awards 2021 in December.&nbsp;
Further information about the World Athletics Awards 2021 will be announced in the weeks leading up to the event.
World Athletics

World Athletics is pleased to confirm a list of 10 nominees for Female World Athlete of the Year.

Nominees announced for Female World Athlete of the Year 2021

Blowing away the field with a blistering sprint in the final straight, Shaunae Miller-Uibo completed a Bahamian sweep of the Olympic 400m titles at the Tokyo Games and won her second consecutive gold in the one-lap event.
Miller-Uibo crossed the line in an area record of 48.36 on Friday (6), becoming only the second woman to win back-to-back Olympic golds in the 400m and the first since France&rsquo;s Marie-Jose Perec in 1992-1996.
&ldquo;I am so happy right now I could cry," the 27-year-old Miller-Uibo said. &ldquo;I've been dealing with a whole lot of injuries and to be able to pull this one off is amazing. To be able to pull off matching gold medals, and to get an area record as well, I am so thankful."
Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic took the silver medal in a national record 49.20. USA legend Allyson Felix earned the bronze in 49.46, bringing her career total to 10 Olympic medals to become the most decorated woman in Olympic athletics history. In fourth was Jamaica's&nbsp;Stephenie Ann McPherson, her time of&nbsp;49.61 bringing her home one place ahead of her compatriot&nbsp;Candice McLeod (49.87).
Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s victory came 24 hours after Steven Gardiner took gold in the men&rsquo;s 400m to become the first man from the Bahamas to win an individual Olympic gold in any sport. Now the two can share the distinction of owning the Olympic titles together.
Miller-Uibo said at the start of the year that she was focusing on the 200m and would likely not run the 400m in Tokyo. She only recently decided to defend her Olympic title and compete in both events. She finished eighth in the 200m final on Tuesday.
"I just had to go through a whole lot of things,&rdquo; Miller-Uibo said of her disappointing performance in the shorter distance. &ldquo;To put it out of my mind, that it was okay. So I came out and was able to not focus on the time but to pull off another gold medal run. The best thing is I have another gold medal right now."
Returning for the 400m final, Miller-Uibo was back in her element, primed to defend the title she won in Rio by diving at the line to edge Felix by 0.07 for the gold.
This time, there was no need to dive, or even lean.
Unmistakable with her bright pink hair, Miller-Uibo stormed around the final bend and accelerated away from her rivals over the final 100m, sailing across the finish with a lead of several metres.&nbsp;
The 24-year-old Paulino finished strong to grab her second silver of the Games, adding to her medal from the new mixed 4x400m relay on the opening weekend of the Olympics.
Competing in her fifth and final Games, and first as a mother, the 35-year-old Felix broke a tie with Jamaica&rsquo;s Merlene Ottey for most athletics medals by a woman and equalled Carl Lewis for most medals held by a US track and field athlete.
&ldquo;I feel like I have come a long way from all the other Games,&rdquo; Felix said. &ldquo;This one is just different. Sometimes it sounds like a cliche, but it honestly is more than just me running out there. I&rsquo;m not too wrapped up in winning more medals. The biggest thing for me was coming back.&rdquo;
Felix is competing in Tokyo less than three years after giving birth to her daughter,&nbsp;Camryn, via an emergency delivery that threatened the life of both mother and child.
"Earlier today I looked through some of the videos again of things that we had taped when I was in hospital with Cammie and on the comeback trail &ndash; those really, really hard moments &ndash; and that&rsquo;s what I tried to tap into.&rdquo;
Friday&rsquo;s race produced Felix&rsquo;s first bronze medal, adding to the six gold and three silver she already owned. She can win an 11th medal on Saturday if selected to run in the women&rsquo;s 4x400m relay, and that would leave her one short of the all-time record of 12 medals held by Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi.
Tokyo is proving to be a remarkable swansong for Felix, who made her Olympic debut as an 18-year-old at the 2004 Games in Athens.&nbsp;
Her legacy and place in Olympic history are secure.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve just tried to be more vulnerable and be more transparent this time around,&rdquo; Felix said. &ldquo;Being an older athlete I think that&rsquo;s something we don&rsquo;t see as much. So I have been sharing some of my own struggles.
&ldquo;I think a lot of times I tied my work to what happens at these championships and I didn&rsquo;t want to do that this time around. Obviously, I always run for gold but I just wanted to have joy no matter what happened tonight.&rdquo;
&nbsp;Steve Wilson for World Athletics
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Blowing away the field with a blistering sprint in the final straight, Shaunae Miller-Uibo completed a Bahamian sweep of the Olympic 400m titles at the Tokyo Games.

Miller-Uibo retains Olympic title to complete Bahamian 400m double

Global champions Dalilah Muhammad, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Jacob Kilpimo are among the latest stars who have confirmed their participation at the Gyulai Memorial &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting &ndash; in Szekesfehervar on 6 July.
Muhammad, who will be in action at the US Olympic Trials later this week, is the world and Olympic champion at 400m hurdles and the world record-holder. Having finished seventh in 2015, third in 2017 and second in 2018, Muhammad will be seeking her first Szekesfehervar victory when she takes on US compatriot Shamier Little, Dutch record-holder Femke Bol, Jamaica&rsquo;s Janieve Russell, USA&rsquo;s Ashley Spencer, Switzerland&rsquo;s Lea Sprunger and Ukraine&rsquo;s Anna Ryzhykova.
Olympic 400m champion Miller-Uibo, who holds the Gyulai Memorial meeting records at 200m and 400m, will contest the shorter of those events this time. The Bahamian sprinter will line up against two-time world champion Dafne Schippers and world bronze medallist Mujinga Kambundji.
World indoor champion and recently crowned US Trials winner Kendra Harrison will also return to Szekesfehervar. She set a Hungarian all-comers&rsquo; record of 12.28 there in 2017 and won again in 2019. The world silver medallist will face world leader Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, USA's Sharika Nelvis, Bahamian record-holder Devynne Charlton and European champion Elvira Herman.
The men&rsquo;s sprint hurdles is similarly competitive and features Olympic silver medallist Orlando Ortega, world bronze medallist Pascal Martinot-Lagarde, African record-holder Antonio Alkana and US duo Devon Allen and Daniel Roberts.
Elsewhere in the sprints, Tokyo-bound Wadeline Jonathas will take on European champion Justyna Swiety-Ersetic and USA&rsquo;s Lynna Irby over 400m, while world and Olympic medallist Blessing Okagbare will contest the 100m.
World half marathon champion Jacob Kiplimo will step down in distance to the 3000m &ndash; an event in which he holds the Ugandan record of 7:26.64 &ndash; to race against two-time world 5000m champion Muktar Edris, Telahun Haile Bekele, Ethiopian 10,000m champion Berihu Aregawi and Kenya&rsquo;s 2015 world U18 champion Richard Yator.
The field events in Szekesfehervar will feature several global medallists, none more so than the men&rsquo;s discus.
Daniel Stahl will be joined by the two men who preceded him as world champion &ndash; Lithuania&rsquo;s Andrius Gudzius and Poland&rsquo;s Piotr Malachowski &ndash; as well as Olympic champion Christoph Harting. World silver medallist Fedrick Dacres and Sweden&rsquo;s Simon Pettersson are also in the high-quality line-up.
In the men&rsquo;s hammer, four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek will take on arch rival Wojciech Nowicki, the European champion, along with world bronze medallist Bence Halasz and Ukraine&rsquo;s Mykhaylo Kokhan.
Two-time Olympic champion and world record-holder Anita Wlodarczyk, continuing her comeback, stars in the women&rsquo;s hammer. She&rsquo;ll face 2017 world bronze medallist Malwina Kopron and 2015 world bronze medallist Alexandra Tavernier.
World leader Maria Andrejczyk, who moved to second on the world all-time list earlier this year, will compete in the javelin alongside Germany&rsquo;s European champion Christin Hussong, 2016 European champion Tatsiana Khaladovich and European bronze medallist Liveta Jasiunaite.
Three members of the exclusive 18-metre club will clash in the men&rsquo;s triple jump as world indoor record-holder Hugues Fabrice Zango takes on world indoor champion Will Claye and Cuba&rsquo;s Pedro Pablo Pichardo.
In other events, world bronze medallist Ferguson Rotich, Wesley Vazquez and Elliot Giles are confirmed for the men&rsquo;s 800m; world silver and bronze medallists Mikhail Akimenko and Ilya Ivanyuk take on 2016 world indoor champion Gianmarco Tamberi, Ukraine&rsquo;s Andriy Protsenko, Australian record-holder Brandon Starc and 2007 world champion Donald Thomas in the high jump; and the men&rsquo;s shot put line-up includes European indoor shot put champion Tomas Stanek, 2016 world indoor bronze medallist Filip Mihaljevic, Poland&rsquo;s Konrad Bukowiecki and Nigeria&rsquo;s Chukwuebuka Enekwechi.

Global champions Dalilah Muhammad, Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Jacob Kilpimo are among the latest stars who have confirmed their participation at the Gyulai Memorial – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – in Szekesfehervar on 6 July.

Muhammad, Miller-Uibo and Kiplimo confirmed for Szekesfehervar

Street meets may be seen as the fun and care-free cousin of top-flight athletics, but dozens of the world&rsquo;s best athletes will be using Sunday&rsquo;s adidas Boost Boston Games &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting &ndash; as a key stepping stone leading up to the Olympic Games.
Wayde van Niekerk has had quite the journey since winning Olympic gold in Rio. The South African sprinter successfully defended his world title in 2017 but then sustained a serious injury in 2018 which put him out of action for the best part of two years.
He has now returned to full health and recently started training under Lance Brauman &ndash; a move that required relocating to Florida.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a very good last two weeks in the US, being welcomed by the Pure Athletics group,&rdquo; said the 400m world record-holder, who has won all of his races over 200m this year. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m very excited.
&ldquo;There have definitely been positive steps, especially the race in Gauteng (which he won in a marginally wind-assisted 20.10) because that had a great line-up. It gave me a massive boost. It&rsquo;s been a good start to the year and I&rsquo;m looking forward to seeing what I can do this weekend, taking it step by step until the Olympic Games.&rdquo;
He admitted that the road back to full health was a difficult one &ndash; mentally more than anything.
&ldquo;Physically, I never really questioned myself,&rdquo; said Van Niekerk, who will be racing the 200m straight on Sunday. &ldquo;I always backed myself and I knew I had to work ethic to help me get back to where I should be. It was really just about trying to get my mental outlook to the same level as the physical. When I finally achieved that, things started falling into place.&rdquo;
Van Niekerk is now a training partner of fellow Olympic 400m gold medallist Shaunae Miller-Uibo. After just two weeks of training together, Miller-Uibo has thoroughly enjoyed having Van Niekerk as part of the group.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a blessing having Wayde in the group,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;When I first heard he was coming, I was very excited. It&rsquo;s not every day you train with a world record-holder. He&rsquo;s so humble and he trains so well. We all look up to him and I&rsquo;m going to try to learn as much as I can from him.
Like Van Niekerk, Miller-Uibo will also be contesting the 200m straight this weekend &ndash; a discipline for which she holds the unofficial world best of 21.76.
The Bahamian hopes to get close to that time on Sunday, though she knows it will be a tough ask. Either way, she knows she&rsquo;ll have fun.
&ldquo;I like running 200m on a straight,&rdquo; said the three-time world medallist. &ldquo;I struggle a bit with running the bends on a regular track. A straight 200m looks longer, but once you get past that, it&rsquo;s fine.&rdquo;
Though she currently leads the 400m world list with 49.08 &ndash; and sits at sixth on the world all-time list with 48.37 &ndash; Miller-Uibo confirmed she intends to contest the 200m at the Tokyo Olympics.
&ldquo;The 200m and 400m go hand in hand,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I want a new title &ndash; I&rsquo;ve already won Olympic gold at 400m, so now we&rsquo;re going after the 200m. I hope I&rsquo;ll be able to show the progress we&rsquo;ve made in the 200m.&rdquo; 
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 World 110m hurdles champion Grant Holloway will be fulfilling a long-held dream this weekend.
&ldquo;This is one of the meets I&rsquo;ve always dreamed of going to,&rdquo; he said.
Since breaking the world indoor 60m hurdles record earlier this year, Holloway hasn&rsquo;t dwelled too much on his record-breaking 7.29 run in Madrid.
&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve not spent too much time focusing on the world indoor record,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We enjoyed it, we took notes from it, and we moved on. We needed to keep pushing and to get ready for the last five hurdles (for the 110m hurdles).
&ldquo;I think I&rsquo;m in great shape,&rdquo; added Holloway, who has won all three of his outdoor races so far and currently tops the world list with 13.07. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m satisfied with everything both on and off track. I&rsquo;m satisfied but not content; I know I can be better and faster. The main thing now is fine tuning and getting better. I know the Olympic Trials, the Diamond League and the Olympic Games aren&rsquo;t going to be easy. I just have to focus on my lane and my space.&rdquo;
And while he has been able to adapt to performing in empty stadiums, Holloway can&rsquo;t wait for crowds to return to athletics meetings.
&ldquo;When we&rsquo;re able to welcome fans back to competitions, I think it will make a huge difference to all athletes,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll get those pre-competition nerves, which is what we all need to produce even faster times. We just need to take care of the small things first: vaccinations, social distancing, all that good stuff. Then hopefully next year we can do all of this in person.&rdquo;
Fellow sprint hurdles world record-holder Kendra Harrison will also be racing this weekend. The world indoor champion leads a high-quality women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles line-up and she can&rsquo;t wait to test herself against the world&rsquo;s best.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m really excited to run the hurdles here,&rdquo; said Harrison, who has competed previously at the adidas Boost Boston Games, but only in the 100m flat. &ldquo;From my hotel room I can see the track being built &ndash; it&rsquo;s very exciting.&rdquo;
Harrison competed just once during the 2020 outdoor season, running 16.92 in a 150m race. And in the first few months of this year, she produced some impressive times in flat sprints before turning her attention back to the hurdles.
&ldquo;The transition from 2020 to 2021 has been kind of smooth,&rdquo; said the world silver medallist. &ldquo;Luckily last year I was able to access a track and train as normal, so I was ready for when the opportunities to return to competition presented itself.
&ldquo;Over the past year I&rsquo;ve been working a lot more on my flat sprints, and trying to run flat races like a sprinter,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;Training alongside Jenna Prandini and Teahna Daniels has definitely helped.&rdquo;
World 200m champion Noah Lyles is also working on sharpening his speed.
Originally slated to contest the 150m in Boston, he recently changed his plan and switched to the 100m instead.
&ldquo;This week I said to my coach that I feel like I need to do more 100s,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;My race at Mt SAC reassured me that I can jump right into a 200m and I&rsquo;m ready, but I want to have more 100m races under my belt before the trials. I need to be more race-sharp.
&ldquo;That race at Mt SAC (where he came through in the closing stages to win in 19.90) was probably my most raw 200m in a long time,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There were a few doubts, but that&rsquo;s all part of being an athlete. Being able to show up and run to best of abilities &ndash; that&rsquo;s really what being a champion is all about.&rdquo;
At this early stage of the season, Lyles is yet to approach the kind of speed that carried him to PBs of 9.86 and 19.50 in 2019, but he&rsquo;s confident it will come when it matters.
&ldquo;This has been the hardest training year I&rsquo;ve ever had in my career, especially when it comes to conditioning and speed endurance,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m stronger and leaner than before. We haven&rsquo;t seen the fruits of my labour just yet, but I see them growing in front of me. It&rsquo;s exciting to see it coming to fruition. I&rsquo;m really going to be ready by the time of the Olympics.&rdquo;
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Street meets may be seen as the fun and care-free cousin of top-flight athletics, but dozens of the world’s best athletes will be using Sunday’s adidas Boost Boston Games – a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – as a key stepping stone leading up to the Olympic Games.

Van Niekerk, Miller-Uibo and Lyles ready to use Boston as Tokyo tune-up

A lot has happened during the four years since Wayde van Niekerk last competed at the adidas Boost Boston Games. One world title and a few years of injury later, the Olympic 400m champion returns to the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold street meeting on Sunday (23) ready and raring to go.
The South African sprinter won over 200m at the 2017 edition of this meeting, clocking 19.84 on the straight track. Having recovered from a persistent injury sustained while playing rugby back in 2018, Van Niekerk has returned to winning ways this year and heads to Boston with a season&rsquo;s best of 20.38, set when winning the South African 200m title last month.
Victory won&rsquo;t come easy, though, as he&rsquo;ll be joined in Boston by European 100m champion Zharnel Hughes. The Briton has the fastest 200m season&rsquo;s best of the field, having clocked 20.14 and a wind-assisted 19.93 last month.
As with the men&rsquo;s race, the women&rsquo;s 200m in Boston also features the reigning Olympic 400m champion. Shaunae Miller-Uibo of The Bahamas will look to extend her unbeaten run at this meeting, having won over 150m in 2018 and 2019, and at 200m in 2017 &ndash; clocking 21.76, a world best for the 200m straight.
USA&rsquo;s Wadeline Jonathas, who finished fourth over 400m at the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, could be Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s toughest opponent.
<h3>High-quality hurdles</h3>
World record-holder Kendra Harrison makes her Boston Games debut in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles. The world indoor champion has been in impressive form this year, clocking a wind-assisted 12.38 and two wind-legal 12.48 performances.
In what appears to be the highest-quality line-up of the meet, Harrison will take on Sharika Nelvis, winner in Boston in 2018 and 2019, world indoor silver medallist Christina Clemons, 2015 world champion Danielle Williams of Jamaica and African champion Tobi Amusan of Nigeria.
The men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles, meanwhile, brings together the world indoor record-holder and the outdoor world record-holder in the form of Grant Holloway and Aries Merritt.
Since breaking the world indoor record with 7.29 in February, Holloway has continued his unbeaten run outdoors, winning all three of his competitions so far, topped by his world-leading 13.07 in Gainesville. Merritt, whose last full season was back in 2018, will be looking to improve on his season&rsquo;s best of 13.90.
Shamier Little heads to Boston in the hope of achieving a third victory in the 200m hurdles. The 2015 world 400m hurdles silver medallist has been in sensational form this year, recording PBs for 400m indoors and out, 200m indoors and 800m outdoors, all of which suggests she&rsquo;ll improve on her 25.88 PB for the rarely run 200m hurdles.
But Ebony Morrison, who beat Little in Boston in 2018 with a meeting record of 25.80, also returns. Olympic bronze medallist Ashley Spencer, also proficient at a range of events, is also in the line-up.
The men&rsquo;s race is similarly tough to call. Brazil&rsquo;s Alison Dos Santos is fresh from a 400m hurdles best of 47.68, but his strength lies in the latter stages of the 400m distance. TJ Holmes, who finished ahead of Dos Santos at the 2019 World Championships, should certainly be in contention, as should Amere Lattin, who has the best form over the shorter hurdles events.
<h3>Lyles leads 100m line-up</h3>
World 200m champion Noah Lyles will step down in distance to the 100m where he&rsquo;ll take on younger brother Josephus Lyles and 2017 world 200m finalist Isiah Young, who has already broken 10 seconds for 100m this year.
World indoor champion Murielle Ahoure makes her 2021 outdoor debut in the women&rsquo;s 100m in Boston, and it won&rsquo;t be an easy one. The Ivorian sprinter takes on two-time world 200m champion Dafne Schippers and 2018 US champion Aleia Hobbs.
In the men&rsquo;s 150m, 2011 world 100m champion Yohan Blake lines up against 2017 world 200m bronze medallist Jereem Richards and USA&rsquo;s Kyree King, who last month set a 100m PB of 9.97.
World 200m silver medallist Brittany Brown takes on US compatriot Lynna Irby in the women&rsquo;s 150m.
Having set PBs at 400m, 1000m and 1500m so far this year, Bryce Hoppel has every right to feel confident ahead of the 600m in Boston. But Kenya&rsquo;s Michael Saruni, who formerly held the world indoor best for the 600m distance, is also in the field, as are Canada&rsquo;s Marco Arop and Britain&rsquo;s Jamie Webb.
US 800m record-holder Ajee Wilson contests the women&rsquo;s 600m, lining up alongside Jamaican record-holder Natoya Goule.
World 1500m bronze medallist Marcin Lewandowski will defend his title in the road mile, taking on a field that includes Olympic 800m bronze medallist Clayton Murphy and USA&rsquo;s Robby Andrews. Pan-American 1500m champion Nikki Hiltz leads the women&rsquo;s line-up.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

A lot has happened during the four years since Wayde van Niekerk last competed at the adidas Boost Boston Games.

Global champions take to the streets in Boston

World-leading marks achieved at this stage of the season don&rsquo;t tend to leave too much of an imprint on the world all-time lists, but Shaunae Miller-Uibo&rsquo;s 49.08 to win the 400m at the USATF Grand Prix in Eugene &ndash; the first World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of 2021 &ndash; broke the stadium record for an iconic venue.
The Bahamian Olympic champion ran a well-timed race. She held a slight lead at half way and still had USA&rsquo;s Lynna Irby for company on the final bend, but she opened up a clear margin on the rest of the field down the home straight to cross the line in 49.08, the fourth-fastest time of her career.
It also chopped 0.26 from the previous stadium record, set in 2003 by Ana Guevara. Global champions Sanya Richards-Ross, Allyson Felix and Tonique Williams-Darling are among the other past winners on the Hayward Field track, so Miller-Uibo will gain a boost in confidence knowing that she has out-performed such legendary athletes at this venue.
&ldquo;The 400 is my favourite event, so I love coming in and trying to figure it out and having some fun with unravelling the secrets of it,&rdquo; said the world silver medallist. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been really working on getting our strength up and now that we are in the middle of the season we are going to work on speed and getting ready to put down some great performances in the 200s.&rdquo;
Irby finished second in 50.28, holding off Jessica Beard (50.38).
<h3>Winkler and Andersen make big statements in the hammer</h3>
World finalist Rudy Winkler showed his breakthrough into 80-metre territory last year was no fluke, producing the best mark of his career to win the hammer with 81.98m.
He opened with a trio of throws that fell just shy of 78 metres, then followed it with a foul in the fourth round. He found his rhythm in round five, though, throwing 80.09m and then went even farther with his final throw of the competition, sending his hammer out to 81.98m.
Not only did he smash his previous best, he moved up to second on the North American all-time list, just 54 centimetres shy of area record-holder Lance Deal.
&ldquo;My first couple of throws were not right technically,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but on my last two throws I executed the way I wanted and threw a personal best.&rdquo;
In the women&rsquo;s hammer, world champion DeAnna Price suffered a rare defeat to a domestic rival as Brooke Andersen backed up her recent breakthrough to win with 77.99m.
Price led after the first two rounds with a best of 72.85m, but Andersen responded in round three with 77.56m. Price improved to 76.15m in round five, but couldn&rsquo;t catch Andersen, who threw 77.79m in round four and 77.99m in round five.
Andersen&rsquo;s winning mark is just 19 centimetres shy of the PB she set two weeks ago. More significantly, though, it&rsquo;s the first time she has beaten Price.
<h3>Camacho-Quinn dominates sprint hurdles</h3>
Light rain started to fall half way through the competition programme, but it did little to slow down Jasmine Camacho-Quinn in the 100m hurdles.
The Puerto Rican blasted out of the blocks and could not be caught, storming clear to win in 12.46 &ndash; just 0.14 of the world-leading PB she set last week. Jamaica&rsquo;s Brittany Anderson was a distant second in 12.82 with USA&rsquo;s Taliyah Brooks (12.83) and Sydney McLaughlin (12.86) close behind.
The conditions may have hampered the times in the men&rsquo;s 400m, but it was still an exciting spectacle as USA&rsquo;s Michael Norman held off a strong challenge from training partner Rai Benjamin.
Norman ran a controlled first half, going through 200m with a slight lead over Michael Cherry and Benjamin. Coming off the final bend, though, Benjamin drew level with Norman and then edged ahead very slightly, but Norman responded well and regained the lead.
Norman won in 44.67 with Benjamin taking second in 44.97. Teenager Justin Robinson was third in 45.55.
Blessing Okagbare came through strongly in the closing stages of the 100m to win in 10.97 with Morolake Akinosun finishing second in 11.09.
Trayvon Bromell&rsquo;s approach to the men&rsquo;s 100m was the polar opposite but no less effective. The 2016 world indoor champion exploded out of the blocks and had a huge lead at half way. World 200m champion Noah Lyles made up a bit of ground in the second half, but couldn&rsquo;t catch Bromell, who won in 10.01 to Lyles&rsquo; 10.17.
<h3>British double for Muir and McColgan</h3>
Laura Muir and fellow Briton Eilish McColgan dominated the 1500m and 5000m respectively.
Muir ran well ahead of the pacemaker from the early stages of the 1500m and by the time she reached the bell, she had a five-second lead over the rest of the field. She went on to win in 4:01.54 as USA&rsquo;s Helen Schlachtenhaufen came through to take second place in 4:04.36.
Earlier in the programme, McColgan produced a convincing run to win the 5000m in 14:52.44, covering the final kilometre in 2:52, despite having no one to push her. USA&rsquo;s Abbey Cooper was a distant second in 15:13.27.
Oliver Hoare, who set an Oceanian indoor 1500m record earlier this year, broke his outdoor PB to win the men&rsquo;s 1500m. He doggedly stuck to the pacemaker from the outset, then maintained the pace to win unopposed in 3:33.54.
Canada&rsquo;s Justyn Knight was second in 3:35.85, while world 800m champion Donavan Brazier was third in 3:37.58.
Elsewhere, world champion Anderson Peters won the javelin with 82.72m, and Chase Ealey took the women&rsquo;s shot put with 18.93m.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

World-leading marks achieved at this stage of the season don’t tend to leave too much of an imprint on the world all-time lists, but Shaunae Miller-Uibo’s 49.08 to win the 400m at the USATF Grand Prix in Eugene – the first World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of 2021 – broke the stadium record for an iconic venue.