World indoor record-holder Femke Bol will look to transfer her sensational 400m form to the outdoor season and Lieke Klaver will test herself in the 200m when they race at the FBK Games, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event, in Hengelo on 4 June.
Bol scorched to a time of 49.26 at the Dutch Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn last month to break the almost 41-year-old world indoor record of 49.59.
The mark is faster than Bol's outdoor PB of 49.44 that she set to win the European title in Munich last year, part of a gold medal treble that also included titles in the 400m hurdles and 4x400m, and is a time that only 20 other athletes have ever beaten outdoors.
She went on to achieve a second consecutive golden double at the European Indoor Championships in Istanbul, winning the 400m in 49.85 and then anchoring the Netherlands team to 4x400m success in 3:25.66.
&ldquo;I am very excited to be at the FBK Games again this year,&rdquo; said 400m hurdles specialist Bol, who won world silver over the barriers in Oregon last year and claimed Olympic bronze in Tokyo. &ldquo;This time even without hurdles, just like my first time running in the main programme.
&ldquo;I can't wait to run again in a full stadium in the Netherlands with the help of my (Dutch) fans.&rdquo;
World 400m fourth-place finisher Klaver claimed European indoor 400m silver behind Bol in Istanbul and joined her on the victorious 4x400m team. In Hengelo she takes on the 200m.
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Lieke Klaver competes in Hengelo (&copy; Dan Vernon)
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&ldquo;With Dutch athletics going so well right now, it will create a very nice atmosphere in the stadium, which will hopefully be sold out,&rdquo; she said.
&ldquo;It's great to race close to home for once and not have to travel so much. This means that all my friends can also come and watch. Almost all my training buddies also participate, which makes it a great experience to run together.&rdquo;
The FBK Games is the eighth Gold level meeting of the 2023 World Athletics Continental Tour, which kicked off in Melbourne last month.
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World indoor record-holder Femke Bol will look to transfer her sensational indoor 400m form to the outdoor season when she races at the FBK Games

Bol set for 400m, Klaver to take on 200m in Hengelo

A look back at the key moments of 2022 in the sprints

2022 review: sprints

It&rsquo;s a now familiar sight: Joseph Fahnbulleh using his superb top-end speed to chase down his dreams on the hunt for sprint stardom.
That powerful finish was most recently on display at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Zagreb earlier this month, Fahnbulleh capping his season with one final win to celebrate his 21st birthday in style.
That season finale also offered Fahnbulleh the opportunity to reflect on an impressive couple of years that have seen him go from collegiate star to global stage, successfully transitioning to the senior ranks. 
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Joseph Fahnbulleh on his way to a 200m win at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb (&copy; Zagreb Meeting)
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Fahnbulleh started his athletics journey as a cross country runner at Hopkins High School in Minnesota but is now a world and Olympic sprint finalist, one who made history for Liberia by becoming the nation&rsquo;s first athlete to reach the top eight at either the World Athletics Championships or the Olympic Games with his performances in Oregon and Tokyo.
&ldquo;After the Olympics, then having the NCAA season I had and going to the World Championships, it has been mad, but at the same time, I&rsquo;ve asked for it,&rdquo; says the three-time NCAA gold medallist. &ldquo;It has been a learning experience, I&rsquo;ve been taking it all in. Not really having any expectations on what I have been doing. Having a season where I can just reflect at the end of it and move on to the next with bigger goals.&rdquo;
There&rsquo;s certainly lots to reflect on, and a lot to look forward to. Then still a teenager, Fahnbulleh broke 20 seconds for 200m for the first time last year, storming to a 19.91 PB to win his first NCAA title in Eugene. That set him up for making his Olympic debut in Tokyo, where the 19-year-old ran 19.99 in the semifinals and then 19.98 in the final to finish fifth.
Under the guidance of coach Mike Holloway at the University of Florida, Fahnbulleh took that form through to 2022. It led him to a memorable sprint double on his return to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, where he won the 100m and retained his 200m title within the space of just 45 minutes. He ran national records in both races &ndash; 10.00 for 100m and 19.83 for 200m &shy;&ndash; again leaving fans mesmerised as the long-striding sprinter first chased down, and then breezed past, his rivals in the closing stages.
Next up was the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, where he won his heat, finished second in his semifinal in 19.92 and then finished fourth in the final in 19.84, just 0.04 behind his training partner Erriyon Knighton, who completed a US top three behind Noah Lyles and Kenny Bednarek.
&ldquo;People have different journeys,&rdquo; says Fahnbulleh, who turned pro after the World Championships, signing with ASICS. &ldquo;My first major international competition was the Olympics. Coach Holloway always says: &lsquo;act like you&rsquo;ve been there&rsquo;, so I really wasn&rsquo;t scared. I was just more excited to run with the best because you see Andre De Grasse, you see Noah Lyles. I watched Andre in high school four years ago and I was like, &lsquo;I want to be there&rsquo;. So, you work hard and you put in the daily grind.
&ldquo;That set me up and it gave me confidence going into the NCAA season, and the NCAA season gave me the confidence going to Worlds. It&rsquo;s a continuous build &ndash; each year you just get better.&rdquo; 
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Joseph Fahnbulleh competes in the 200m semifinals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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And Fahnbulleh has no doubt as to the people who have helped him as he grows. From his sixth grade teacher Miss Rossow who first encouraged him to try cross country, to his high school coach Nick Lovas who got him into sprints (&ldquo;I loved cross country, but I would sprint the last 800m of the race and they were like, &lsquo;you&rsquo;re in the wrong sport!&rsquo;&rdquo;) and now the Florida Gators team. From great family support, to being welcomed as an ASICS-sponsored athlete, Fahnbulleh hasn&rsquo;t done it alone.
&ldquo;Just being around greatness all the time, it only forces you to be great,&rdquo; explains Fahnbulleh, who says he has learned from the likes of multiple world and Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor, two-time world 110m hurdles winner Grant Holloway and two-time world indoor triple jump gold medallist Will Claye at Florida. &ldquo;Being under Coach Holloway coming out of high school, it was the best plan for me. My mom is a single mother and so with that, my high school coach was like a father figure to me, and I wanted a father figure going into college because I feel like that&rsquo;s how I grow. Coach Holloway, he has kids of his own, he treats his athletes like his kids, and it&rsquo;s a family.
&ldquo;There&rsquo;s never a bad day with Coach Holloway or any of the staff. They push you and if you don&rsquo;t take the push as a constructive push, you&rsquo;re only going to fight them and when you fight them, you&rsquo;re not going to do well.&rdquo;
Coaching is also a path Fahnbulleh&nbsp;can see himself taking one day. &ldquo;I took educational sciences (at the University of Florida) because I wanted to learn how the brain works and in the future I want to be a coach as well,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;So finding out how people learn and getting comfortable with the different mindsets that people have when it comes to different scenarios. After I get that degree, I&rsquo;m going back to do sports marketing.&rdquo;
And the &lsquo;Sound Mind, Sound Body&rsquo; approach of ASICS also fits with the ideals of Fahnbulleh, who still enjoys going on slightly longer runs when training allows.
&ldquo;When I am alone and when I have down time, I do like to go for a run,&rdquo; says&nbsp;Fahnbulleh, who is also passionate about art and enjoys working with watercolour to create portraits. &ldquo;You find the rhythm of running and it feels good as a release.&rdquo;
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Joseph Fahnbulleh is proudly sponsored by ASICS (&copy; ASICS)
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Fundamentally, it's clear why Fahnbulleh works as hard as he does. His on track goals help the sprinter to achieve what is most important to him off of it.
&ldquo;Growing up, it was just me and my mom,&rdquo; says Fahnbulleh, whose mother, Charlotte, is a nurse. &ldquo;She loves what she does but life as a nurse is tiring. That pushed me in high school to be like, &lsquo;all right mom, I&rsquo;m going to do well in my life so I can make sure that you are well in yours&rsquo;.&rdquo;
She is the reason Fahnbulleh represents Liberia. It&rsquo;s to represent her.
&ldquo;Competing for my mom was probably the best thing that I could do,&rdquo; he says.&nbsp;&ldquo;She had to flee the country (Liberia) when she was like 12. My uncle and my two aunts went to London and my mom went to the States to live with my grandmother. Since that has happened, I wanted to represent my mom the best way that I could and at the best level that I could. Competing for Liberia and always having the ability to be on the biggest stage is phenomenal.
&ldquo;If I can work hard now and in a few years I can make sure that she is good and she is relaxed, then I have fulfilled life.&rdquo;
One of the two necklaces Fahnbulleh always wears &ndash; a cross and chain &ndash; was given to him by his mother before the World Championships final. The other &ndash; made of beads &ndash; was made for him by a friend. The beads spell the word &ldquo;bullet&rdquo;.
&ldquo;It came from high school,&rdquo; he says, explaining the significance of 'bullet'.&nbsp;&ldquo;The end of my last name &ndash; they dropped the &lsquo;h&rsquo; from &lsquo;bulleh&rsquo; and added the &lsquo;t&rsquo;. I call myself that a little bit because I am like a bullet. My mom gave me this other one before the final at Worlds and so I wore it for good luck. Since then, I haven&rsquo;t taken it off.&rdquo;
And&nbsp;Fahnbulleh &ndash; Bullet by nickname &ndash; already has some key targets he hopes to hit in the future.
&ldquo;The next huge aims are, next year at Worlds &ndash; to make the podium,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve gone from fifth to fourth. Next year podium. No time goals really, we just chase execution.
&ldquo;Having a good support system around me, whether that be my coach, friends, my mom &ndash; make that stronger. And take the ASICS brand to new heights.
&ldquo;Those are my main goals right now. I&rsquo;m working. I&rsquo;m not at the level yet where on a bad day I run 19.6. I&rsquo;m going to be there, but I have to put in the work in order for me to be there.&rdquo;
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

It’s a now familiar sight: Joseph Fahnbulleh using his superb top-end speed to chase down his dreams on the hunt for sprint stardom.

'Bullet' Fahnbulleh targets the top

For many athletes, reaching the World Athletics Championships is the pinnacle of their career. But for rising Australian sprinters Calab Law and Aidan Murphy, the recent showpiece in Oregon was a stepping stone on their way to another global goal &ndash; the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22.
The experience of lining up alongside some of the sport&rsquo;s best at Eugene&rsquo;s Hayward Field last month has left them hungry for more and now they are preparing to return to the track at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium in Cali, Colombia, where they will have medals on their minds.
&ldquo;Coming here (to Oregon), you see all these big names and you expect them to be some type of different human, but when you&rsquo;re here you realise they are like everyone else, they are just fast!&rdquo; said Law. &ldquo;They were idols, and now the way we can look at them is as competition and people we get to race against.&rdquo;
Both athletes have had brilliant breakthroughs over the past year to make it to this stage, Murphy taking his 200m PB to 20.64 in November before breaking the Oceanian U20 record with 20.41 in February, and his fellow 18-year-old Law improving from 21.11 in 2021 down to 20.50 two weeks ago. 
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Calab Law races in the 200m semifinals at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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While the World U20 Championships remained the main goal, their build up soon started to evolve when their performances put them on track for Oregon.
&ldquo;Me and Calab, we were taking this (the World Athletics Championships) as a chance to get a couple of runs in with high quality races and we did exactly that,&rdquo; said Murphy, who clocked 20.75 to finish sixth in his heat. &ldquo;It was obviously not my best time by far, but that&rsquo;s something I can build on for Cali. Calab made the semifinals, so that&rsquo;s even better.&rdquo;
Law had the run of his life to advance in Eugene, running that PB of 20.50 to finish third in his heat before clocking 20.72 for seventh in his semifinal.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m feeling really good after that,&rdquo; said Law, following his heat. &ldquo;Who doesn&rsquo;t want a PB in the first round of their first World Championships? It was a big PB. I knew I was in PB shape leading up to this.&rdquo;
Both had family influences when starting out in the sport, but it&rsquo;s their own talent that is taking them towards the top.
Murphy is the son of Tania Van Heer-Murphy, who claimed world indoor 4x400m silver in Maebashi in 1999 as well as 4x100m gold and 100m bronze at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. She coached her son as a youngster but then supported him when he turned to other sports including surf lifesaving, BMX, tennis and water polo, before he decided to focus on athletics in 2016. Now the sprinter is guided by Olympian Peter Fitzgerald and has become a double Oceanian champion &ndash; winning the 200m and 4x400m in Mackay in June &ndash; and Australian champion following his 200m success in Sydney in April. 
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Aidan Murphy races alongside Fred Kerley and Yohan Blake at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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For Law, his athletics journey first saw him train with his aunt, a former 400m sprinter, and the proud Indigenous athlete now works with coach Andrew Iselin, who has helped him to become an Oceania Championships silver medallist and multiple national U20 medallist as well as a World Championships semifinalist. In the lead up to this season, Law also added some training sessions with Ashley Moloney, the Olympic decathlon bronze medallist, to his programme.
While Law travelled to Japan for some race experience in April and May, the World Athletics Championships in Oregon offered Murphy his first ever race outside of Australia. That was also the case for 17-year-old Claudia Hollingsworth, who raced in the 800m heats at the World Athletics Championships and joins her teammates Murphy and Law in doing the Oregon-Cali double.
The campaign for the sprinters in Cali begins on Wednesday (3), when they race the 200m heats, with the semifinals that same day and the final on Thursday. They are both also on the squad for the 4x100m &ndash; a couple of months on from forming part of the team that set an Oceanian U20 record of 39.30 at the Gold Coast Invitational.
&ldquo;This is pretty much just the warm up for me,&rdquo; Law said in Oregon. &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t even thinking about this. At the start of the year I was like, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m not going to make World Champs, World U20s is it for me.&rsquo;&rdquo;
It&rsquo;s a unique warm up, but one that could prove very worthwhile.
&ldquo;This competition was a step forward to go to Cali and I think me and Calab really used that,&rdquo; added Murphy.
&ldquo;I think we have both got a chance of getting a medal, but we both need to step up.&rdquo;
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

World Athletics U20 Championships

For Calab Law and Aidan Murphy, the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 was a stepping stone on their way to the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22

Law and Murphy: Oregon experience puts Australian sprinters on track for Cali

More than 1500 athletes from 145 teams are set to compete at the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22 between 1-6 August.
Here we take a look at the women's and men's sprint events at the Pascual Guerrero Olympic Stadium. 
<h2>Women&rsquo;s 100m</h2>
Jamaica&rsquo;s Tina Clayton is among the eight athletes in Cali who will be defending the titles they claimed in Nairobi last year and given her performances this season, the 17-year-old looks in form to gain another gold. Clayton dipped below 11 seconds for the first time last month, breaking the Jamaican U20 record with her world U20-leading time of 10.96 &ndash; a mark that puts her fifth on the world U20 all-time list.
Clayton also formed part of Jamaica&rsquo;s world U20 record-breaking 4x100m quartet in Nairobi last year, alongside Serena Cole, Kerrica Hill and her twin sister Tia Clayton. Cole joins Tina in contesting the 100m in Cali and will be looking to join her compatriot on the podium having improved from 11.42 to 11.13 this year.
Also expected to be in the medal mix will be South Africa&rsquo;s 17-year-old Viwe Jingqi, who has progressed from 11.67 to 11.22 this season, and Nigeria&rsquo;s Tima Seikeseye Godbless, who reached the semifinals in Nairobi.
Shawnti Jackson is the daughter of 2005 world 400m hurdles champion Bershawn Jackson and the 17-year-old won the US U20 title in a wind-assisted 11.07 (2.7m/s) to secure her place on the team for Cali, where she&rsquo;ll be joined by her 16-year-old teammate Mia Brahe-Pedersen. Nia Wedderburn-Goodison recently won the European U18 title, running a&nbsp;11.39 PB. 
<h2>Men&rsquo;s 100m</h2>
The stand-out performer in the men&rsquo;s equivalent is expected to be Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, following his 9.94 world U20 record in the heats at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 a fortnight ago. The 19-year-old 100m victor and 200m silver medallist in Nairobi also boasts a 10.12 fifth-place finish from the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene back in May, further illustrating his fine credentials ahead of a title defence few would bet against Tebogo succeeding in.
His nearest challengers are likely to come in the form of 2021 silver medallist Benjamin Richardson and their fellow Nairobi finalist, Godson Oke Oghenebrume.
South Africa&rsquo;s 18-year-old Richardson &ndash; a member of the winning 4x100m relay team last year &ndash; has clocked a 10.08 lifetime best this season, whilst Oghenebrume of Nigeria, 19, was timed at 10.12 for a personal best in April.
Japan&rsquo;s Hiroki Yanagita, 19, has also been in top form with a 10.16 clocking this season, further pointing towards a fierce battle ahead for the podium.&nbsp; 
<h2>Women&rsquo;s 200m</h2>
Jamaica&rsquo;s 18-year-old Brianna Lyston is gunning for her first major championship medal in light of her notable progression this year, which has seen her improve from 23.18 to 22.53 in the 200m and 11.44 to 11.14 in the 100m. She leads the 200m entries with that PB, which she ran into a -2.2m/s headwind at the ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Champs in April.
US pair Jayla Jamison and Mia Brahe-Pedersen will be eager to take some silverware off the back of their recent respective 22.93 and 22.98 personal bests. Jamison has progressed from 23.65 this summer and won the US U20 title, while Brahe-Pedersen was runner-up in Eugene to ensure her inclusion on the athletes to watch list. Another looking to make an impact will be South Africa&rsquo;s Viwe Jingqi, who has run 23.03 and competed at last year&rsquo;s World U20 Championships in the half lap event as well as being a member of the 4x100m squad. 
<h2>Men&rsquo;s 200m</h2>
Thailand&rsquo;s 16-year-old Puripol Boonson stormed into the spotlight in May, running 20.37 to win at the South East Asian Games &ndash; a time that put him fifth on the world U18 all-time list. There was even more to come and he improved to 20.19 at the Qosanov Memorial in Almaty the following month, becoming the third-fastest U18 200m sprinter in history behind only Erriyon Knighton and Usain Bolt. Despite being the youngest in an entry list featuring 70 athletes, he tops the lot, with South Africa&rsquo;s Benjamin Richardson his closest challenger on paper thanks to the 20.38 PB he ran earlier this month.
Third in the senior British Championships, 19-year-old Jeriel Quainoo has improved from 21.60 to 20.40 this summer, and the 2021 European U20 4x100m relay gold medallist will have his eye on a first individual major championships medal in Cali.
Other athletes to keep an eye on are Australia&rsquo;s Calab Law and Aidan Murphy, who both competed at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon &ndash; Law reaching the semifinals and Murphy running in the heats &ndash; and the experience gained from competing on the senior stage will no doubt aid their aspirations.
Letsile Tebogo of Botswana claimed 200m silver along with his 100m gold last year and also returns in this event.&nbsp; 
<h2>Women&rsquo;s 400m</h2>
The stage is set for a duel between the current finest one lap runners in Jamaica and USA, as Dejanea Oakley and Mekenze Kelley face off in the 400m event.
Oakley &shy;&ndash; who ran in the mixed 4x400m heats in Nairobi last year &ndash; has registered a 51.81 personal best this season, while her fellow 18-year-old Kelley has improved from 53.65 to 51.98 this summer, and a fierce battle is predicted for the closely-matched pair.
Canada&rsquo;s Ella Clayton was sixth in the 2021 edition of these championships but having progressed from 54.10 to 52.04 this season, the 19-year-old is a strong contender for a medal this time around.
Nairobi mixed 4x400m bronze medallist Priya Habbathanahalli Mohan of India has a best of 52.37 this campaign and the 19-year-old will be aiming to get into the medal mix following a fourth place finish in the individual event in 2021. 
<h2>Men&rsquo;s 400m&nbsp;</h2>
The pair of US runners look set to assert their dominance here, with breakthrough runner Steven McElroy expected to lead the way.
The 19-year-old US U20 champion has progressed from 47.86 to 44.93 this year, establishing his authority in the event, while his compatriot Ashton Schwartzman, 19, has enjoyed a similar eye-catching improvement in 2022 &ndash; clocking 45.16 after a 47.24 2021 best &ndash; and he finished runner-up at the US U20 Championships.
Another athlete to watch should be Botswana&rsquo;s Busang Collen Kebinatshipi. The 18-year-old 2021 4x100m gold medallist also has a 45.40 400m clocking to his name and will be determined to spoil the US gold medal hunt. Others to watch include Bahrain&rsquo;s Yusuf Ali Abbas, who won at the Arab U20 Championships in May, as well as Jamaican U20 champion Shaemar Uter, who helped his team to fourth place in the mixed 4x400m relay in Nairobi.
Nicola Sutton for World Athletics

A look at the women's and men's 100m, 200m and 400m

WU20 Cali 22 preview: sprints

On this day 70 years ago (26 July), Marjorie Jackson flew around the bend of the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on her way to victory in the 200m. Having equalled the world record in the heats and broken it in the semifinals, Jackson now ran 23.7 to win the final by almost five metres.
The win completed an Olympic sprint double. Jackson had won the 100m with similar ease four days earlier, Australia&rsquo;s first ever women&rsquo;s Olympic gold medal in athletics. In between the two flat sprints, Shirley Strickland won the 80m hurdles. In winning the 200m, however, Jackson created a significant piece of Australian Olympic history. At the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, Edwin Flack had won the 800m and 1500m and now Australia&rsquo;s first women&rsquo;s gold medallist likewise completed a golden double.
Jackson could so easily have shared a third Olympic triumph in the 4x100m. Having set a world record in the heats, the Australians were heading for victory at the last changeover in the final. The hand-over apparently &lsquo;complete&rsquo;, the baton fell after striking the leg of either the incoming Winsome Cripps, or Jackson. Jackson regained it on the bounce, but the USA were away, heading to the gold medal. A few days later, Australia beat the US in another world record (4x110yd) at the traditional British Empire v USA dual match.
World records either side of the Olympic final, then, but no gold medal. It&rsquo;s a salutary tale that has been told and re-told in Australian athletics ever since.
But it is not the story of Jackson&rsquo;s success at the Helsinki 1952 Olympic Games; neither should it detract from that success. The trajectory of Jackson&rsquo;s meteoric rise from promising junior to double Olympic champion and world record-holder, all before turning 21, is full of elements that, frankly, you couldn&rsquo;t make up.
Setback as an U20 champion? Check. Rise to wider fame by defeating the world&rsquo;s best athlete? Check. Small-town girl fanatically supported by the locals to the extent of constructing a cinder track where she could train under the headlights of her coach&rsquo;s car. Check that box, too. Returns from Helsinki having met the love of her life? First woman to be appointed as manager of an Australian Commonwealth Games team? Governor of the state of South Australia? Still going strong at 91? Tick, tick, tick, tick.
Jackson was born at Coffs Harbour on the north coast of New South Wales. Her family moved to Lithgow, in the Blue Mountains some 140km west of Sydney, soon after. For those heading to next year&rsquo;s World Athletics Cross Country Championships, Lithgow is on the road and rail route to Bathurst. 
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Jackson showed evident talent as a junior. Her record (accurately) suggests that she is a well-grounded person, though she recalls some wise counsel from her father after she had won a state country title. Everyone had their own special talents, her dad said, and hers seemed to be running. It didn&rsquo;t make her better than others, but she should develop it.
Jackson&rsquo;s talents were soon more widely deployed. She won regularly in Sydney competition. But a stumble in the blocks (which she, wrongly, thought would lead to a recall), saw her miss out on an invitation to the final London 1948 Olympic trials.
Lithgow seethed with indignation. Perhaps this motivated supporters to turn up in numbers the following year when Jackson was invited to run against Dutch superstar Fanny Blankers-Koen. Apparently, Blankers-Koen and her husband-coach Jan Blankers were under the impression that her Australian tour would be a largely an exhibition. Shirley Strickland was not at top form and &ndash; who else was there, anyway.
Enter 17-year-old Jackson to cause a sensation at the Sydney Sports Ground on 5 February. The next day&rsquo;s Sunday Herald front page report, with photo, ran: &ldquo;Marjorie Jackson, 17-year-old Lithgow typist, defeating the Olympic champion, Fanny Blankers-Koen, in a 100-metres race at the Sydney Sports Ground yesterday afternoon.&rdquo;
A week later, Jackson again defeated Blankers-Koen, this time in the New South Wales 100 yards championship. A Melbourne sports paper published a three-part series on Jackson, who had quickly gathered nicknames - the Lithgow Flash or Lithgow Flier. &ldquo;Second child of a family of three girls,&rdquo; the introduction ran, &ldquo;a frolicsome lass, never still and ran everywhere she went.&rdquo;
Lithgow was as elated now as it had been despondent a year earlier. The Sunday Herald sports section reported: &ldquo;Twenty Lithgow miners caused laughter among the crowd &hellip; when they wildly cheered Marjorie Jackson after her 100 metres victory.&rdquo; Deeper down came mention that this celebration occurred at the Sports Ground beer booth.
The contingent caught the train back to Lithgow, arriving at 11pm to find the station thronged with people. Jackson was presented with a huge garland of flowers.
In the run-up to Helsinki, Jackson would have further reason to be grateful for local support. Australia had few cinders tracks. Sydney had one, but that necessitated a 300km round trip. There were cinders aplenty in Lithgow, however: Jackson&rsquo;s coach &ndash; Jim Monaghan, but to this day Mr Monaghan to Jackson &ndash; and the miners rolled out a straight section of cinders so that Jackson could train on the sort of surface she would find at the Olympics. Throughout winter, with Lithgow often enshrouded by fog and misty rain, Jackson ran along the track, starting in the pitch dark at one end, running towards the headlights of Monaghan&rsquo;s car at the other.
It paid off in Helsinki, when rain throughout much of the opening ceremony left the track damper and softer for the heats of the women&rsquo;s 100m two days later. &ldquo;Whacko! I&rsquo;m back in Lithgow,&rdquo; Jackson thought as she went out to race. 
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Marjorie Jackson (&copy; Giancarlo Colombo)
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Jackson was one of the favourites for the Olympic sprints, but the Australian preparation for the Games had more obstacles than a 3000m steeplechase. The team spent over a month based in London and racing around Britain. They had very little support, the athletes&rsquo; daily allowance was 15 English shillings (equivalent to 75 pence now). Jackson recalls that transport to the track and lunch cost around 18 shillings for a net loss of three shillings a day.
The cinder tracks were harder, too. Many of the Australians &ndash; Jackson included &ndash; ran in spikes hand-made from kangaroo skin by Melbourne shoemaker, Hope Sweeney. The fixed spikes were suited to grass tracks, but too long for harder surfaces. &ldquo;After a couple of sessions our shins were so sore we could hardly walk,&rdquo; says Jackson. They persevered. Despite everything, Jackson impressed at every race she ran. A Belfast paper came up with a variation on her nickname. Noting she worked as a typist, the memorably titled Northern Whig and Belfast Post dubbed her &ldquo;The Typing Tornado&rdquo;.
Helsinki had suffered in the war years, though not as severely as London. The long daylight hours made sleep difficult for some, but Jackson says the Australian team was &ldquo;wonderful, like family.&rdquo; Like many athletes, she found the call room an unnerving experience &ndash; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m a chatterbox,&rdquo; she says, &ldquo;but no-one is talking. I walked out on to the track nattering to myself: &lsquo;I&rsquo;m as good as they are&rsquo;.&rdquo;
She felt the pressure, too. &ldquo;I felt the whole of Australia was sitting on my back&rdquo; &ndash; but, really, she need not have been bothered. Jackson ran away from her competition, defeating South Africa&rsquo;s Daphne Hasenjager 11.5 to 11.8 (11.67 to 12.05 electric), Strickland and Cripps. In a post-race interview, Jackson sent a &lsquo;cheerio&rsquo; to &ldquo;Mum and Dad, all the family, Mr Monaghan and the people of Lithgow.&rdquo;
Jackson went on to complete the double four days later. She returned to a hero&rsquo;s welcome. Crowds lined the streets and over 20,000 were estimated to have turned out in Lithgow alone.
Jackson also returned with a budding interest in Peter Nelson, a member of the Olympic cycling team. Nelson lived in Adelaide but the romance blossomed by correspondence. They were married in 1953 and together until his early death from leukaemia in 1977. Jackson set up a research foundation in his memory and worked tirelessly to raise funds. As Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, she was South Australian state governor from 2001 to 2007, during which time she took part in the delivery of the Queen&rsquo;s Baton at the opening ceremony for the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. Jackson, the penultimate runner, passed the baton to Helsinki teammate and Victorian governor, John Landy.
Athletically, Jackson retired after winning the sprint double at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver. In her career, she won every individual gold medal &ndash; Olympics, Commonwealth, national and state level &ndash; that she contested.
&ldquo;I remember when I got back to Lithgow, Dad said to me: &lsquo;You&rsquo;re an Olympic champion now and kids will look up to you for the rest of your life&rsquo;.
&ldquo;Peter and I both tried to live by the Olympic ideals.&rdquo;
Len Johnson for World Athletics&nbsp;

The trajectory of Jackson’s meteoric rise from promising junior to double Olympic champion, all before turning 21, is full of elements that you couldn’t make up

Remembering Jackson's Olympic sprint double in Helsinki, 70 years on

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has donated her singlet from her winning 100m performance at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 to the <a href="https://worldathletics.org/heritage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Museum of World Athletics (MOWA)</a>. In a ceremony during the eighth evening of competition on Friday (22), Fraser-Pryce presented the singlet to World Athletics President Sebastian Coe.&nbsp;&nbsp;
In presenting the singlet, on which Fraser-Pryce has signed herself as the &lsquo;mommy rocket&rsquo;, the Jamaican sprinting ace said: &ldquo;I&rsquo;m really excited to join two other Jamaicans (Usain Bolt and Veronica Campbell-Brown) who have their memorabilia in the museum. I&rsquo;ve built a legacy that I hope inspires other women to believe in themselves and be relentless at pursuing their dreams.
&ldquo;As a now five-time world 100m champion, I&rsquo;m happy to share this moment in history for me and so many others with the Museum of World Athletics, where champions live on forever.&rdquo;
Coe, upon receiving Fraser-Pryce&rsquo;s singlet, said: &ldquo;I am delighted to accept the generous donation of the Oregon22 singlet from 10-time world and three-time Olympic gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce in Hayward Field. These championships have already seen her win her fifth world 100m title, and yesterday the 200m silver.
&ldquo;The World Athletics Heritage Collection and the Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) are honoured to receive this item, which represents the illustrious career of one of the all-time greats of sprinting. We thank Shelly-Ann for her support of our Heritage programme, which celebrates and honours our sport&rsquo;s history - a history which she is now indelibly a part of.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
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 Fraser-Pryce became a five-time World Championships gold medallist in the 100m on day three of this year&rsquo;s championships, then earned a silver medal in the 200m on day seven. In four Olympic Games, the diminutive sprinter has also collected two golds, a silver and a bronze in the 100m and 200m. For the high level of her performances and the length of her career, Fraser-Pryce is widely proclaimed the women&rsquo;s 100m &lsquo;GOAT&rsquo; &ndash; the greatest of all time.
As a student at Wolmer&rsquo;s High School for Girls, she won the 17-and-under 100m at &lsquo;Champs&rsquo;, the Jamaican High School Championships, in 2004. The next two years she finished second and fourth in the 19-and-under 100m, before enrolling at UTech, the University of Technology in Kingston, where she met UTech and MVP coach Stephen Francis.
As a first-year university student in 2007, Fraser-Pryce finished fifth in the Jamaican Championships, and was selected for the national relay team, earning a silver medal in the 4x100m at the World Championships in Osaka, Japan. From then on, Fraser-Pryce was on a rocket to greatness.
In 2008, she broke 11 seconds for the first time in the 100m when she finished second at her national championships, then won the first of her global titles with her victory at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Fraser-Pryce won her first World Championships 100m in 2009 and ran second leg on Jamaica&rsquo;s victorious 4x100m team, the first of four such titles she has won.&nbsp;
The fallow year of 2010, with no major international championship events, and 2011, when she finished fourth in the World Championships in Daegu and led off the silver medal-winning 4x100m team, were down years for Fraser-Pryce. But she came back with a vengeance in the Olympic year of 2012, winning the London Games 100m and earning silvers in the 200m and the 4x100m.
The World Championships of 2013, held in Moscow, may have been the pinnacle of Fraser-Pryce&rsquo;s astounding career. She won a sprint triple, with victories in the 100m, 200m and relay. To top off the year, she was named the World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year.
In 2014, Fraser-Pryce won the World Indoor Championships 60m, one of her few forays into indoor athletics. Since then, she has maintained her form in the 100m with three more World Championships golds, and silver and bronze in the Olympics. In the 4x100m, she has helped Jamaica to wins in the World Championships of 2015 and 2019, and Olympic gold in 2021 and silver in 2016, with this year&rsquo;s World Championships 4x100m final yet to come.
Dave Johnson for World Athletics Heritage&nbsp;

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce has donated her singlet from her winning 100m performance at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22

Fraser-Pryce donates Oregon22 100m singlet to MOWA

Shericka Jackson believes that everything happens for a reason. On 2 August last year &ndash; when she missed the Olympic 200m semifinals by just four thousandths of a second &ndash; she might not have known what that reason was.
She does now.
Celebrating with her fellow medallists as she took her place at the centre of the press conference table for the first time in an individual international event, Jackson paused for a moment to reflect.
&ldquo;No, I&rsquo;ll not cry,&rdquo; said the 200m champion, fresh from her record-breaking 21.45 run at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Thursday (21). &ldquo;It taught me so much, that year. That I didn&rsquo;t make it in my favourite event.
&ldquo;It taught me that no matter what, you keep going. After the Olympic Games, I cried so hard, because I wanted to be in that 200m final and I wasn&rsquo;t.
&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t meant to be, in that moment. I guess this is the moment. Last year was preparing me for this year and this is the moment. I&rsquo;m so grateful for it.&rdquo;
And what a moment. 
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Jamaica's Shericka Jackson celebrates her 200m victory at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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With a strong start and an even stronger finish, the 28-year-old left a stacked field in her wake, blazing to the second-fastest 200m of all time to get her first individual global gold.
She later explained how she had worked hard in training to perfect her curve running technique. It showed.
Narrowly behind her Jamaican compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce &ndash; the now five-time world 100m champion &ndash; at half way, Jackson found another gear down the home straight. Pulling away in the second half of her race, she was unchallenged as she reached the finish line to an eruption from the Hayward Field crowd, breaking the championship record ahead of Fraser-Pryce in 21.81 and Britain&rsquo;s defending champion Dina Asher-Smith in 22.02.
After five individual international medals &ndash; including world 100m silver in a PB of 10.73 just four days earlier &ndash; Jackson had finally got her gold. Even more remarkably, the performance completed an unprecedented sweep, as the 200m gold, 100m silver and two-time world bronze medallist became the first athlete in history to win a full set of World Championships medals across the three sprint events.
&ldquo;Competing in the 400m for so long and to start sprinting (in the 100m and 200m) last year is a great feeling,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I wanted to be among the best and I&rsquo;ve worked hard to be among the best. I&rsquo;m just grateful for the journey.&rdquo; 
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 On the world stage, Jackson&rsquo;s journey started at the 2010 World U20 Championships in Moncton, where she formed part of the Jamaican 4x100m squad. The following year she claimed bronze in the 200m at the World U18 Championships in Lille, also racing on the victorious medley relay team, and in 2012 she competed at the World U20 Championships in Barcelona.
Just three years later, she was a senior global medallist &ndash; dipping under 50 seconds for the first time with 49.99 to claim 400m bronze behind Allyson Felix and Shaunae Miller-Uibo at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing, where she also formed part of the winning Jamaican 4x400m team. Jackson made her Olympic debut in 2016, winning another major 400m medal thanks to a third-place finish and claiming another 4x400m podium place. She finished fifth at the 2017 World Championships in London and then, focusing on the 200m the following year, she claimed Commonwealth silver on the Gold Coast.
Her bronze medal collection grew again by two at the World Championships in Doha, with third-place finishes in the 400m and 4x400m, and she also helped the 4x100m team to another title.
Then injury struck. In late 2019 an X-ray revealed she had sustained two stress fractures, but the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics played to her favour. She focused on her recovery and after a few races in 2020, Jackson returned in 2021 to further demonstrate her versatility. Contesting the 100m, 200m, 4x100m and 4x400m, she won three medals &ndash; 4x100m gold, 4x400m bronze and 100m bronze &ndash; at the Tokyo Olympics, and ended the year with PBs of 10.76 for 100m and 21.81 for 200m to go with her 49.47 400m best from 2019.
But she knew there was more to come.
Testing her speed during a debut indoor season, she finished sixth at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, running 7.04, and then made a statement by winning both the 100m and 200m titles at the Jamaican Championships &ndash; the latter in 21.55, then the third-fastest time in history. 
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World 200m silver medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, champion Shericka Jackson and bronze medallist Dina Asher-Smith (&copy; Getty Images)
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&ldquo;I knew I could go faster than 21.55,&rdquo; said Jackson, who pushed her compatriot Elaine Thompson-Herah &ndash; the five-time Olympic gold medallist &ndash; down a place on the world 200m all-time list with her run in Oregon, to now sit second behind only world record-holder Florence Griffith Joyner with her 21.34.
On the work she has put in with her coach Paul Francis, Jackson added: &ldquo;I train with the quarter-milers and then I switch to the sprinters. I enjoy training with both groups. I have run two 400m races this season, and I think it was pretty good. I am strong, I am definitely getting faster, so I enjoy training with both groups.
&ldquo;One of my goals this year was to step out of my comfort zone. I run hard every day at practice. Me running hard here was just a practice run for me and that practice run gave me a gold medal, a national record and a championship record &ndash; I can&rsquo;t complain.
&ldquo;Last year, that helped me think about running the curve hard. I never ran the curve hard in the heats of the Olympics, and I think it cost me a place in the semifinals. So, I went back to the drawing board, and I worked really hard on that curve &ndash; every day. Every single day. I think it paid off.&rdquo;
There could be more to come, too, with Jackson named on the 4x100m squad for Oregon. After that she will turn her attention to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and beyond, looking to make even more magic moments.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

Shericka Jackson believes that everything happens for a reason. 

World 200m champion Jackson: "This is the moment"

Noah Lyles is back.
After a painful year in which he coped with mental health struggles and finished a disappointed third in the Tokyo Olympics, Lyles retained the world 200m title in breathtaking fashion on Thursday (21), running the third-fastest time in history and leading another US sprint medals sweep at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Lyles broke from the blocks and controlled the race from the start, destroying the field as he came around the turn and accelerated down the straight to become the first back-to-back men&rsquo;s world 200m champion since Usain Bolt won four titles in a row from 2009 to 2015.
The clock first showed the winning time as a championship record of 19.32, which would have tied Michael Johnson&rsquo;s US record from the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Lyles turned and walked over to the clock and pointed at it, willing a faster time.
Seconds later, the clock flashed the amended official time: 19.31. That put Lyles ahead of Johnson and alone in third on the all-time list behind Bolt&rsquo;s world record of 19.19 and Yohan Blake&rsquo;s 19.26.
&ldquo;I saw the time popped up and I tied Michael Johnson&rsquo;s record,&rdquo; Lyles said. &ldquo;I was like, &lsquo;You&rsquo;re really going to do that?&rsquo; Then the number changed from 2 to 1, and my whole mood changed.
&ldquo;I was true in form for a world record, but I am OK with the American record,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I literally had nothing left after I crossed the finish line.&rdquo;
With Olympic silver medallist Kenneth Bednarek finishing second in 19.77 and 19-year-old phenom Erriyon Knighton taking bronze in 19.80, it was the first US sweep of the 200m since 2005 when Justin Gatlin, Wallace Spearmon Jr. and John Capel Jr. finished 1-2-3.
And it came only five days after US sprinters went gold-silver-bronze in the men&rsquo;s 100m. Thursday&rsquo;s race marked the first time the US, or any country, has swept the podium in both the 100m and 200m at any World Championships (and it has only happened once at the Olympics, in 1904).
And more history was made, as Knighton became the youngest ever individual sprint medallist at the World Championships.
Once the time of 19.31 and the US sweep were confirmed, Lyles tore down his singlet, let out a roar and slapped the track four times.
&lsquo;&rsquo;Everybody dreams about this day,&rdquo; Lyles said in an on-track interview. &ldquo;Today is my day. I knew it was coming.&rsquo;&rsquo;
Then, turning to the fans in the Hayward Field stands, he shouted: &ldquo;I got a crowd! I got a crowd!&rdquo; 
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 That wasn&rsquo;t the case a year ago in Tokyo, where there were no fans in the stadium due to the coronavirus pandemic and Lyles broke down while discussing his mental health battles after finishing third, only his second ever defeat in a 200m final.
Now, having won his first world title in Doha in 2019, he joins Johnson and Calvin Smith as two-time winners of the 200m.
&ldquo;It's an immaculate feeling to be on the podium with two fellow Americans,&rdquo; said Lyles, who turned 25 on Monday. &ldquo;I remember when I first got on the professional scene, I said we are going to come out as Americans and kill it. When I remember in Doha, it was just me. I felt kind of lonely. I've got two people run just as fast. They are close behind me. We are a dominant force in America now.&rdquo;
Joseph Fahnbulleh of Liberia was fourth in 19.84, with Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic fifth in 19.93.
On this night, the vintage Noah Lyles turned up. This was the consummate showman and performer, a man who had rediscovered his joy for the sport, a charismatic athlete who showed the world why he has been tipped as the next Bolt.
&ldquo;I thought I was changing last year,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It scared me. I was fearful and I wanted to get the spark I had back. I did, I enjoyed and I am still putting pressure on myself. When I start doing that, I have more fun and that's what I keep reminding myself. There's no pressure. There's pure fun out here.&rdquo;
The final had been billed as a showdown between Lyles and the wunderkind Knighton, who ran a world-leading 19.49 in April. The rivalry was stoked at the US Championships in Eugene last month, where Lyles ran down Knighton in the final 30 metres and stuck out his tongue and pointed across at him as he crossed the line.
This time, Lyles had nowhere to look, as his rivals were so far behind. &nbsp;
Lyles started in lane six, with Knighton in lane three and Bednarek in four. The race was almost over before it started, as Lyles seized control by the curve and gained further separation from the rest of the field down the straight.
&ldquo;I felt I got the best start I could possibly ask for,&rdquo; Lyles said. &ldquo;The race was basically set up for me. I was given lane six, an outside lane. To be honest, every step was purposeful, going out with intent to win. I've given my all.&rdquo;
Lyles said Bednarek deserved huge credit for coming back from a broken toe this year to earn a second consecutive silver medal on the world stage.
&ldquo;Just to be able to make it to the finals and now I have a silver medal again,&rdquo; Bednarek said. &ldquo;I just try to be better. This is just amazing experience and I want to come stronger next year.&rdquo;
For Knighton, it was his first major medal after finishing fourth in Tokyo.
&ldquo;It feels good &ndash; to be so young and be on the podium,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There's more to come. I gave it my all. From the blocks, I had a slight mess-up and that kind of threw my race off, but I got a medal. I can't complain. I am only 18 and have some time to get in the weight room. Noah Lyles told me I will be one of the greatest in the sport. It feels good coming from him.&rdquo;
Lyles should know.
All three US medallists could be back on the track on Friday, this time as part of the US 4x100m team.
&nbsp;&ldquo;This is by far the most fun I've ever had at a track meet,&rdquo; Lyles said, &ldquo;and we still have the 4x100m to do.&rdquo;
When Lyles is having fun, look out.
Steve Wilson for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968; height: 22px;">Noah Lyles 🇺🇸 USA</td>
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Noah Lyles is back.

Lyles runs national record to lead US 200m sweep in Oregon

On an evening when two sporting legends were sitting trackside at Hayward Field &ndash; Tommie Smith and John Carlos &ndash; the current generation of sprinters served up spectacular displays of 200m running at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 on Thursday (21).
Noah Lyles of USA and Shericka Jackson of Jamaica both destroyed their rivals with the best performances of their careers, and some of the greatest 200m displays of all time, sizzling to respective times of 19.31 (0.4m/s) and 21.45 (0.6m/s).
Earlier in the night, Carlos and Smith sat beneath the stands at Hayward Field and spoke glowingly about the current generation of sprint stars. &ldquo;I like Mr Lyles,&rdquo; said Carlos. &ldquo;I looked at his career, I looked at his heart. He&rsquo;s a fighter.&rdquo;
Of course, the pair have more than that in common with the 25-year-old. At the US Olympic Trials last year, Lyles had worn a black glove &ndash; minus the fingers &ndash; and raised his fist in the air as he was introduced for the 100m, a nod to Smith and Carlos&rsquo;s Black Power salute on the 200m podium at the 1968 Olympics.
&ldquo;We have a good connection,&rdquo; said Lyles. &ldquo;We vacation at the same spots and have had plenty of great conversations. I remember something (Carlos) said to me once: 'A shy man will never eat, he&rsquo;ll just starve to death'. I was already hungry, but I got real hungry after that. I said I&rsquo;m going to risk it all, I&rsquo;ll go out there and speak my truth about Black Lives Matter.&rdquo;
In Lyles, Smith sees an athlete who&rsquo;s able to perform while using his platform to fight for equality &ndash;the same way they did five decades prior. The message Smith wanted to put across tonight?
&ldquo;What can you do to create that avenue of equality?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We have to stand up for what we believe in so the younger generation will understand and have a purpose.&rdquo;
Before the men&rsquo;s 200m final, Smith and Carlos were introduced to the crowd and they received a rapturous reception, the love for them running just as deep as their love for the sport.
&ldquo;Track is the grandfather of all sports,&rdquo; said Carlos. &ldquo;Track and field was there before any of them.&rdquo;
And in Lyles&rsquo; and Jackson&rsquo;s performances, the sport showed its modern-day capacity to electrify an audience. 
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 Going into the 200m final, most saw 18-year-old US sensation Erriyon Knighton as the athlete with the potential to depose Lyles as world champion. And while Knighton produced his typically strong bend, this was one of those scenarios where the inside lane was no advantage, not when he had to witness the manner in which Lyles was bounding into the home straight ahead of him.
Down the home straight, Lyles powered clear, his speed so great it began to put everything he&rsquo;d learned and drilled thousands of times in training under great duress.
&ldquo;I was breaking down in form, which is something I never do,&rdquo; he said.
Lyles said he &ldquo;thought it was slow&rdquo; but when he hit the line, and saw 19.32, he was both thrilled and slightly frustrated, given it apparently tied Michael Johnson&rsquo;s former world record. &ldquo;I was like, you gonna do me like that?&rdquo; he laughed. &ldquo;Then that number changed, and my whole mood changed.&rdquo;
The number it changed to was 19.31, moving him third on the world all-time list behind Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. Johnson soon went down to the track and gave him a hug. &ldquo;He was congratulating me, letting me know I am a fierce competitor,&rdquo; said Lyles.
The champion&rsquo;s delight was only enhanced &ndash; along with the home crowd&rsquo;s &ndash; when the minor medallists flashed up on screen, with Bednarek taking silver with 19.77 and Knighton third in 19.80. &ldquo;To be so young and be on the podium, there's more to come,&rdquo; said Knighton. &ldquo;Noah Lyles told me I will be one of the greatest in the sport. It feels good coming from him.&rdquo; Liberia&rsquo;s Joseph Fahbulleh unleashed his usual flying finish to take fourth in 19.84.
&ldquo;Everybody dreams of this day,&rdquo; said Lyles. &ldquo;But today was my day.&rdquo;
Minutes earlier, Jackson turned in an equally peerless performance to win the women&rsquo;s 200m in astonishing style, biding her time &ndash; relatively speaking &ndash; until the home straight, at which point she ran down 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and put daylight between her and field.
Her time of 21.45 was a championship record and moved her second on the world all-time list behind Florence Griffith-Joyner&rsquo;s 21.34. 
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 &ldquo;The fastest woman alive, the national and championships record, I cannot complain,&rdquo; said the 28-year-old. &ldquo;I was not thinking about any time or any records. I know Shelly is probably one of the best curve runners in the world so I knew she was going to go hard. I knew that if I wanted to get gold, I had to run the curve as hard as possible.&rdquo;
Fraser-Pryce held on well for silver with 21.81 while Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith, the 2019 champion, took bronze with 22.02, the Briton dedicating the medal to her late grandmother, who passed away in recent months. Niger&rsquo;s Aminatou Seyni (22.12) and USA&rsquo;s Abby Steiner (22.26) were next best.
&ldquo;I was really, really tired physically and mentally and still I wanted to come out and have a good run,&rdquo; said Fraser-Pryce. &ldquo;This has always been an event that challenges me. What would that be if I did not challenge myself at these championships?&rdquo;
Elsewhere, world leader Nicholas Kipkorir Kimeli of Kenya had a nervous wait following his heat of the men&rsquo;s 5000m, finishing sixth in a blanket finish in 13:24.56, outside the five automatic spots. World 10,000m champion Joshua Cheptegei was among those just ahead of him along with Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega, with Oscar Chelimo taking victory in 13:24.24.
Kipkorir ended up sneaking through to the final by less than half a second, with nine going through from the second heat, where Jacob Krop of Kenya took victory ahead of Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in 13:13.30.
The men&rsquo;s 800m semi-finals produced their usual share of drama. Kenya&rsquo;s Olympic champion Emmanuel Korir led compatriot Wycliffe Kinyamal into the final in the first of three races, clocking 1:45.38, while Australia&rsquo;s Peter Bol clocked 1:45.58 in third to advance on time. Algeria&rsquo;s Djamel Sedjati took the second semi-final in 1:45.44 ahead of France&rsquo;s Gabrial Tual (1:45.53). In the third semi-final, Algeria&rsquo;s Slimane Moula claimed victory in 1:44.89 ahead of Canada&rsquo;s Marco Arop (1:45.12), with Emmanuel Wanyonyi ensuring there will be a trio of Kenyans in the final, clocking 1:45.42 in third.
In the women&rsquo;s 800m Olympic champion Athing Mu looked completely composed as she sauntered to victory in her heat in 2:01.30, while Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson (2:00.88), USA&rsquo;s Raevyn Rogers (2:01.36), Jamaica&rsquo;s Natoya Goule (2:00.06) and France&rsquo;s Renelle Lamote (2:00.71) also won their respective heats, But the fastest of all into the semis was Ethiopia&rsquo;s Diribe Welteji who clocked 1:58.83 to win the first heat.
In the heat won by Hodgkinson, a collision on the last turn that resulted in Australia&rsquo;s Catriona Bisset falling and Italy&rsquo;s Elena Bello being impeded resulted in both athletes being advanced to the semi-final.
Defending world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada and Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra of India led the way in the men&rsquo;s javelin qualification, with Peters throwing 89.91m and Chopra 88.39m. Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic (85.23m) and Germany&rsquo;s Julian Weber (87.28m) were the only others to throw beyond the automatic qualification mark of 83.50m. Germany&rsquo;s Andreas Hofman, an 87.32m thrower this year, recorded three fouls and was eliminated.
The men&rsquo;s triple jump qualification saw Pedro Pichardo of Portugal and Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso lead the way, with Zango ticking off the automatic mark in the second round with 17.15m and Pichardo jumping 17.16m in the first.
USA&rsquo;s Christian Taylor did not advance after jumping a best of 16.48m, signs of clear progress as he continued his comeback from a ruptured achilles tendon last year. &ldquo;Athletes or not, we all deal with setbacks,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It's just having that mindset of perseverance and resilience. I encourage athletes and non-athletes to still have that fight. There will be times when you want to give up, but your breakthrough could be right around the corner. Just keep fighting.&rdquo;
Cathal Dennehy for World Athletics

Jackson goes to No.2 all-time with 21.45, Lyles breaks Johnson's US record with 19.31

200m winners Jackson and Lyles make history in Oregon

Call it the Shericka Sweep.
Jamaica&rsquo;s Shericka Jackson owned the homestretch in the women&rsquo;s 200m, running the second-fastest time in history of 21.45 to complete a personal sweep on Thursday (21) at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
Jackson, who obliterated Dafne Schippers&rsquo; championship record of 21.63, now has a gold medal in the 200m, a silver in the 100m from Sunday and bronze medals over 400m from the 2019 and 2015 editions of the World Championships. It makes her the first athlete in history to win a full set of World Championships medals across three sprint disciplines.
However, Jamaica was denied the first sweep of places in a women&rsquo;s 200m at the World Championships.
While Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce stormed to the silver medal with a season&rsquo;s best of 21.81 &ndash; just 0.02 off her PB &ndash; to add to her gold from the 100m, two-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah finished seventh, clocking 22.39.
Defending champion Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain captured the bronze with a time of 22.02.
&ldquo;I am feeling great once I came out and put on the show,&rdquo; said Jackson, who celebrated her 28th birthday five days earlier (16). &ldquo;The fastest woman alive, the national and championships record, I cannot complain. I know that Shelly-Ann is probably one of the best curve runners in the world, so I knew she was going to go hard. I knew that if I want to get gold, I had to run the curve as hard as possible.&rdquo; 
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 Fraser-Pryce started in lane six, with all of her top rivals behind her. &ldquo;So I got to get off like nobody,&rdquo; the 35-year-old veteran said, &ldquo;and I really tried my best to win it and I am so grateful for the gift that I got.&rdquo;
While Fraser-Pryce had the fastest split for the first 100m, she was barely ahead of Jackson, 11.03 to 11.04. And then they were on the straight. &ldquo;I know I am strong and fast on coming home,&rdquo; said Jackson, &ldquo;so I knew if I eventually caught up with her, I could take it.&rdquo;
Her second 100m was an impressive 10.41 compared to 10.78 for Fraser-Pryce, who was the only sprinter in the field who was alive in 1988 when Florence Griffith Joyner set the world record of 21.34.
The race was as eagerly anticipated as the men&rsquo;s 200m, with an incredibly deep field. &ldquo;I just knew it was going to be a good race; my heart was fluttering,&rdquo; said Gwen Torrence the 1992 Olympic champion and a two-time world silver medallist in the 200m, &ldquo;but I just had my money on Shericka because she runs the 400m and her strength is just different.&rdquo;
Torrence said Jackson&rsquo;s demeanour reminds her of herself and of the great Jamaican champion Merlene Ottey. &ldquo;She has that stoic appearance about her,&rdquo; Torrence said.
Fraser-Pryce was the opposite of stoic, smiling broadly at the start, wearing pink cotton-candy coloured hair and beaming at the finish.
Fraser-Pryce won her 13th medal at the World Championships, her third silver to go along with 10 golds. This was only her second medal in the 200m, the other being gold in 2013.
&ldquo;Listen, I am tired,&rdquo; said Fraser-Pryce, who is also expected to run the 4x100m before these championships are over. &ldquo;I was really, really tired physically and mentally and still I wanted to come out and have a good run. This has always been an event that challenges me.&rdquo;
Running in lane three, Asher-Smith said that coming to the bend, &ldquo;I was like, &lsquo;Go, go, go,&rdquo; and then we came out of the bend and here we are. Let&rsquo;s just keep going. I was not thinking about my technique, just maintaining my form.&rdquo;
The British sprinter, who has the Commonwealth Games and European Championships coming up, said that she was getting tired at the end and was &ldquo;so happy to make the podium.&rdquo;
&ldquo;The calibre the girls are running is so high right now,&rdquo; Asher-Smith said. &ldquo;I do not think we are going to see anything like that again. I knew I really had to run today.&rdquo;
Aminatou Seyni, who placed fourth in 22.12, is the first athlete from Niger to reach a World Championships final. &ldquo;I hope this experience will help me a lot to eventually aim for a world title,&rdquo; she said.
US hopes for a host nation medal were dashed. Abby Steiner of the US finished fifth in 22.26 and Tamara Clark was sixth in 22.32. Steiner was the world leader at 21.77 until Jackson eclipsed her with 21.55 on the same day in late June.
This was the 55th race of the season for the University of Kentucky star, who won both NCAA and US titles this year. Starting in lane eight, she said she wanted to get out as fast as she could. &ldquo;I tried to hold on, but unfortunately I did not have my race today,&rdquo; she said.
Jamaica has now passed the US in gold medals won in the women&rsquo;s 200m with five as Jackson joins Jamaican champions Ottey, who won in 1993 and 1995, Veronica Campbell-Brown (2011) and Fraser-Pryce.
Jamaica&rsquo;s 1-2 finish marked the sixth time that a nation put two women on the podium in the 200m and marks the second gold/silver after the US in 2005 (Allyson Felix and Rachelle Boone-Smith).
Karen Rosen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968; height: 22px;">Shericka Jackson 🇯🇲 JAM</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e; height: 22px;">Dina Asher-Smith 🇬🇧 GBR</td>
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Women's 200m report

Jackson completes set of World Championships medals with 200m gold in Oregon

Noah Lyles needed a new start.&nbsp;
In May, the reigning world 200m champion was working on a different way to explode out of the blocks. He consulted with Ralph Mann, a renowned expert in biomechanics and the 1972 Olympic silver medallist in the 400m hurdles.
&ldquo;He came by, looked at it, and said, &lsquo;That&rsquo;s trash,&rsquo;&rdquo; Noah said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s very blunt, and I&rsquo;m a blunt person so I can take it. Still, it was like, &lsquo;Okayyyy. That hit differently.&rsquo;&rdquo;
Mann helped Noah tweak his technique and the sprinter said he has &ldquo;made drastic improvement&rdquo; in the critical first 30 metres of his races.
As the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 begin, Noah is also feeling renewed.&nbsp;
He was disappointed last summer when he did not win the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, taking home the bronze instead. Noah felt unfulfilled while competing far from home in an empty stadium due to the pandemic.&nbsp;
Compared to Tokyo, Eugene is &ldquo;an exact 180,&rdquo; Noah said during a press conference for the US team on the eve of the championships. &ldquo;One, being on home soil, and two, having my brother and my whole family here. Everything I didn&rsquo;t have in Tokyo, I now have here at this World Championships.&rdquo; 
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Josephus Lyles and Noah Lyles at the USA press conference ahead of the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 (&copy; Getty Images)
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Noah is thrilled that his brother Josephus made his first senior national team as a member of the US 4x100m relay pool. Both brothers are candidates for the relay, which could use different personnel in each of the two rounds. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been saying this for years, when I&rsquo;m on the relay we ain&rsquo;t losing point blank,&rdquo; Noah said, &ldquo;and we might break the world record.&rdquo;
Noah, who will turn 25 on 18 July, and Josephus, who will turn 24 on 22 July, vowed to become professional athletes and make the US Olympic team while watching the 2012 Olympics on television.
For Josephus, this is a major step toward that goal. He placed fifth at the US Championships in the 200m in a race won by Noah. Josephus clocked 19.93, a PB and a time fast enough to represent any other country. &ldquo;The US is the hardest team to make for the sprint events,&rdquo; said Josephus, who has won world medals at U20 and U18 championships. &ldquo;I knew that coming in.&rdquo;
For Noah, having Josephus nearby gives him peace of mind.
At a recent US relay camp, Noah said: &ldquo;I was like, &lsquo;Dang, bro, I&rsquo;m happy you&rsquo;re here.&rsquo; It&rsquo;s always better to have your brother there, your best friend. It&rsquo;s a blessing. This is exactly what we&rsquo;ve been waiting to see since we turned pro. It&rsquo;s one thing to say and know that it&rsquo;s going to happen, and it&rsquo;s another thing to see it actually happen.&rdquo;
Noah said he watched Josephus progress in training and thought, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know who the heck that guy is. That man is running.&rdquo;
He said Josephus, who used to run the 400m in addition to the shorter sprints, has a very high pain tolerance and would keep training when he ran the risk of injury. &ldquo;I truthfully believe that the reason that he&rsquo;s doing better,&rdquo; Noah said, &ldquo;is he actually learned how to speak up when he doesn&rsquo;t feel good.&rdquo;&nbsp;
The honour of telling Josephus that he made the US team actually fell to the elder Lyles. He was going through world team processing following nationals when an official told him Josephus should be there doing the same.
&ldquo;Oh, oh, oh, I was fumbling with my phone,&rdquo; Noah said. He called his little brother and told him to stop getting food and come back immediately. He was on the team. Josephus answered, &ldquo;Are you sure? Stop playing.&rdquo; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not playing,&rdquo; Noah assured him. &ldquo;This is definitely a special moment we&rsquo;re always going to remember.&rdquo;
Their mother, Keisha, was just as surprised when Josephus told her that night.
&ldquo;She was bawling, crying, ecstatic,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;She was like, &lsquo;Oh my gosh, both my boys are going.&rsquo; Literally the next five days, she would call me every other hour and be like &lsquo;Josephus, you&rsquo;re on the team!&rsquo;&rdquo;
Noah added that after several deaths in the family, the news came &ldquo;in the hardest of times. We always know at the end of the storm, there is something greater on the other side.&rdquo;
While Noah is enjoying having a blood relative on the team, he also dispelled any notion of bad blood between him and US teammate Erriyon Knighton. The 18-year-old has the fastest time in the world this year of 19.49, which is also the fourth-fastest ever.&nbsp;
Knighton led the 200m at the US Championships until Noah roared past him, pointing a finger as he broke the tape. Noah said in an interview that he was pointing at all of his doubters, not at Knighton, but the teenager initially appeared angry at the gesture. 
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Noah Lyles wins the US 200m title ahead of Erriyon Knighton (&copy; Getty Images)
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&ldquo;We did talk about it,&rdquo; Noah said, &ldquo;Guess where we talked about it? When we were both trying to pee for drug testing. It was a simple conversation. I just reiterated what I had said in that interview. He was like, &lsquo;Bro, you don&rsquo;t even have to worry about it. I totally get it,&rsquo; and to be honest, that was it.&rsquo;&rdquo;
Noah said the sport needs more rivalries, and theirs makes both of them better. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s fun,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I know he&rsquo;s coming back with a vengeance and I&rsquo;m not going to give him anything less than I have of 100.&rdquo;
Noah has only been beaten twice in the 200m &mdash; to Michael Norman in 2019 in the Rome Diamond League meeting and to Andre De Grasse and Kenny Bednarek in Tokyo last summer. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m upset that it&rsquo;s even been that many times,&rdquo; Lyles said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want it to ever happen again.&rdquo;
To that end, he decided not to attempt a 100m and 200m double at the World Championships. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather grab a gold than two silvers,&rdquo; Noah said.
As 2022 began, he honed his skills by running five 60m races, culminating with a 6.55 at the Muller Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham.&nbsp;
&ldquo;At first I was like, &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t want to run something I&rsquo;m not good at.&rsquo; It&rsquo;s not fun,&rsquo;&rdquo; Lyles said. &ldquo;But it was kind of needed. I realised that the main thing that&rsquo;s going to set me apart from really going after that American record and the world record in the 200m is my first 30, and what better way to work at that than running more 60s?&rdquo;
While Noah admits that his start may always be a work in progress, maintaining top-end speed is &ldquo;one of my gifts.&rdquo;
He aspires to be close to 10 seconds flat in his first 100m of a 200m, &ldquo;because I&rsquo;m going to work miracles in my second 100.&rdquo;
Noah said even Mann was impressed. Using computer-based teaching technology, Mann made his model even faster.
&ldquo;And I still beat it,&rdquo; Noah said. &ldquo;He never wants me to run faster than the model. But his model got a few 'L's on it from me.&rdquo;
Now he hopes to pin some 'L's on real-life rivals in Eugene. As a musician in addition to a world-class sprinter, Lyles said he feels similarities to Kanye West.
&ldquo;One of the biggest ones is I&rsquo;m always hungry for more,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I feel a lot of people would get very complacent with &lsquo;OK, I&rsquo;ve learned this much.&rsquo; No, I constantly want to learn and push and find the boundaries of more and if somebody won&rsquo;t give it to me, I&rsquo;m going to find a way to get it.&rdquo;
Karen Rosen for World Athletics

Noah Lyles needed a new start. He found one with biomechanics expert and 1972 Olympic silver medallist Ralph Mann.