Jamaica’s peerless Shericka Jackson has delivered a commanding efficiency to retain her world 200 metres championship in 21.41 seconds, the second-fastest time ever run within the ladies’s occasion.
Key factors:
- Jackson’s time is second solely to Florence Griffith-Joyner’s world file set in 1988
- Lyles gained the boys’s 200m gold for the third straight time
- He took out the 100m earlier within the championships
Solely minutes after Jackson’s victory in Budapest, Noah Lyles of the USA defended his 200m world championship, turning into the primary male athlete to finish the dash double since Jamaican nice Usain Bolt in 2015.
Jackson, who was second within the ladies’s 100m ultimate, ran an excellent bend to be two metres clear coming into the house straight and tore to the end to finish a convincing victory.
Her time beat her earlier better of 21.45, the championship file she set profitable in Eugene final yr.
It additionally edged her nearer to the late Florence Griffith-Joyner’s 21.34 world file from the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Gabby Thomas, who got here to Budapest because the quickest on this planet this yr with the 21.60 that gained the US trials, ran a wonderful race to take silver in 21.81.
Fellow American Sha’Carri Richardson claimed bronze with a private greatest 21.92, operating in the identical lane 9 from the place she gained gold within the 100m earlier within the championships.
5 days after capturing his first world title within the 100m, 26-year-old Lyles got here off the bend and pulled away down the straight to win the 200m ultimate in 19.52, simply shy of his world-leading time of 19.47.
It’s Lyles’s third straight win within the occasion on the world titles.
US teammate Erriyon Knighton claimed silver in 19.75, whereas Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, second within the 100m, took bronze in 19.81.
In the meantime, Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela soared to her fourth consecutive world triple bounce title, securing victory on her sixth and final bounce to narrowly keep away from catastrophe.
The world file holder and Olympic champion — unbeaten in additional than two years — solely sneaked into the ultimate spherical of eight jumpers in final place earlier than summoning a magical 15.08m on her ultimate try and overtake Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk of Ukraine.
Bekh-Romanchuk, silver medallist within the lengthy bounce on the 2019 world titles, needed to accept one other silver with 15.00m.
Leyanis Perez Hernandez of Cuba gained the bronze with 14.96m.
Rojas, whose world file is an enormous 15.74m, was eighth with simply 14.33m and three fouls via 5 jumps, throwing her hand up in frustration with every failed try.
After her final-round effort, she squeezed her eyes shut hopefully earlier than the profitable distance was posted.
Reuters
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