Andrew Coscoran reaches 1500m World Championships semi-finals
Andrew Coscoran will be in men's 1500m semi-final action at the World Athletics Championships after a third place finish in his heat in Eugene, Oregon.
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World Athletics Championships 2022: Japan Team Rocked By COVID Outbreak
Seven members of Japan's team at the World Athletics Championships, including two marathon runners, have tested positive for Covid-19, organisers said Saturday. A joint statement from World Athletics, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations and local organisers said the outbreak had hit endurance athletes and staff at the championships in Oregon. Two marathon runners, four support staff and the head coach of the team had returned positive tests. The identities of the individuals involved were not disclosed. The statement said the seven individuals had already been isolated and will remain in isolation for five days.
World Athletics Championships 2022: Fred Kerley Wins 100 Metre Gold In US Cleansweep
American Fred Kerley led a US cleansweep as he stormed to victory in the men's 100m at the World Championships in Oregon on Saturday. Kerley, in lane four, trailed Marvin Bracy for 95 metres of the tight race, but managed to outdip his teammate for victory in 9.86 seconds at Eugene's Hayward Field. Bracy took silver in 9.88sec, Trayvon Bromell claiming bronze in the same time for a third-ever 100m world championship cleansweep for the United States after 1983 and 1991.
Kerley wins world 100m gold in US clean sweep
American Fred Kerley led a US clean sweep as he stormed to victory in the men's 100m at the World Championships in Oregon on Saturday.
World Athletics Championships: Japan team rocked by Covid outbreak
A joint statement from World Athletics, the Japan Association of Athletics Federations and local organisers said the outbreak had hit endurance athletes and staff at the championships in Oregon. Two marathon runners, four support staff and the head coach of the team had returned positive tests. The identities of the individuals involved were not disclosed.
Kerley leads American clean sweep in 100m, shot put joy for Ealey
EUGENE, Ore. : Fred Kerley led an American clean sweep in the men's 100 metres final at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon on Saturday and Chase Ealey helped give home fans a night to remember with the first U.S. victory in the women's shot put.
'We did it': Fred Kerley leads first American sweep of 100 meters at world championships in 31 years
EUGENE, Ore. — Before the race, U.S. fighter jets zoomed over the stadium. Then, down on the track, Americans flashed a different kind of speed.
Fred Kerley stakes his claim to Usain Bolt’s throne in Eugene
EUGENE, Oregon – It is accepted in track and field, both in silence and aloud, that there will likely never be another Usain Bolt. There will never be an athlete with Bolt’s ethereal combination of speed, presence and joy. Never another with Bolt’s relentless seizure of moments and of history. Never another with his ability to hoist a niche (being kind here) sport, throw it across his shoulders – or clench it in his radiant smile like a pirate’s scabbard – and make it not just relevant, but viral. He ran faster than any human, more gleefully than should be allowed, and pulled an entire ecosystem along in his slipstream. He was a unicorn.