Hat trick of golds for Team USATF ladies on day 2 of World Athletics Championships

TOKYO – Team USATF’s ladies dominated the roost Sunday night time, sprinting, throwing, and leaping to a trio of golds on the second day of the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium to take the U.S. medal complete to 6, 5 of them gold.

No one has been capable of beat Melissa Jefferson-Wooden within the ladies’s 100 this yr, and that did not change tonight because the 24-year-old set a meet document of 10.61 to turn out to be the fourth quickest girl in historical past. Jefferson-Wooden was regal in dominating a star-studded ultimate, pulling away on the finish to win by .15 seconds over Jamaican teenager Tina Clayton, with Olympic gold medalist Julien Alfred of St. Lucia taking bronze in 10.84. Budapest gold medalist Sha’Carri Richardson was fifth in a season greatest 10.94.

For a girl who has virtually the whole lot in her trophy cupboard, Valarie Allman was lacking one prize – World Championships discus gold. The 30-year-old two-time Olympic gold medalist and American document holder lastly climbed atop the World Championships podium with a 69.49/227-11 in spherical 5 to finish her assortment of worldwide medals. Allman had picked up bronze in 2022 and silver in 2023, however was to not be denied gold, launching a 67.63/221-10 on her first try, a throw that will in the end have been adequate for victory. Laulauga Tausaga, the winner at Budapest in 2022, ended up sixth with a better of 65.49/214-10.

Olympic champion Tara Davis-Woodhall was on, and that spelled bother for her challengers within the ladies’s lengthy soar. Davis-Woodhall soared out to 7.08/23-2.75 on her opening attempt, which was additionally the primary soar of the competitors, setting the usual for each different girl to chase. Only Germany’s Malaika Mihambo was capable of get shut, however her better of 6.99/22-11.25 wasn’t sufficient. Davis-Woodhall, who was additionally the World Indoor champion final yr, improved to a world-leading 7.13/23-4.75in spherical 4 to seal the victory and full her assortment of worldwide gold medals. This yr’s World Indoor gold medalist, Claire Bryant, positioned fifth at 6.68/21-11, and Quanesha Burks ended up eighth at 6.60/21-8.

Jamaican males went 1-2 within the 100, led by gold medalist Oblique Seville, who powered to a lifetime greatest 9.77 to beat countryman and 2025 world chief Kishane Thompson, who earned silver in 9.82. Olympic champion Noah Lyles, the Budapest gold medalist in 2023, took bronze in a season greatest 9.89, with Kenny Bednarek fourth in 9.92.

The race for gold within the ladies’s marathon Sunday morning got here right down to a stadium dash between Paris Olympic silver medalist Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia and Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir, who received the Olympic title in Sapporo in 2021. Assefa made her transfer with 300 to go on the monitor however could not shake Jepchirchir and the Kenyan sprinted off the ultimate bend to select up her second straight gold in Japan, profitable by two seconds in a season greatest 2:24:43.

Uruguay’s Julia Paternain held off a late problem by American Susanna Sullivan to assert bronze in 2:27:23, with Sullivan agonizingly one place off the rostrum in a season greatest 2:28:17. Jessica McClain gave the U.S. two ladies within the high 10, putting eighth in a season greatest 2:29:20, and Erika Kemp completed 52nd in 2:50:35.

A daring and courageous technique carried Sullivan to the entrance of the pack early on, sharing the lead with McClain by means of 10K in 34:21. Over the following 10K Sullivan started to widen her lead, passing 20K in 1:09:07 to place 27 seconds between her and McClain. Going by means of 25K in 1:26:31 Sullivan continued to keep up a 27-second hole.

As Sullivan began to really feel the pressure of the climate and the tempo she had set, Ethiopia’s Tigst Assefa, the Olympic silver medalist at Paris, and Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir, the Olympic champion in 2021, eased previous her and took over the lead, passing 30K in 1:43:35, with Sullivan fading again and 49 seconds adrift of that duo. Assefa and Jepchirchir continued to run in tandem previous 35K in 2:00:03 and have been effectively away from Uganda’s Stella Chesang, who was third in 2:01:42. Sullivan was hanging onto fifth at 2:02:19, with McClain ninth 33 seconds farther again.

Facing a difficult and typically uphill ultimate 5K, Assefa and Jepchirchir have been solely a second aside at 40K in 2:17:27, and Sullivan was beginning to chip away on the hole once more in pursuit of a podium spot. Julia Paternain of Uruguay was 41 seconds forward of Sullivan at 40K, leaving the American the whole lot to do over the ultimate mile.

Temperatures within the 80s with humidity hovering round 60% made the boys’s 10,000 ultimate look extra like a swimming competitors, with an early tempo to match. Going slower by means of the primary two kilometers than athletes within the ladies’s ultimate yesterday, it did not matter the place you have been within the pack as a result of one good surge would shuffle all of the locations.

The actual racing began with 5 laps to go because the tempo quickened and males began to drop off the again of the pack. When the bell rang there have been nonetheless a dozen males with an opportunity to nab a medal and the gang did not skinny out a lot rounding the ultimate bend. France’s Jimmy Gressier had the quickest end to shock the pre-race favorites and seize gold in 28:55.77 forward of Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha (28:55.83) and Sweden’s Andreas Almgren (28:56.02). USATF champion Nico Young was lower than a second off the rostrum, putting fifth in 28:56.62, whereas final yr’s Olympic 5000 and 10,000 bronze medalist, Grant Fisher, pale to eighth after difficult for a medal, crossing the road in 28:57.85. Graham Blanks was eleventh in 29:01.27.

USATF champion and final yr’s World Indoor silver medalist Nikki Hiltz loved a extra sedate tempo within the second semi of the ladies’s 1500 to cross the road third in 4:07.04 and make the ultimate. Hiltz ran a savvy race and stayed on the within to keep away from bother, tucking in subsequent to Australia’s Jessica Hull by means of 400 in 69.54 and 800 in 2:22.15. With 400 to go Kenya’s Nelly Chipchirchir moved to the lead in 3:08.51, however the high 10 have been all inside a second. Chepchirchir held on to win in 4:06.86, with Hull a hundredth behind her.

Honest pacing by world document holder Faith Kipyegon in semifinal one carried the sphere by means of 400 in simply over 66 seconds, albeit with a fall by Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu. Hailu acquired again up and into the race as Kipyegon glided by 800 in 2:11.79 with Sinclaire Johnson a stride behind. At the bell, with Kipyegon nonetheless main in 2:58.13, Hailu had moved into sixth as there have been nonetheless 9 ladies battling for the six spots to maneuver into the ultimate. Kipyegon was untroubled in profitable the warmth in 4:00.34, with Hailu safely third and Johnson grabbing a ultimate berth in fourth at 4:01.08. Emily Mackay was tenth in 4:12.80.

All three U.S. males safely moved on to the semifinal of the 1500, although in numerous style. Pedestrian tempo by means of the primary half of warmth three had Olympic champion Cole Hocker within the again half of the pack, passing 800 in 14th at 2:09.24. As the tempo picked up Hocker moved outdoors to verify he would not be boxed in and made a big surge. Leading on the bell in 2:49.18, Hocker refused to again down and he got here away with the warmth win in 3:41.88. His ultimate 400 was 52.7, and he lined the final 100 in 12.8.

Ethan Strand was effectively positioned within the high six all the best way in warmth one and secured development with a spirited dash to the end to put third in 3:36.27. Strand glided by the 400 mark in 61.74 and hit 800 in 2:00.79 in second. At the bell he was fourth however just about all the area was nonetheless in placing distance. A 52.9 final lap and 13.1 ultimate 100 put Strand by means of to the semifinal as Norway’s Narve Gilje Nordas received in 3:35.90.

Bunched up with a giant pack on the bell within the ultimate warmth, USATF champion Jonah Koech locked down his qualifying spot for the semifinal with a 3rd place end in 3:37.11. Koech was seventh at 800 in 2:00.26 and picked off three males to take a seat fourth with 400 remaining. Traversing the ultimate 400 in 54.1 put him throughout the road a stride behind 2022 world champion Jake Wightman of Great Britain, who received in 3:36.90.

Safe navigation of the obstacles put all three American ladies by means of to the semifinal within the 100 hurdles, with Olympic champion and American document holder Masai Russell and Grace Stark profitable their heats and Alaysha Johnson putting second in hers. Stark was the quickest of the U.S. trio, clocking 12.46 to take warmth 5, whereas Russell dominated warmth one by greater than .3 seconds in 12.53. Johnson was up in opposition to reigning champion Danielle Williams of Jamaica in warmth two and ended up because the runner-up in 12.76 to advance.

To kick off the night session, a quartet of U.S. quartermilers superior to the following spherical of the boys’s 400. USATF and Diamond League champion Jacory Patterson has had a breakout yr and his sizzling streak continued within the opening spherical right here as he rolled to a 43.90 to win warmth three. That was the quickest time ever run within the first spherical on the World Championships.

World Indoor champion and Paris Olympic 4×400 gold medalist Chris Bailey was additionally victorious in his warmth, taking the fourth part in 44.49, and Khaleb McRae captured the ultimate warmth simply in 44.25, the second quickest time general behind Patterson. Team captain Vernon Norwood, a six-time Olympic and World Championships 4×400 gold medalist who was fourth at Budapest in 2023, earned his solution to the semifinal by putting second in warmth 5 at 44.55.

Looking simply pretty much as good as she did on this monitor 4 years in the past on the Olympics, albeit with out 10 pesky hurdles and with a full set of cheering followers, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone breezed to a 49.41 to win warmth three of the ladies’s 400 and lead the three Americans to the following spherical with the second quickest time general. NCAA indoor champion Isabella Whittaker was second in warmth one in 50.82 and NCAA out of doors champion Aaliyah Butler positioned third within the second part in 50.44.

American document holder and 2019 world champion DeAnna Price nailed the automated normal on her second try in Group A of the ladies’s hammer, throwing 74.99/246-0 to advance, and Janee’ Kassanavoid hit 71.95/236-0 in spherical two to put ninth general and transfer on to the ultimate. Rachel Richeson’s better of 66.95/219-8 was not sufficient to advance, and Brooke Andersen, the 2022 world champion, had three fouls and in addition didn’t transfer on.

13 males cleared 2.25/7-4.5 within the qualifying spherical of the boys’s excessive soar to advance to the ultimate, together with USATF champion Tyus Wilson and Budapest silver medalist JuVaughn Harrison. Wilson needed to sweat it out till his third try and clear that peak, whereas Harrison went over on his second attempt. Paris Olympic Games silver medalist Shelby McEwen managed a greatest of two.21/7-3 and didn’t advance.

TEAM USATF MEDALS (6)

GOLD (5)

Ryan Crouser, males’s shot put (22.34/73-3.5)
Mixed 4×400 relay (Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah Mckiver, Alexis Holmes) (3:08.80, =meet document)
Valarie Allman, ladies’s discus (69.48/227-11)
Tara Davis-Woodhall, ladies’s lengthy soar (7.13/23-4.75)
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, ladies’s 100 (10.61, meet document)

SILVER (0)

BRONZE (1)

Noah Lyles, males’s 100 (9.89)

RECORDS SET

World

American

World Championships

=3:08.80 – Mixed 4×400 relay  (Bryce Deadmon, Lynna Irby-Jackson, Jenoah Mckiver, Alexis Holmes)
10.61 – Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, ladies’s 100