The Outdoor Athletics World Championships will be held in Budapest from 19 to 27 August. will offer several extraordinary duels At the level of other historical ones, such as those presented by American Mike Powell (8.95 meters) and Carl Lewis (8.91) in Tokyo’91, Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge (12:52.79), Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj (12 :52.83) and Paris’03 Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele (12:53.12) in 5,000m, Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba (14:38.59) and Meseret Defar (14:39.54) in 5,000 in Daegu’07 or Russian Maria Lasitskene – Kuchina (2.04) in high jump in London’17 with gold) and Ukrainian Yaroslava Mahuchih (silver with 2.04).
These conflicts will be closely linked, among many other things, to the history of World Cups; This appointment comes the year after the previous edition (Eugene’22) due to covid, which forced the Oregon appointment to be delayed for a year. meanwhile, a year chosen by World Athletics for the night and extremely awkwardly during the presidency of the corrupt and deceased Lamine Diack. Faced with the Hungarian rendezvous, Iberian press Highlights six direct encounters with no clear favorites where sparks will definitely fly.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen – Mohamed Katir
Adopted Muleño Mohamed Katir arrives at the World Cups at the best moment your sports careerAlthough it seems nearly impossible to beat Jakob Ingebrigtsen in both the 1,500 and 5,000 meters (both are registered in both events). The Norwegian player starts out as favorites to achieve a ‘double’ at European level, which he has already achieved twice outdoors and two more indoors.
But, He reigned in Eugene for 12 and a half rounds, but was surprisingly defeated by a brilliant arrival like Jake Wightman in ‘milqui’. (It won’t happen in Budapest). Briton, who is also an expert in the 800 meters, showed how to beat Ingebrigtsen’s youngest: grabbing first place from him at the corner, facing the final stretch that led the rope and died to the finish line. And if he’s the first in the last 100, surpassing him seems like a dream come true.
“It’s just impossible to catch it. It’s in front of you and when you think you’re going to arrive, you just pick up the beat and you can’t catch it anymore. It’s happened to me a few times and I’ve seen it happen to others over and over on TV”; Adel Mechaal was unveiled at the last Ciutat de Barcelona Meeting. At the time level, Ingebrigtsen appears in 1,500 with the best grade of the year and fourth in history (3:27.14), with Katir coming in second (3:28.89), very close to the Spanish record (3:38.89); yes, we shouldn’t forget the American Nuguse or the Spanish Adel Mechaal (silver at 3,000 in past European salons) or Mario García Romo (fourth in Eugene). Ethiopian Aregawi and Ugandan Cheptegei.
Lamecha Girma – Soufiane Hand Grocery
Moroccan Soufiane El Grocery has been dominating the 3,000m hurdles for several yearstakes over from legendary names such as Musa Kiptanui, Saif Saaeed Shaheen. In fact, he is the current Olympic and world champion after winning the silver medal in London’17, but now he has a very dangerous rival who came to Budapest with a sensational record.
about this Ethiopian Lamecha Girma, who has won the silver medal in the last two World Cup finals (One percent in the hands of Kenyan Conseslus Kipruto in Doha’19, and 88 points against Al Bakkali last year) and 148 percent behind Moroccan at the Tokyo Games. He also won the silver medal in the 3,000m at the indoor World Cups in Belgrad’22, this time 25 percent behind compatriot Selemon Barega.
In a test where Spaniard Dani Arce came in with one-tenth of those enrolled (8:10.63), Girma seeks his first big gold with the confidence that gave him the world record he achieved at the Diamond of Diamond on June 9th. Paris by 7:52.11, one second and 52 percent better than Shaheen’s (2004). El Bakkali also broke this season’s personal record with a time of 7:56.68, set in Rabat on 28 May (ninth all-time score). Abyssinian’s options lie in overthrowing their major rival, as the North African remains stubborn in the final stage.
Karsten Warholm – Rai Benjamin
In the look and likeness of his midfielder, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, history shows that Norwegian Karsten Warholm was nearly invincible in the 400-metre hurdles If he’s doing his best, test him out for winning gold medals at the Tokyo Games, the 2019 and 2019 World Cups, and the 2018 and 2022 European Championships. However, a muscle injury caused him to come in between Eugene and Cotton last year. transferring the universal title to Brazilian Alison dos Santos, he could only become seventh (he could have died before he was one year old when a pan of boiling oil fell on his face).
Therefore, the Budapest appointment A reaffirmation for the Scandinavian, who came in with the year’s best mark (46.51), still far from the sensational world record he set two years ago with 45.94 at the Games. (The only athlete to break the 46-second wall). One percent of the 2023 mark is his major rival, American Rai Benjamin (46.52), current 4×400 world and Olympic champion and second in both events in the 400 hurdles.
Keeping in mind that Dos Santos ran 47.66 this year and ahead of Americans CJ Allen (47.58) and Kyron McMaster (Virgin Islands, 47.26), the low hurdles are presented as the big duel between a European and an American. At the World Cup in Budapest. Anyway, if he’s in good shape and can keep up with the demonic pace of his top 200, he must be the favorite Warholm.
Shericka Jackson – Sha’Carri Richardson
This is one of the biggest duels of World Cups. The ‘bad girl’ against the heir of the fireproof Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and the absent Elaine Thompson-Herah. Jamaican Shericka Jackson looks smooth with top marks at 100 season 1 and fifth in history, tied with American Marion Jones (10.65) at the best moment of her career, current world and Olympic runner-up at 29 (fallen to compatriots Fraser-Pryce and Thompson-Herah, respectively).
Just 23 years old, Texas native Sha’Carri Richardson has managed to reinvent herself after the scandal that caused her to lose the Games due to her cannabis positivity. (legal clause in the United States) in the previous weeks. Add to that his failure at the 2022 Trials that left him out of the Eugene World Cup, and his performance this season speaks for itself how mature he is. With 10.71, he is the second fastest of the year and the sixth of all time.
The duo want to lay claim to Budapest: The Caribbean is looking forward to its first gold in the 100m smooth, and the American is making his international debut as an absolute after reigning in the 4x100m smooth at the U20 Pan American Games in 2017. Their biggest rivals will be TaLou of Ivory, the aforementioned Fraser-Pryce and the amazing Julien Alfred (Saint Lucia). In the 200 meters, the current world and Olympic champion Shericka Jackson is second with 21.71, compared to 11 percent (21.60) of the American Gabby Thomas, and Sha’Carri is fourth with 21.94 (three percent of Alfred).
Jackline Chepkoech – Beatrice Chepkoech
The two Chepkoech Kenyans start out as big favorites in the 3,000m hurdles fight for gold, but they’re not family. Beatrice Chepkoech, 32, is a late disability player in the image and likeness of what happened with Marta Domínguez from Palencia.spends 25 years not debuting in this test. And he was right, because in 2018 he set a world record of 8:44.32 at the Diamond in Monaco and won gold at the Doha’19 World Cups the following year. However, he only finished seventh at the Tokyo Games and missed past World Cups due to injury.
The Jackline Chepkoech thing is another story. The 19-year-old Kenyan is meeting for the first time in a major universal competition. After winning gold at the Nairobi U20 World Cups in 2021 and the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham last year. In addition, this season, he has shown himself to master tactical and fast races, scoring the best of the year with a spectacular 8:57.35 (seventh in history) ahead of Sembo Almayew of only 18-year-old Ethiopian. years old (9:00.71) and Beatrice Chepkoech herself (9:04.34).
At the Kenya Trials, Beatrice won with 9:09.43 against 9:14.56 of the Jackline and went solo with the aforementioned 8:57.35 after beating her compatriot far behind at Diamond in London two weeks later. (9:04.34). Without forgetting Winfred Mutile Yawi (Bahrain), everything seems doomed to a duel between the Chepkoechs. and even more, given the doping absence of the current universal champion, Kenyan-born Kazakh Norah Jeruto.
Athing Mu – Keely Hogdkinson
This is perhaps the great conflict of the United States.Europe Curiously, the two youngest athletes among those registered in the 800 meters took place in the ‘top 20’ in the women’s category.. American Athing Mu does not know defeat at the big competitions at the age of 21, and Englishman Keely Hodgkinson is 97 days older and is the European queen of two laps on the track. Admittedly, it’s a youth fight that promises to be stretched in the future if the current champion doesn’t jump to the nearly 1,500 people she’s already flirted with.
With a female hip height of approximately 1.80 meters and four inches taller than she is, Mu appeared in a sensational performance at the Tokyo Games this allowed him to hang gold in the 800m and 4x400m when he just turned 18. She won the universal title on both laps at the track last year, and in both cases preceded the British woman who was declared European champion weeks later in that indoor event with a title that combined the two in a row. And despite the doubts, the latest information shows that he is in Budapest.
Hodgkinson isn’t content with silver, and the best example of his ambition is to have participated in 400 sprints at the past U23 European Championships. He took the bronze medal for boosting speed and a personal record (51.76) in a bid to make a final change on the straight against a Mu, who usually gradually increases the cadence in the style of Jakob Ingebrigtsen. Hogdkinson led the year with a personal record (1:55.77, 25th so far) and the American finished 12th in 1:58.73 (his record 1:55.04, eighth in history). His rivals include Kenyan Mary Moraa (1:56.85 this year), British Jemma Reekie (1:57.30) and perhaps Jamaican Goule-Toppin (1:57.61). tri-level Spaniards: Lorea Ibarzabal, Lorena Martín and Daniela García.