The World Athletics Championships in Budapest handed out the first three medals in the morning. and promoted Álvaro Martín of Extremadura as the event’s first champion, thanks to the gold he won on the 20km walk after a storm forced the race to be delayed by two hours. In the afternoon, strong emotions continued in the stadium with a great hero and two unfortunate events.
The big star of the afternoon is no doubt Ryan Crosser. The American was ready to reissue his shot put title two months after he broke the world record again and left it at a galactic 23.56. If he was at his level, no one from the champions of the last two Olympic Games would have taken gold.
And so it was. ‘RC 23’ left the final with 22.98 points from its second launch and the astonishing Italian Leonardo Fabbri was already champions when he started sixth with a personal record (22.34) for silver and American Joe Kovacs for a bronze with 22.12.
However, Crouser was not confirmed and He hit a new universal record by sending a 7.26-pound ball to 22.51 meters. In the second best launch in history, it will receive one of the biggest applauses of the first day.
It wasn’t exactly ‘orange’ afternoon. After passing the first lap at 1,500 in the morning, Sifan Hassan was looking for the first notch of the ‘treble’ in the 10,000m direct final. After failing miserably at Eugene last year and the truth is, the race that was so slow and boring until the final two laps was perfect for him.
Hassan maneuvered on the bench and took first place after beating Ethiopian Letensebet Gidey, but at the same time moved smartly behind Abyssinian Gudaf Tsegay and went to victory on the straight, showing he had as much precision as the Dutch. The old Ethiopian was overwhelmed, twitched and fell to the ground to score a hat-trick from the Ethiopian. With Tsegay gold (31:27.18), Gidey silver (31:28.16) and Ejgayehu Taye bronze (31:28.31). In the end, Hassan took eleventh place with 31:53.35.
The result of the 4x400m medley final was even more unexpected. Athletics is a great sport that can do the impossible and make all kinds of surprises possible. Femke Bol took part as one of the stars of the World Championship in the 400m hurdles and mixed relay without Sidney McLaughlin.
And everything seemed to go first gold when Isaya Klein Ikkink came after the posts of Liemarvin Bonevacia and Lieke Klaver. He gave Bol the last stick in the first place with 13 percent against the American Alexis Holmes.. As a matter of fact, the 400 and 4×400 champions took the first place in the last two European Championships and started to catch up.
The Dutch woman had more than five meters of advantage on the bench, but Holmes ran with ambition and intelligence. He cut almost all his handicap and He wanted Femke Bol on the straight until he threw him in front of the frames and let the stick escape.. Disqualification! Finally, in the 400, Holmes with a world record of 48.84 for the United States of America (3:08.80), a national record of silver for Great Britain (3:11.06) and a bronze for the Czech Republic with a record of bronze (3: 11.98).