After the morning exhilaration of Álvaro Martín and María Pérez with gold on the 35-kilometer walk, four finals played this thursday It was exciting with the special commemoration of the long jump at the World Cup stadium in Budapest.
in the ranking Jamaican Wayne Pinnock had already questioned the nepotism of the Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou He became the world leader of the year without anesthesia for the first time with his 8.54-meter jump. Both took part in a spectacular duel against the ropes on the last try, which resulted in Hellene’s great expertise.
After both jumping 8.50 and being an inch ahead on Pinnock’s second best jump (8.40 to 8.39), the Jamaican athlete moved up to 8.38 in sixth place. The Olympic champion was supposed to jump 8.41… and went 8.52 to make the best jump of the year. When was it supposed to be done? Jamaican Tajay Gayle took the bronze with a time of 8.27; this resulted in another compatriot like Carey McLeod falling to fourth place.
It’s raining, so to speak. Tentoglou took the European title in the fifth jump (8.25) at Berlin’18, placing Germany’s Heinle in silver, and went even further at the 2019 European Indoor Championships, falling behind Sweden’s Montler with 8.25 points in the sixth jump. . Or most popular, when To snatch gold from the Cuban Echeverria, he had to go 8.41 at the Tokyo Games… and he jumped to 8.41!
The other name of the day was Femke Bol: After the injury of world record holder Sydney McLaughlin and her fall in the 4×400 mixed grid, all eyes were on her and she did not disappoint.
At 1.83 meters tall, the extraordinary athlete’s waist is as long as his steps. He dominated the 400m hurdles final as he wished with a phenomenal record of 51.70It was followed by American Shamier Little (53.80) and Jamaican Rushell Clayton (52.81).
The 100m hurdles final was exciting and Nigerian world record holder Tobi Amusan dusted himself off by missing three checks and battling World Athletics’ temporary amnesty (sixth with 12.62)… If his last name was Amusov, he wouldn’t have won this medal. IT. beat Jamaican Danielle Williams with 12.43One percent less than Puerto Rican Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and three less than former US world record holder Kendra ‘Keni’ Harrison.
Former American champion Vernon Norwood is absent from Budapest. In 400, the gold went to Antonio Watson of Jamaica (44.22)In front of British Matthew Hudson-Smith (44.31) and Quincy Hall (44.37) from the USA. Finally, Canada took the women’s hammer with American Janee’ Kassanavoid (76.36) and Camryn Rogers (77.22), accompanied by DeAnna Pryce (75.41) on the podium.