Once Upon a Time in the Vest

Monday, August 21, 2023

V13 N. 76 Day Three is Complete and US, Sweden, and Burkina Faso Come Home With Gold

 Day Three is now in the record books and the US (2x), Sweden, and Burkina Faso athletes have brought honor and glory to their countries.  Sha'carri Richardson (US) 100 M Women, Grant Holloway (US) 110HH, Daniel Stahl (SWE) and Hughes Fabrice Zango (BUR) TJ have prevailed in their events.  


Triple Jump Men   Start Time 19:42  End Time 21:18

1. Hugues Fabrice Zango         17.64

2. Lazaro Martinez CUB          17.41

3. Cristian Napoles CUB           17.40

4. Yaming Zhu   CHN                  17.15

5. Yasser Mohhammed Triki ALB    17.01

6. Yaoqing Fang    CHN                17.01

7. Will Claye   USA                        16.99


Discus  Men  Start time 20:32  End time 21:41

1. Daniel Stahl SWE            71.46

2. Kristjan Ceh SLO            70.02

3. Mykolas Alekna LTU       68.85

4. Matthew Denny  AUS      68.24

5. Fedrick Dacres JAM         66.72

6. Andrius Gudzius LTU        66.16

7. Lukas Weisshaidinger AUT  65.54

110HH Men  21:43  Start time

Grant Holloway was clearly the favorite in this event from the get go.  Even with great record of Hansle Parchement of Jamaica Holloway has been the dominant figure for the past several years in this event.

Grant Holloway has far and away the best reaction time and dominates from the beginning to the end.

1. Grant Holloway USA        12.96                0.135

2. Hansle Parchment JAM    13.07                 0.169

3. Daniel Roberts  USA         13.09                0.143

4. Freddie Crittenden    USA  13.16                0.140

5. Shunsuke Izumiya    JPN    13.19                0.143

6. Sasha Zhoya    FRA            13.26                0.166

7. Jason Joseph    SUI             13.28                0.143

8. Wilhem Belocian FRA        13.32                0.158


100 Meters Women   last event of the night 21:55 Start Time

Richardson's win is the one that sets the airwaves on alert as her past endeavors have been nothing short of controversial after her de-selection from the 2021 US Olympic team last year for testing positive to weed.  Her outspokenness has also kept her in the spotlight.  But today she has pulled it all together and running from Lane 9 after a third place in her semi, she was able to blow past the now aging stars of the Jamaican team Shericka Jackson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.  Her convincing win in the 100 today along with Noah Lyles' win yesterday has put the US back into the 100 meters limelight which had been abandoned for sometime.  Now the question is can the US teams hold it together on the 4x100 relays? Will they be out there practicing later tonight or early tomorrow?  As John Jacobs, the venerable old track coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1923-1958 used to say, when complacency was rearing it's ugly head,  "This ain't no county track meet."

                                                Time            Reaction Time

1. Sha'carri Richardson           10.65                0.156

2. Shericka Jackson                 10.72                0.166

3. Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce      10.77                0.153

4. Marie-Josee Ta Lou  CIV     10.81                0.147

5. Julien Alfred    LCA              10.93                0.153

6. Ewa Swoboda POL                10.97(.966)      0.151

7. Brittany Brown USA              10.97 (.969)     0.188

8. Dina Asher-Smith GBR          11.00                0.146

9. Tamari Davis  USA                 11.03                0.142

For the rest of the schedule on Day 3 please go to the following site:

https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/timetable

Prelims

Pole Vault Women

400IH Women Heats

400IH Men Semis

400 Women Semis


On tap for Day Four are finals as follows:

Men's High Jump,    Women's  Discus,   Women's 1500M,  and Men's 3000ST

Line ups and results are all available at the above website  when you get there click on 

Time Table/Results at the top of the page.


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