The great duels of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene

The rivalry for the women’s sprint title between Jamaicans Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shericka Jackson was one of the highlights. of the World Athletics Championships starting this Friday in Eugene (United States).

But Jamaican athletes ’battle in the final of the 100 meter dash isn’t the only exciting rivalry in the women’s category at the legendary Hayward Field track, located 125 meters above Pacific Ocean level.

JAMAICAN DUEL FOR SCEPTER OF SPEED

As happened at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo, all indications are that Jamaican athletes will once again occupy the first three spots on the podium in the final of the 100 meter dash.

An exciting duel in which veteran Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce seems to have started with an advantagesilver in Tokyo, which came to Eugene with the best world record of the year, the 10.67 seconds -sinth record in all time- he signed in May, aided by Nairobi’s -1,795 -meter altitude.

Brand that Elaine Thompson-Herah was unable to approachthe current Olympic champion, who ran this year at 10.79, or Shericka Jackson, bronze in Tokyo, who came to the World Cup in great form after winning the Jamaican selection tests at the end of June with a time of 10.77 seconds.

YULIMAR ROJAS SEEKS HIS THIRD CONSECUTIVE TITLE

Once the possibility of achieving the triple jump and long double failed, the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas travels to Oregon with the challenge of securing his third consecutive triple world champion titleafter the gold medals achieved in 2017 in London and in 2019 in Doha.

Title that seems like no one is in a position to discuss Rojas, who is not only the current universal record holder -15.74 meters-, but also tops the world rankings for the year -14.83- despite only playing one competition this year in outside.

And this is it Yulimar Rojas ’main goal is to win gold at length, a test in which he will not be able to participate in the latter. after the International Federation’s decision not to homologate the 6.93 meter he jumped in June and secured him a World Cup ticket by using a triple shoe, whose foot exceeded the thickness approved for long garments at the foot of 5 millimeters.

BOL IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN LOVE McLAUGHLIN’S WAY

the American Sydney McLaughlin will try to complete her stunning record at just 22 years old in the conquest of the world title of 400 hurdles that escaped him just 7 hundredths three years ago in Doha.

Since then McLaughlin, current Olympic champion, has not only lost any event, but also broken the universal record twice to leave it on June 25 with a stratospheric 51.41 seconds.

Background that will delight anyone, but not the young Dutch Femke Bolbronze at the Olympic event, counting his performances in this year’s 400 hurdles by achievements.

MU AND HODGKINSON OPENED A NEW ERA IN THE 800s

The nearly 20 years that Athing Mu has changed prevents us from seeing the limits of the young American athletewho not only already has the Olympic champion title on his record, but seems to be the only one in position, so far, lowering the 1:55 minute barrier in the 800 meter test.

Especially if the North American rivals another young woman set to mark a season, British Keely Hodgkinson, also 20 years old, who has already escorted Athing Mu to the podium of the Olympic final.

Mu and Hodgkinson will be the two great stars in the 800 meters final where the American came in as world leader of the year, after seemingly effortlessly signing a time of 1: 57.01 minutes on June 9 at the Diamond League event held in Rome.

CAMACHO-QUINN vs. HARRISON, POWER vs. ELEGANCE

After being crowned as the Olympic champion of the 100 meter hurdles last year, the Puerto Rican Jasmine Camacho-Quinn will try to achieve world gold in a final in which American Kendra Harrison re -emerged as the Antillean’s main rival.

In fact, Harrison will come to the event with the best world record of the year, the 12.34 seconds he signed on June 25 in the American selection tests, three hundred less than Camacho’s best course record. -Quinn, to run. at 12.37 in Rome.

However, in the only direct confrontation this year between the two athletes, the victory coincided with the Puerto Rican, who clearly beat Harrison at the Eugene meeting, the same scenario that held the World Cups, after beating the American by 33 hundredths.