Kerley leads a hat-trick in the men’s 100 meters not seen since the 1991 World Cup in Tokyo
The United States and its athletics breathe easy. They are again the kings of male speed. The reconquest is on the right track. After the blow at last year’s Olympics, where they didn’t win any of the speed finals, tonight they experienced a historic triplet in the 100 meters that restores the credibility of the American team. Fred Kerley, Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell took the top three spots in the World Cup final at home, in Eugene, before the delirium of a dedicated Hayward Field. A feat the United States had not achieved since the 1991 World Cup in Tokyo, when Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell made the lap of honor around the Olympic stadium with the American flag. Tonight they did it again 31 years later and it can be said that the honor of American speed has been restored after the Olympic collapse, where Lamont Jacobs, this time out of the finals due to injury, made one of the biggest surprises of recent times.
The honor of being the new speed king belongs to Fred Kerley, closest to the total speed demon. A specialist of 400 meters converted to 100, he has the honor of being one of the few athletes capable of the hectometer under 100 (he is 9.76), the 200 under 20 and the 400 under to run the 44 seconds, something that only the American Michael Norman and the South African Wayde Van Niekerk have been able to do. In Eugene, he stunned in series, when he did 9.79, although he left more doubts in the semi-final last night, narrowly winning his series. The Olympic doubts returned, as Jamaican Sevilla and South African Sinbine emerged as possible candidates.
However, the final has made American superiority clear. The win was clear, it was only to name the matter and until very close to the finish, everything indicated that Bromell was able to recover from his collapse in Tokyo, when he was one-thousandth out of the final. But practically on the starting grid, Kerley has gone out of his way to take the gold at 9.86, with 9.88 his two teammates and rivals. For example, the Taylor (Texas) born sprinter joins a list of American world champions of the current century formed by Maurice Greene (2001), Tyson Gay (2007), Justin Gatlin (2017) and Christian Coleman (2019), defender of the title and dominated the Eugene final until he sank in the final meters.
Gold is the award for the work of an athlete who decided to give up with the arrival of the pandemic. Due to training problems and an ankle injury, he decided at the last minute to register for the 100 and 200 meters to compete in the pre-game stages, where he earned his place in the 100 meters. This season, before traveling to the World Cup, Kerley assured that “if I have a healthy summer, I think I can do more damage in the 100 and 200 meters, but also in the 400 meters. My training has not changed,” said a sprinter who arrived at the World Cup, convinced that this is his moment. “I know that 2022 will be one of the best years of my life. No one in this world will break my trust. I believe in myself and that is a hard man to beat. I never go into a race thinking I’m going to lose.”
Right now, he already has a gold to dedicate to the most important person in his life, his Aunt Virginia, the woman who raised him and who kept little Fred from straying from the path that led him to become World Champion. become. “She was two years old when I first moved in with her, a small child who didn’t know what was going on around her. My father ended up in prison, my mother took wrong turns in life, which meant Aunt Virginia’s was the only one who could take care of me and my four siblings.”
He did it conscientiously, backed by the values of the church – Kerley is deeply religious – and the athlete has done his part for a total commitment to be the most complete sprinter. As of tonight, he already has another reason to continue tattooing his body with the most important motifs of his life.
The day also brought good news for Spanish athletics. Marta Pérez painfully secured her standings for the 1,500 meters final after finishing seventh in her semi-final and going through the times (4.04.24), while Eusebio Cáceres achieved a finalist diploma by finishing eighth in height (7.93). finish in a test won by the Chinese Jianan Wang (8.36) ahead of favorite Tentoglou (8.32).
And the trio of 1,500 Spaniards won their passage to the semi-finals. Mario García Romo with authority, while Fontes and especially Katir suffered more than necessary to reach the next round in time.
Source: La Verdad
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