Last Sunday, she clocked 12.17 seconds with a 3.5 meter/second tailwind (legal limit is 2.0), the third-fastest all-conditions time in history behind Amusan’s semifinal and final runs at last July’s worlds. Women’s 100m Hurdles - Saturday, 4:55 p.m. So this is the first time that all three are competing against each other outdoors since Nilsen joined the 6-meter club. Kendricks missed the Tokyo Olympics after testing positive for COVID-19, then missed almost all of last season due to a knee injury. ETĪ meeting of the world’s top three over the last several years: world record holder Mondo Duplantis of Sweden, American Chris Nilsen, who took silver to Duplantis at the last Olympics and worlds, and American Sam Kendricks, world champion in 20. Here’s the schedule of events (all times Eastern): Here are the start lists: Los Angeles | Rabat. Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs withdrew Thursday with a minor health issue. The marquee event there is the men’s 100m including American Fred Kerley, the world champion, countryman Trayvon Bromell, the world bronze medalist, and Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala, the world’s fastest man this year. ET on CNBC, /live, the NBC Sports app and Peacock. Then on Sunday, the Diamond League resumes in Rabat, Morocco, live from 2-4 p.m. LA boasts more world record holders in the pole vault ( Mondo Duplantis of Sweden) and shot put (American Ryan Crouser), plus a women’s 100m that includes Sha’Carri Richardson, the world’s fastest woman this year, and most of the other top contenders for July’s USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships. The winner likely becomes the favorite for August’s world championships in Budapest. The most stacked race there is the 100m hurdles, pitting the two fastest women in history (Nigerian Tobi Amusan and American Keni Harrison) plus Olympic gold medalist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico. ET on NBC, /live, the NBC Sports app and Peacock. The track and field season is beginning to heat up, and the sprints will be sizzling on Saturday and Sunday, live on NBC Sports and Peacock.įirst up is the Los Angeles Grand Prix, live on Saturday from 4:30-6 p.m. Favorite us! Follow unes du journal L'Équipe du dimanche 14 mai /CRaYRrvU0s Clarisse Agbegnenou, 30, won her sixth world gold on Thursday. He can also tie the record of three individual Olympic judo gold medals held by retired Tadahiro Nomura of Japan.Ĭome the Paris Games, he will be older than all but one previous Olympic judo medalist and two years older than any previous individual Olympic judo gold medalist.įrance also boasts the top active female judoka in terms of world titles. Next year, he can tie the judo record by winning a medal at a fifth Olympics, joining retired Ryoko Tamura-Tani of Japan, according to. He missed last year’s worlds due to an ankle injury. Riner has sparingly competed since the Tokyo Olympics, but won both of his starts in top-level Grand Slams over the last two years. He also went undefeated in 154 matches across all competitions from December 2010 until February 2020. Riner, a 6-foot-8-inch native of Guadeloupe, is now the youngest and oldest man to win a world judo title, according to Gracenote. He also won two world titles in separate open competitions without weight categories, plus took gold in Tokyo in the Olympic debut of a mixed-gender team event. He then took bronze at the Olympics in 2021, snapping a streak of nine consecutive Olympic or world heavyweight titles (when he competed) dating to 2009. Since his last world title in 2017, he skipped worlds in 20 to rest up for the Tokyo Games. It marked Riner’s return to the top of a global championship podium. Riner, 34, beat Russian Inal Tasoev in the men’s heavyweight final in Doha. France’s Teddy Riner earned a record-extending 11th world title in judo in his first world championships appearance since 2017.
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