![]() ![]() Richardson ran 10.76 in the Diamond League opener on May 5 in Doha, beating world silver medalist Shericka Jackson of Jamaica with the the best time in the world this year. The fastest wind-legal time this year is 12.36 from the University of Kentucky’s Masai Russell, who is not in this field. 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. Camel drops a huge PR with a time of 20.00 to become the fourth fastest in LSU history! #GeauxTigers /AE4QmTYbTN ![]() We just witnessed the fourth fastest time in world history by Knighton. Both meets are in Eugene, Oregon, where he ran 19.84 last summer. Knighton’s major races this season are at the USATF Outdoor Championships in June and, if he makes the team, the world championships in July. Knighton’s time is the second-fastest 200m ever recorded by an American after Johnson’s then-world record 19.32 at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Knighton, who turned professional last year as a Florida high school junior, moved from the joint-35th-fastest man in history to fourth, passing the likes of Tommie Smith (19.83), Carl Lewis (19.75) and Noah Lyles (19.50). He broke 19.5 for the first time one day before turning 22. His best time before turning 20 was 19.93. male track and field Olympian since miler Jim Ryun in 1964.īolt broke 19.5 seconds on four occasions - the 20 Olympic finals and 20 World Championships finals. Knighton went on to finish fourth in Tokyo, becoming the youngest U.S. Knighton lowered his personal best and U20 record from 19.84 seconds, set at last year’s Olympic Trials. Knighton clocked 19.49 seconds in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the world’s fastest time since the 2012 Olympics, to move behind Bolt (19.19 world record), Yohan Blake and Michael Johnson on the all-time list. Erriyon Knighton, who last year at age 17 broke Usain Bolt junior sprint records, shattered his own U20 record in the 200m and became the fourth-fastest man in history on Saturday.
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