![]() won in 2:56.17 for a 2.41-second margin over Jamaica.Īnother medal went to U.S. In between, a sprinter named Champion - Champion Allison - anchored the men’s 4×400 to an easy win for medal No. The 20-year-old Mu is now the Olympic and world champion at that distance and, along with McLaughlin, part of a bright future for the United States with the Paris Olympics now two years away. “I’m just glad I could make it to the line and finish the race,” she said. 08 margin over Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson. “I barely remember the moment.”Īs was the case through most of these 10 days, America’s medals came from every corner of the track - and the field.Īthing Mu said she struggled in capturing gold in the 800, busting through the two laps in 1:56.30 - a. “It’s like mania, and you’re just kind of going crazy,” Duplantis said of his reaction. “When I watched the record, I was like ‘Whoa, who did that?‘” Amusan said.Īnd after McLaughlin was done with her last lap, pole vaulter Armand Duplantis of Sweden cleared 6.21 meters (20 feet, 4 1/2 inches) to best his world record by. Her medal-race time was actually faster - 12.06 - but the wind was too strong, so that mark doesn’t go in the books. She came back about 90 minutes later to win the gold medal. Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan opened the evening by setting the record for the 100-meter hurdles in the semifinals: 12.12 seconds. ![]() Other records fell, too - in the very first and very last action of the last session at hot-and-sunny Hayward Stadium, the 25,000-seat gem built at University of Oregon to bring the worlds to Eugene. collected in 2017, and two more than East Germany won in 1987. The 33 medals were three more than the U.S. ![]() team, also featuring Talitha Diggs and Abby Steiner, who was part of the winning 4×100 relay team the night before, won the women’s race in 3 minutes, 17.79 seconds. “And I’m really happy for her amazing career.” “She came back yesterday and I was like, I mean, if we’re gonna go do it, we might as well do it big,” McLaughlin said. She finishes her career with a record 20 world medals, overall. This one was especially sweet, as it also marked the 14th and final world gold for 36-year-old Allyson Felix, who came out of retirement to run in the preliminary of the 4×400 and, so, gets a medal. 73-second lead into a 2.95-second blowout over Jamaica, adding this burst of speed to the world record she set two nights earlier in the 400 hurdles, when she finished in 50.68. “We have a lot of really amazing athletes and we all put our 100% best out there every time we perform.”Īfter taking the baton from Britton Wilson, McLaughlin turned a. It was the 13th gold for the U.S., one short of the all-time mark. and delivering America’s record 33rd medal of the meet. It only made sense she would win that race by a lot.Īmerica’s burgeoning speed star turned a close 4×400-meter relay into a laugher on the anchor leg Sunday, putting the final stamp on the first worlds held in the U.S. (AP) - It only made sense that Sydney McLaughlin would run the last, victorious lap of world championships for the United States.
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