Jackson closes in on Griffith-Joyner
Jamaican Shericka Jackson became world champion in the 200m by setting the second best time of all time (21.45, 0.6 m / s wind) Friday in Eugene (Oregon).
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Just 11 hundredths from the old world record of American Florence Griffith-Joyner (21.34 in 1988), Jackson (28) beat her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (21.81), winner of the 100m on Monday, and the British defending champion Dina Asher-Smith (22.02). Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah, in bronze in the 100m, finished only 7th in 22.39.
Former 400m runner, Shericka Jackson reaches consecration with a first international title, after Olympic bronze in the 400m in 2016 and 100m in 2021, world bronze in the 400m twice (2015 and 2019) and world silver in the 100m on Monday .
Lyles erases Michael Johnson
American Noah Lyles retained world gold in the 200m by becoming the third best performer in history over the distance in 19.31 (wind: +0.4 m/s), twelve hundredths of the world record held by Jamaican legend Usain Bolt (19″19). At the same time, he won Michael Johnson’s United States record for a hundredth.
Lyles (25) led another American hat-trick in Hayward Field, as Fred Kerley had done in the 100m on Sunday: he beat Kenneth Bednarek (19″77) and the very young Erriyon Knighton (19″80), 18 years old only.
Only Bolt, twice, and another Jamaican, Yohan Blake (19.26), have now run faster than Lyles on the half-lap.
Knighton, who had made an impression by running in 19 seconds and 49 hundredths in the spring at only 18 years old, faster than Bolt at the same age, climbed on his first world podium, a year after finishing at the foot of the Olympic podium.
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Lyles alone in the world in…. 19″31
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