Broadbell Crashes Out of Dash Hurdles – However Many Caribbean Athletes Make Progress at World Champs
It was heartbreak for Jamaica’s 110m hurdles gold medal contender Rasheed Broadbell who crashed out of competitors in the course of the morning session on the second day of the 19th World Athletics Championships contained in the Nationwide Athletics Centre on Sunday.
Males’s | 110m Hurdles – Rasheed Broadbell (Jamaica)
Broadbell, the reigning Commonwealth Video games gold medallist, acquired off to a gradual begin in Warmth Three however recovered to be in rivalry for victory solely to hit one of many later hurdles and fall to the bottom, dashing any hopes of progress to the following spherical.
The Nationwide Champion has a private better of 12.94 seconds set on July 9 this yr and was seen by many analysts as a sure medal contender, and a critical menace for gold.
It was not all doom and gloom for Jamaica as reigning Olympic Video games gold medallist Hansle Parchment cruised by to win Warmth One in 13.30 seconds, whereas teammate Orland Bennett completed fifth on Warmth 4 in 13.39 seconds to advance to the semis alongside Parchment.
Bennett carried with him to the following spherical Haiti’s Yves Cherburn who produced a private finest 13.56 seconds. Nevertheless, Cayman Islands’ Rasheem Brown was eradicated after ending seventh in Warmth Three in 14.02 seconds.
Girls’s | 100m Fraser-Pryce, Jackson, Morrison & Forbes (Jamaica), Ahye, Bertrand (Trinidad), Alfred (?), Hazzard ( Grenada) & Garcia (Cuba)
It was enterprise as typical for Jamaica’s 4 ladies who all made progress to Monday’s semi-finals of the 100m.
In heats Sunday morning, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce received Warmth Seven in simple vogue in 11.01 seconds; Shericka Jackson received Warmth 4 in 11.06 seconds, whereas Natasha Morrison was second in Warmth 5 in 11.02 seconds and Shashalee Forbes was runner-up in Warmth Six in 11.12 seconds.
Morrison performed second fiddle to American Sha’Carri Richardson was the quickest qualifier with 10.92 seconds, whereas Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye was second in her warmth in a season’s finest 11.16 seconds.
St Lucia’s Julien Alfred received Warmth One in 10.99 seconds, however Halle Hazzard of Grenada might fare no higher than fifth in Warmth Two in 11.34 seconds (season’s finest), as Cuba’s Yunisleydis Garcia was disqualified.
Lean Bertrand of Trinidad and Tobago additionally did not make progress after ending sixth in Warmth Three in 11.32 seconds.
Males’s 400m Hurdles – Hyde & Clarke (Jamaica)
Two of Jamaica’s three starters on the lads’s 400m hurdles heats superior to the semi-finals. These making it by have been Nationwide Champion Roshawn Clarke who completed third in Warmth 4 in 48.39 seconds, and Jaheel Hyde was second in Warmth 5 in 48.63 seconds.
Assinie Wilson didn’t begin in Warmth One.
Nevertheless, Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands received Warmth Two in 48.47 seconds. The US Virgin Islands’ Malique Smith was ninth in Warmth Three in 50.86 seconds, and Shakeem Corridor-Smith of The Bahamas might solely muster 49.61 seconds for seventh place in Warmth 5.
Girls’s 400m Hurdles – McLeod, Pryce, Younger (Jamaica) Williams, Miller-Uibo (Barbados) Gomez (Cuba) Abrams (Guyana) Paulino (Dominican Republic)
It was additionally complete progress for Jamaica’s ladies within the 400m heats. Candice McLeod completed third in Warmth One in 50.37 seconds; Nickisha Pryce received Warmth 4 in 50.38 seconds, whereas Charokee Younger completed sixth in Warmth Six in 51.24 seconds however superior as one of many quickest losers.
Sada Williams of Barbados received Warmth Three in 50.78 seconds however Shaunae Miller-Uibo, former champion who had solely not too long ago returned from maternity depart, completed seventh in a season finest 52.65 seconds and was eradicated.
Cuban Roxana Gomez was second in Warmth 4 in 50.86 seconds, whereas Guyana’s Aliyah Abrams completed fifth in Warmth 5 in 51.44 seconds.
Warmth Six was received by Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic in 49.90 seconds.
Males’s 400m – Bailey, Watson & Barnes (Jamaica) James (Grenada) Gardiner & Russell (Bahamas) Richards (Trinidad) Jones (Barbados)
Within the males’s 400m heats, Sean Bailey, Antonio Watson and Zandrion Barnes of Jamaica all superior.
Bailey completed third in Warmth 4 in 44.98 seconds, the occasion going to Grenada’s Kirani James in 44.91 seconds.
Watson received Warmth 5 in 44.77 seconds whereas Barnes was third in Warmth Six in 45.05 seconds.
The Bahamas’s Steven Gardiner received Warmth One in 44.65 seconds, with Michael Joseph of ST Lucia fifth in 45.04 to advance as nicely.
Gardiner’s teammate Alonzo Russell completed sixth in Warmth Two in 46.95 seconds and was eradicated, whereas Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago was third in Warmth Three in 45.15 seconds, with Barbados’ Jonathan Jones seventh in 46.03 seconds.
Males & Girls’s | Discus Throw – Corridor & Beckford (Jamaica), Thomas (Bahamas), Zayas (Cuba)
Within the ladies’s discus throw qualification Group B, Jamaica’s Samantha Corridor completed in 12th place with 58.43m, whereas her teammate Romaine Beckford was eradicated within the males’s excessive leap heats after clearing 2.22m in Group A for 11th place, nicely wanting the qualifying mark. Donald Thomas of The Bahamas was ninth with 2.25m and eradicated as nicely, however Cuba’s Luis Zayas superior from Group B with 2.28m after ending in joint fifth place.