Women’s 60m
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This year, history invites Saint Lucia’s Julian Alfred to win his country’s first Olympic medal and, before that, a world indoor medal.
The 22-year-old, who is in her first year as a pro after dominating the indoor and outdoor boards in the U.S. college scene last season, is the only woman in the world this year to break 7.00 seconds in the 60-meter dash.
Despite a relatively late start, she posted a time of 6.99 on February 11 at New York’s Millrose Games, the gold event on the World Track and Field Indoor Tour. Considering she set a national record with a score of 6.94 last March, her potential seems to be impressive.
Alfred’s performance in Albuquerque moved her into a tie for second all-time with American Aleia Hobbs, who won that honor at the same venue last month.
Both are 0.02 seconds away from the world record of 6.92 points set by Russia’s Irina Privalova in 1993. Both have now entered the World Track and Field Indoor Championships to be held in Glasgow on the 24th, with Hobbs credited with her season’s best 7.02 after another impressive performance in Albuquerque on February 17th. The points were recorded.
Things won’t always go their way given the presence of Poland’s 26-year-old Ewa Svoboda. She recorded a difference of 7.01-0.02 seconds from her personal best, taking second place on this year’s top list and winning her World Athletics Indoor Tour gold medal. Torun’s home track.
Ewa Swoboda at the Belgrade 22 World Athletics Indoor Championships (© Getty Images)
Swoboda finished sixth in the women’s 100 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest last year with a time of 10.97 seconds. But it’s her indoors that has left her main impression on the sport so far.
She finished fourth in the over 60m at the last World Indoor Championships in Belgrade two years ago, missing out on the bronze medal by just 0.002 seconds.
In particular, she has fond memories of the Glasgow Arena, where she won the European indoor gold medal in 2019, the silver medal she replicated in Istanbul last year, and then the silver medal in 2017, so her performance two years later. It seems very likely that it will exceed.
Swoboda can count on guaranteed family support as her brother lives in Edinburgh.
“This is a big deal for me,” she says. She wants to “win medals and personal bests.”
Other strong medal candidates include Italy’s Zainab Dosso, a 24-year-old who finished 0.1 behind Swoboda in Toruń and is currently tied for third in the world rankings with Hobbs, and who has posted a 7.06 point and time this season. They include Mikia Briscoe of the United States, who recorded this. At the last World Indoor Championships, she won the silver medal as a non-sponsored runner with a personal best score of 6.99 points.
Other notable athletes include Jamaica’s Shashari Forbes, who ran a personal best time of 7.03 seconds this season, and the 2018 World U20 100m and 200m champion, who competed in the 4x100m at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago. They include 21-year-old Brianna Williams, who won gold.
Men’s 60m
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This is the year 100m and 200m world champion Noah Lyles plans to complete his title collection. And while his biggest ambition is to move up from bronze to gold at the Olympics later this year, his immediate challenge lies in Glasgow, where he will aim for his first world indoor medal.
Guess which one he has in mind.
The 26-year-old from Gainesville, Florida, the 2023 World Athlete of the Year in men’s track and field, topped this year’s world list and added to his resume by winning the 60m at the World Track and Field Indoor Championships in Glasgow. It is in an ideal position to further decorate. His personal best is 6.43.
Happily, fellow American sprinter Christian Coleman, who beat that time by 0.01 seconds at the U.S. Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, also makes the list. Coleman had set a world record of 6.34 at the same venue six years earlier.
The rematch between the reigning world 100m champion and the 2019 world champion will be one of the highlights of these championships, given the recent completion of a new track built for the 100m athletics at the Glasgow Arena. This will likely increase expectations for even faster times. The city will host his 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Lyles improved his winter performance at the start (perhaps his weakest part of the race) by lowering his personal best to 6.44 seconds with a win at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston on February 4. had already revealed his work. Among them was 2022 world 100m champion Fred Curley.
Lyles said after the race, “My confidence has increased tremendously. Let’s go get a world indoor medal.”
After his exploits in Albuquerque, his confidence is on track. “This is my least favorite event,” he said. “So you come outside and wow, there are fireworks.”
But that doesn’t mean we can rule out Coleman’s possibility. Coleman was a classic bullet over 60 meters and won the world indoor title in Birmingham shortly after setting the world record.
And given the presence of 22-year-old Jamaican Hakeem Blake, neither will be at ease. He ran a best of 6.42 and finished third in Boston with a 6.45, just 0.01 behind Lyles. World list of the year.
Jamaica’s Hakeem Blake (© Getty Images)
Meanwhile, Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala’s runaway train is picking up speed. The 28-year-old Commonwealth Games 100m champion won in Bercy on February 11 in a time of 6.51 seconds, shaving 0.03 seconds off her own 60m national record.
In addition to Japan’s Shuhei Tada, who set a personal best of 6.53 seconds this season, he won the 4th World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold Tournament in Torun with Liberia’s Emmanuel Matadi in 6.57 seconds, contributing to the wild card acquisition. I also want you to pay attention to Jeremiah Az from the UK. Entering Glasgow.
Also, don’t ignore Italian European Indoor Champion Samuele Ceccarelli. He has only run a 6.65 this season, but his best is 6.47. And Ireland’s 21-year-old Israel Olatunde has a national record of 6.57 points last season, although this year’s best is 6.71 points.
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