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The 2022 World Athletics Championships was the eighteenth edition of the World Athletics Championships. It was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon , United States, from July 15–24, 2022, with the country hosting that competition for the first time.
The world leader coming into this was 18-year-old Erriyon Knighton with a 19.49. Alexander Ogando set a national record to win heat 1, Knighton won heat 3 and defending champion Noah Lyles won semi 2 ahead of the next fastest qualifier Kenny Bednarek , putting those four in the center of the track for the final.
World Leading Anderson Peters (GRN) 93.07 m: Doha, Qatar: 13 May 2022 African Record Julius Yego (KEN) 92.72 m: Beijing, China: 26 August 2015 Asian Record Cheng Chao-tsun (TPE) 91.36 m: Taipei City, Taipei: 26 August 2017 North, Central American and Caribbean record Anderson Peters (GRN) 93.07 m: Doha, Qatar: 13 May 2022 South American Record
The men's 100 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 15 and 16 July 2022. [ 1 ] 76 athletes from 53 nations entered to the competition. [ 2 ]
The semi-final took every athlete who broke 45 seconds into the final. By contrast, in 2015, sixteen athletes broke 45 in the semi-final round. 2015 was the second World Championships for two of the finalists, both former champions, Kirani James and world record holder Wayde van Niekerk. After what should have been a career-ending knee injury ...
World record Florence Griffith-Joyner (USA) 10.49: Indianapolis, United States 16 July 1988 Championship record Marion Jones (USA) 10.70: Seville, Spain 22 August 1999 World Leading Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM) 10.67: Nairobi, Kenya 7 May 2022 Paris, France 18 June 2022 African Record Murielle Ahouré (CIV) 10.78: Montverde, United States
Jackson's 21.45 was the second fastest of all time, the Championship record, a .1 improvement over her Jamaican Championship time and only .11 shy of FloJo's enduring world record from 1988. Jackson also became the first person to win medals in all three sprinting events, a feat Fred Kerley was also attempting and failed to accomplish this year ...
The podium from the previous championships all returned. Muktar Edris was now ranked #13 in the world, Selemon Barega #3 and Mohammed Ahmed #4. Olympic Champion and world record holder Joshua Cheptegei was #1. And there was Jakob Ingebrigtsen with no ranking at all and a chip on his shoulder after losing the 1500 earlier in the Championships.