Sports Sunday, October 6, 2019 13 US men, eves win respective 4x100m relays

Jamaica’s Natalliah Whyte, Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaica’s Jonielle Smith and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson celebrate after taking gold in the women’s 4x100m relay final on Saturday. ( AFP) Fraser-Pryce wins ninth world title in relay AFP metres relay. big enough lead to breach pionshps as she also took The 32-year-old, who the line in 41.44 seconds silver in the 100m. (L-R) USA’s Noah Lyles, USA’s Michael Rodgers, USA’s Christian Coleman and USA’s Justin Gatlin celebrate winning the men’s won her fourth world with Britain’s 200m world Defending champions 4x100m Relay final at the IAAF Athletics World Championships Doha 2019 at the Khalifa International Stadium on Saturday. JamaicAn legend 100m title last Sunday, champion Dina Asher- United States rounded off The United States won a first men’s 4x100 metres relay title in 12 years as Christian Coleman and Noah Lyles get their second Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran a storming second leg Smith anchoring her team an underwhelming champi- Doha gold. The 100m winner Coleman, 100m silver-medallist Justin Gatlin, Michael Rodgers and 200m champ Noah Lyles secured her ninth world to put Jamaica firmly in to the silver (41.85sec). onshps for their 100/200m crossed the line in a national record 37.10 seconds to win from title holders Britain (European record 37.36) and Japan (Asian title on Saturday in Doha the driving seat. For Asher-Smith, it women sprinters, taking record 37.43). (AFP) as Jamaica won the 4x100 Shericka Jackson had a completed a superb cham- bronze in 42.10sec.

Kovacs bags thrilling men’s Venezuela’s Rojas retains Double gold shot put with final throw women’s triple jump title AFP as Hassan Doha Joe Kovacs of the United wins women’s States won the men’s shot put world title on Saturday with his sixth and final throw of 22.91 metres. The 30-year- 1,500m crown old’s effort was the joint third longest of all time in one of the all-time great shot finals that saw the 32-year-old champi- onship record of Switzerland’s Werner Gunther eclipsed by all three medallists. USA’s Joe Kovacs “It is great to do this in celebrates front of my wife,” said Ko- after winning vacs who was also 2015 world the men’s shot champion. “I just kept telling put final at the myself to hang on in there and Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas celebrates winning the women’s triple jump Khalifa Interna- keep calm. It will come good.” final at the Khalifa International Stadium on Saturday. Rojas retained tional Stadium Olympic champion Ryan her title recording a best mark of 15.37 metres. Shanieka Ricketts of on Saturday. (AFP) Crouser took silver with a final Jamaica took silver with a best of 14.92m while Colombia’s Olympic effort of 22.90m. champion Caterine Ibarguen won bronze (14.73m). (AFP)

STAR SHOW Of Dalilah Muhammad’s 400m hurdles Netherlands’ reacts after winning the women’s 1500m final at the Khalifa International Stadium on Saturday.( AFP) world record triumph in Doha AFP Doha Doha 2019 worlds alilah Muham- sunday schedule mad calls it her Sifan Hassan surged to her epiphany, the mo- second gold medal of the TIME M/W EVENT ROUND ment that set off a This means so much. I just World Championships with 19:02 W 100M Hurdles Semis Dchain reaction for all that came wanted the world title so victory in the 1,500 metres on 19:15 W Long Jump Final next: Olympic gold, world re- much but to break the world Saturday, shrugging off the 19:40 M Final cord and – on Friday night record again is fantastic. I doping controversy that has 19:55 M Javelin Throw Final at the IAAF embroiled her banned coach 20:00 M 10,000 Metres Final didn’t even know who won 20:50 W 100M Hurdles Final Championships Doha 2019 – the race. I was just looking Alberto Salazar. a long-awaited world title. The 26-year-old Ethiopian- 21:15 W 4x400M Relay Final To get that gold, she not to see who won and then I born Dutch runner romped 21:30 M 4x400M Relay Final only had to be the fastest ath- noticed when they said home in a world leading cham- lete on the night, but the fast- world record that I had pionship record time of 3min so mad.” est of all time. Ten hurdles, broken it. 51.95sec to take gold, with 2017 Hassan had run a master- 52.16 seconds, one lap of the champion Faith Kipyegon of ful race. After taking her time track and a place firmly es- – Dalilah Muhammad Kenya claiming silver and Ethi- at the back of the pack, she hit tablished among the all-time opia’s Gudaf Tsegay bronze. the front towards the end of greats. Her winning time was the the first lap and was always in But back to that epiphany. ance of her start on Friday sixth fastest in history, just control at the Khalifa Stadium. It was early 2016, Muhammad night meant she was only able under two seconds adrift of Britain’s Laura Muir was was 25 years old and coming to hold that until hurdle eight Genzebe DiBaba’s world mark on her shoulder at the bell but off a season where her talent this time, with fatigue setting of 3:50.07 set in 2015. Hassan turned on the speed had failed to truly fire. Two in that bit sooner. It was Hassan’s second with around 250m to go to years prior, she had won world “I definitely did think the gold medal of the champion- put clear daylight between her silver in Moscow but 2014 and race was pretty fast from the ships following her win in the and the rest of the field, fin- 2015 were mediocre seasons, (L-R) Silver medallist Sydney Mclaughlin and gold medallist Dalilah Muhammad of the USA, and bronze start. Sometimes you tell your- 10,000m, making her the first ishing around 20m ahead of the New York native strug- medallist Rushell Clayton of Jamaica on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women’s 400m self to back off a little, that woman to successfully double Kipyegon. gling with a string of injuries. hurdles at the at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha on Saturday. (AFP) you’re going too fast, but in in the two events. Hassan had startled many She picked up a quad this race I knew there was no It capped a tumultuous at the start of the champi- strain in an early-season race years on, “that’s what I’ve been her world record of 52.20. when Muhammad took gold in holding back. By the last 100 week for Hassan, who was onships after her win in the in 2014, ran on with it and going with ever since.” “I have not watched that Rio, but in 2019 in Doha, she you zone out and then you’re left stunned after Salazar’s 10,000m, showing a devastat- made things worse, her form Muhammad claimed race that much and the reason was by far the woman most trying to hold on.” four-year doping ban was an- ing turn of speed over the clos- never hitting the highs of the Olympic gold in 2016 in Rio, is just because I didn’t want to likely to beat her to gold. McLaughlin came charg- nounced on Tuesday. ing laps to take gold. previous year. Her issues lin- the humble, hard-working relive that moment and have For many previous races ing at Muhammad off the Salazar was barred from However she found herself gered in 2015 and in Febru- daughter of parents Nadirah that be the highlight of my ca- Muhammad would tell herself 10th hurdle, but Muhammed the championships following at the eye of storm on Tuesday ary of 2016, she parted ways and Askia suddenly catapulted reer,” she says. “I was so hap- highly specific things as she wasn’t for catching. She hit the the ban and his athletes from when news of Salazar’s four- with coach Yolanda Demus to international stardom. py but ultimately the World settled into her blocks, but this line exhausted, elated in 52.16, the Nike Oregon Project train- year suspension rocked the and linked up with Lawrence She ran 53.13 to win gold, Championships title was the time her mind went blissfully 0.07 clear of McLaughlin. ing group were ordered to im- championships. Johnson, who trains a group a few ticks down on the 52.88 goal this year.” blank. In recent weeks her coach mediately cease all communi- Salazar, 61, was suspended of high-level hurdlers at his she ran to win the US title ear- She took a week off train- “I think sometimes we get had often said to her that the cation with him. for a catalogue of drugs viola- base in Northridge, California. lier that summer, and what ing after Des Moines, then too in our heads and try to do short turnaround to Tokyo – “It’s a very hard week for tions uncovered in a years- It was around then she had both races showed was that went back into base work with everything perfect, sometimes now less than 10 months away – me,” Hassan told the BBC. long investigation by the Unit- a realisation. she had within her the capa- her focus on Doha. you just have to trust in what meant Muhammad would only “I was so just angry and I ed States Anti-Doping Agency “Why not me?” Muham- bility to rewrite the world re- There was no disguising you’ve been doing all year, get two weeks’ break for her off- could not talk to anyone. I just (USADA). mad recalls herself thinking. cord of 52.34, held by Russia’s her biggest threat, the woman trust in your training,” she season, but the world record- ran all out. That hard work Hassan joined the Oregon “Someone’s going to win the Yuliya Pechonkina since 2003. who could force Muhammad says. “I wasn’t really thinking holder, with some justification, can’t be beaten by anything. Project in late 2016, shortly 2016 Olympics so why can’t it That magical day arrived to settle for her third world sil- about anything: just go for it.” feels she’s earned more. “It’s what makes me angry, before an internal report by be you? You fought really hard in July this year, Muhammad ver medal. Sydney McLaugh- Muhammad had run 15 “There’s no way I’m taking I have been clean all my life. USADA detailing Salazar’s in 2013, so let’s go for it.” blitzing her opponents to take lin had been a 16-year-old sen- strides as far as hurdle nine two weeks,” she laughs. “He’ll I work hard, I’m not an emo- malpractice was leaked in She adds now, almost four her event to a new level with sation and her US teammate in the past, but the exuber- see me in a month.” (IAAF) tional person but it makes me early 2017.