Three Canadian athletes reached the next round on the second day of the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. Michelle Harrison in the Bolade Ajomale both run personal best performances in their heats to secure places in the semifinals. Lindsey Butterworth of BC ran close to its seasonal best in the women’s 800m heat to secure a place in Sunday’s final, among the closest margins.
Butterworth sat fifth in her heat with 150 yards to go as she released one last stream to take fourth place ahead of Poland Angelika Cichocka and 2: 01.99. The 800m final will be without the reigning Olympic silver medalist, Keely Hodgkinson of Britain, as she prayed before the onset of the Heat with an injury.
Canada’s Lindsey Butterworth pushes on the line to secure the final automatic qualifying spot in the ladies’ 800m!
What a finale it will be!#WorldIndoors #TeamCanada
– Canadian Running (@CanadianRunning) March 19, 2022
Canada bed Madeleine Kelly sat in the fastest qualifying position through three of four 800m heats, but her time of 2: 02.06 was not enough as her Canadian team-mate Butterworth overtook her in the fourth and final heat.
In the women’s 60m hurdles, Harrison knew it would take a personal best to get her to the semifinals, delivering a personal best of 8.11 seconds to qualify for Saturday’s semifinals.
A replacement on the Canada 4x100m silver medal-winning relay team in Tokyo, Ajomale made his statement in the 60m heats inside the world, winning a personal best of 6.57 seconds to win the heat in a commanding manner. He will face tough competition in his semifinals as he will face off Christian Coleman of the USA, which holds the 60m world lead this season of 6.45 seconds.
Defending Olympic Decathlon Champion, Damian Warnerstarted the second day of the Heptathlon with a personal best run in the 60m hurdles, giving himself a 38 point lead over Switzerland. Simon Ehammer. In the pole vault, Ehammer jumped Warner by 30 centimeters to regain the lead in the men’s heptathlon, with only one event to go. Even though Warner has a faster personal best over 1,000m, Ehammer leads 31 points ahead of Warner towards the final event.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen starts his 1500m campaign with 3: 38.42 to finish second in his heat 🇳🇴@Neil_Gourley wins its heat in 3: 42.79 and also qualifies for tomorrow night’s finals. #WorldIndoorChamps 🇷🇸 pic.twitter.com/zYsZq7LfW7
– AW (@AthleticsWeekly) March 19, 2022
The Olympic 1,500m champion and indoor world record holder, Jakob Ingebrigtsenpractically controlled his 1,500m heat, chasing the last 100m into the line for second place behind Tedse Lemi of Ethiopia. Canada bed Cameron Proceviat, who made his team Canada debut, was fourth in the heat four of the 1,500m men. Proceviat’s heat has a strange start, as has Kenya Abel Kipsang took the pack through 400m in 55 seconds., eventually becoming a pedestrian slowly over the next four laps. This tactic seems to exhaust many of the other runners in the heat, including Proceviat, as Kipsang closed hard over the last 400m to win the heat four.
The brilliant Yaroslava Mahuchikh: World Champion, after all.
“I want to show that Ukrainian people are strong people. They never give up.
“Our military is protecting our country at home and today I am protecting my country along the way.”
It took her three days to get to Belgrade. pic.twitter.com/r5r7R4RwzE
– Cathal Dennehy (@Cathal_Dennehy) March 19, 2022
The 20 year old phenomenon, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, made history in the women’s high jumps, and Ukraine won its first medal of the Games. Machuchichh had the audience on their feet as they jumped to a world-wide height of 2.02 meters to win gold for the yellow and blue.
Later on March 19th:
Men & # 39; s 800 m Finals – Marco Arop (14:00 ET)
Heptathlon Men (Final) – Damian Warner (14:30 ET)
Ladies & # 39; 1,500m Final – Lucia Stafford (15:30 ET)
Ladies & # 39; 60m Hurdles (Final) – Michelle Harrison (16:00 ET)
Men’s 60m (Final) – Bolade Ajomale (16:15 ET)
You can catch any action surrounding the 2022 World Indoor Championships on CBC Sports or online via the CBC Gem app. There is also live coverage of the championship on the World Athletics YouTube page.
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