TOKYO, Japan, CMC – In an exciting males’s lengthy soar closing that got here all the way down to the ultimate rounds, Jamaica’s Tajay Gayle captured the silver medal with a season’s greatest leap of 8.34m right here on Wednesday on the World Athletics Championships.
The medal completes a full set of World Championships {hardware} for Gayle, including to the gold he gained in Doha in 2019 and the bronze he secured in Budapest two years in the past.
Gayle seized the lead instantly, launching a large 8.33m soar within the very first spherical.
He held onto the highest spot till the fifth spherical, the place he was overtaken by Italy’s 20-year-old rising star, Mattia Furlani, who soared to a private better of 8.39m to assert a shocking gold medal.
“Properly, being on the rostrum actually is a wonderful feeling,” Gayle stated after the competitors. It’s nice to have three medals now for Jamaica: bronze, silver, and gold. I hoped for the gold, actually, however sadly, my hamstring wasn’t giving me a lot immediately.”
Gayle revealed he has been battling a sore hamstring for the reason that preliminary rounds. “I attempted my greatest to get it on the primary soar, however I knew after that, I didn’t have a lot to supply… It was an incredible competitors, although. The Italian deserved it.”
Furlani, the indoor world champion, now turns into the youngest ever winner of the World Athletics lengthy soar title. China’s Yuhao Shi took the bronze medal with a season’s better of 8.33m.
Gayle’s silver introduced Jamaica’s medal tally on the championships to 6, one gold, 4 silver, and one bronze.
On the monitor, Jamaica’s sprinters continued to impress. Within the males’s 200m, Christopher Taylor, Adrian Kerr, and Bryan Levell all secured their spots within the semi-finals.
Taylor and Kerr completed third of their respective heats, whereas Levell powered to a first-place end with the quickest ever 200m warmth, clocking 19.84 seconds to guide the qualifiers into Thursday’s semi-finals.
On the ladies’s facet, Shericka Jackson regarded dominant, successful her 200m warmth in 22.33 seconds. She was joined within the subsequent spherical by Ashanti Moore, who positioned second in her warmth in 22.57.
Shiann Salmon continued her sturdy season, clocking a season’s better of 54.03 seconds to qualify for the ultimate of the ladies’s 400m hurdles.
Within the area, Jordan Scott made mild work of qualifying for the lads’s triple soar closing, sealing his spot with a first-round effort of 17.19m.
Grenada’s two-time world champion Anderson Peters led the qualifiers within the males’s javelin with a season’s greatest throw of 89.53m. Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad & Tobago additionally punched his ticket to the ultimate along with his greatest effort of 83.93m.
