The USA&rsquo;s 2016 Olympic shot put champion Michelle Carter has announced her retirement from competitive athletics.
The 36-year-old, who also won the 2016 world indoor title and is the US record-holder, confirmed her retirement plans ahead of last weekend&rsquo;s USATF Championships at Hayward Field, a competition that saw her extend her journey in the sport to an impressive 25 years.
Carter&rsquo;s first sport was football but she followed in the footsteps of her father &ndash; 1984 Olympic silver medallist Michael Carter &ndash; to take up the shot put. Her first competition outside of the United States was the 2001 World U18 Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, where she secured silver behind Valerie Adams. Three years later, Carter became the world U20 champion at the age of 18, throwing a PB of 17.55m in the last round to get gold. Coached by her father, she would go on to become the 2016 world indoor champion and Olympic gold medallist also thanks to her performances in the final rounds. 
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Michelle Carter at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland (&copy; Getty Images)
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Carter won the first of her 12 national titles in 2008, securing her a place on the team for her Olympic debut in Beijing. The following year she finished fifth at the World Championships in Berlin and that would prove to be one of five top-eight finishes she achieved on that stage, placing eighth in Daegu in 2011 and fourth in Moscow in 2013 before her bronze medal-winning performances in Beijing in 2015 and London in 2017.
In 2012 she secured silver at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul before finishing fourth at that year&rsquo;s Olympics in London, but four years later she claimed the top spot at both events.
First, competing on home soil at the World Indoor Championships in Portland, Carter threw an area record of 20.21m in response to Anita Marton&rsquo;s final round throw of 19.33m that had launched the Hungarian into the lead. Similarly, Carter saved her best until last at the Olympics in Rio and threw a US record of 20.63m to win ahead of Adams, who was targeting a third Olympic title.
Carter went on to make another world final in Doha in 2019 and Sunday&rsquo;s shot put final at the USATF Championships was her first competition since April 2021 and following the removal of a benign tumour on her ankle. 
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2016 Olympic shot put champion Michelle Carter in Rio (&copy; Getty Images)
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&ldquo;Your girl is going to finally put the shoes up, lay the shot down,&rdquo; Carter said in a video posted to social media. &ldquo;This year makes my 25th season, and I can&rsquo;t believe that I have been able to have such a great, long career. But I do feel that it is time for me to move on, and it is a little bittersweet because this has been part of my life for most of my life. I have been doing this sport a quarter of a century and it has been amazing.&rdquo;
With plans for a book, podcast and cosmetics line, Carter added: &ldquo;I am not walking away from track and field completely, I am still very involved and plan to continue to be very involved, but not as a competitor.&rdquo;
Nicknamed the Shot Diva, Carter is also founder of the You Throw Girl Confidence Camp and One Golden Shot, which strives to empower and encourage youth and communities in self-awareness and confidence building.
&ldquo;At You Throw Girl Camp we really want to build confidence in young female athletes to believe in who they are on and off the field,&rdquo; she said.
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The US shot putter also claimed the 2016 world indoor title during her successful career

Carter, 2016 Olympic shot put champion, announces retirement

Some 1900 athletes have qualified to compete at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 from 15-24 July.
The qualification period for individual track and field disciplines closed on 26 June following a busy weekend of national championships action, while the invitation process for relays ended on 28 June.
About 63 percent of athletes have qualified by entry standard, 33 percent by world ranking position and four percent by designated finishes in qualifying competitions (such as area championships). 75 countries are expected to enter athletes through universality places.
The <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/stats-zone/road-to/7137279" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Road to Oregon tool</a> on the World Athletics website shows which athletes &ndash; subject to being officially selected by their member federation &ndash; have qualified to compete at the World Championships, either by entry standard or world ranking position within a discipline&rsquo;s quota.
The tool identifies the first three qualifiers per nation (in bold) but any athlete who has qualified can be selected within the limit of three per nation. As this is a qualification monitoring tool, not an entry monitoring tool, it won't highlight which athletes have been officially selected by their member federation, but team announcements of many of the leading nations will be published on the World Athletics website in the weeks leading up to the championships.
Member federations have until the entry deadline of 4 July to submit their final selections.
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said: &ldquo;The end of the qualifying period is an important milestone on the way to our World Championships and the final qualified list is a good indicator of the unparalleled strength of our sport around the world. I&rsquo;m delighted to see that almost 200 countries have qualified athletes for the pinnacle event in our sport. As we begin the final countdown to the start of the World Championships in just 16 days, I wish every qualified athlete the best of fortune and I hope to see you all at your best in Oregon.&rdquo; &nbsp;
Wild card entries are offered to all individual winners from the World Athletics Championships Doha 2019, along with the winners of the 2021 Wanda Diamond League and Combined Events Challenge. The acceptance of those wild card entries, however, rests with member federations. Only one wildcard can be used by a member federation in each discipline.
Several places in relay disciplines, meanwhile, were claimed at the World Athletics Relays Silesia 21.
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World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

Some 1900 athletes will be in action in Eugene from 15-24 July

Qualification period ends for World Athletics Championships Oregon22

The Wanda Diamond League series continues in Stockholm on Thursday (30) with the Bauhaus Galan.
Neeraj Chopra, Dina Asher-Smith and Marcell Jacobs will all be in action as <a href="https://www.worldathletics.org/competitions/diamond-league/news/stockholm-bauhaus-galan-duplantis-stahl-mahuchikh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the world's best athletes descend on&nbsp; the Swedish capital</a> this week for the last Wanda Diamond League meeting before the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.
The action begins at 17:45 local time (CEST) with the women's shot put and the main programme kicks off at 20:00 with the women's 400m hurdles.
Here&rsquo;s how you can follow the action in Stockholm.
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<h2>Where to watch</h2>
<a href="https://stockholm.diamondleague.com/program-resultat-stockholm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Results, programme and entry lists</a> | <a href="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/62bdc8a0543dd2ca01677b2f.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">media information sheets and biographies</a>
The meeting will be streamed in a number of territories on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/diamondleague/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wanda Diamond League YouTube page</a> from 20:00 local time (CEST). The livestream will not be available in all territories. To find out where the meeting may be broadcast in your country, check the list below. If your country does not appear on the list, please check local listings. The list is subject to change, and some broadcasters may only show highlights coverage, while others will show the meeting live. Please check your local listings to find out more information. 
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<td valign="top">Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba), Cayman Islands, Cuba, Cura&ccedil;ao, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Saint Barth&eacute;lemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands</td>
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<td valign="top">Sky Deutschland</td>
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<td valign="top">Bhutan, Bolivia, Chile, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, North Korea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, Venezuela</td>
<td valign="top">Wanda Diamond League YouTube / Facebook</td>
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<h2>Social media</h2>
- World Athletics: <a href="https://twitter.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WorldAthletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/worldathletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@worldathletics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> - Wanda Diamond League: <a href="https://twitter.com/diamond_league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DiamondLeague/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/diamondleagueathletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> - Bauhaus Galan: <a href="https://stockholm.diamondleague.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Website</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/bauhausgalan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>&nbsp;| <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StockholmBAUHAUSAthletics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>&nbsp;
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Here's how you can catch all the action at the Meeting de Paris

How to follow and watch the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm

It was in Stockholm&rsquo;s evocative 1912 Olympic Stadium that Armand Gustav Duplantis completed his first winning vault on the Wanda Diamond League circuit. That was back in the pre-pandemic mists of 2018, when the US-born Swede was still striving to make his name as an 18-year-old rookie on the senior international track and field scene.
Four years on, the 2022 edition of the Bauhaus-Galan Diamond League meeting in &lsquo;Stockholms Olympiastadion&rsquo; on Thursday (30) presents Mondo Duplantis with the opportunity to raise his outdoor season game a significant notch as he prepares to challenge for the one major prize missing from his pole vault collection: a world outdoor title.
In the last Diamond League gathering before the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 opens for gold medal business on 15 July, Duplantis will be seeking something more than a 17th Diamond League meeting success &ndash; and a 12th win out of 12 indoors and out in 2022. 
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 To his credit, the 22-year-old world record-holder and Olympic and world indoor champion has kept winning in the rain, and the gusting winds, while the stormy weather has followed him around the global outdoor circuit, notching world leads of 6.01m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Hengelo on 4 June and 6.02m at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo on 16 June.
Assuming the mid-summer Scandinavian weather is more favourable, however, Duplantis could finally think about scaling something closer towards the 6.20m world record he cleared at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Belgrade 22 in March.&nbsp;
&ldquo;When you get to the outdoor season, you&rsquo;re not going to get perfect conditions every day,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s part of the game, I guess, but I know that when the weather&rsquo;s right, and everything&rsquo;s lined up, I&rsquo;m going to jump something really high.&rdquo;
It would be perhaps stretching expectations a little too high to speculate that Duplantis might draw upon the historical track and field gods and grace the hallowed Stockholms Olympiastadion with an 84th world record.
Still, just for the record, it is 25 years since the 83rd global mark was set there: the 1:41.73 run in 1997 with which the great Dane Wilson Kipketer equalled Sebastian Coe&rsquo;s 800m figures from 1981. It also just happens to be 50 years this month since the only pole vault world record set on Swedish soil: the 5.55m cleared at Helsingborg in June 1972 by Kjell Isaksson, the Swede who gained global fame in the international Superstars television competition.
Duplantis &ndash; who faces the trio of vaulters who placed behind him in the Olympic final last year: Chris Nilsen, Brazilian Thiago Braz and Nilsen&rsquo;s US teammate KC Lightfoot &ndash; has the added motivation of competing in his new hometown. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m spending a lot of time in Stockholm now,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I just bought a flat here with my girlfriend, Desire.&rdquo;
The new Stockholmer has won five of the six competitions he has contested in the Olympic Stadium in the Swedish capital: Diamond League meetings in 2018, 2020 and 2021, plus the Finnkampen senior contest in 2019 and U18 competition in 2015. His only defeat came as a 15-year-old in the 2015 senior Finnkampen: &ldquo;Finn Battle&rdquo;, as the annual track and field fixture against Finland is known in Sweden. He placed third with a clearance of 5.17m.
Unlike Duplantis, Sweden&rsquo;s other golden boy of the Tokyo Olympics, Daniel Stahl, has been obliged to fight his way into winning form this season, and on to the top of the 2022 world list for the discus. 
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Daniel Stahl in discus action at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Brussels (&copy; Getty Images)
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The 29-year-old found himself overshadowed by the 6ft 9in Kristjan Ceh in Diamond League defeats in Birmingham, Rabat and Rome. The Slovenian threw a Diamond League record 71.27m in Birmingham on 21 May to go 10th on the world all-time list, and also beat Stahl at the European Throwing Cup meeting at Leiria in Portugal in March.
Stahl, however, turned the tables at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku on 14 June, eclipsing Ceh&rsquo;s 67.76m with a season&rsquo;s best 70.62m, taking his head-to-head record against the European U23 champion to 14-4.
He followed that up last week (21) by claiming the 2022 top spot with a stunning 71.47m throw at the Swedish Team Championships in Uppsala &ndash; the second-best mark of his career, behind the 71.86m national record he notched in 2019. Having also nailed victories in the Sollentuna Grand Prix on 12 June and the Kuortane Games on 18 June, Stahl will be determined to keep the tables turned on his burgeoning young rival.
It is a measure of the towering Ceh&rsquo;s progress that fifth place in the Olympic final was regarded as a major advancement. In Stockholm he will face two of the three men who made the podium ahead of him &ndash; home throwers Stahl and Simon Pettersson &ndash; plus fourth-placed Matt Denny of Australia, Lithuania&rsquo;s European champion Andrius Gudzius and 19-year-old Mykolas Alekna (son of former world and Olympic champion Virgilijus), who threw 69.00m to win the Lithuanian title last Saturday (25), the best ever mark by a teenager.
It is the first year since 2008 in which two men have ventured beyond 71 metres. Given even half-favourable conditions, the red-hot competition ought to imperil Frederick Dacres&rsquo; four-year-old stadium record of 69.67m.
The men&rsquo;s javelin also features a full set of Tokyo medal winners: India&rsquo;s Neeraj Chopra and Czech team-mates Jakub Vadlejch and Vitezslav Vesely. Add 2022 world leader and Grenada&rsquo;s reigning world champion Anderson Peters to the mix, plus near-90m men Oliver Helander of Finland and Germany&rsquo;s Julian Weber, and you have one heady cocktail.
For Chopra, it will be a first Diamond League date of the season &ndash; indeed, his first in almost four years, since the 2018 Weltklasse in Zurich. In his two 2022 appearances to date, the 24-year-old got the better of Peters in Turku on 14 June and in Kuortane four days later. Despite improving his Indian record to 89.30m in Turku, he was trumped by Helander&rsquo;s 89.83m. In Kuortane he threw a third-round 86.69m before slipping and hurting himself on the runway.
The Asian champion will need to be fully recovered to meet the challenge of the emerging Helander, Peters and Vadlejch, who threw a lifetime best of 89.87m behind Peters&rsquo; monster 93.07m at the opening Diamond League fixture of the year in Doha last month. Weber threw a lifetime best 89.54 as runner up to Peters at the FBK Games in Hengelo on 6 June and took the German title with 86.61m last weekend.
A night of potentially classic throws contests also includes a loaded women&rsquo;s shot.
Unbeaten in six competitions now in 2022, Chase Ealey arrives in Stockholm fresh from her 20.51m world lead on the closing day of the US Championships in Eugene on Sunday (26). The put equated to a 38cm advancement in the world indoor silver medallist&rsquo;s lifetime best and knocked the 20.38m by China&rsquo;s Song Jiayuan off the top of the global list. 
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Shot put winner Chase Ealey at the Doha Diamond League (&copy; Getty Images)
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In the Swedish capital, the seemingly untouchable Ealey will face another bang in-form thrower. At the Canadian Championships in Langley on Saturday (25), Sarah Mitton breached the 20m barrier for the first time, improving her national record to 20.33m.
Having failed to venture beyond the qualifying round at the Tokyo Olympics, and finished seventh at the World Indoor Championships in March, the 27-year-old will be looking to maintain momentum before challenging for a place on the world outdoor podium in Oregon.
The field also features Portugal&rsquo;s world indoor champion Auriol Dongmo, world indoor bronze medallist Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands, Jamaica&rsquo;s 2019 world silver medal winner Danniel Thomas-Dodd and Sweden&rsquo;s European indoor silver medallist Fanny Roos.
On the track, Olympic 100m champion Marcell Jacobs will be aiming to prove his form and fitness ahead of the World Championships with what would be the 27-year-old US-born Italian&rsquo;s maiden victory in a Diamond League fixture.
The former long jumper has contested only two outdoor meetings since a trailblazing indoor campaign in which he won 12 out of the 12 races he managed to complete at 60m (also false starting in the Belgrade Invitational). He withdrew from Diamond League dates in Eugene, Rome and Oslo after suffering a minor muscle injury in the Citta di Savona meeting on 18 May, where he won his heat in a wind-assisted 9.99 and the final in 10.04.
Jacobs was clearly not pushing at full throttle as he eased to heat (10.17) and final (10.12) victories on his return to action at the Italian Championships in Rieti on Saturday (25). News of Fred Kerley&rsquo;s world-leading 9.77 at the US Championships in Eugene left him far from daunted by the prospect of facing the sprinter who took Olympic silver behind him in Tokyo, tweeting his rival the message: &ldquo;Looking for a nice battle! See you in Oregon.&rdquo;
Jacobs, who finished runner up to Kerley&rsquo;s US teammate Ronnie Baker in Stockholm a year ago, will test his form against Reece Prescod, the Briton who clocked a lifetime best 9.93 in Ostrava last month, and 9.84 man Akani Simbine of South Africa, who finished third in the Diamond League meeting in Oslo on 16 June. Prescod had to settle for second place behind&nbsp; the inspired Jeremiah Azu at the British Championships last Saturday (25),clocking a wind-assisted 9.94 (2.5m/s) behind the Welsh sprinter&rsquo;s 9.90. 
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Marcell Jacobs on his way to winning the Italian 100m title (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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An intriguing women&rsquo;s 200m pits Switzerland&rsquo;s in-form Mujinga Kambundji against Britain&rsquo;s reigning world champion Dina Asher-Smith. In recent weeks, the 29-year-old Kambundji has regained the momentum that took her to that stunning 60m victory at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade in March, clocking national records at 200m (22.18) in Bern on 14 June and at 100m (10.89) at the Swiss Championships in Zurich last Friday (24).
Asher-Smith has yet to get back into full-throttle form following the hamstring injury that ruined her Olympic ambitions last year, finishing 0.09 down on Daryll Neita over 100m at the British Championships last Saturday (25). Neita, who was blown to a 10.80 clocking in Manchester by a 3.8m/s wind, will have the chance to revise her lifetime best at the longer distance, 22.81. The Olympic 100m finalist won her national 200m title on Sunday (26) in a wind-aided 22.34 (3.5m/s).
Having enjoyed a pass from the US Championships final courtesy of her gold medal performance in Doha three years ago, reigning 100m hurdles world champion Nia Ali tests her pre-Oregon form against Puerto Rico&rsquo;s Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn plus France&rsquo;s world indoor champion Cyrena Samba-Mayela and Tobi Amusan of Nigeria, who scorched to a 12.41 African record at the Diamond League meeting in Paris.
World, Olympic and European long jump champion Malaika Mihambo took her record for the season to five wins from six competitions with a 6.85m leap at the German Championships in Berlin on Sunday. Her one defeat came in the Diamond League meeting in Rome on 9 June, when she finished runner-up to Maryna Bekh-Romanchukh, the Ukrainian she beat to world outdoor gold with a mighty 7.30m in Doha two years ago.
The pair meet again in Stockholm, in a field that also includes Serbia&rsquo;s world indoor champion Ivana Vuelta, Olympic bronze medallist Ese Brume of Nigeria and Sweden&rsquo;s European indoor bronze medallist Khaddi Sagnia.
Ukraine&rsquo;s world indoor high jump champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh will be seeking to extend her unbeaten 2022 outdoor record to a fifth competition, following Diamond League victories in Eugene, Rabat and Paris and a 2.03m world lead performance in Brno on 22 June.
At 20, Mahuchikh has already bagged world and European indoor titles plus world outdoor silver and Olympic bronze. As the only female jumper to have cleared 2.00m this summer &ndash; with 2.00m in Eugene, 2.01m in Paris, plus that 2.03m in Brno &ndash; she is approaching the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 as the woman to beat. 
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Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh (&copy; Christel Saneh)
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In Stockholm she faces Australia&rsquo;s Eleanor Patterson, who cleared 2.00m to finish runner up to Mahuchikh&rsquo;s 2.02m at the World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, plus fellow Ukrainian Iryna Geraschenko, who pushed her close in Paris with a 1.98m clearance, and Elena Vallortigara, who cleared 1.98m at the Italian Championships in Rieti on Sunday (26).
Another 20-year-old Olympic silver medallist, Keely Hodgkinson, will also be aiming to record a fourth win out of four appearances in the Diamond League this season. Victorious in Birmingham, Eugene and Oslo, the British 800m runner faces Uganda&rsquo;s reigning world outdoor champion Halimah Nakaayi.
Second now in the world list following Rai Benjamin&rsquo;s 47.04 at the US Championships, Brazil&rsquo;s Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medallist Alison dos Santos &ndash; who clocked 47.23 at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene &ndash; lines up against the emerging Estonian Rasmus Magi, third on the world list with 47.82. In the women&rsquo;s one lap hurdles, Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol of the Netherlands will be looking to improve on the 52.47 stadium record she set last year in a field that also includes Ukraine&rsquo;s European silver medallist Anna Ryzhkova.
The men&rsquo;s 800m provides Kenya&rsquo;s Olympic gold and silver medal winners Emmanuel Korir and Ferguson Rotich with an opportunity to rediscover their Tokyo form, having failed to feature in the top five in Diamond League races this season. Benjamin Robert will have the chance to prove his victory in the Diamond League meeting in Paris on 18 June was no home-ground fluke. Disqualified, then reinstated after barging his way to the front in the home straight, the 24-year-old from Toulouse clocked a lifetime best of 1:44.14 in the French capital.
Gabriel Tual, fourth in Stade Charlety with a 1:44.23 PB, will be another Frenchman looking to continue his upward trajectory, while the field also includes newly-crowned US champion and world indoor bronze medallist Bryce Hoppell. In the men&rsquo;s 3000m, Uganda&rsquo;s Olympic 10,000m bronze medallist Jacob Kiplimo tests his speed.
In the men&rsquo;s long jump, a non-Diamond League event, Olympic, European and world indoor champion Militadis Tentaglou will be looking to extend his winning outdoor record to seven from seven. The 24-year-old Greek, who has a season&rsquo;s best of 8.36m, takes on world indoor runner-up Thobias Montler of Sweden.
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics

Athletes head to Sweden for the final Wanda Diamond League meeting before the World Championships in Oregon

Stockholm stages strong test for stars on road to Oregon

Jenn Suhr, who won Olympic gold in 2012 as part of a highly successful pole vault career, has announced her retirement from competitive athletics.
The 40-year-old, whose professional career spanned 17 years, also claimed the world indoor title in 2016 and secured three global silver medals &ndash; at the 2008 Olympics and World Indoor Championships as well as at the 2013 World Championships.
Her 5.03m vault in 2016 remains the highest ever indoor clearance and she achieved her outdoor best of 4.93m in 2018. 
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Starting out as a collegiate basketball player from Fredonia, New York, Suhr took part in track and field events such as the hurdles, high jump, javelin and relays to keep fit but only took up the pole vault at the age of 22. She won the first of her 17 US titles within the first year of her pole vault career and would go on to set a total of 12 national records.
Suhr made her World Championships debut in Osaka in 2007 and reached the final. The following year she became a world indoor silver medallist in Valencia and emulated that by claiming Olympic silver in Beijing.
Guided by her coach and husband, Rick, Olympic gold in London would follow four years later and she surpassed five metres for the first time in 2013, soaring clear at 5.02m at the US Indoor Championships in Albuquerque in the March. No other athlete has ever gone higher indoors.
Five months later she claimed world silver in Moscow before winning the world indoor title on home soil in Portland in a 2016 season that saw her improve to 5.03m in the January. 
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 &ldquo;The words will come to me soon but my heart and soul are ready for the next phase of my life,&rdquo; she wrote on social media.
&ldquo;Pole vault unlocked more than I could have wished for and let me experience more than I could have dreamed of. I started pole vaulting as a senior in college, unaware of where this life would lead and provide for me. I will forever be grateful.
&ldquo;I say goodbye, not with a heavy heart, but with an enthusiasm I haven&rsquo;t felt in some time.&rdquo;
World Athletics

The US athlete also won the 2016 world indoor title and cleared 5.03m during her career

Suhr, 2012 Olympic pole vault champion, retires

The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced that banned Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been found to have committed additional anti-doping rule violations &ndash; specifically evading sample collection, and tampering or attempted tampering with the doping control process.
While Okagbare has had her current 10-year ban from athletics extended by one year (now 11 years in total), another significant consequence of this decision against her is that Nigeria has lost its potential qualification place for the women&rsquo;s 4x100m relay at next month&rsquo;s World Athletics Championships Oregon22. This is because six days after Okagbare evaded sample collection (13 June 2021), she competed in the 4x100m relay event at the Nigeria Olympic Trials, with her relay squad qualifying for this year&rsquo;s World Championships. All individual and relay results involving Okagbare, from 13 June 2021, are now disqualified under the rules.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Over the years, we have repeatedly seen how one person&rsquo;s actions adversely affect teammates who have trained hard and worked honestly for their results,&rdquo; noted head of the AIU, Brett Clothier.
&ldquo;In a relay team, if one member violates the anti-doping rules, everyone bears the brunt of results being expunged. They all pay the price. In this instance, Nigeria has lost an important qualification spot. Those are the rules and we will not compromise on integrity.&rdquo;
On 14 February 2022, the Disciplinary Tribunal banned Okagbare for 10 years; consecutive five-year bans for the presence and use of multiple prohibited substances, and for her refusal to co-operate with the AIU&rsquo;s investigation into her case. The prohibited substances were human growth hormone (hGH) and recombinant erythropoietin (EPO). This decision stemmed from charges which the AIU brought against Okagbare on 7 October 2021. Details can be read <a href="https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/downloads/pdfs/know-us/en/ATHLETICS-INTEGRITY-UNIT-ISSUES-CHARGES-AGAINST-NIGERIAN-SPRINTER-BLESSING-OKAGBARE-IN-RELATION-TO-THREE-DISCIPLINARY-MATTERS.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;
On 10 June 2022, the AIU further charged Okagbare with evading sample collection, and tampering or attempted tampering with the doping control process. These charges related to the circumstances of the athlete&rsquo;s whereabouts failure on 13 June 2021, and were pursued based on information in a criminal charge, brought against US-based &ldquo;naturopathic&rdquo; therapist Eric Lira, on 12 January 2022, by the United States Department of Justice under the Rodchenkov Act. Lira is alleged to have supplied performance-enhancing drugs to athletes before the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (delayed until summer 2021 because of the Covid-19 pandemic).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The complaint against Lira provides specific information of his interaction with a person named &lsquo;Athlete 1&rsquo;, including a written exchange on or around 13 June 2021, demonstrating that &lsquo;Athlete 1&rsquo; knowingly and deliberately avoided testing by a doping control officer in Jacksonsville, Florida. There was also other pertinent information about &lsquo;Athlete 1&rsquo; in the criminal complaint which led the AIU Disciplinary Tribunal&rsquo;s sole arbitrator to be &ldquo;comfortably satisfied&rdquo; that &lsquo;Athlete 1&rsquo; is Blessing Okagbare, including text conversations imaged from Okagbare&rsquo;s mobile phone by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).&nbsp;&nbsp;
Okagbare failed to respond to the charges by the extended deadline (21 June 2022) and is therefore deemed to have admitted the anti-doping rule violations (under Rule 2.3 and Rule 2.5 of the World Athletics Anti-Doping Rules) and to have accepted the consequences.&nbsp;&nbsp;
The reasoned decision can be accessed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/downloads/pdfs/disciplinary-process/en/AIU-21-133-OKAGBARE-2.3_2.5_Decision.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Athletics Integrity Unit 
The Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) is the independent body created by World Athletics that manages all integrity issues &ndash; both doping and non-doping &ndash; for the sport of athletics. The remit of the AIU includes anti-doping, the pursuit of individuals engaged in age or competition results manipulation, investigating fraudulent behaviour with regards to transfers of allegiance, and detecting other misconduct including bribery and breaches of betting rules. It is the AIU&rsquo;s role to drive cheats out of our sport, and to do everything within its power to support honest athletes around the world who dedicate their lives to reaching their sporting goals through dedication and hard work.

The AIU has announced that banned Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare has been found to have committed additional anti-doping rule violations

Okagbare's further ban disqualifies Nigeria's 4x100m squad's qualifying time for World Championships

World U20 champion Tina Clayton ran a national U20 record to win the women's 100m title at the Jamaican U20 Championships&nbsp;in Kingston on Friday (24).
The 17-year-old registered her first sub-11-second clocking to supplant Briana Williams as the Jamaican U20 record-holder and climb to fifth on the world U20 all-time list after clocking 10.96 (1.0m/s).
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great feeling getting a new personal best,&rdquo; said Clayton, whose previous best was the 11.09 that landed her the world U20 title in Nairobi, Kenya, last year.
&ldquo;This just motivates me to continue training hard, be disciplined and listen to my coach.&rdquo;
In another thrilling final, as athletes target August's World Athletics U20 Championships Cali 22, Sandrey Davison secured back-to-back domestic U20 titles when he made a strong rally through the last 40 metres to win the men&rsquo;s equivalent in 10.20 (0.7m/s), a personal best. 
&ldquo;I almost fell coming out of the blocks while trying to get my drive phase correct,&rdquo; said the world U20 4x100m silver medallist. &ldquo;But I regrouped quickly and told myself that I&rsquo;m going to finish strong and be victorious.&rdquo;
Bouwahjgie Nkrumie, who dominated most of the race before Davison overtook him at the finish line, registered a personal best of 10.22.&nbsp;
A confident Davison duly completed the sprint double two days later, running a lifetime best of 20.84 in the 200m (-0.1 m/s).
Kerrica Hill continued the impressive form she displayed at the Jamaican high school championships by establishing an U18 and U20 world lead in the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles final. In wet conditions, Hill was flawless in negotiating the barriers in a lifetime best of 12.98 (1.5m/s). 
&ldquo;I feel pretty good. I was not expecting the personal best because of the weather,&rdquo; said Hill. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been putting in the work and now I&rsquo;m focused on going to Cali and representing well.&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;
Roshawn Clarke solidified his status as Jamaica&rsquo;s best one-lap hurdler when he blitzed the field to win the event in a lifetime best of 49.39. Despite the achievement, Clarke believes there is room for improvement. 
&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s race wasn&rsquo;t perfect, my execution could have been better,&rdquo; said the CARIFTA champion.
Clarke, who sits second on the world list, added: &ldquo;I was expecting a particular time, but I didn&rsquo;t get it, so I&rsquo;m not pleased about that, but I&rsquo;m still grateful for the PB and will work to get it right in Colombia.&rdquo;
Elsewhere, world U20 silver medallist Jaydon Hibbert opted to compete against the seniors in the men&rsquo;s triple jump. The 17-year-old maintained his unbeaten streak this season, bounding out to 16.41m (-1.2m/s) to win his first senior title.
In the discus ring, Cedricka Williams shattered the national U20 record in the women&rsquo;s discus after launching the implement out to 56.21m in the fourth round. Shanice Love had established the previous record (54.72m) in 2016.
Kobe Lawrence upstaged favourite Christopher Young to win the men&rsquo;s U20 discus throw with 62.67m, a personal best. Young, who was the world leader until March with 61.66m, produced his best effort of 58.47m in the final round to claim second.
Noel Francis for World Athletics

World Athletics U20 Championships

The world U20 champion moves to fifth on the world U20 all-time list

Clayton sets 10.96 Jamaican U20 100m record in Kingston 

For Malaika Mihambo, it&rsquo;s never over, it would seem.
It was put to the German long jump queen on the eve of her fourth competition of this crowded 2022 outdoor season, the FBK Games in Hengelo (6 June), that she was the &ldquo;Chef der letzten Runde&rdquo; - the chief of the last round.
The suggestion drew a wry smile from Mihambo, an engagingly erudite individual who likes to spend her off-seasons meditating and absorbing the culture in India and Thailand.
&ldquo;For me, the competition is only over after the sixth attempt,&ldquo; the world, Olympic and European champion said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m all in until the competition is over. Whether it&rsquo;s the sixth round, or the third, it doesn&rsquo;t matter: I&rsquo;m giving it my all. Even if the odds don&rsquo;t seem that good, I don&rsquo;t give up.&ldquo;
As if to prove the point again &ndash; after the dramatic last-gasp effort that took her to Olympic gold in Tokyo last year &ndash; Mihambo proceeded to propel herself out of the long jump equivalent of the last chance saloon with another victory-grabbing final round leap in the rain-lashed Fanny Blankers-Koen Stadion. 
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Malaika Mihambo competes in Hengelo (&copy; Dan Vernon)
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Trailing to a wind-assisted 6.53m from Quanesha Burks of the US, the 28-year-old graduate in political science from the quaint university town of Heidelberg in south-west Germany uncorked a sixth-round leap of 6.65m. In the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Rome three days later, she was unable to repeat the trick, finishing 6cm down on Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, the Ukrainian she beat to world gold in Doha three years ago, with 6.79m.&nbsp;
Still, with a world lead of 7.09m from the Birmingham Diamond League meeting on 21 May, and five wins from six competitions in the 2022 outdoor season, Mihambo is on an encouraging overall roll as she seeks to complete a hattrick of consecutive global outdoor titles at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 next month. She won the German outdoor title for a sixth time with 6.85m in Berlin on Sunday (26) and faces a final test before Oregon in the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Stockholm on Thursday (30).
Having bagged the world title ahead of Bekh-Romanchuk in Doha in 2019 with a mighty 7.30m leap and the Olympic crown in Tokyo last year, the Oregon trail beckons with the promise of the pride of TSV Oftersheim producing the first three-peat on the global outdoor stage since Brittney Reese of the USA hit the gold standard at the 2009 and 2011 World Championships and 2012 Olympics &ndash; plus, one more time, for good measure, at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow.
It was a measure of Mihambo&rsquo;s mettle that she managed to finish on top of the pile in Tokyo - not just because of the stunning fashion in which she upgraded from bronze to gold with her final effort, her 7.00m leap trumping both Reese and Nigeria&rsquo;s Ese Brume, who had both jumped 6.97m. 
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Malaika Mihambo competes in the women's long jump final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (&copy; Getty Images)
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All through 2021 Mihambo struggled to find her rhythm on the runway. After winning at the Oslo Diamond League on 1 June, she only won one of five competitions: the Olympic final in Tokyo. In 2019, pre Covid, she triumphed in 10 out of 10.
The drop in consistency followed a period of turmoil off the track: a prolonged break from training because of a back injury and the Covid pandemic, a change of coach and a struggle to shift from shortened to full-length run ups.
Having parted with her coach of 15 years, Ralf Weber, Mihambo was preparing to move to Houston to train under Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell until the advent of Coronavirus.
Instead, she stayed at home and hooked up with Uli Knapp, Germany&rsquo;s national women&rsquo;s long jump event coach. Though the switch is bearing dividends now, Mihambo confides that her hopes of linking up in some form with Lewis and Burrell are &ndash; like her approach to the totality of rounds in the competitive arena &ndash; far from over.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not finished,&rdquo; she said, when asked about Lewis, the four-time Olympic and two-time world long jump champion, and Burrell, the former 100m world record-holder.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It was delayed because of Coronavirus but then I found Uli. I&rsquo;m really happy training with him because of what he can do on the one hand with his technical expertise and also on the human level. He&rsquo;s a really special person.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m still interested to go outside and see the training camp of Leroy Burrell and Carl Lewis but right now I have my coach and I&rsquo;m happy. I would like to see their training camp and how they work together, but with my coach now still as my head coach.
&ldquo;Uli is really a great person. He&rsquo;s super-empathetic. He&rsquo;s really kind-hearted - always looks as me as a person, not only as an athlete. My personal wellbeing is always the most important for him.
&ldquo;It makes working together something really special. I&rsquo;m really grateful for having that with Uli.&rdquo; 
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Malaika Mihambo competes at the 2018 European Championships in Berlin (&copy; Getty Images)
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The pair first started working together in June 2020 and Mihambo confessed: &ldquo;The first year was a bit tough. I had a three or four-month break in the first Coronavirus lockdown because my back was injured. I couldn&rsquo;t train or jump.
&ldquo;You lose much of your substance that you have built up. So we decided then to jump from the short approach, only 16 steps, and the rhythm was completely different form the long approach, about 20 steps. It&rsquo;s around 10 metres less.
&ldquo;Then, coming back to the long approach in winter 2020-21, it was really difficult to change the rhythm back to normal. I had a confused approach set-up in my mind. I couldn&rsquo;t really find a stable approach.
&ldquo;In the last winter season we focused on sprints and technique, on stability in sprinting, and I think it&rsquo;s paid off. I feel really good now and I&rsquo;m confident about this season.&rdquo;
The pinnacle of the season, of course, is the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 &ndash; a fourth World Championships for Mihambo.
She made her debut as a 19-year-old in Moscow in 2013, fresh from victory at the European U20 Championships, placing 18th in qualifying. Two years later in Beijing, the year she won the European U23 title, she reached the final and finished sixth.&nbsp;
Then, in 2019, came victory in Doha - with the 7.30m jump that places her 12th on the world all-time list.
Beyond Oregon, there is the chance to win European Championships gold on home ground for a second time. Having taken the continental title in Berlin in 2018, Mihambo will get the chance to defend it in Munich in August &ndash; in the Olympiastadion arena where Heide Rosendahl claimed home Olympic long jump gold for Germany half a century ago.
&ldquo;For sure, it&rsquo;s a really amazing thing to jump in front of your home crowd,&rdquo; said Germany&rsquo;s sportswoman of the year. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s where my heart is.
&ldquo;Titles are nice and I am really happy that I have achieved them, but for me sport is something where I can train to be the best version of myself - where I can try to overcome my limits and grow, not only as an athlete but also as a person.
&ldquo;That is why I keep focused and motivated and why I am always looking to get better - not just for the titles, but to grow and be happy.&rdquo;&nbsp; 
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 That personal growth has encompassed broadening the mind on off-season travels to foreign shores. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been to India two times,&rdquo; said Mihambo. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve really enjoyed it because India has its own magic. People can feel it only once they&rsquo;ve been there.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I really like the history, the culture, the nature, the landscape and the people. I&rsquo;m really into meditation and I enjoyed meditating there. I&rsquo;ve been to Thailand and meditated there.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve also been to Finland to see the deepest snows. I&rsquo;m just curious to see the world.&rdquo;
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics

For Malaika Mihambo, it’s never over, it would seem.

Mihambo's world adventures to continue in Oregon

Weltklasse Zurich has been writing athletics history for almost 100 years and as the meeting has developed, so too has its sustainability strategy. In the lead up to its 2028 centenary, the host of this year&rsquo;s Wanda Diamond League final has set several ambitious goals, delivering a zero-emission meeting to celebrate its 100th anniversary among them.
&ldquo;We want zero emissions for the entire meeting universe by 2028,&rdquo; said co-meeting director Christoph Joho. &ldquo;We will have to prove our innovation prowess in various areas to do this. However, we feel that taking this future-oriented, game-changing step is paramount.&rdquo;
The meeting began its sustainability journey with a comprehensive analysis in 2008. One year later the initial base measures were put in place, and the meeting became carbon-neutral. Promoting the use of public transport, focusing on local products and abandoning LED lights for the closing ceremony were all aspects of the new approach. Emissions that cannot be avoided are compensated through certified climate projects, but the meeting intends to go the extra mile.
&ldquo;At Weltklasse Zurich, we strive to be pioneers. Our ambition is to be &lsquo;Weltklasse&rsquo;, both on and off the track,&rdquo; Joho said. &ldquo;Because of that, we have initiated some very important projects. And we will, of course, live up to our motto. We will &lsquo;never stop getting better&rsquo; and will always set our goals high &ndash; with respect to the environment, to social aspects and to economic sustainability.&rdquo;
<h2>More projects on all levels</h2>
The meeting&rsquo;s mission is to promote athletics at all levels which also means organising innovative events outside of its home at Letzigrund Stadium. The UBS Kids Cup youth initiative and its winter edition UBS Kids Cup Team, for example, have reached almost 1.5 million children and teenagers between the ages of seven and 15. That has resulted in a considerable growth of the number of young athletes participating in athletics since the initiative&rsquo;s inauguration in 2011.
In addition to this year&rsquo;s special street venue for some Wanda Diamond League final events on the Sechselautenplatz, the city&rsquo;s largest square, with free admission, there will be several pop-up events during the week leading up to the meeting, including the Weltklasse Zurich Extra Mile, a new school project.
<h2>Equal pay and gender parity</h2>
Equal pay for women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s events has been a Diamond League policy since its first season in 2010, but it was in force in Zurich before that. Gender parity, too, is also a priority, on the track and behind the scenes.
Organisers are aiming to achieve equal numbers of female and male participants in the UBS Kids Cup, as well as with volunteers and members of the organising committee. A mentoring programme has been launched to ensure that gender parity can be achieved in the management team as well by 2027.
<h2>A six-figure amount for Switzerland&rsquo;s athletics community</h2>
On a local level, Zurich&rsquo;s athletics club Leichtathletik Club Zurich (LCZ) is the most important and long-term beneficiary of Weltklasse Zurich. The meeting provides financial and human resources and knowledge to the club and also to federations, other clubs and organisations, as well as higher education institutions.
Internationally, Weltklasse Zurich works with the Wanda Diamond League and shares professional knowledge, is active as a member of the series&rsquo; governing board and offers support to developing meetings. The meeting also launched a Diamond League initiative to financially support athletics in Ukraine this spring.
A six-figure amount the meeting generates every year is reinvested in the future of athletics, and in athletes, coaches and the sport&rsquo;s structures. Building an indoor athletics arena on the Letzigrund grounds to further entrench the sport in Zurich is an additional long-term goal.
<h2>Athletics innovation, with added value for society</h2>
Weltklasse Zurich joined forces with the Athletikzentrum fur Spitzensport OYM in Cham to create an athletics innovation cell. All organisations involved share a focus on promoting the sport and its stars. Launched in 2011, the UBS Kids Cup series has become an unparalleled success among youth sports initiative. Other successful projects include Leichtathletik 2030 and the coach summits held during the meeting week. In the future, further forums will be organised to share knowledge regarding sustainability and partnerships to benefit the sport of athletics.
<h2>Advisory Board and transparency</h2>
The evaluation and development of sustainability goals will take centre stage when it comes to future organisational aspects of Weltklasse Zurich. Sustainability will be a focus of the meeting&rsquo;s organising committee, and an Advisory Board will be created to analyse and evaluate all processes. Annual reports will show how the meeting progresses with its sustainability goals.
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In ideal conditions for sprinting, Shericka Jackson produced a dazzling run to complete a magnificent sprint double on the final day of the Jamaican Championships in Kingston on Sunday (26).
When Jackson burst the tape at 21.55 (0.0m/s), the third-fastest 200m time in history, it simultaneously triggered a moment of utter disbelief and euphoria among the large crowd in the national stadium. &nbsp;
Drawn in lane six, Jackson flew off the curve ahead of the field, which included Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah and world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
With 50m to go, the race was over as the versatile Jackson opened up an insurmountable lead that widened with each stride. She now sits behind only world record-holder Florence Griffith-Joyner (21.34) and&nbsp;Thompson-Herah (21.53) on the women's world 200m all-time list.
&ldquo;Honestly, I didn&rsquo;t expect to run this fast,&rdquo; said Jackson, who claimed Olympic 100m bronze in Tokyo and has three global 400m medals to her name. &ldquo;I knew I was in good shape and when I spoke to the coach yesterday, he wanted a proper execution and the curve was one of the areas discussed. I think I did well on the curve, my coach told me to run the first 100m hard and do whatever I want afterwards. I am just grateful.&rdquo;
Thompson-Herah, who claimed second, and Fraser-Pryce in third, recorded season's bests of 22.05 and 22.14 respectively.
&ldquo;This evening I came to give myself the opportunity to qualify for the 200m,&rdquo; said Fraser-Pryce, who won the sprint double at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. &ldquo;I am still not 100% sure if I&rsquo;m doing the sprint double at the World Championships (in Oregon), however, I&rsquo;ve placed myself in a position to make that decision and if I decide not to do it, then I won&rsquo;t.&rdquo;
On Friday, Jackson overcame some pre-race drama to win her first national 100m title in a season&rsquo;s best of 10.77 (0.9m/s).
The women&rsquo;s 100m finalists endured a lengthy delay before the start due to an equipment malfunction. Once the race got under way, however, there was no stopping Jackson as she became the first Jamaican woman to win national titles at 100m, 200m and 400m.
&ldquo;Last year was actually the first time I competed competitively in the 100m,&rdquo; said Jackson, whose winning time was 0.01 off her lifetime best.
Just as she did at the NCAA Championships, Kemba Nelson produced a clutch performance to finish second in a PB of 10.88. &ldquo;I feel great. It&rsquo;s kind of unbelievable,&rdquo; said Nelson, who recently graduated from the University of Oregon. &ldquo;To get a PR on home soil running out of lane eight is a job well done. I had good execution during the race and there&rsquo;s lots more to come, this is just the beginning.&rdquo;
Meanwhile, five-time Olympic champion Thompson-Herah, who was third in 10.89, expressed mixed sentiments. &ldquo;There was a delay, which was not our fault,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;After warming up, I came here to compete, this is not a training session where you can go through the motions and honestly, I almost walked away, I only stayed because I wanted to qualify for the World Championships. I felt very flat after waiting so long, fought my way through the line, and was happy that I came third, which I didn&rsquo;t know until afterwards.&rdquo;
Earlier in the heats, four-time world 100m champion Fraser-Pryce teased the enthusiastic audience as she accelerated to 10.70 (1.1m/s). But the 35-year-old, who has a wildcard entry for the World Championships, was only required to make an appearance at the event and so simply walked out of her blocks in the semifinals.
The men&rsquo;s 100m was a showdown between vastly experienced sprinter Yohan Blake, world champion back in 2011, and new members of the sub-10-second club Oblique Seville and Ackeem Blake.
All three men got off to a strong start and powered away from the rest of the field with a rejuvenated Blake claiming the win in 9.85 (1.0m/s), his fastest time in 10 years.
&ldquo;You have to believe in yourself,&rdquo; said Blake. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m the second-fastest man in the history of the sport. The naysayers kept me going, whenever they say I won&rsquo;t make it or I should give up, I use that to fuel me and push through.&rdquo;
Seville, who finished second in 9.88, was gracious in defeat. &ldquo;My plan throughout the championships was to be calm and conserve for the finals,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I am pleased with the time because it&rsquo;s close to my personal best. It was a tremendous run, although the only thing that went wrong was my execution, especially that last part where I got a little tight.&rdquo;
Ackeem Blake was third with a personal best of 9.93.
The sprint hurdles, due to Jamaica&rsquo;s large pool of talent, provided the usual excitement and disappointment. World U20 record-holder Britany Anderson overcame a sluggish start and found her rhythm to claim her first domestic 100m hurdles title in 12.53 (0.6m/s) ahead of Olympic bronze medallist Megan Tapper (12.60) and 2015 world champion Danielle Williams (12.66).
"I'm excited to be the national champion," Anderson said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s the fastest gun I&rsquo;ve ever heard, so my start wasn&rsquo;t the best, however, I kept my focus and momentum going straight through to the finish.&rdquo;
On the men's side, an intense battle between 2016 Olympic champion Omar McLeod and reigning Olympic champion Hansle Parchment was on the agenda in the 110m hurdles. The match-up fizzled midway as McLeod began to fade. Parchment, as is customary, got faster after the sixth hurdle, but a new threat appeared to his right in Rasheed Broadbell, who pushed him all the way to the tape. The Olympic champion prevailed in 13.14 (1.0m/s) over Broadbell (13.20) and Orlando Bennett (13.28), who both registered season's bests.
&ldquo;It was raining a lot during warm-ups, but it was very warm,&rdquo; said Parchment. &ldquo;I prepared myself well and tonight I put together a decent race, although my coach will be correcting a few things. I wasn&rsquo;t as&nbsp;powerful at the start&nbsp;as&nbsp;I would have liked, I slacked off a little bit, however, it was a good race overall.&rdquo;
In the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles, Andrenette Knight looked on course to claim her first domestic title. That was until tragedy struck. Knight, who blasted from the blocks, took a considerable lead before smashing into a hurdle entering the home straight and fell out of contention. Janieve Russell assumed the lead that she never relinquished, winning comfortably in a season&rsquo;s best of 53.63. Shian Salmon ran strong to finish second in 53.82, a personal best.
&ldquo;I am feeling really good, words can&rsquo;t explain,&rdquo; said Russell. &ldquo;I believe I&rsquo;m ready and I&rsquo;m going to the World Championships with a lot of confidence.&rdquo;
A tense finish in the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles enthralled spectators, with Jaheel Hyde, who ran with sustained willpower, adrenaline and relentless strength until the last two hurdles, just holding off a strong challenge from Kemar Mowatt - 48.51 to 48.53.
World champion Tajay Gayle, who has a wildcard entry for the World Championships, struggled to get going in the men&rsquo;s long jump. He started badly, fouling his first two attempts followed by two sub-eight-metre efforts in the third and fourth rounds before things got worse in the fifth round when he landed awkwardly after another fouled attempt. It took 10 agonising minutes before Gayle, after receiving medical attention, exited the pit in a laboured manner. Gayle was unable to continue and passed in the sixth round.
Wayne Pinnock won the event, his first senior long jump title, after cutting the sand at 8.14m (0.7 m/s) in the first round. However, after feeling some discomfort,&nbsp;he too decided to pass on the next five rounds.
Shanieka Ricketts won the women&rsquo;s triple jump with 14.27m (-0.5m/s). Danniel Thomas-Dodd won the women&rsquo;s shot put with 18.79m.
In the absence of the injured Fedrick Dacres, Travis Smikle won the men&rsquo;s discus with 65.73m.
Noel Francis for World Athletics

Jackson records the third-fastest 200m in history at the Jamaican Championships

Jackson runs 21.55 200m to complete sprint double in Kingston

There&rsquo;s no place like Hayward Field for US athletes, who completed their national championships on Sunday (26) in what was essentially a trial run for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 next month.
Abby Steiner had the race of her life in the women&rsquo;s 200m, while 400m hurdler Rai Benjamin and shot putter Chase Ealey moved atop the world lists on another hot day at the US Championships in Eugene.
For Steiner, Hayward Field is definitely in her comfort zone. She lowered her PB to 21.77 while earning her first national crown just 15 days after shattering the collegiate record and taking the world lead with a 21.80 amid cooler temperatures at the NCAA Championships. The University of Kentucky sprinter equalled that time in the semifinals at the US Championships.
&ldquo;The main focus was just to come away with a win, make the team,&rdquo; said Steiner, whose performance was another world lead until Shericka Jackson ran 21.55 at the Jamaican Championships. &ldquo;It was nice having had NCAAs at this track; it was kind of a familiar environment so I knew if I replicated my race that I had at NCAAs with nicer weather, we were going to walk away with a PB.&rdquo;
Steiner will return to Eugene along with the other US athletes who qualified for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 in less than three weeks, no doubt to enjoy their home field advantage. The World Championships are taking place on US soil for the first time.&nbsp;&nbsp;
While Steiner wasn&rsquo;t as dominant in the first 50 metres, she grabbed the lead with 40 meters to go, defeating Tamara Clark, who ran a PB of 21.92. Olympian Jenna Prandini, who came off the curve in first place, ran a season's best of 22.01 on her college alma mater&rsquo;s track.
Olympic bronze medalist Gabby Thomas placed eighth in 22.47 after battling a hamstring injury the past two weeks, while Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson did not advance to the final.&nbsp;
Steiner was smiling with her arms outstretched as she crossed the finish line into a slight headwind.
Steiner said the win means &ldquo;Everything.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Coming off the collegiate season, a lot of people want to put limitations on you and say you&rsquo;re going to be burnt out,&rdquo; she said.&nbsp;
Steiner definitely proved she still has momentum.
<h2>Benjamin uses final burst to take world lead</h2>
Benjamin chopped his steps going into the second hurdle of the men&rsquo;s 400m hurdles and actually trailed Khallifah Rosser at the ninth barrier.
Then Benjamin hit another gear to pull ahead and run a world-leading time of 47.04, 0.45 better than his previous best this season, and leap over Alison Dos Santos&rsquo; 47.23 on the world list.&nbsp;
Trey Bassitt surged past Rosser to take second with a personal best of 47.47, while Rosser ran a PB of 47.65 for third. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62b8ed50bf22c9871b1f4813.jpg" alt="Rai Benjamin in the 400m hurdles at the 2022 US Championships" />
Rai Benjamin in the 400m hurdles at the 2022 US Championships (&copy; Getty Images)
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Benjamin has recovered from a tough bout with Covid-19 and had not been able to train as much as he would have liked. He said he felt &ldquo;kind of banged up&rdquo; after the weekend.
Winning his third straight US title, Benjamin said: &ldquo;It feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.&rdquo;
Making the US team, he added, &ldquo;is the hardest part, in all honesty. Worlds &mdash; that&rsquo;s the easiest part. I still have a lot of work to do. I know what I have in store. It&rsquo;s a matter of getting healthy and putting my best foot forward.&rdquo;
Benjamin also hopes to run on the US 4x400m relay as he did in Tokyo, where he won an Olympic gold medal.
<h2>Ealey ready to make first world outdoor podium</h2>
Ealey, the world indoor silver medallist, took the world lead on her second toss, a throw of 20.51m to move ahead of China&rsquo;s Song Jiayuan with 20.38m and Canadian Sarah Mitton&rsquo;s 20.33m. Ealey's mark was also a meeting and stadium record and a PB by 38cm.&nbsp;
Ealey &ndash; who now sits second on the US all-time list &ndash; had a stellar series. After three throws over 19 metres (19.30m, 19.46m and 19.80m), she finished with another monster throw of 20.19m.
&ldquo;I was really nervous leading into this meet,&rdquo; Ealey said. &ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t been nervous all year, but I used the nerves really well and was able to push past the nerves and really go for it.&rdquo;
Ealey said she is primed for the World Championships and doesn&rsquo;t want to leave Eugene next month without a medal, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m really hoping it&rsquo;s a gold one.&rdquo;
She added: &ldquo;Since my breakout year it&rsquo;s been a while since I&rsquo;ve finally been on my feet again and I feel like I have it now."
Adelaide Aquilla was second at 19.45m, followed by Jessica Woodard at 19.40m. Olympic silver medallist Raven Saunders had a season's best of 18.95m, but missed the US team, while 2016 gold medallist Michelle Carter closed out her final national championships in eighth place (17.72m).
<h2>Thrilling finish to women&rsquo;s 800m</h2>
Olympic 800m gold medalist Athing Mu, who turned 20 on 8 June, has not lost a race outdoors at any distance since age 17.&nbsp;
Ajee&rsquo; Wilson almost ended Mu&rsquo;s winning streak, pulling abreast with her in the final push for the line, but coming up just short.
Mu&rsquo;s time was 1:57.16, while Wilson, who admitted she might have started her kick a little too early, had a season best of 1:57.23. Raevyn Rogers, who went to college at Oregon and whose likeness is on the Hayward Field Tower, was in sixth place with 100 metres to go and wound up third in 1:57.96. 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62b8edadbf22c9871b1f4816.jpg" alt="Athing Mu wins the 800m ahead of Ajee Wilson at the 2022 US Championships" />
Athing Mu wins the 800m ahead of Ajee Wilson at the 2022 US Championships (&copy; Getty Images)
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&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad that I fought,&rdquo; said Mu, who ran 1:57.55 in the semifinals, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;m glad that I still had it in my legs to come back and run. I&rsquo;m glad I was able to replicate what I did two days ago even though it wasn&rsquo;t a super fast time.&rdquo;
She was also happy for her boyfriend Brandon Miller, who threw himself across the line in the men&rsquo;s 800m to deny 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Clayton Murphy another national team. Miller&rsquo;s time was 1:45.19 while Murphy finished fourth with a season's best of 1:45.23.
Bryce Hoppel won the race, fighting off Jonah Koech on the final stretch, 1:44.60 to 1:44.74, with Koech posting a PB to attain the World Championships standard.
<h2>Proving a point in the men&rsquo;s 200m</h2>
Noah Lyles did not follow the example of fellow world champions Christian Coleman, Nia Ali and Grant Holloway of skipping their final because they had a wildcard entry into the World Championships.
Lyles had something to prove.
He won the 200m with a time of 19.67, blowing past teenager Erriyon Knighton, who clocked 19.69. Fred Kerley doubled by placing third in 19.83 after winning the men&rsquo;s 100m. Kenny Bednarek, the Olympic silver medallist, also made the US team in fourth place with a season's best of 19.87, just ahead of Lyles&rsquo; brother Josephus with a PB of 19.93.
Knighton has the world lead of 19.49, and the attention on the young sprinter had Lyles feeling left out.
Lyles pointed his finger at Knighton as he crossed the finish line, but he explained that the gesture was meant for the people who had doubted him.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m pointing at all those people who kept doubting me, all year and all last year,&rdquo; Lyles said, &ldquo;everybody who keeps saying, &lsquo;He&rsquo;s out of the picture.&rsquo;&rdquo;
Lyles admitted that Knighton got the best of him on the turn, but he refused to panic.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I saw he reached his top speed and I said, &lsquo;Mine&rsquo;s faster,&rsquo;&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to catch him.&rdquo;
Knighton was visibly upset by the loss. During the post-race television interview, he vowed to &ldquo;Just come back and win. The job&rsquo;s not finished, it&rsquo;s never finished.&rdquo; And then he stalked out of camera range.
Lyles shouted after him, &ldquo;It ain&rsquo;t finished!&rdquo;
Lyles said the pointing was &ldquo;just about having fun,&rdquo; but he allowed that the move could have cost him some time with Knighton on his shoulder.
&ldquo;To be honest,&rdquo; Lyles said, &ldquo;I risked it for the biscuit.&rdquo; 
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/62b8f9ff774be729e2fb1a54.jpg" alt="Noah Lyles wins the US 200m title ahead of Erriyon Knighton" />
Noah Lyles wins the US 200m title ahead of Erriyon Knighton (&copy; Getty Images)
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Grant Fisher withstood the morning heat to win the men&rsquo;s 5000m and set a meeting record with a time of 13:03.86. Woody Kincaid ran a 54-second final lap to move from fourth to second in 13:06.70. Abdihamid Nur was third in 13:08.63.
Fisher was thrilled to win his first national title after three near misses.
&ldquo;I knew if I put in some pace with a few laps to go that I would break a lot of people,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;and I wanted this to be a true 5km. I didn&rsquo;t want it to be a 400m. I wanted to make them hurt and it worked.&rdquo;
World gold and silver medallist Emma Coburn won the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase in 9:10.63 as Courtney Wayment moved into second with a time of 9:12.10 by overtaking Olympic silver medallist Courtney Frerichs, who finished third in 9:16.18.&nbsp;
Shelby McEwen jumped a PB of 2.33m to win the men&rsquo;s high jump, moving into a tie for second on the world list and attaining the World Championships standard. JuVaughn Harrison made the US team with a season's best of 2.30m and Dontavious Hill was third in 2.22m. Harrison, who made the Olympic team in both the high jump and long jump, was unsuccessful in his quest to double at the World Championships in Oregon.
Daniel Roberts won his second national title in the 110m hurdles, clocking a season's best of 13.03. It was a blanket finish for the next three places, with Trey Cunningham, the NCAA champion, taking second with a time of 13.08.&nbsp;
Two-time Olympian Devon Allen, who ran the world-leading time this season of 12.84 two weeks ago, was third by three-thousandths of a second. He edged Jamal Britt, 13.087 to 13.090, to claim the final spot on the US team.
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