ATHLETICS: Felix & Crouser score impressive wins in American Track League IV, with 200 m prep record for Jaylen Slade!

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Sunday’s closing version of the American Track League indoor collection on the Randal Tyson Observe Middle on the College of Arkansas produced no world-leading marks, however a highschool greatest within the males’s 200 m and a reminder to not neglect about famous person Allyson Felix.

The nine-time Olympic medal winner was a beneficiary of the delay of the Tokyo Video games from 2020 to 2021 and confirmed her rising type with a powerful win within the 200 m. She took an early lead within the one-lap race, however was pressed on the ultimate flip by world-class hurdler Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico, then ran away to win by 22.59-22.91.

That’s a lifetime greatest for Felix within the indoor 200; she hadn’t run the space since 2003 (23.14), however extra importantly moved her to no. 4 on the 2021 world checklist at a time of the 12 months when she’s hardly ever in competitors.

Shot put famous person Ryan Crouser was desirous about one other world indoor report – as on the first American Observe League meet – however contracted meals poisoning on Friday. He someway made it to Fayetteville – “not precisely feeling nice,” he stated – and gained his third American Observe League meet at 21.93 m (71-11 1/2). That’s fairly odd for him, however nonetheless additional than everybody else besides he and reigning World Champion Joe Kovacs (USA) have thrown this 12 months. American Payton Otterdahl was second at 21.40 m (70-4 1/2).

Former Central Arkansas sprinter Zachary Jewell produced two lifetime bests within the males’s 60 m and gained in 6.58 earlier than tripping and limping off the observe. He held off Jackson Webb (6.59) and comebacking Jarrion Lawson, the 2016 NCAA out of doors champion within the 100-200-long bounce, third in 6.62. Former Baylor star Wil London took over the boys’s 400 m on the bell and gained decisively in 46.36.

Kenyan Michael Saruni opened his 2021 season with a daring transfer on the bell within the males’s 800 m, profitable simply in 1:45.34, no. 7 on the seasonal checklist. It’s his fourth-fastest race ever indoors. Trinidad’s Asa Guevara gained the 300 m – his first race of 2021 – in 33.11, working, as he stated afterwards, to “shake off the mud.” American Michael Dickson gained the 60 m hurdles in 7.53, shifting him to equal-4th on the 2021 world checklist.

American Andrew Irwin gained the boys’s vault as the one one who cleared 5.70 m (18-8 1/4). Marquis Dendy, the 2016 World Indoor Champion, gained the lengthy bounce for the second time on this collection, reaching 8.19 m (26-10 1/2) on his closing effort.

The boys’s highschool 200 m race produced the quickest time in prep historical past, with Jaylen Slade (IMG Academy, Bradenton, Florida) storming to a 20.62 win, 0.01 higher than Noah Lyles’s mark of 20.62 from 2016. Wow! Additionally value noting: the 20.84 runner-up mark for Gavin Schurr of Fairview Excessive Faculty in Boulder, Colorado.

Britain’s Daryll Neita gained the ladies’s 60 m in 7.24, simply forward of a charging 7.28 from Felix in second. Felix acquired a horrible begin, however got here on strongly after 20 m to maneuver to second in what she referred to as “a exercise” afterwards.

American 400 m hurdle star Shamier Little continued engaged on her pace, profitable the ladies’s 400 m in an indoor lifetime greatest of fifty.57, working away from the sphere and shifting to 3rd on the 2021 world checklist, and no. 7 all-time U.S. Heather MacLean of the U.S. gained the ladies’s 800 m in an indoor lifetime greatest of two:00.54, now sixth on the 2021 world checklist and greatest within the U.S.

Jamaican star Danielle Williams got here from behind to edge American Tonea Marshall, 7.86-7.89. That’s a seasonal greatest for Williams and equal-third on the world checklist.

Former two-time NCAA champion Olivia Gruver gained the ladies’s vault at 4.70 m (15-5). The ladies’s shot was an in depth competitors between People Raven Saunders (19.57 m/64-2 1/2), Maggie Ewen (19.54 m/64-1 1/4 ~ no. 5 all-time U.S.) and Jessica Ramsey (19.50 m/63-11 3/4 ~ no. 6 all-time U.S.), now standing 2-3-4 on the 2021 world indoor checklist.

Most of the athletes thanked meet promoter (and long-time agent) Paul Doyle for placing the collection collectively and he deserves a lot credit score for creating these alternatives in a protected and sane surroundings, when nobody else did.

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