HBCU athletes post mixed results in Tokyo Olympics

U. S. champion Quanera Hayes ran a time of 51.07 seconds to advance within the girls’s 400 meters heats Tuesday. Hayes completed behind Nice Britain’s Jodie Williams 50.99 within the warmth.

Hayes can run quicker. She received the nationwide title on the U. S. Olympic trials in season’s finest time of 49.78.

Allyson Felix of the U. S., competing in her fifth Olympics, received her warmth in a time of fifty.84 to advance. Wadeline Jonathas of the U. S. additionally superior with a second place end in her warmth in 50.93 seconds.

The ladies’s 400 meters semifinals will happen on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. The ultimate is about for 9:35 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 6.

Coppin State’s Amoah advances in males’s 200 meters

Coppin State sprinter Joseph Paul Amoah, operating for his native Ghana, superior out of Tuesday’s males’s 200 meters first spherical along with his season’s finest time of 20.35 seconds. Amoah was within the seventh and last warmth, ending third behind U. S. champion and defending Olympic champion Noah Lyles (20.18) and Sibusiso Matsenjwa of Switzerland (20.34).

Kenneth Bednarek (20.01) and Erriyon Knighton (20.55) of the U. S. received their heats and superior. The highest three in every warmth plus the subsequent three quickest superior to the semifinals.

The 200 meters semis have been to go off later Tuesday at 8:50 p.m. The lads’s last is about for Wednesday (Aug. 4) at 9:55 p.m.

Trevor Stewart makes N. C. A&T historical past, takes house bronze

North Carolina A&T senior Trevor Stewart earned a bronze medal Saturday as a participant within the first-ever blended 4×400 meter relay. The occasion includes two males and two girls on every crew.

Stewart, who earned his place on the U. S. Olympic crew by ending fourth within the 400 meters on the Olympic trials, didn’t run in Friday’s first spherical. The U. S. crew completed first Friday of their warmth in 3:11.39 however needed to overcome a disqualification as Taylor Manson was dominated to have taken the baton out of the zone. That disqualification was later overturned permitting the American crew to advance.

In Saturday’s last, Stewart ran the leadoff leg in 44.9 – the second-fastest on the crew – to match a few of his finest instances this season. The crew nevertheless, was nipped on the tape to complete third in 3:10.22. The gold medal went to the quartet from Poland (3:09.87) and the silver medal foursome from the Dominican Republic (3:10.21) completed simply forward of the U. S.

A&T’s Ross eradicated early in males’s 400 meters

North Carolina A&T sophomore Randolph Ross Jr., who had run the quickest 400 meters time on this planet this yr (43.85 seconds) in successful the boys’s NCAA championship, may solely put up a time of 45.67 Sunday and completed fourth within the second warmth of the opening spherical of the 400 meters.

Working out of lane 9 in warmth two, Ross had a whole lot of floor to make up coming off the ultimate flip. After getting to 3rd within the final 15 meters, he appeared to ease off on the end. Ross didn’t advance as his time fell three-hundredths of a second out of advancing to the semifinals.

“That was horrible,” Ross informed NBC after the race.

The highest three in every warmth and the six subsequent quickest instances superior. Ross’s was the eighth quickest. Ricci Petrucciani of Switzerland ran 45.64 in the identical warmth to complete forward of Ross and knock him out of the competitors.

Ross Jr. was the one of the three People within the 400 meters that didn’t advance to the semifinals.

One other likelihood coming

Michael Cherry received the primary spherical’s third warmth in 44.82 to advance to the semifinals. Michael Norman was second within the sixth and last warmth of the primary spherical in 45.35 to advance.

On Monday, Cherry (44.44) received his semifinal warmth and Norman (44.52) completed second in his warmth. Each superior to Thursday’s 9:00 p.m. last.

Ross Jr. and Stewart, two members of N. C. A&T’s NCAA champion 4×400 meter relay crew, will compete for the U. S. within the males’s 4×400 on the Olympics. The opening spherical heats will likely be contested at 8:25 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 6. The ultimate is on Saturday, Aug. 7 at 9:50 p.m.

Saint Aug’s Belle falls quick in 400 hurdles semis

Saint Augustine’s Tia-Adana Belle, running for her native Barbados, superior out of Sunday’s first spherical of the ladies’s 400 meters hurdles with a second-place end in her warmth in a time of 55.69 seconds.  

Belle ran significantly slower in Monday’s semifinals ending eighth in 59.26. World record holder Sydney McLaughlin of the U. S. received the warmth in 53.03. Belle appeared to wrestle over the eighth hurdle and didn’t advance.

Former world document holder Daliliah Muhammad of the U. S. received the primary 400 hurdles semifinal in 53.30 Monday to advance to the finals. Southern Cal’s Anna Cockrell additionally earned a spot in finals with a second-place end in her warmth in 54.17.

The ladies’s 400 meters hurdles last is Wednesday (Aug. 3) at 11:30 a.m.

HBCU athletes put up blended ends in Tokyo Olympics