Jereem Richards chases another World Champs medal

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Identify: Jereem Richards

Age: 28

Occasions: 200m, 4x400m relay

Profession Highlights: 2018 Commonwealth Video games gold (200m), 2019 World Relays gold (4x400m relay), 2022 World Indoor Championships gold (400m), 2017 World Championships bronze (200m)

JEREEM Richards will probably be one of many extra seasoned campaigners on the TT 11-member staff for the 2022 World Athletics Championships from Friday-July 24 in Oregon, USA. He will probably be vying for a repeat of his 2017 World Championships efficiency.

Richards, 28, will line up within the males’s 200-metre and males’s 4x400m occasions on the video games. Richards has made his mark on the World Championships beforehand, grabbing bronze within the 200m occasion in 20.11 seconds on the 2017 World Championships in London.

His 4x400m team-mates at this 12 months’s World Championships are Dwight St Hillaire, Asa Guevara, Shakeem McKay and Kashief King.

Richards, of Abilene Wildcats, confirmed his high quality on the 2022 Nationwide Gasoline Firm Nationwide Affiliation of Athletics Administrations Open Championships on the Hasely Crawford Stadium, final month.

He sprinted to gold in a private greatest and meet report of 19.83 seconds. He threatened to interrupt the nationwide report held by Ato Boldon, who has the mark of 19.77.

Richards has the expertise of competing in finals at main occasions and will definitely be eyeing one other medal.

He was eighth in 20.39 within the 200m remaining on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics final 12 months. The race was received by Canadian Andre De Grasse in 19.62.

The 2018 Commonwealth Video games in Gold Coast, Australia, was certainly one of his highlights.

Richards didn’t initially win gold within the 200m remaining.

Zharnel Hughes of England received the race, however officers disqualified him for impeding Richards together with his arm in the course of the closing phases of the race.

Richards, who thought he needed to accept silver in 20.12, was awarded the gold medal.

Canadian Aaron Brown took silver in 20.34 and Leon Reid of Northern Eire earned bronze in 20.55.

This season Richards has been competing often at worldwide meets in each the 400m and 200m occasions.

In March, he copped gold on the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia.

Richards received in a brand new nationwide report of 45.00, forward of American Trevor Bassitt (45.05) and Carl Bengtstrom of Sweden (45.33).

In Could, Richards took bronze in 20.15 within the 200m occasion in a top quality discipline on the Doha Diamond League.

Richards completed simply forward of De Grasse to get on the rostrum. Individuals Noah Lyles and Fred Kerley have been first and second respectively in 19.72 and 19.75.

Richards, born in Pt Fortin, has additionally achieved success within the males’s 4x400m occasion over his profession.

On the 2019 IAAF World Relays he was a part of the TT quartet which earned gold.

Richards, the late Deon Lendore, Guevara and Machel Cedenio took gold in three minutes, 00.81 seconds.