(Mutaz Essa Barshim (Credit: WikiCommons)
Athletics
2022 World Athletics Championships, Hayward Field; Eugene, Oregon, United States,(July 15–24):
MEN’S HIGH JUMP: Mutaz Essa Barshim won his third consecutive gold medal in the men’s high jump at the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, United States.
Barshim cleared 7 feet, 7¾ inches to win the gold medal on July 18. Barshim had won the world titles in London in 2017 and Doha in 2019. He also shared the gold medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
South Korea’s Sanghyeok Woo finished second with a jump of 7-7 and Ukraine’s Andriy Protsenko was third at 7-6¼. Shelby McEwen of the United States finished fifth at 7-5¼.
MEN’S MARATHON: Bashir Abdi finished third in the marathon bringing home a bronze medal for Belgium. Ethiopian runner Tamirat Tola crowned himself world champion, followed by his compatriot Mosinet Geremew in second place.
MEN’S 3,000M STEEPLECHASE: Morocco’s Soufiane El Bakkali was crowned world champion in the 3,000m steeplechase. The Moroccan Olympic champion brought Morocco its first medal in this year’s World Championships.
El Bakkali finished the race in 8 minutes 25 seconds and 13 milliseconds, surpassing Ethiopian Olympic runner-up Lamecha Girma (8:26.01) and Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto (8:27.92).
MEN’S 800M :Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati won a silver medal in the 800-meter final. The 23-year-old finished in a time of 1:44.14 behind Kenya’s Emmanuel Kipkurui, who took gold with 1:43.71. Marco Arop of Canada took bronze in a time of 1:44.28, while the only other Arab runner in the final, Algeria’s Slimane Moula, finished in fifth place.
WOMEN’S 400M HURDLERS: American Sydney McLaughlin produced one of the greatest track performances of all time on Friday by shattering her own 400 metres hurdles world record to win World Championships gold.
The Olympic champion charged home in 50.68 seconds, slashing 0.73 off her previous mark of 51.41 set at the same springy Hayward Field last month and becoming the first woman to run under 51 seconds in the event.
McLaughlin finished well clear of the Netherlands’ Femke Bol (52.27) and U.S. compatriot Dalilah Muhammad (53.13).
Cricket
England all-rounder Moeen Ali is to leave Worcestershire to return to Warwickshire when his Pears contract expires at the end of the season. Birmingham-born Moeen, 35, who was 19 when he left the Bears in 2006, captained Worcestershire to victory in the T20 Blast at Edgbaston in 2018.
He had also been linked with a move to Yorkshire, as well as Warwickshire.
But he turned down “a very attractive long deal” at Worcester to sign a three-year white-ball Bears contract.
Negotiations with Moeen, who was on a five-year deal at New Road, had continued over the weekend into Monday. But, although Yorkshire also made an offer, it ended up being a straight choice between staying at New Road or going back to his native Birmingham.
Tennis
Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur’s ranking will suffer despite being the Wimbledon runner-up.
The third seed was defeated by Elena Rybakina 3-6 6-2 6-2 in what was a maiden Grand Slam final for both women, as both had never made it beyond the quarter-final stage of a Major in the past.
But she will drop from her career-high of world No 2 after the WTA removed all ranking points on offer at Wimbledon in response to the club’s ban on Russian and Belarusian players.
