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Two Aggie Olympians advance to the 4x400m world athletics championships finals

Two Aggie Olympians advance to the 4x400m world athletics championships finals

Two former Texas A&M track & field standouts, now Olympians, Bryce Deadmon and Charokee Young, have advanced to their respective men’s and women’s 4x400m finals in the 2022 World Athletics Championships, representing Team USA and Team Jamaica, respectively.

Deadmon ran the third, 400m leg for Team USA in heat one and handed the baton off with the second-fastest split of the day (44.48 seconds). Only Team USA teammate, Elija Godwin, ran a faster split (44.46 seconds). Both of these top split times propelled Team USA to run the fastest qualifying time of 2:58.96.

Young helped propel Team Jamaica to win heat two in their qualifying race, and finish third overall with a time of 3:24.23, as the anchor with a 50.22 second split. Young’s split was registered as the third-fastest split on the day.

The men’s and women’s 4x400m finals will be run tonight at 9:35PM CT and 9:50PM CT, respectively.

Fred Kerley is the 2022 world champion in the men’s 100M

Fred Kerley is the 2022 world champion in the Men’s 100.

Fred Kerley has claimed the title of “Fastest Man on Earth” with his Men’s 100M final victory at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.

After making it to last night’s 100M semifinal, posting the fastest heat time of all sprinters, Kerley followed up that race with a heat two semifinal win – coming across the finish line in 10.02 seconds and automatically punching his ticket to the 100M final. Kerley recorded the fifth-fastest time in the three semifinal heats.

Nearly two hours later, in his first appearance in the 100M at the World Athletics Championships, Kerley narrowly defeated his two American teammates, Marvin Bracy and Trayvon Bromell, to win the Men’s 100M gold medal. Kerley posted a gold medal time of 9.86 seconds, followed by Marvin Bracy (9.874) and Trayvon Bromell (9.876) – an all-American sweep.

To the ones who thought this event change would be a failure in Kerley’s Team USA career, those critics have certainly been silenced.

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Former Aggie advances to 100M semifinal at 2022 world athletics championships

Former Aggie, Fred Kerley, advances to 100M semifinal at 2022 World Athletics Championships.

Former Texas A&M track and field star, and silver medal winner at the 2020 Olympic Games, Fred Kerley, advances to the 100M semifinal round at the 2022 World Athletics Championships.

Kerley raced in heat two and crossed the finish line in 9.79 seconds – the fastest overall time in all seven heats, and 0.10 seconds faster than the second overall time of 9.89 seconds from American teammate, Trayvon Bromell. Kerley’s heat two win automatically punched his ticket into the semifinal round.

Kerley’s semifinal race will take place tonight, at 8:00 PM CT, in which the top two finishers in each of the three heats, plus the next two fastest times, will advance to the 100M final later in the night at 9:50 PM CT. Kerley will race in semifinal heat two. While this is his first World Athletics Championship appearance in the 100M, Kerley is undoubtedly proving his championship pedigree. With another solid performance in the semifinal round, the 100M final should produce some 10-second fireworks in Oregon.

Allyson Felix wins bronze medal in final world championships race

A round of applause for Allyson Felix.

Track and field legend Allyson Felix ran her last competitive race Friday night at the Track and Field World Championships. And in typical Allison Felix fashion, she made sure it was a medal-earning effort.

The 36-year-old Los Angeles native took the baton from teammate Elija Godwin during the mixed 4×400-meter relay in Eugene and ran a solid second leg before passing the baton to Vernon Norwood. Norwood then ran a lap and passed it to Kennedy Simon, who finished the race in third place, earning the U.S. a Bronze medal.

But on this Friday night, the result wasn’t so much about the team as it was Felix. The Bronze medal was the cherry on top and a fitting close to one of the greatest track and field world championships careers ever.

After Felix gave the world championships one last lap, she took a moment to soak it all in.

She’ll finish with 19 World Championships and 11 Olympic medals, leaving as the most decorated American track athlete in Olympic history.

Allyson Felix, ladies and gentlemen.

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