There have been two world information within the dash hurdles on the primary day of the USATF Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, plus a world finest within the males’s weight throw.
Benefiting from the 1511m altitude, Grant Holloway minimize by way of the skinny air to slice two hundredths of a second off his three-year-old males’s 60m hurdles file with 7.27, whereas Tia Jones tied Devynne Charlton’s ladies’s world file, which was set finally week’s Millrose Video games, with 7.67.
Each performances have been set within the heats with Jones returning to win the ultimate in 7.68, though Holloway, who’s unbeaten within the occasion over the past 10 years, didn’t run the boys’s remaining, which was received by Trey Cunningham in 7.39.
Whereas Holloway’s file was not too stunning, Jones seemed barely surprised to equal the ladies’s file. She began 2024 with a PB of seven.96, though she received the 2018 world under-20 title.
Tia Jones (Getty)
There was additionally a world finest within the males’s weight throw for Daniel Haugh, who added 49cm to the earlier world finest with a 26.35m effort. His throw broke a 29-year-old world finest by Lance Deal on the 1995 USA Mobil Indoor Championships in Atlanta, which was set two months earlier than Haugh was born.
🚨WORLD BEST🚨
Daniel Haugh is the primary male to surpass 26m within the weight throw along with his 26.35m/86-5 fourth spherical heave! His mark bettered Lance Deal’s 1995 American file of 25.86m/84-10.75 – a 29-year-old file that’s older than Haugh. 🤯#JourneyToGold | #USATFIndoors pic.twitter.com/kM9NQGLfJa
— USATF (@usatf) February 17, 2024
Elsewhere in Albuquerque, Tara Davis-Woodhall received the ladies’s lengthy bounce in a world-leading 7.18m. Chase Jackson (née Ealey) threw a world-leading 20.02m to win the ladies’s shot.
Vashti Cunningham received her eighth consecutive US indoor ladies’s excessive bounce crown with 1.92m. Yared Nuguse received a tactical males’s 3000m in 7:55.76 as Elle St Pierre received the ladies’s 3000m in 8:54.40.
In the meantime over on the fast Boston College monitor, Grant Fisher narrowly missed Woody Kincaid’s US indoor 5000m file with 12:51.84 as British runners Patrick Dever (13:04.05) and Jack Rowe (13:04.75) ran Olympic qualifiers with Charles Hicks clocking 13:09.38.
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