So who did yall think looked good in the pre’s. I know who didnt…jgat looked bad. He looked like he knew after his drive phase that he was in the lead until he saw lemaitre giving him the bizness.
Every Jam looked good. Amazing 2 drop out and get replace by two other medal contenders.
Frater didn’t look like he’s a medal threat to me. Lemaitre looked good. Hard to say about Dix because the end of his race is his strongest part, and he’s easing down by then.
Kim Collins looked really fit for his age, and his stride frequency was very good. I’d like to see him in the final.
DAEGU WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS FORM GUIDE
These are the best marks in 2011 by the top 15-20 athletes in each event entered for Daegu plus others with distinguished records or in GBR team. w = wind assisted; A = at high altitude; i = indoor mark; nm = no mark; nwi = no wind info; ? uncertain participation
Given for each athlete are all finals/top 12 placings in World Championship (WC) or Olympic Games (OG) finals. To that have been added: Commonwealth Games (CG) medals and World Junior (WJ) (1st 3 2006-2010) and World Youth (WY) wins; also gold medallists at World Indoors and European Championships (1-2-3 for both in 2010) and 2011 World University Games.
100 METRES
9.78/1.0 Asafa Powell JAM 3/3 WC 07/09; 5/5 OG 04/08; 1 CG 06
9.85/1.0 Richard Thompson TRI 5 WC 09; 2 OG 08
9.88/1.0 Usain Bolt JAM 1 WC 09; 1 OG 08
9.89/1.3 Ngoni Makusha ZIM
9.90/1.0 Nesta Carter JAM
9.92/2.0 Christophe Lemaitre FRA 1 EC 10
9.93/1.0 Keston Bledman TRI
9.94/1.3 Walter Dix USA 3 OG 08
9.95/-1.6 Yohan Blake JAM (9.80w/2.2) 3/4 WJ 06/08
9.95/1.3 Justin Gatlin USA 1 WC 05, 1 OG 04 (3 200m). (60m 1 WI 03)
9.97/0.5 Daniel Bailey ANT (9.94w/2.2) 4 WC 09. (60m 3 WI 10)
9.99/1.0 Jaysuma Saidy Ndure NOR
10.01/2.0 Dwain Chambers GBR 4/dq WC 01/03; 4 OG 00; 60m 1 WI 10
10.04/1.3 Trell Kimmons USA (9.97w/3.5)
10.05/0.3 Kim Collins SKN 5/1/3 WC 01/03/05; 7/6 OG 00/04; 1 CG 02
10.06/1.3 Gerald Phiri ZAM
10.07/0.3 Jimmy Vicaut FRA 3 WJ 10
10.07/1.0 Aaron Armstrong TRI 3 CG 10
10.09/0.8 Aziz Ouhadi MAR
10.10/0.3 Churundy Martina NED 7 WC 07; 4 OG 08
Other:
10.13/1.1 Harry Aikines-Aryeetey GBR (10.09w/3.5) 1 WJ 06, WY 05
200 METRES
19.86/0.7 Usain Bolt JAM 8/2/1 WC 05/07/09; 1 OG 08; 1 WJ 02, WY 03
19.95/1.6 Nickel Ashmeade JAM 2 WJ 08
20.02/0.0 Walter Dix USA (19.95w/2.4) 3 OG 08
20.16/1.1 Bruno de Barros BRA
20.16/1.6 Rondel Sorrillo TRI
20.21/-0.6 Christophe Lemaitre FRA (20.08w/2.3) 1 WJ 08; 1 EC 10
20.25/0.9 Darvis Patton USA (19.98w/2.4) 2 WC 03 (100m: 8 OG 08)
20.26/1.1 Jaysuma Saidy Ndure NOR
20.27/-0.3 Marvin Anderson JAM 6 WC 07
20.28/-0.8 Alonso Edward PAN 2 WC 09
20.29/-0.8 Mario Forsythe JAM
20.30/0.5 Femi Ogunode QAT
20.33/0.9 Jeremy Dodson USA (20.07w/2.4)
20.38/0.0 Churandy Martina NED 5 WC 07, dq OG 08
20.38/1.4 Michael Mathieu BAH
20.42/1.1 Sandro Viana BRA
20.42i Sebastian Ernst GER (20.51/1.0)
20.43/1.1 Marek Niit EST (20.38w/) 1 WJ 06
20.45/1.9 Jared Connaughton CAN (20.34w/4.1)
Other:
20.52/0.6 James Ellington GBR
20.54/-0.8 Christian Malcolm GBR 5 WC 01, 5/5 OG 00/08; 2/3 CG 98/10; 1 WJ 98; 2 EC 10. (100m: 1 WJ 98)
400 METRES
44.61 Kirani James GRN 2/1 WJ 08/10, 1 WY 09. (200m: 1 WY 09)
44.65 Rondell Bartholomew GRN
44.68 Tony McQuay USA
44.69 Jermaine Gonzales JAM 3 CG 06
44.74 Kevin Borlée BEL 1 EC 10
44.74 LaShawn Merritt USA 2/1 WC 07/09, 1 OG 08; 1 WJ 04
44.78 Demetrius Pinder BAH
44.79 Chris Brown BAH 4/4/5 WC 05/07/09; 4 OG 08; 1 WI 10
44.83 Tabarie Henry ISV 4 WC 09
44.86 L.J. van Zyl RSA (entered, but will he double?)
44.95 William Collazo CUB 2 WI 10
44.97 Jonathan Borlée BEL
44.98 Greg Nixon USA
45.07 Oscar Pistorius RSA (using prosthetic limbs)
45.11 Jamaal Torrance USA 3 WI 10
45.13 Rabah Yousif SUD
45.23 Yuzo Kanemaru JPN
45.27 Marcin Marciniszyn POL
45.29 Nery Brenes CRC
Other:
45.43 Renny Quow TRI 3 WC 09; 7 OG 08; 1 WJ 06
45.44 Martyn Rooney GBR 6 OG 08; 3 EC 10; 3 WJ 06
Yea kim really surprised me. Made Thompson look bad. I didn’t even notice dwain in bolts heat.
I’d expected about 5th from him based on the 1st round. Couple faster guys like Carter, Bolt out of the way, and he medals! Nice to see. Where the hell did he get that start?
I’m surprised at how all the pundits said that Bolt looked supreme in his semi and that he only ran for 40m. He ran flat out for the first 80. A tenth slower than Blake. Shame is that Blake would have beaten Bolt in the final anyway. Wind was -1.4.That was worth 9.7. Lemaitre and co running 10.2. Didn’t expect Collins to run as fast as he did!
wtf happened to gatlin. he wasnt even in the semi. The americans looked terrible. When is the last time the us looked this bad?
kim is an inspiration to all 30 plus athletes! dix had to work extra hard to nip him. Blake had a cautious start and ran away from the field still. i think that would have been a showdown. I wouldve still picked bolt based on the bolt blake match up record.