They respectively occupy the 5th and 3rd places of the fifteen competitors. Thiam, double 2016 and 2020 Olympic champion, 2017 world champion and reigning vice-world champion, hit hard in Oregon, the headquarters of her equipment supplier. The Namuroise won the first series in 13.21 seconds, all smiles at the finish when she saw her time. She improves by 13/100th her personal best which dates back to 2017 in 13.34. Her best time of the season so far was at the Belgian championships on June 26 in Gentbrugge in (3.50). position in the ranking.
Noor Vidts covered the straight and her ten hurdles in 13.20 seconds to finish fourth in the second heat. The personal best of the reigning world champion in the pentathlon is 13.17 which was established last year at the Tokyo Olympics. This season she had signed 13.33 a fortnight ago at Heusden-Zolder. With this second career time, she has 1,094 points, 5 less than during her record total at the Tokyo Olympics (6,571). Vidts shares the provisional 3rd place.
At the end of this first event, the American Michelle Atterley is in the lead with 1.106 points (she ran in 13.12) ahead of the Swiss Annik Kälin 1.099 (13.17). the American Anna Hall who beat Vidts by thousandths of a second has 1.094 (13.20) and shares 3rd place with the Vilvordoise.
Nafi Thiam wins height of heptathlon and takes the lead
Nafi Thiam took the lead in the heptathlon of the world athletics championships following the second event. She erased 1m95 on her first attempt at the high jump, which added 1,171 points and totaled 2,264 points, before missing 1m98 three times. The Namuroise signed her best performance of the season in this discipline. She precedes the Polish Adriana Sulek in second place with 1m89 (1,093 points) who is already 88 points behind (2,176).
The American Anna Hall, 3rd in the competition with 1m86 (1.054), also finds herself 3rd in the standings with 2.148 points, 116 less than Thiam
Noor Vidts, 6th, approached a centimeter from her record with a bar at 1m83 which brought in 1,016 points which allows her to align a provisional total of 2,110 points, 154 units from her compatriot.
The third event, the shot put, will begin at 10:35 p.m.
Camille Laus and Naomi Van Den Broeck stop in the 400m heats
Camille Laus and Naomi Van Den Broeck failed to qualify for the semi-finals of the women’s 400m at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday morning in Eugene in the United States. Like the men shortly before, the qualification criteria for the women was to finish in one of the first three places in their race (6 heats) or sign one of the other six fastest times.
Placed in the 3rd lane of the 3rd series, Laus finished 7th in 52.56 seconds, the 31st time of the 43 competitors, quite far from her best lap of the season (51.77).
Naomi Van Den Broeck, the Belgian champion, started in lane 2. She finished 8th and last in the 5th race in 53.16. She also remained far from her personal best set on June 26 at the Belgian championships in Gentbrugge (51.73). She placed 40th.
The last qualified on time the Austrian Susanne Walli ran in 52.18
The best time went to Jamaican Stephenie Ann McPherson in 50.15 seconds.
