(Budapest) Canadian Savannah Sutherland reached the semi-finals of the 400m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships on Monday.
The 20-year-old from Saskatoon earned the fourth and final qualifying spot with a time of 55.85 seconds.
The semi-finals will take place on Tuesday and the final on Thursday.
This season, Sutherland was the NCAA champion, with the University of Michigan.
In the pole vault, two Canadians saw their run end in the semi-finals: Ontario’s Alysha Newman and Saskatchewan’s Anicka Newell.
In the 100m, victory went to American Sha’Carri Richardson, two years after a positive marijuana test derailed her Olympic dreams at the Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon.
She prevailed in 10.65, equaling the best time of the year. She was asked what message she sends with this victory.
“To never give up,” Richardson said. Don’t let the media or people outside your sphere define you – that’s up to you and your faith. I would tell people to fight. Continually. »
The podium was completed by Jamaicans Shericka Jackson (10.72) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.77).
The time of 10.65 is a mark of the Worlds. The overall record of 10.49 was achieved in 1988, by Florence Griffith-Joyner.
American Grant Holloway won the 110m hurdles in 12.96 seconds, joining Greg Foster as the only athletes with three consecutive world titles in the discipline.
Holloway defeated reigning Olympic champion Jamaican Hansle Parchment by 11 hundredths. American Daniel Roberts finished third in 13.09.