Duplantis heads the Stellar cast at the first US World Championships

Fresh from setting a new outdoor record, Swedish pole Walter Armand Duplantis is leading the stunning cast at the inaugural World Championships on American soil in Eugene, Oregon, starting Friday.

Duplantis, which reached 6.16m in Stockholm at the end of June, claimed the World Indoor Gold in Belgrade in March, 4cm away from its overall best 6.20m set, trying to win its first world title in 2019. I had to leave the Americans behind and settle for silver. Sam Hendricks is absent from Eugene due to an injury.

“I’ve proven myself and everyone else that I’m in great shape,” said Duplantis, who was born and raised in the United States.

“I’ve done a lot to get here. I feel like I’m very hungry,” he said. “I’ve done some great things so far, but there are little things you can always do better.”

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Putting Duplants aside, Talent is an invitation to the one-year-old World Championship between the 19 epidemics.

The 400-meter hurdles could be a top-track event for both sexes, an event in which Norway’s Carsten War home and American Sidney McLaughlin set a stunning world record by winning Olympic gold in Tokyo last year.

McLaughlin improved her record this season and will once again face compatriots Delilah Mohammed and the Netherlands’ Femke Bol, silver and bronze medalists in Tokyo.

The situation is more complicated for War home, who sustained a hamstring injury in early June, but has vowed to fire on all cylinders after escaping the “living hell” of recovery.

“There’s no such thing as going to the championship and feeling good. I love to go and when I say goodbye to go, it always means 100 percent,” War home said, referring to American Roy Benjamin and Brazil. K Allison Dos Santos set the pace for the event.

Italy’s Marcel Jacobs, who won the Olympic 100-meter gold medal, has suffered a similar return from injury and will have to be at the top of his game to see a strong American outpost, including Fred Carlyle, on the farm.

Christian Coleman, who was banned from the Tokyo Games for not having three doping tests, will defend his 100-meter title while Maroon Bressi is also in form, hinting that unless Jacobs or anyone else The rival does not step forward, the Americans will face difficulties to win the third medal. After 1983 and 1991. The men’s 100m hat will start with the final set on Friday.

With two-time Olympic champion Ellen Thompson Diamond finishing fourth at the last World Championships in Doha in 2019, Jamaica is likely to dominate the women’s blue ribbon event.

The winner in the Qatari capital was Shelley Ann Fraser Price, who was due to play a second Fidel for her teammate at the Tokyo Games but will be bidding for Eugene’s notable fifth World 100m title.

Other standout events include Norway’s Jacob Ingbrigtson in the men’s 1500m, while Dutch runner Safin Hassan, who won the 5,000m and 10,000m in Tokyo, is in the 1500m in addition to these two events.

Of the 1,900 athletes from 192 countries who are expected to land on Eugene, it is important to mention Alison Felix of the United States.

The 36-year-old will compete in the 4x400m mixed relay to cover a brilliant career in which she has won a record 18 world and 11 Olympic medals, including 13 and seven gold medals respectively.