Men's 100m Semi-Finals | World Athletics Championships Doha 2019

we're moments away from the men's 100-meter semi-finals and Dan O'Brien is right there amidst the drama and attention dan just a quick question for you as Coleman comes out in front of you do you put him down as the overwhelming favorite by the manner in which he came through the first round yesterday not showing any signs of rustiness having not competed since he won the US champs at the end of July absolutely I would say that he is the overwhelming favorite and Ira even a chance to talk to the great one Michael Johnson today an old friend of mine in the stadium he just happened to come in and I said do you pick Coleman to win tonight and he said absolutely he said two or three years ago Gatlin might have been able to run him down but Coleman is the man to beat he said but watch Coleman at the end of these races and I have to agree with Michael Coleman has a fantastic start he runs well through 60 and 70 meters but he gets a little ragged at the end so if we're gonna judge him take a look at the end of that race thanks very much Dan superb analysis there from the former world record holder Olympic champion and multiple world champion in the decathlon Dan O'Brien well he mentioned about the cracking start that Christian Coleman enjoys us partly down to the fact that don't partly explains why he's the world indoor record holder and the current World Indoor champion but never Jenny Meadows has he won a senior outdoor global title and he will feel this is his night and his stage on which to shine yeah he will he really came to prominence 2016-2017 but his 23 years of age now you know he's working his way into these senior Championships this is a great opportunity for him he's not got Usain Bolt like he did you know two years ago and he showed two years ago that he actually was really mature just 21 years of age to be able to handle the pressure racing against Usain Bolt we all knew the significance that it was his last race of course against Justin Gatlin obviously he picked up the silver medal though I would agree with that Dan said and who can argue again the great Michael Johnson of course his start is electric but I think he might be so far in front that it doesn't matter if he's you know sways towards the end of that you know I don't think he'll be put under the pressure by anyone unless he makes a start you know a mistake at the start so that's just the thing he can control a really interesting that he had ten minutes sat in that chair and he wasn't doing anything physically it shows how much this mends hundred meters is as much a mental game as a physical game yes I think the longer I've been involved in athletics the more I've realized that your mental approach to a sprint we always used to take the mickey out of Sprint's as ice middle and long-distance runners but they're operating on a knife-edge of emotion there's Lamont Jacobs used to represent the USA he ensures that the Italian flag has two representatives in the semi-finals Villopoto who goes in the third Tamia Burnett has worked very hard for his place in the semi she ran in the prelims and the first round yesterday so this is his third race over 100 meters in the space of 24 hours he'll start on the far right of picture RM grounds in this one as well the brilliant Canadian and sunny brown of Japan on the Seiden they nine remember only to guarantee to go through well the focus on this first of three semi-finals is firmly fixed on lane five and the fastest man in the world this year Christian : quickest qualifier he had time to jog at the end of his nine point nine eight yesterday will not be the same again tonight just a couple of hours ahead of the fine Coleman's face a picture of concentration camallo de Oliveira a big figure from Brazil he's gone 1002 this season Jamie Lee nearest the camera will go in Lane eight we're about to get the official introductions and this is the quality lineup nearest the camera be familiar stripped of the Netherlands semi-finalists in a European 200 meters championships last year taymir Bonetti competing for the third time having come through the prelims he's got a very quick starter next to him World Indoor silver medalist in Birmingham last year being chance you not quite in that kind of form this year at his lifetime best he's a 991 man Aaron Brown he needs a good start here three times the national champion of a1 and 200 meters Commonwealth silver last year got to get away quickly because he's drawn alongside the Rockstar Christian Coleman the fastest man in the world this year joint seventh fastest in history he believes this is his year and his time Carlo and Road camallo de Oliveira to give him his full names well student games gold over one and two hundred meters getting closer to that big 10-second barrier so too is LeMond turn Jacob's 1007 in qualification 1003 his best used to represent USA Adam Jamie Lee European champion a few years ago over the 200 meters he looked really good in qualification he's getting a nice reception from the crowd and he get close to his lifetime vest and duck under 10 seconds he's got exactly the same PV as Abdul Hakim sorry Brown made the final two years ago at the age of just 18 he's a former world youth gold medalist the first semi-final of the men's 100 meters the net Netherlands in too soon china in three Brown Canada for Coleman in lane five camallo de Oliveira in six Jacobs seven Jimmy Lee Great Britain eights Sahni Brown Japan in Lane nine only the first two will advance into the climax of the evening in a couple of hours time Coleman looked effortless in the heat will it be the same again when the pressure begins to grow Coleman in Lane five in this first semi-final sir it's another good start from Christian Coleman is up into his running or enthroned and Canada's got some work to do here it's a blanket finish for the rest of them Wow very very tight for second nine point eight eight he really is beginning to strut his stuff he's already bounding off the track he's wrapped it up by a tenth of a second nine point nine eight in the first round nine point eight eight in the second round Adam Jamie Lee was there or there abouts in the dip but it's Brown who's been given the second spot with ten point one two so close four that's got a hundredth of a second behind him comes Jamie Lee so it's Aaron Brown who joins Christian Coleman in the final jomini knows that 10.13 probably isn't going to be enough to go through as a fastest loser well no disrespect to the other seven you were watching two different races yeah we were in fact I did actually think Coleman didn't have the best start his reaction was good but you almost did a bit of a trip step but one step after that he was just you can do something that the others just can't do he almost finds an extra half a meter in the first couple of steps that the others can't do and wants his up into his run in his away he looks so relaxed and so confident it was all going on behind him Browns taken second in ten one two Jimmy Lee 10 one three two Oliveira ten one for Sonny Browns m15 but Coleman was in a class of his own very very tight for the second spot that no doubting the man who shun their Christian Coleman one race away from becoming the world champion Aaron Brown will be in the final with him Yohan Blake world champion after Usain Bolt's false start in Daegu way back in 2011 he is the joint second fastest man in history he's not in that kind of shape now but he is still in sub 10-second form he's one of five in this race to have gone under ten seconds this season this is so tough this Senna farm it really is he's drawn in the lane next to Justin Gatlin Gatlin has walked halfway down the home straight the only other time I've ever seen him do that as we look at G the Asian champion over 200 meters he'll be on the outside in nine he's got a best at nine point nine seven the Swedish fans are still buoyed after Daniel Starr's epic throw in the discus the only time I've seen Gatlin walked that far down a home straight was when he walked all the way down to the finish line ahead of winning the world title in Helsinki in 2005 Blake in the foreground Gatlin in the background but they're not the only class acts here the grass goes in seven here is the complete lineup for what could be described as the nightmare semi-final so much quality here so much talent but only room for two automatically in the climax of the evening the big final Blake and Gatlin the most recognizable names perhaps but don't forget Andre de Grasse bronze medalist in 2015 and in the Rio Olympics he's come back from a couple of hamstring problems he's not too far away from his lifetime best shape and a grass goes in seven and he'll fancy the job tonight that's KOICA he's the fifth of the men who've got inside ten seconds this season with a PB there will be huge tension on that start line they all know the quality of the men along cycle plate goes in for Gatlin in 5 oj l abhorrent semi-finalists in the european champion action or champion at the 5th time of asking in birmingham UK KOICA Asian Games champion last year over 200 meters in pretty sweltering conditions in Indonesia inside 10 seconds this season the double silver medalist from the London Olympic Games the world champion from 2011 he's pumped and he's going to have to be because this will be tough the defending champion the 5th fastest man in history still flying high at the age of 37 Justin Gatlin Raymond Akef whoa the Nigerian African Games gold medalist this year 10 won 4 in qualification he's in the best shape we've ever seen he's shaken off the hamstring injuries that gave him a torrid two years after becoming a global medallist at the worlds in Beijing and in Rio 2 grass is back in man Yolanda tardy really good qualification yesterday he looks more like a heavyweight boxer than a sprinter he's an enormous man with big talent tantalizingly close to 10 seconds Jenny Zi Asian champion over 200 meters he's got a PV inside 10 seconds not quite this season so hard to predict how this is going to go and abhorrent Great Britain into KOICA Japan in three Blake in the familiar yellow of Jamaica in four Gatlin in five the defending champion a kevro Nigeria six to grass Canada seven machardie Liberia in eight and she China in Lane nine the second semi-final of the men's 100 meters an absolutely loaded field but only two guaranteed to appear in the final Blake and Gatlin side-by-side their faces a picture of concentration then inflate have got a leg well and see on the near side tried to get into his running and a foreign now that it looks like it's all very very tight to grass may well have come through to that one Blake I think might might have just outdid Justin Gatlin it was very very close to grass lifted late my thought Blake was going to take it but he came through the Canadian brilliantly in Lane seven we're still waiting for the official confirmation but the grass knows that he's taken that he's back to form and he's in the final the question is is it Blake or Gatlin to join him and I think it might be the Jamaican that was a very tight one edge of boring from Great Britain on the inside lane in Lane two had a fantastic start Yohan Blake looks like he was almost messing around a little bit I don't know whether he just gave a little bit away but think he might have snuck into second place he did he outdid Justin Gatlin they've been given exactly the same time 10:09 to grass took it by two hundredths of a second Blake and Gatlin 10:09 but I thought Blake might have just managed to outdid the defending champion and that means depending on how fast the third semi-final is Gatlin may not make the final well that's not what we would expect at all and you can actually see the reactions there edge abhorrent was then indeed the quickest away look at him there on the inside lane and it took Blake a while didn't he he was maybe half a meter up there on Gatlin day then come see look Blake his luck it is looking at Gatlin completely forgot about the grass you can't do this these are professional athletes you go all the way to the line but Blake now starts to lucky has a lot ki has another meanwhile d grass is focusing on that finish line and he comes through good analysis there from Jenny Meadows and yes Blake just took his eye off the ball there a little bit you could see him drift towards the left-hand side of his lane as he was looking at it he did enough but he finished behind to grass Andre de Grasse announces his intentions for this big final he takes it ahead of Yohan Blake Gatlin is in a fastest non-qualified position at the moment but there's one semi-final still to come Wow I wasn't expecting Gatlin to be that tight were you I wasn't I think Blake was just thinking it was gonna be against himself and got linen you can see him there he'll know that he's made a mistake he just switched off after 90 meters and you know that's showboatin and that kind of camaraderie and trying to get that psychological advantage you can actually see there the photo finish that Blake is not even looking where he's going and Gatlin he almost did it because Blake you know caused that mistake to himself okay if you're enjoying our live coverage thank you for keeping us company the times to watch out for Justin Gatlin 1009 and and Amelie from the first of the semi-finals ten one three those are the two times occupying the non automatic qualifier spots at the moment Wow plenty of drama this evening now there were five men who've gone inside ten seconds in the second semi-final and there were four in this one i cuando Tracy of Jamaica will be in this race Jimmy Vico well he's had a pretty quiet season the Frenchman is the joint European record holder his lifetime best 986 he's not really in that kind of shape but I thought his run in the heats yesterday was the best we've seen from him this season Arthur CC African Championships silver this year semi-finalists in the world indoors last year he's in the best shape of his life a lot of people excited about czar Nell Hughes last year's European champion excellent 200-meter runner when he gets it right he looks quite smooth and he might fancy the job here tonight but Jenny perhaps the really really big names here would be a carny sandy Nene African and Commonwealth champion and Mike Rogers the Pan American Games winner there the veteran from the United States those would be the standout names but the likes of CC and V Cohen Hughes more than capable of disposing the two fancied men and getting themselves in the final yeah I think we've seen a lot from heat to that you can't always go surf arm booked all of these athletes will be here they've known all season at this championships lies when it is they've got themself ready for the end of September beginning of October but we were really impressed weren't we in qualification of Simbi knee he looked very very good a shade outside 10 seconds 1001 in it heats last night yeah he was brilliant in Vienna he really was considering how tough it is for the South Africans they're almost heading into their summer yeah they their season starts January February March so he's out to keep this warm going for well okay it's not 12 months but it's not far off Darnell Hughes used to represent Anguilla now proudly flying the flag for Great Britain Mike Rogers he's having a great season Rogers 1.97 this year said a lot of races around about the 10-second mark right then Taekwondo tracing national champion last year second this year 10.2 won in qualification needs a good run there from a slightly lonely Lane Yoshi Heaney could eat Asian champion of a 100 meters very close to PB form this season czar Nell Hughes the European champion from last year first in heat 3 and 1008 he looked good his punch for this but he needs to be there a quick men outside him Jimmy Miko he might not be in 986 shape but he looked very very good in qualification with his 1008 he's coming back to something like his best form a Kearney Sabini flying the flag for South Africa the rainbow nation the Commonwealth champion the African champion 1001 in qualifying Mike Rogers pan-american champion at the age of what is he now 34 his first major title he's enjoying a a late bloomer form in his career after C sake he's in pretty much the best shape we've ever seen him in nine nine three earlier this season African medallist got the silver there Phillip auteur to prote the national record going under 10 seconds the Italian world junior silver medalist three years ago fifth in the European finals last year right then third semi-final in the men's 100 meters you're watching live here on the second night of athletics in the 2019 I double AF world championships Tracy Jamaica to karu in Japan three hues Great Britain for Vico France in five Sinn féin a South Africa six Rogers the United States in seven Sesay Ivory Coast in eight tour to Italy in Lane nine only two guaranteed to join the likes of Christian Coleman into the final symbian a will start fourth from the left hand side the Commonwealth champion Hughes third from the right hand side it's a good start from the carny Santino Mike Rogers trying to get away well nobody yet to really put their nose in front now simply there begins to drive convenience on lg's will be there 1001 excellent running from the two men in lane sixth and four and a subplot here is that we need to watch the clock justin gatlin 1009 Jamil e10 one three those are the men in the non automatic spots what a great run from Sabina and an excellent second place from Hughes who you'd have to say is slightly better or more favored over the 200 meters good qualification from both it was Symbian looked good last night he's just replicated that with this same performance 1001 in the heat 1001 in the semi-final czar Nell Hughes is favored over the 200 meters rather than the 1 but he came through really strong towards the end in fact it was actually kiraku from Japan who had the best start in lane 3 but once we got about 60 meters into the running its when the big man really picked up the pace he would go not much actually separating them there with that angle from the start it was almost a blanket start like we say jiff Japanese kérékou had a great start but this is once the beanie starts coming through there in Lane 6 Hughes looks to his left he looks to his right there's only one person in front of him at the end and he makes his automatic qualification to the final just looking at Rogers there he looks like he's just tying up a little bit toward the end he's almost you know shot in his eyes as he runs compared to sim beany who's just looking at the clock he knows he's Warnock just what time of Iran that was very very impressive from a car nice and beanie well here's the result of the third semi-final and he mends 100 meters the cornice and beam Ian's are Nell Hughes were clearing away with one and two Filippo tour - in third goes through by one thousandth of a second Taekwondo Tracey just a single thousandth behind him which is why despite the fact that they've both got the same time Tracey misses out on the final tour - we'll be in it this is the lineup for what promises to be a great climax today - here in Doha Christian Coleman the favorite a carnie Sabini looked really good

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Length: 24min 4sec (1444 seconds)

Published: Tue May 19 2020