Men's 100m Semi-Finals | World Athletics Championships London 2017

meanwhile we prepare for the first of the three semi-finals in the men's 100 meters that is akane simbine fifth last year in rio julian four right of picture there james dasaolu alongside him james das only european champion back in 2014 but it's gatlin and perhaps ben youssef mighty outside gatlin to his left the man from the ivory coast who also made the olympic final last year [Music] five consecutive global silver medals behind usain bolt for justin gatlin 9.95 [Music] of course the world record holder the fastest man in the world this year is christian coleman he goes in that third semi-final alongside usain bolt here's how it works then of course across the three heats it's the first two plus two fastest losers overall the lineup for the first of three semi-finals for the men's 100 meters justin gatlin in six wants to give himself every opportunity for one last attempt to beat usain bolt in tonight's final first he's got to get there he starts in 6. [Applause] absolutely packed in here again tonight how could it not be for the curtain coming down on the individual career of the greatest sprinter that's sabine in two the south african really good performer but has he already peaked this season oscar cambridge got a relay silver with the japanese quartet last year then listen to the reception for great britain's former european champion james dasaoli he will know this quality outside him julian iv equaled his pb with 999 in the heat looked really good the jamaican second in their champs justin gatlin from the united states one of the most consistent performers over the last five or six years he will not be intimidated by crowd or opponent ben youssef mighty really really nice guy spoke to him after the rio olympics he said making the final was my goal has he changed that mindset he's been excellent this season maybe he can get in the shake up for the medals cook young kim four times a korean national champion knocked out in the heats last year in rio he's already gone better got a relay silver as part of that chinese quartet on home turf in beijing two years ago cambridge dasaolu fort gatlin mighty kim ji that's in binay the south african he's in two watch gatlin in six matey of the ivory coast in seven first of the three semi-finals only the first two guaranteed a place in what could be one of the most memorable 100 meter finals of all time [Applause] [Music] and it's a fairly even start akane sabine going well on the far side and now justin gatlin coming through with mighty closing in as well and simbina gets there 10-0-6 what a run on the far side while we were talking about the fact that he may well have peaked earlier this season that was an excellent run from the south african rounded down to ten zero five gatlin just getting the nod i think ahead of mighty gatling second in ten zero nine so ben youssef mighty will have to wait to see if he can go through as one of the two fastest losers he's been running quick times consistently all throughout this season well he's answered the questions he didn't peak in may he's ready to go great run from him really he never was headed good start there he is furthest from us on the inside lane there short strides to get going justin gatlin i thought was very slow at the blocks and looks really a little bit sluggish at the moment if she's going to challenge bolt in the final but uh you can just see there relaxed sabini coming through gun to tape you can't ask for more than that in the hundred meters and i think gatlin even though he's gone through there i think he'll be disappointed with that we've seen him strutting and puffing his chest out in previous semi-finals he did enough but only just well we saw in the hates that to some of the athletes were holding back i think in the semi-finals here we're seeing the true colors and if that's the case and justin gatlin really is uh as you say rob not in the sort of form he would want to be in i don't think even if you're waiting for somebody special remember it was only first two to go through so he was living very dangerously there at some stages gatlin even making the finals at 9 45 it will be dark impressive running from the south african you're right he was never headed it was a good start from britain today james dasaolu remember as steve mentioned it was just the top two so he got himself in a qualifying position but he had to work hard for that the american beenate well that was impressive wasn't it ran his own race brought the form to london we questioned whether he could do it and he's now in the world championship final i thought gatlin was tight there [Music] and justin gatlin will be in tonight's final matey and fort will have to wait and see surely they'll be quicker men for the fastest loser spots in the second and third semi-finals well back now to this uh fascinating semi-finals this is the second of those and we have perhaps one of the favorites going in lane four johan blake of jamaica well we were arguing in the heat whether blake was in the sort of form that he could uh produce a result and he didn't really show it but he's got a second chance now in the semi-final we'll have to wait and see on his outside sonny brown from japan had a marvelous run in his qualifying and a lot of people are saying this is the new talent coming through well it's a big ask for a young man to come through he's just 18 years old sonny brown but let's wait and see mati there he is in lane two from liberia the african bronze medalist at the 200 meters dropping down to the shorter distance here but he has run 10-1-9 this year just on his outside alex wilson of switzerland transferring from jamaica so the jamaicans obviously i've got this man i suppose it's a different vest but here's the man that they're all looking at johan blake he always looks down he never looks up at the track he's just concentrating on what he's got to do there's the contingent of jamaicans waiting obviously for the success but this man was really impressive in qualifying he won his heat too and if this is uh something that's going to go through to the final in tokyo in 2019 might have something very special to me of china also very very strong one heat one chinese record holder at the 100 meters [Music] another transferee from jamaica so jamaica in one way or another i've got quite a few members in this semi-final because of a voucher of the united states he was jumping around looking very nervous before the start pumping his chest yet again one experience really he ran himself into the team with third place at their championships and then obviously a big favorite for the local crowd rhys fred kopp pb in the heat dropping down from 10 09 to 10-0-3 wilson blake sunny brown sue harvey belcher prescott just two to go through it's very very cutthroat a lot of nervous tension now in the second semi-final they're away blake got a good start sonny brown obviously not running very well at the moment blake is running well on the outside but he got it up blake is ahead and in the end ten zero four very very comfortable indeed well on the inside there i think prescott may have just got through to the final we'll have to wait to see a great run for the britain but blake really has shown his true form in this semi-final we were a bit worried about him in the uh yes he got a good start this time didn't he but the crowd's attention now is on this man rhys prescott a local man who came through very strongly a very tall powerfully built guy and he got second place there in 1005 and he is through well barbara's dropped from blake fred's got there just outside his first coming through in the end that's that's some impressive performance he and semi-final now for that man he's gone from strength to strength this young british man had a handful of races before he started to take the sport seriously so rhys prescott through to the final but look at the replay we questioned well some of us questioned johann blake yesterday in terms of what form he had but look at that steve he's started he's delivered is the turnover and the snap quite there not at the moment but it might be in the final but look at prescott in the outside what a run from the young brit in the 21 year old great run for prescott but as you see there it was a massive start there really from blake he got a meter or so and everybody else we never saw that in the heats and that's what he's good at that fast start he hung on there you can see sue there oh china dying a little bit at the end and press got just coming through there on the outside lane for that second place well he's now the eighth british man to make a world championship final reece predkod absolutely superb but johann blake slow as laboured as you like yesterday back with a 1004 win only a minus 0.2 win so maybe not the fastest of times you'd expect so far in the first two semi-finals well we've had no real sort of uh dipping under the 10 seconds so far have we and that's good for someone like bolt because if balkan run nine eight or something in the final then i think that's going to be good enough from what we've seen so far i think it's playing into bolt's hands with the one caveat that he is in the third semi-final with the fastest man in the world this year but what a stage for christopher coleman to try and take on usain bolt it is absolutely packed here but it's all playing into bolt's hands from what we've seen so far surely this third semi-final we're going to see something here and what i mean by that is this is a huge opportunity for the youngster the new professional in the athletic circuit of christian coleman to potentially deliver a huge performance in a semi-final against the guy who is trying to dethrone in just a couple of hours time christian coleman the world leader from the usa well he'll start in lane four but usain bolt the man that's done everything the man that has everything will start in lane number six it's gonna be fascinating this because what we've seen like you say rob in the first two semi-finals has been nothing special with the no disrespect to any of the other athletes the spikes say forever on well at this moment in time well in fact you know blake walked out of that semi-final with a bit of a bounce in his stride as if to say well i'm actually getting into shape because i think in the heat he was really down so the third and final semi-final in the men's 100 meters target of japan will start in lane number two [Music] henry's they forbade representing turkey a transferee from jamaica 10 22 to qualify for this semi-final but here's the world leader with 9.82 seconds 21 year old christian coleman dipped under 10 seconds six times this season andrew fisher from bahrain another transferee from jamaica he'll line up in lane number five between christian coleman and the greatest of all time the roar for usain bolt there's only two individual races potentially left in this man's career eleven world championship goals eight olympic goals looking for one more before he retires cj ugh from great britain and northern ireland is in good form this year the british athlete just missed a place in the olympic final last year he's ready and bouncing in lane number seven and then jimmy vico of france the co-holder of the european 100 meter record with francis obaquelo 986 at his best under 10 seconds this season elaine number nine green of antigua and barbuda based at florida state university the 21 year old occupies lane number nine in semifinal number three there's your full lineup top two guaranteed a place in the final that's 9 45 uk time tonight [Applause] the crowd goes silent the jamaican contingent is massive in the london stadium tonight they've come to see their man usain bolt aim to make another and his last world championship final [Applause] well it's a clean start coleman out reasonably well in lane number four ball's got a bit of work to do at the moment christian coleman's leading the way usain bolt looks to his left christian coleman looks to his right unofficially 9.97 seconds well the american he got a good start the world leader he's admitted in previous races had a couple of losses in the last two years to justin gatlin that he hasn't got it right mentally he's now turned professional he started like an absolute bullet 9.97 seconds that's what has come out officially and usain bolt's looking at the screen because at the moment they've put up the top four places and he's not on the board at the moment but we can assure everybody he's like no he's wrong i came second don't worry everyone usain bolt is definitely in tonight's final did what he needed to do a little bit of a slow start from bolt came through nicely and then there was a a little bolt on drake grass moment where they were looking at one another we're still waiting for it to come up but they're nine nine eight but catherine that was impressive from christian coleman because there were question marks over whether he'd have the temperament not the talent for an occasion as big as this i thought he conducted himself well in that semi-final he did and he's got to do it again at 9 45 uk time when it really matters he got out wonderfully well didn't he but look at bolt there's a lot left in the tank there from the jamaican jimmy vico was dipping with britain cj uger looking for a time obviously we want two non-automatic qualifiers and jimmy vico well he's clocked 10.09 seconds beating cj ujja by three one hundredths and that 1009 will get him through into the final yeah along with bing chan zhu and and i think actually steve and i were just talking before you were commentating there catherine it's a mark of how open the battle is for the medals that 1009 and 10 10 has been good enough to go through as a fastest loser in previous worlds and olympics you'd have been looking at nine nine five nine nine six to go through as a fastest loser doesn't mean the standards any worse though it's cool conditions slight headwinds sometimes as well this is not a conducive to very fast times i think the most important thing about that race was coleman run almost to the line almost the bolt he's down slightly carmen just looked across at one stage and saw that yellow vest coming up and i think that's going to be a big big worry when it comes to the final and what will be interesting is the lane draw for the final at quarter to 10 tonight uk time because there was fisher the bahrainian athlete was between these two athletes this time what's going to happen at 9 45 is that the rest of the world once again are going to try and come and beat the greatest of all time it's that classic situation i think with coleman is that he'll probably be in front there's like he starts faster than bolt i think but will he tense up when he sees bolts start coming at him in the last 20 meters or so we will see because the final will be set later and there's your two automatic qualifiers christian coleman and usain bolt 997 and 998 the only two athletes in the semi-finals that went under the 10-second barrier and there's confirmation the usa at the moment going into the final heading the two jamaican athletes wonderful running from prescott from great britain northern ireland gatlin's there vico's there four to ten uk time the men's 100 meter final [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 19min 11sec (1151 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 28 2020