Alabama Track and Field’s Kirani James Wins 400m Silver Medal at the World Championships – University of Alabama Athletics

EUGENE, Ore. – Alabama monitor and discipline alum Kirani James earned a silver medal within the 400 meters on day eight of the World Championships being held at Hayward Discipline in Eugene, Ore.

James (Grenada) ran a 44.48, whereas fellow Crimson Tide alum Champion Allison (USA) went 44.77 to take fourth, giving Alabama half the highest 4. Together with his silver medal, James how now gained gold, silver and bronze within the 400 meters at each the Olympics and World Championships.

In different Tide motion, Remona Burchell ran the third leg on Jamaica’s 4×100-meter relay on Friday, which posted a 42.37, qualifying the quartet for the ultimate.

Alabama Outcomes on the World Championships

• Kirani James (Grenada) took second within the sixth warmth of the 400-meter preliminaries and third general with a time of 45.29, advancing him to the semifinals, the place he gained the second warmth with a 44.74, incomes a spot within the finals, the place he took silver with a 44.48
• Champion Allison (USA) gained the fifth warmth of the 400-meter preliminaries with a time of 45.56, rating him seventh popping out of heats and advancing him to the semifinals, the place he gained the third warmth with a time of 44.71, advancing him to the finals, the place he ran a 44.77 to take fourth place
• Remona Burchell ran the third leg on Jamaica’s 4×100-meter relay, which ran a 42.37, qualifying the quartet for the ultimate
• Tamara Clark (USA) gained the fourth warmth and ranked fifth general with a 22.27 popping out of prelims of the ladies’s 200 meters, earlier than profitable the second semifinal with a 21.95, advancing to the ultimate, the place she completed sixth with a time of twenty-two.32
• Jereem Richards (Trinidad and Tobago) gained the second warmth of the boys’s 200 meters with a 20.35 to advance to the semifinals, earlier than going 19.86 to complete third within the second semifinal to earn a spot within the closing, the place he ran a 20.08 to take sixth on the planet
• Tarsis Orogot, the primary Ugandan man in historical past to run the 200 meters on the World Championships, ran a 20.44 within the fourth warmth to advance to the semifinals the place he ran a 20.35 to take 13^th general on the evening
• Shelby McEwen (USA) tied for ninth within the prelims of the boys’s excessive leap with a leap of two.28 meters, earlier than leaping 2.30 meters within the finals to take fifth place
• Olivia Fotopoulou posted a top-30 end within the girls’s 200 meters, posting a 23.25 to take twenty seventh general
• Natassha McDonald (Canada) posted a top-30 end within the girls’s 400 meters on the World Championships, taking twenty eighth with a time of 52.41
• Daniel Haugh (USA) completed second within the prelims of the boys’s hammer throw with a toss of 79.34 meters, advancing him to finals, earlier than taking eighth in finals with a toss of 78.10 meters
• Portious Warren (Trinidad and Tobago) took 25^th within the girls’s shot put with a greatest toss of 16.65 meters

Crimson Tide Motion on Day 9 (Saturday)

• Quanesha Burks (USA) and Flippa Fotopoulou (Cyprus) will compete within the girls’s lengthy leap which will get underway at 12 p.m. PT
• Natassha McDonald is a part of Canada’s 4×400-meter relay crew which will get underway at 5 p.m. PT
• Champion Allison (USA) and Jereem Richards (Trinidad and Tobago) each have an opportunity to compete within the 4×400-meter relay prelims beginning at 5:30 p.m. PT
• Remona Burchell is a part of Jamaica’s 4×100-meter relay contingent, with the finals getting underway at 7:30 p.m. PT

Alabama’s World Championships Contingent

• Champion Allison, United States – Males’s 400 meters and 4x400m relay pool
• Alex Amankwa, Ghana – Males’s 800 meters
• Remona Burchell, Jamaica – Ladies’s 4x100m relay pool
• Quanesha Burks, United States – Ladies’s lengthy leap
• Tamara Clark, United States – Ladies’s 200 meters
• Olivia Fotopoulou, Cyprus – Ladies’s 200 meters
• Flippa Fotopoulou, Cyprus – Ladies’s lengthy leap
• Daniel Haugh, United States – Males’s hammer throw
• Kirani James, Grenada – Males’s 400 meters
• Natassha McDonald, Canada – Ladies’s 400 meters and 4x400m relay pool
• Shelby McEwen, United States – Males’s excessive leap
• Tarsis Orogot, Uganda – Males’s 200 meters
• Jereem Richards, Trinidad and Tobago – Males’s 200 meters and 4x400m relay pool
• Portious Warren, Trinidad and Tobago – Ladies’s shot put

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