Australian sprinter Torrie Lewis has damaged her personal nationwide document to race into the 100m semifinals on evening one of many 2025 World Athletics Championships.
The 20-year-old ran 11.08 an excellent, ending third in her warmth to qualify mechanically for Sunday’s semifinal.
“I am actually pleased. I am very glad with this and excited for tomorrow,” Lewis advised ABC Sport in Tokyo.
“I do know it most likely sounds a bit cocky … however my instances in coaching indicated that I may [break the national record].
“I simply wanted to return out right here and do away with the nerves and do what I have been doing in coaching.”
There was heartbreak for Rohan Browning although, who missed out on a spot within the males’s semis by simply 0.008 seconds.
Elsewhere, Jess Hull and Linden Corridor each did sufficient to comfortably qualify for the ladies’s 1,500m semifinal, additionally set to happen on Sunday, however Sarah Billings narrowly missed out.
Jess Hull comfortably certified for the semifinals. (Getty Photographs: Michael Steele)
Lauren Ryan, in the meantime, completed in ninth place within the girls’s 10,000m, the perfect outcome for an Australian in that occasion since Benita Willis  completed in eighth in 2003 on the Stade de France in Paris.
Her compatriot Izzi Batt-Doyle got here dwelling in seventeenth.
Kurtis Marschall needed to battle to qualify for the lads’s pole vault last, knocking the bar off at his first try at 5.70m earlier than clearing that and the following top of 5.75m.
“Making the ultimate is such a reduction,” Marschall advised ABC Sport.
“The qualifying is the ultimate. You need to go on the market and have to leap each bar and be your finest self simply to be the ultimate.”
Chaos and heartbreak for New Zealand
Geordie Beamish fell with simply over a lap to go within the race, however nonetheless completed second. (Getty Photographs: Emilee Chinn)
Earlier, New Zealand runner Geordie Beamish had a lucky escape when he certified for the three,000m steeple chase regardless of falling closely on the penultimate lap.Â
The 28-year-old world indoor champion rolled, picked himself up and completed second in his warmth, bowing to the gang as he completed.
“I took a very good roll,” Beamish advised World Athletics.
“I could not assume for about 20 seconds after which I obtained up and mentioned to myself that I have to maintain going.
“The remainder of the sphere did not get far-off and to be trustworthy, I used to be fairly assured that I may catch them.”
There was heartbreak although for Kiwi shot putter Tom Walsh, who missed a medal on countback.
Look again on how all of the motion unfolded in our stay weblog.
Key Occasions
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Present all key occasions
Day one abstract
Day one outcomes:
Torrie Lewis broke her personal Australian document to qualify for the Ladies’s 100m semifinal.Jess Hull and Linden Corridor qualify comfortably for girls’s 1,500m semifinal however Sarah Billings misses out.Rohan Browning misses males’s 100m semifinal spot by 0.008 seconds. Josh Azzopardi additionally fails to progress.Lauren Ryan finishes in ninth in 10,000m, Australia’s finest ending place within the occasion since 2003. Izzi Batt-Doyle was seventeenth.Kurtis Marschall qualifies for the pole vault last.Bree Rizzo and Ella Connolly did not qualify for the ladies’s 100m semis.Delta Amidzovski and Sam Dale each got here up brief within the girls’s lengthy soar qualification spherical.Ed Trippas missed out of qualifying for the Males’s 3,000m steeplechase last.
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Thanks for being with us
We’ll wrap issues up right here.
Thanks a lot for being with us, we stay up for seeing you tomorrow for the night session from round 7:00pm AEDT.
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What Aussies are in motion tomorrow?
There may be a lot happening tomorrow on the street, monitor and within the area.
MorningLadies’s Marathon (9:00am AEST):Â Sarah Klein, Tara Palm, Vanessa Wilson
Ladies’s Hammer qualification (10:00am AEST): Stephanie Ratcliffe, Lara RobertsMales’s 1,500m heats (10:35am AEST): Cam Myers, Adam Spencer, Jude ThomasLadies’s 100m hurdles heats (12:20pm AEST): Liz ClayEveningMales’s 400m heats (7:35pm AEST): Reece Holder, Cooper ShermanMales’s excessive soar qualification (7:40pm AEST): Roman Anastasios Yual Reath, Brandon StarcLadies’s 400m heats (8:25pm AEST): Ellie BeerLadies’s 100m semifinals (9:20pm AEST): Torrie LewisLadies’s 1,500m semifinals (10:05pm AEST): Linden Corridor, Jessica Hull
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4X400m MIXED RELAY: USA win gold
No shock actually, however the USA win the combined 4x400m relay at a canter.
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