World Athletics Championships in pictures: Records, Kevin Mayer champion… The highlights

Kevin Mayer who saves the French team from zero points, Allyson Felix who bows out, Sydney McLaughlin who smashes his world record in the 400m hurdles, and Armand Duplantis always higher, these athletes marked the Worlds-2022 with Eugene athletics that ended Sunday in the United States.

From July 15 to 24, 2022, athletes from all over the world put on a magnificent show to the delight of the photographers on site.

Here are some strong images.

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• Saturday July 16, the American Chase Ealey offers a first title to the host country of the World Athletics Championships of Eugene (Oregon) by winning the shot put.

  With a throw of 20.49m, Ealey (27) is ahead of Chinese Olympic champion Lijao Gong (20.39m) and Dutchwoman Jessica Schilder (19.77m).

• On the same day, Fred Kerley (27) led an impressive American hat-trick in the 100m at the World Championships in Athletics, pulling off a roar at Hayward field.

  Without the injured Italian Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, Fred Kerley won in 9 sec 86, ahead of Marvin Bracy (9.88) and Trayvon Bromell (9.88), decided by a thousandth of a second.

• A flying Chinese in the long jump competition!

  Wang Jianan takes gold in the long jump in the last jump ahead of the Greek Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou.

  Fifth before his sixth try, Wang dislodges Tentoglou from first place by four centimeters, with 8.36 m against 8.32 m for the Greek.

  The Swiss Simon Ehammer wins the bronze medal with 8.16 m.

• Sunday July 17, the Ethiopian Tamirat Tola

  won the marathon of the World Athletics Championships in 2 h 05 min 36 sec (championship record), ahead of his compatriot Mosinet Geremew and the Belgian Bashir Abdi.

  Among the women, her compatriot Gotytom Gebreslase is crowned world champion in 2h 18 min 11 sec.

• Time seems to have no hold on Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

  At 35, the sprint legend pocketed a historic fifth world title in the 100m.

  Long yellow and green Jamaican hair, Fraser-Pryce won in 10 sec 67 -- no one had ever run so fast in the world final -- ahead of Shericka Jackson (10.73) and Elaine Thompson-Herah (10.81), the double reigning Olympic champion in the 100m and 200m.

• On Monday July 18, the Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas continues to play in the sandboxes and wins a third consecutive world title in the triple jump with 15.47 m, the 6th best performance of all time.

• Tuesday July 19, the Brazilian Alison dos Santos is crowned world champion of the 400 m hurdles with the third best time of all time, 46 sec 29, after a final of which the French Wilfried Happio (in the background) takes the fourth place.

• On Wednesday July 20, the Chinese Feng Bin sends her disc (69.12 m) into orbit and becomes world champion for the first time by overtaking the favorites, the Croatian Sandra Perkovic and the American Valarie Allman.

• Small freshness break in this slideshow with the dive of the Frenchwoman Alice Finot in the

  last river of the 3,000 m steeplechase… which she nevertheless finished in tenth place!

• Thursday, July 21, Jamaican Shericka Jackson becomes world champion in the 200m by achieving the 2nd fastest time of all time (21 sec 45).

  Just 11 hundredths from the old world record of the American Florence Griffith-Joyner (21.34 in 1988), Jackson (28) is ahead of her compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (21.81) and the British defending champion Dina Asher-Smith (22.02).

  It's worth immortalizing all that!

• Oh the beautiful roar!

  The same day, the American Noah Lyles retains the world gold in the 200m by becoming the third best performer in history over the distance in 19 sec 31, twelve hundredths of the world record held by Jamaican legend Usain Bolt ( 19.19).

• Friday July 22 is undoubtedly THE race of the Worlds-2022 and for many one of the greatest performances in history.

  Big favorite after his Olympic title in Tokyo a year earlier, Sydney McLaughlin flies over the final of the 400m hurdles.

  By completing her lap in 50 sec 68, she subtracted more than seven tenths from her previous world record (51.41) at the end of this world final, becoming the first woman under 51 seconds over 400m hurdles, at only 22 years old. .

• On Saturday July 23, Canada created a surprise by dominating the United States in the men's 4x100m relay, where the French took 8th place.

  In 37 sec 48, the Canadians led by Andre de Grasse narrowly beat the United States (37 sec 55), the United Kingdom taking bronze in 37 sec 83.

• Veteran Allyson Felix (36) thought she had competed in her last international race last week at the start of competition in the mixed 4x400m, where she had contributed to the United States bronze, but she was recalled by the coaches at the last moment to participate in the heats of the women's 4x400 m.

  Without running in the final on Sunday, the American will still add a 20th and last world medal (14 in gold), a record, to her immense record.

  Her teammates offering her an ultimate podium by proxy.

• Sunday July 24, two years from the Paris Games and a year after the Olympic silver, Kevin Mayer returns despite a truncated preparation with the world gold of the decathlon, already won in 2017. He thus saves the French team from an embarrassing zero point, which she has not known on the international scene since the 2000 Olympics.

• On the same day, the Grenadian Anderson Peters, 24, sent his javelin to the other end of the stadium (90.54 m) and won a second javelin throwing world champion title, after Doha in 2019. He beat the Indian Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra (88.13m) and the Czech Jakub Vadlejch (88.09m).

• In less than two hours, Nigerian Tobi Amusan sends three chills through the bays of Hayward Field.

  First by beating the world record for the 100 m hurdles in the semi-finals in 12 sec 12, then by dominating the final in 12 sec 06, a time that was ultimately not approved due to the tailwind which was blowing too hard (2 .5 m/s, limit at 2 m/s).

  At 25, the Nigerian has established herself as the patron saint of the discipline, after taking 4th place at the Tokyo Olympics last summer.

• A Swede in levitation!

  The almost unbeatable Armand Duplantis achieves an incredible double world title and world record on the last day of the championships.

  After an inconsequential miss at 5.87m, the pole vaulter unrolls passing 5.94m then 6m on the first attempt to secure the title, before crossing 6.06m and finally 6.21m for a new record of the world on his second attempt.

  At 22, "Mondo" won the last title that was missing from his list.

  End of the game.

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