James began to strain, Norman and Makwala were losing ground as Gardiner cruised past him into the lead. Coming onto the home straight, James had the edge, with Makwala and Gardiner next, with Norman and Zambrano a metre behind them. To the inside, Zambrano seemed to be marking James who had already made up the stagger and was inside of him. Through the final turn Gardiner gained on Norman.
Gardiner began to speed up chasing Norman, visible to his outside. Down the backstretch, Norman and James kept up the pressure, while Cherry and Makwala backed off. Starting fast, Norman, Michael Cherry, James and Isaac Makwala made up most of the stagger on the athletes to their outside, Christopher Taylor, Gardiner, Zambrano and Liemarvin Bonevacia respectively. Deon Lendore ran 44.93 and didn't make the final.įive members of the sub 44 club were in the final. The other semi finals were a little more sane. Immediately behind him, Zambrano became the 18th member of the sub 44 club with 43.93.
The first semi final revealed James was in top form, running 43.88. And other than van Niekerk, the fastest personal record in the field belonged to Indoor World Record holder Michael Norman at 43.45 for =#4 all time. Earlier in the season, Randolph Ross joined the sub 44 club. The 2019 World Championships presented a completely different set of names, Steven Gardiner, Anthony Zambrano and Fred Kerley, but Kerley focused his efforts on the 100m, netting himself a silver medal in that event. Silver medalist and 2012 Olympic Champion Kirani James was back from the podium on Rio. This year, van Niekerk was back to defend, but he was not the same after a 2017 ACL injury during a celebrity rugby match. Wayde van Niekerk's world record in Rio put this event in the spotlight.
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