Andre De Grasse to race 100 metre final at world championships

USC Track and Field sprinter Andre De Grasse concluded his 2015 season by competing against the world’s best sprinters in the 100M Dash final at the IAAF World Championships early this morning in Beijing.

Advancing to the final was a challenge in itself as Bromell finished third in his semifinal heat with a time of 9.99 (-0.4m/s).

Grasse tied for third with Baylor sophomore Trayvon Bromell after a photo finish could not separate the runners. In tomorrow’s semifinal heat, the 2015 NCAA 100m champion De Grasse will square off with reigning World and Olympic Champion Usain Bolt and NCAA runner-up and the second-fastest qualifier Trayvon Bromell. And the first Canadian to win a medal – or even make the final – in track’s marquee event since Bruny Surin raced to silver in 1999.

Brown said it’s a blessing that De Grasse is so new to the sport. Theisen-Eaton ran the 800m in the women’s heptathlon running 2:11:52 and scoring 942 points.

Ennis-Hill’s season best effort of 6.43 metres gave her a comfortable cushion at the top of the overall standings, which remained solid after throwing 42.51m in the javelin.

The only time Bolt has failed to win gold in a sprint at a major championship since the 2008 Olympics was when he was disqualified for a false start in the heats of the 2011 world championships. “Maybe expecting too much, and going in too tight instead of having fun like I usually do”, Theisen-Eaton said. “I don’t know what’s happening.’ And I walked into the stadium, and it was just wonderful , 50,000 people here in the stadium, I’m completely overwhelmed right now”, Thorne said.

“I’m disappointed that there’s no shot at getting gold”.

“They were a lot better than I was anticipating”, Thorne said.

Barber, meanwhile, easily cleared the required 5.70 metres to move on in the pole vault. “[But] if at the beginning someone had said I would get the silver medal, I would have been upset”. “That’s been the goal from Day 1, to come out and find myself somewhere on the podium”.

Usain Bolt stumbled in his semifinal of the 100 meters and had to work hard in the latter half of the race to qualify in a time of 9.96 seconds. The Canadian walker ended up with the bronze medal. Geoffrey Kipsang Kamworor won silver, while Kenyan teammate Paul Kipngetch Tanui claimed the bronze.