The World Games 2022 | Birmingham, USA

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The World Games2022 | Birmingham, USA​

The 11th edition of The World Games will take place in Birmingham, Alabama, USA from 7th to 17th July 2022. This edition, originally planned for 2021, is postponed to 2022 because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Event Dates
Opening Ceremony 7 July 2022
Competition 8-17 July 2022
TWG Plaza 8-17 July 2022
TWG Athletes Night 13 July 2022
Closing Ceremony 17 July 2022


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Fred Kerley leads first American sweep at world championships in 31 years
Kerley powered through the line to finish in 9.86 seconds and beat both the leaning Marvin Bracy and the 2021 U.S. champion, Trayvon Bromell, by less than 0.02 seconds. The difference between second and third was 0.002.

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It marked the first American sweep at the world meet since Carl Lewis, Leroy Burrell and Dennis Mitchell went gold-silver-bronze in 1991 in Tokyo.

 

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Dina Asher-Smith fastest in 100m heat at track world championships
Asher-Smith came within one hundreth of a second of the British record with a time of 10.84, the fastest of the day.

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Jamaican trio Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson also advanced to Sunday's semifinals.

Tamirat Tola sets world championships record while leading 1-2 marathon finish by Ethiopia
The 30-year-old Tola finished in a championship-record time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, 36 seconds on the fast, flat course that featured plenty of scenic views to soak in. Teammate Mosinet Geremew held on for silver, finishing 68 seconds behind Tola. Bashir Abdi of Belgium captured bronze.

 

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The World Games2022 | Birmingham, USA

Total Medals By Country (Top5)
ITA: 49 (13G - 24S - 12B)
GEM: 44 (23G - 6S - 15B)
UKR: 42 (15G - 11S - 16B)?
USA: 38 (13G - 17S - 8B
JAP: 32 (10G - 10S - 12B)

 

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Allyson Felix caps final appearance at track world championships with bronze medal in 4x400m mixed relay​

The third-place finish still gave Felix her 19th medal at world championships, extending a record she already held. Adding it to the 11 she's taken at the Olympics, she'll end her career with an even 30 at her sport's biggest events.

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NCAA champ Randolph Ross booted from world track and field championships over missed doping test​

Back-to-back NCAA champion Randolph Ross was booted from the world track and field championships on the eve of his 400-meter preliminary race, about a month after officials could not locate him to take an antidoping test. The Athletics Integrity Unit announced Saturday it was provisionally suspending the North Carolina A&T sprinter for tampering with the antidoping process after an unsuccessful testing attempt on June 18. The investigation concluded, the AIU said, after officials interviewed him Thursday. Ross won his second straight title in the 400 meters at NCAA championships earlier this year. His father, Duane, won a bronze medal in the 110 hurdles at the 1999 worlds.

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Americans Brooke Andersen, Janee' Kassanavoid take gold, bronze in hammer throw at world championships​

Hammer throwers Brooke Andersen and Janee' Kassanavoid extended America's roll on home turf Sunday, taking gold and bronze medals at the world championships a day after the U.S. sweep in the men's 100 meters. Andersen, a 26-year-old from California, won the gold medal with a throw of 259 feet, 1/2 inches (78.96 meters) that beat Canada's Camryn Rogers by more than 11 feet (3.3 meters). Kassanavoid took bronze to give the U.S. women's throwers three medals over the first three days of the meet.

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TWG 2022 CONTRIBUTES TO HELP UKRAINIAN ATHLETES AND SPORTS​

The World Games 2022 presented a cheque for $54,000 today to support athletes and sports in Ukraine. In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, The World Games 2022 announced plans to donate $1 from every ticket and item of TWG 2022 merchandise sold since April 1 to help benefit the Ukrainian Community and Sports Movement through the Olympic Solidarity Fund. The formal cheque presentation was made Sunday, the final day of competition, just hours before the Closing Ceremony at Birmingham’s Protective Stadium.

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Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce leads Jamaican sweep in 100m; Philadelphia Eagles Devon Allen DQ'd from 110m hurdles for false start
The 35-year-old mom sped her way back to the top of the sprint game, winning her fifth world title in the 100, that's two more than Bolt amassed during his decade of dominance by leading a Jamaican sweep and knocking off the favorite, two-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah. - Allen's reaction time coming off the starting block was .001 faster than the .1 second threshold allowed by the World Athletics rule, meaning he false started and was disqualified.

 

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Ethiopian Gotytom fini Gebreslase finishes strong, wins women's marathon at world championships
Gebreslase's finished the fast and flat course in a championship-record time of 2 hours, 18 minutes, 11 seconds. She held off Judith Jeptum Korir, who did most of the work late in the race, by nine seconds.

 

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Team USA wins gold in flag football at the World Games
Team USA men beat Italy 46-36 to win the first-ever gold medal in flag football at The World Games. Currently taking place in Birmingham, Alabama, it was Mexico who were the maiden winners of a medal in the sport, coming away with bronze after beating Austria 39-35 in the first game on Thursday (14 July).

 

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'Unreal': Sydney McLaughlin again obliterates own record in winning first 400m hurdles title at worlds championship
For the fourth time in 13 months, the 22-year-old McLaughlin set the world record. On Friday, she ran the 400-meter hurdles at world championships in 50.68 seconds. She shattered her old mark by 0.73 seconds, a ridiculous number for a race of this distance and an amount of time that, in the world before McLaughlin, it had taken 33 years to trim.


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She beat second-place finisher Femke Bol of the Netherlands by 1.59 seconds. McLaughlin's main rival, Dalilah Muhammad, finished third in 53.13 seconds, a time that would've won the world title with ease a mere seven years ago.

 

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Allyson Felix caps final appearance at track world championships with bronze medal in 4x400m mixed relay​

The third-place finish still gave Felix her 19th medal at world championships, extending a record she already held. Adding it to the 11 she's taken at the Olympics, she'll end her career with an even 30 at her sport's biggest events.

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Allyson Felix delays retirement for women's 4×400 relay at world championship
She said team officials coaxed her out of her brief retirement after she helped the mixed relay team win a bronze medal last Friday in what she had said was her last major race.

 

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Australian Kelsey Lee-Barber retains javelin title with world-leading throw
Barber's win makes it three medals for Australia this championships, with Eleanor Patterson winning gold in the high jump and Nina Kennedy claiming bronze in the pole vault earlier in the week.

U.S. men and women cruise into 4×100 relay final at track world championship
The lineup of Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles, Elijah Hall and Bracy cruised into the final with the fastest qualifying time Friday night at world championships. The U.S. women had little trouble, too, with a lineup of Melissa Jefferson, Aleia Hobbs, Jenna Prandini and Twanisha Terry. The women captured silver in Tokyo.

 

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U.S. men and women cruise into 4×100 relay final at track world championship
The lineup of Christian Coleman, Noah Lyles, Elijah Hall and Bracy cruised into the final with the fastest qualifying time Friday night at world championships. The U.S. women had little trouble, too, with a lineup of Melissa Jefferson, Aleia Hobbs, Jenna Prandini and Twanisha Terry. The women captured silver in Tokyo.

U.S. women shock Jamaica to win 4x100 relay; U.S. men flounder again at world championships​

The women pulled a stunner over Jamaica in the 4x100 relay at world championships Saturday, while the favored men finished second after a sloppy baton exchange in what has been a ritual since before anyone on this team was born. Andre DeGrasse beat Marvin Bracy to the line by .07 seconds to lift Canada to the victory in the men's race in 37.48 seconds. Bracy fell behind in the anchor leg after twice reaching back and whiffing on the exchange from Elijah Hall, who went tumbling to the ground after he finally got the stick into his teammate's hand. -
The U.S. women felt nothing but love. A clear underdog to a Jamaican team that had won all but one of the six sprint medals at this meet, the U.S. pulled the upset when Twanisha Terry held off 200 gold medalist Shericka Jackson for a .04-second victory. She celebrated by doing her "dirt bike dance," hopping on one foot while revving the handlebars of her pretend, superfast bike. The American team, which also included Melissa Jefferson, Abby Steiner and Jenna Prandini, finished in 41.14.

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Sydney McLaughlin, relay team gives Americans their 33rd medal at track world championships
McLaughlin turned a .73-second lead into a 2.93-second laugher on the anchor lap, adding this burst of speed to the world record she set two nights earlier in the 400 hurdles.

 

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US snaps 5-game losing streak to rival Canada with win at women's world hockey championships
Megan Keller had a goal and an assist to help the Americans beat their longtime rival and close out group play undefeated in central Denmark. The teams are heavy favorites to meet again in Sunday's final.