On April 10, Beijing time, the 2022 IAAF Intercontinental Tour Gold Label Event Bermuda Station, in which the world's first truly world-class major 100-meter competitors competed, ended. As a result, the wind speed reached -5.6 m/s in the men's 100m final, 26-year-old Canada's Jeremy Black won the championship in 10.38 seconds, and the American 2004-born rising star Naiton beat Noah Lyles to finish second in 10.39 seconds. Yesterday, Su Bingtian's Asian rival and Japan's first Kiryu Shoshu to break the 10-second mark made his new season debut at the Brisbane Athletics Classic in Australia, but he only ran 10.55 seconds (-1.4 m/s) to finish fourth.
The Bermuda Competition was full of famous players, and it was expected to have several amazing good results. The current world best of the season is Ghana's 24-year-old Benjamin Azamatti's 9.90 seconds in the United States on March 25 this year, and the luck is that the wind speed is just +2.0 m/s. Kelly, who finished in the 100 meters at the Tokyo Olympics last year, finished second in the world with 9.99 seconds (-0.6 meters per second), and the two have now reached the 10-second mark this season.
Born on January 29, 2004, Knighton won the U18 men's 200m world record held by Bolt in 20.11 seconds in a men's 200m race in Jacksonville last May, setting a new U18 men's 200m world record. Then he ran 9.99 seconds out of 99 seconds in the official race, 10 seconds on 100 meters under the condition of legal wind speed. At the U.S. Domestic Olympic Trials last June, Knighton ran 19.88 seconds in the 200m semifinals, breaking the world record of 19.93 seconds in the U20 set by Bolt in 2004. In the final, he ran another 19.84 seconds to get a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics. At the Tokyo Olympics, Knighton finished fourth in 19.93 seconds.
Knighton made his 100m debut for the new season, and in the preliminaries he easily finished first in the first group with a wind speed of -5.9 m/s. Such wind speeds are certainly not friendly, but athletes arriving at the race site to participate in the competition can not predict such a situation, can only overcome. Another group in the 100m preliminaries, Doha World Championships 200m champion Noah Lyles finished first in 10.42 seconds with winds of -4.5m/s.
There was an unexpected situation in the final, and Canada's Jeremy Black narrowly won when he crossed the line, and his time was 10.38 seconds. Knighton and Noah Lyles collided at almost the same time, and the official results of the tournament were both 10.385 seconds, but the ranking announced by the tournament was second and Noah Lyles was the third place. Jamaican veteran John Black is fourth in 10.45 seconds, Canada's Aaron Brown is fifth in 10.523 seconds, Brandon Karnes of the United States is sixth in 10.528 seconds, American veteran Mike Rogers is 7th in 10.676 seconds, And Jerani Walker of Jamaica is 8th in 10.679 seconds, and six of the top eight are distinguished by comparing thousands of seconds.
The wind speed reached -5.6 m/s in the men's 100m final, and after the World Athletics League reported that if it were not for this big headwind, many people could open the 10-second mark. Calculated according to the formula of 1 m/s downwind to 100 m in 100 m, the winner of this race, Jeremy Black, has a theoretical time of 10 seconds of zero wind speed and a theoretical score of 9 seconds of +2.0 m/s of 9 seconds. Knighton and Noah Lyles, who finished second and third in 10.39 seconds in actual combat, also have the absolute strength to open 9.95 seconds. And one more reminder, Knighton is only 18 years old now.
26-year-old Japanese flyer Shoshu Kiryu ran 9.98 seconds (+1.8 m/s) in the Intercollegiate Competition for Japanese Students in September 2017, becoming the first local flyer in Japan to break the 10-second and the second in Asia to break the 10-second mark. Kiryu has enjoyed winter training in Australia at the beginning of these years, and yesterday he started his new season in Brisbane, but finished fourth with only 10.55 seconds (-1.4 m/s). The theoretical +2.0 m/s conversion of this result is only 10.38 seconds, which is completely unknown to everyone.