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2019 IAAF World Relays
The 2019 IAAF World Relays was held in Yokohama, Japan from May 11 to May 12, 2019. Two new events were established for 2019, both mixed events: the relay and the shuttle hurdles relay. The first event replaced the relay that featured at previous events. Medal summary Men Women Mixed Medal table Team standings Teams scored for every place in the top 8 with 8 points awarded for first place, 7 for second, etc. The overall points winner was given the Golden Baton. Participating nations 43 nations took part in the competition. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * References External links Official websiteIAAF website {{World championships in 2019 World Athletics Relays IAAF World Relays IAAF World Relays International athletics competitions hosted by Japan Sports competitions in Yokohama IAAF World Relays The World Athletics Relays, known as the ''IAAF World Relays'' until 2019, is an international bienn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yokohama
is the List of cities in Japan, second-largest city in Japan by population as well as by area, and the country's most populous Municipalities of Japan, municipality. It is the capital and most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a population of 3.7 million in 2023. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu. Yokohama is also the major economic, cultural, and commercial hub of the Greater Tokyo Area along the Keihin region, Keihin Industrial Zone. Yokohama was one of the cities to open for trade with the Western world, West following the 1859 end of the Sakoku, policy of seclusion and has since been known as a cosmopolitan port city, after Kobe opened in 1853. Yokohama is the home of many Japan's firsts in the Meiji (era), Meiji period, including the first foreign trading port and Chinatown (1859), European-style sport venues (1860s), English-language newspaper (1861), confectionery and beer manufacturing (1865), daily newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chijindu Ujah
Chijindu "CJ" Ujah (born 5 March 1994) is a British athlete, specializing as a sprinter. The lead-off runner of the Great Britain 4 × 100 metres relay team that won both the World title in 2017 and the European title in 2016 and 2018, he also won the title in the 100 metres at the 2017 Diamond League final. On 18 February 2022, it was announced that Ujah and his teammates Zharnel Hughes, Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, and Richard Kilty would be stripped of their 4 × 100 metres relay 2020 Summer Olympics silver medals after Court of Arbitration for Sport found Ujah guilty of a doping violation. Early life and education Chijindu Ujah was born in Enfield, London into a family who are originally from Nigeria. He grew up in Enfield and has one older sibling. He attended St. Matthew's CE Primary School and Bishop Stopford's School alongside his brother. Chijindu went on to study at Sir George Monoux College, a sixth form college in Walthamstow. He later graduated with a degree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anaso Jobodwana
Anaso Jobodwana (born 30 July 1992) is a South African sprinter. He competed in 200 metres at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London where he ran a new personal best of 20.27 seconds to reach the final. In the 2015 World Championships in Beijing, Jobodwana won bronze in the 200m final, with a national record time of 19.87s. Jobodwana competed in the 200 m at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He finished 4th in his heat with a time of 20.53 seconds. He did not qualify for the semifinals. He competed in the men's 200 metres event at the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo .... References External links * * 1992 births Living people People from Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality South African male sprinters Athletes (track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Seeliger
Jon Randolph Seeliger (born 27 April 1995) is a South African sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships. Competition record 1Disqualified in the final Personal bests Outdoor *200 metres – 20.71 (+0.2 m/s, Pretoria 2014) *400 metres The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is ... – 45.85 (Stellenbosch 2015) References External links * 1995 births Living people South African male sprinters Place of birth missing (living people) University of Pretoria alumni Competitors at the 2015 Summer Universiade Competitors at the 2019 Summer Universiade Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field) FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Africa 21st-century South African sportsmen { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akani Simbine
Akani Simbine (born 21 September 1993) is a South African Sprint (running), sprinter specialising in the 100 metres event. He was fifth at the Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics in the Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres, men's 100 metres and was the 100 metres List of South African records in athletics, African record holder with a time of 9.84 seconds set in July 2021 until broken by Ferdinand Omanyala in September 2021. Simbine was a World Athletics Championships, World Championships finalist in the 100 metres at the World Athletics Championships, men's 100 metres in 2017 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, 2017 (fifth), 2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's 100 metres, 2019 (fourth), and 2022 (fifth) and was 100 metres champion at the 2018 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 100 metres, 2018 African Championships and Athletics at the 2018 Commonwealth Games – Men's 100 metres, 2018 Commonwea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinesipho Dambile
Sinesipho Dambile (born 2 March 2002) is a South African Sprint (running), sprinter competing primarily in the 200 metres. He competed in the 2022 World Athletics Championships – Men's 200 metres, 200 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Personal bests Outdoor *100 metres – 10.22 (Pretoria 2025) *200 metres – 20.01 (Gaborone 2025) *300 metres – 32.10 (Pretoria 2020) *400 metres – 45.46 (Pretoria 2025) References External links * 2000 births Living people South African male sprinters 21st-century South African sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people) {{SouthAfrica-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chederick Van Wyk
Chederick van Wyk (born 18 February 1995) is a sprinter from Prieska, a remote and rural town deep in the Karoo in the Northern Cape of South Africa Career Van Wyk won the silver medal during 2019 IAAF World Relays, with the African record in the 4 × 200 metres relay. During the 2019 Universiade in Naples, he won two more silver medals, 100 m and 200 m, just behind Paulo André de Oliveira Paulo André Camilo de Oliveira (often called Camilo to avoid homonymy, born 20 August 1998) is a Brazilian sprinter. In the 100 metres, he was a silver medalist at the 2019 Pan American Games, and a semifinalist in the World Athletics Champions .... Van Wyk was part of South Africa’s men’s quartet at the Tokyo Summer Olympic games in 2021 including Clarence Munyai, Shaun Maswanganyi and Akani Simbine. Munyai and Maswanganyi struggled to exchange and dropped the baton and therefore did not finish (DNF) the race and failed to progress to the final. International competitions Pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Magakwe
Simon Petrus Magakwe (25 May 1986 in Itsoseng) is a sprinter from South Africa. In 2010 he competed at the 2010 African Championships in Nairobi Nairobi is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kenya. The city lies in the south-central part of Kenya, at an elevation of . The name is derived from the Maasai language, Maasai phrase , which translates to 'place of cool waters', a ... and won the bronze medal in both the 100 metres and the 200 metres. He was the first South African to run under 10 second, with a personal best of 9.98 seconds. Doping rule violation On 22 December 2014 Magakwe refused to submit to out-of-competition testing. He was subsequently handed a two-year ban from sport for the anti-doping rule violation. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remontay McClain
Remontay McClain (born September 21, 1992) is an United States, American Sprint (running), sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres, 100 and 200 metres dash. While attending Covina High School, McClain ran the second-fastest 100 metres by a high school athlete in 2010, behind only Oliver Bradwell. A native of Victorville, California, McClain moved to Covina, California when he was 13. In his junior year at Covina High School, McClain won both the 100 m and 200 m CIF California State Meet, California state championship. He was named a 2010 and 2011 All-USA track and field selection by ''USA Today''. In his senior year, McClain repeated as 100 m and 200 m state champion, by setting Division 3 meet records in both events. He became only the third athlete in the 93 competitions of the CIF California State Meet, CIF State Track and Field Championship meet to win back-to-back titles in the 100 and 200 meters, following Charlie Paddock (1917, 1918) and Randall Carroll (2008, 2009). Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vernon Norwood
Vernon Larnard Norwood (born April 10, 1992) is an American track and field athlete who specializes in the 400 meters. Biography Raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, he is the son of Curtis Norwood and Charliette Ray. Norwood started running track in his junior year at Morgan City High School. College For South Plains College, Norwood was a multiple time NJCAA national champion. For the LSU Tigers, he was a four time NCAA national champion. Professional In 2015, Norwood finished 3rd at the 2015 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, US Outdoor Championships, to secure a spot in the United States team at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics, World Championships in the 400 meters. He made it to the semi-final and did not advance to the final in the 400 m, and won a gold medal as part of the 4 × 400 m relay squad. During the 2016 indoor season, Norwood made his second USA team by winning the 400m at the US Indoor Championships. At the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryce Robinson
Bryce Robinson (born November 13, 1993) is an American sprinter. He competed collegiately for the University of Tulsa. He won a bronze medal in the 4×100 m relay at the 2019 Pan American Games. Personal bests ;Outdoor *100 m: 9.99 (Storrs, Connecticut 2015) *200 m: 20.30 (Lubbock, Texas 2015) * 300 m: 32.76 (Philadelphia 2022) *400 m: 45.62 (Fayetteville, Arkansas 2022) ;Indoor *60 m: 6.51 (Albuquerque 2018) *200 m: 20.63 (Lincoln, Nebraska 2016) * 300 m: 34.01 (Ostrava 2019) *400 m The 400 metres, or 400-meter dash, is a sprint event in track and field competitions. It has been featured in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympics since 1896 for men and since 1964 for women. On a standard outdoor running track, it is ...: 46.75 (New York City 2015) References External links * 1993 births Living people People from Edmond, Oklahoma Sportspeople from Oklahoma City American male sprinters Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's track and field athletes Track an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Belcher
Christopher Belcher (born January 29, 1994, in Sayville, New York) is an American professional track and field sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters and the 200 meters. While in college he competed for the Monroe Mustangs and then the North Carolina A&T Aggies. He is currently sponsored by Nike. In 2017 he competed at the World Championships in the , making it to the semi-finals. His personal best time in the is 9.93 seconds, set during the NCAA Division I Championships earlier that year. Biography Early life Raised in Sayville, New York, Belcher attended Sayville High School. During his 3 varsity seasons, he won the state championship at the and was ranked 8th nationally. He also won the Division 1 dash state championship race his junior year. Belcher also competed and won the high school dash at the 2013 Millrose Games. Amateur career In 2013, Belcher signed with Monroe College; In his freshman year, he placed 3rd in the at the 2014 NJCAA Division I Champion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
