Fred Curley wins 100m gold at 2022 World Championships – NBC10 Philadelphia

Curley won silver at the Tokyo Olympics, second only to Italy Lamont Jacobs. He now has four World Championship medals and a second gold. For the first time, he became in 2019 in the 4×400 m relay.

This is the third time the USA has won the men’s 100 meters at the world championships. Those other occasions occurred in 1983 and 1991, with Carl Lewis winning gold each time.

There was a fourth American in Saturday’s final. Christian Coleman, who won the last world championship in 2019, finished sixth with a time of 10.01 seconds.

Here are the full results of the men’s 100m final:

1. Fred Curley, USA: 9.86
2. Marvin Bracey, USA: 9.88 (0.874)
3. Trayvon Bromell, USA: 9.88 (0.876)
4. Casaya Sevilla, JAM: 9.97
5. Akani Simbine, South Africa: 10.01 (0.003)
6. Christian Coleman, USA: 10.01 (0.005)
7. Abdul Hakim Sunny Brown, Japan: 10.06
8. Aaron Brown, Kan: 10.07

Chase Ealy made history in the shot put. With a final distance of 20.49 meters, she became the first American to win a gold medal in this event at the world championships. Gong Lijiao, who won gold at the Tokyo Olympics, took silver on Saturday with a distance of 20.39.

At the world championships, Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidei won the women’s 10,000m, Poland’s Pawel Faydek won his fifth straight men’s hammer throw title and China’s Wang Jianan won the men’s long jump.