Day 2 AM Recap: Rasheed Broadbell, Britton Wilson & Byrce Deadmon Are Eliminated

BUDAPEST, Hungary – While most American fans were sleeping, a busy day 2 at the 2023 World Athletics Championships took place on Sunday morning with a bunch of sprint prelims – women’s 100 and 400, men’s 110 hurdles, 400 and 400 hurdles — plus women’s discus and men’s high jump qualifying (links take you to results).

World leader Rasheed Broadbell crahses out in the hurdles. Kevin Morris photo.

The biggest news of the morning session came in the men’s 110 hurdles, where 2023 world leader Rasheed Broadbell of Jamaica clattered hurdle 9 and fell. That leaves Grant Holloway as a heavy favorite for his third straight World Championship gold. Not only did Broadbell go home – the only man to beat Holloway this year – but Cordell Tinch looked poor in his prelim and finished 4th (the last auto qualifier spot) in 13.49. Tinch is the only man to break 13.00 this year aside from Broadbell and Holloway. Holloway led all qualifiers with his 13.18. The other two Americans also advanced but didn’t run fast – Freddie Crittenden (13.40, 2nd in heat) and Daniel Roberts (13.36, 3rd in heat). *Men’s 110h Results

Two big names were also eliminated in the women’s 400 – one was not a surprise and one was pretty shocking. It was no surprise that Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the two-time Olympic champ who was competing exactly four months after giving birth to Maicel Uibo Jr., was eliminated after running a seasonal best of 52.35. What was unexpected was that NCAA record holder Britton Wilson of the US (49.13 pb), who has battled a shin injury all year, didn’t advance after running just 53.87 to finish 8th in her heat. She left the track in a wheelchair. World and Olympic silver medallist Marileidy Paulino led all qualifiers with the only sub-50 clocking of the day, 49.90. *Women’s 400 Results

🇺🇸Britton Wilson also taken off in a wheel chair clearly in difficulty after unfortunately not being able to qualify from her 400m heat. https://t.co/1iHQrRdhXi pic.twitter.com/YvqgdwG7QC

— Travis Miller (@travismillerx13) August 20, 2023

In the women’s 100, all of the big names advanced to Monday’s semifinals, led by Sha’Carri Richardson, who ran 10.92 to clock the fastest time of the prelims in her World Championship debut. Shericka Jackson (11.06), Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (11.01), Marie-Josee Ta Lou (11.08), and Julien Alfred (10.99) all won their heats as well. *Women’s 100 results

Rai Benjamin and Karsten Warholm breezed through the first round of the 400-meter hurdles, while reigning world champion Alison dos Santos, who had raced just one 400 hurdles race all year due to a meniscus injury, ran the fastest time of the day, 48.12, to win heat 1. *Men’s 400h Results

The first round of the men’s 400 was quick as 17 men broke 45 seconds, led by 20-year-old Håvard Bentdal Ingvaldsen, who ran 44.39 to take nearly half a second off the Norwegian record he set in Oslo in June. Reigning champ Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas had to exit the track in a wheelchair, feeling the effects of the sunny, hot conditions (high 80s F), but only after he won his prelim in 44.65. US champ Bryce Deadmon was the biggest name to be eliminated as he only ran 46.20 after tweaking his hamstring in practice on Friday. 

National records also went to Hungary’s Attila Molnár as the 21-year-old who stated the year with a 46.67 pb but had run 44.98 twice in 2023, ran 44.84. 28-year-old Kentaro Santo, who had run 45.00 to win the Asian Champs in his last race, became the first Japanese man under 45.00 with a 44.77. *Men’s 400 results

There was one set of medals awarded on Sunday morning, with Spain’s Maria Perez earning gold in the women’s 20k race walk in 1:26:51 just hours before Spain’s women won the World Cup Final in soccer. Australia’s Jemima Montag (1:27:16) and Italy’s Antonella Palmisano (1:27:26) took silver and bronze. *Recap *Women’s 20k race walk results