Tag: Meters
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen Wins the 5,000 Meters at the World Championships
In recent years, Jakob Ingebrigtsen has collected a small constellation of tattoos on his arms and legs. A crescent moon near his right biceps. A compass on his left forearm. A palm tree and the face of a dog above his right knee. A serpent on his left thigh. The tattoos are a source of…
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Caster Semenya is Back on Track. She Will Race the 5,000 Meters.
Caster Semenya of South Africa, the two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion at 800 meters, is not permitted to compete in her favorite event this week at the world track and field championships because of rules governing intersex athletes and permissible testosterone levels in events from the quarter mile to the mile, which combine…
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Fred Kerley Leads U.S. Sweep in the 100 Meters at Worlds
Fred Kerley did not know that he was the fastest man in the world when he crossed the finish line at Hayward Field on Saturday night. Like so much else in his life, he needed to wait and wonder. A slew of runners, three of them from the United States, had finished the men’s 100-meter…