Hughes eclipses 1993 mark held by Christie with 9.83 effort to prevail against Blake and Coleman; Mu prevails in 800 season opener and McLaughlin-Levrone triumphs in 400, with Jackson edging Hodge and Harrison, Hobbs, Holt, Hoppel, Lyles, Roberts all Steiner all victorious on track in New York
By Erik Boal, DyeStat Editor
For all the anticipation Saturday surrounding the season opener for Athing Mu, or the first outdoor race on U.S. soil this year for Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, it was a newly crowned king of British sprinting who grabbed the spotlight with his world-leading performance at the USATF NYC Grand Prix at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island.
Zharnel Hughes ran a wind-legal 9.83 seconds in the men’s 100-meter dash, eclipsing the 1993 British record of 9.87 by Linford Christie.
Hughes, 27, prevailed against Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake (9.93) and American competitor Christian Coleman (10.02).
Hughes, who ran a hand-timed 9.9 in April in Jamaica, took over the world lead from Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, who clocked a wind-legal 9.84 on May 13 in Nairobi.
He also ascended to the No. 2 all-time European competitor, trailing only Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who ran 9.80 at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Mu did triumph in her first 800-meter race since winning the gold medal 11 months ago at the World Athletics Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore.
Mu ran 1:58.73 to emerge victorious against fellow American athletes Sage Hurta-Klecker (2:00.77) and Allie Wilson (2:00.80), equaling the No. 10 performance in the world this year.
McLaughlin-Levrone earned the win in the women’s 400 in a personal-best 49.51, with fellow American competitor Gabby Thomas clocking 50.29 and former Texas A&M standout Charokee Young, representing Jamaica, taking third in 51.02.
Thomas also finished fifth in the 100-meter dash in a wind-legal 11.08.
McLaughlin-Levrone improved from her 49.71 effort June 9 in Paris to ascend to the No. 4 competitor in the world this year.
Noah Lyles, already the world leader in the men’s 200 meters, surged late to pull away from high school senior Issam Asinga of Montverde Academy in Florida. Lyles ran a wind-legal 19.83 and the Texas A&M-bound Asinga finished second in 20.25.
Keni Harrison edged Alaysha Johnson by a wind-aided 12.29 to 12.30 margin in a battle of top American athletes in the women’s 100-meter hurdles. Danielle Williams, representing Jamaica, took third in 12.33.
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