WE HAVE LISTED our Top 10 in each event. Any Team USA members who don’t make the Top 10 are listed in alphabetical order at the end. The right-hand column is the athlete’s placing in last year’s T&FN World Rankings (nr = not ranked). For the relays, the numbers indicate place, if any, in last year’s WC.
The two mixed-sex relays are listed in both the men’s and women’s compilations, but personnel remain very much in question.
All charts are based on the best information available as of July 28 (meaning that final entry lists were known, but not actual start lists), so the presence of an athlete’s name doesn’t guarantee they’ll contest the event.
Our picks will NOT be updated as the meet progresses.
| 100 METERS | |||
| 1. | Noah Lyles | (USA) | 1 |
| 2. | Kishane Thompson | (Jamaica) | 10 |
| 3. | Oblique Seville | (Jamaica) | 3 |
| 4. | Lamont Marcell Jacobs | (Italy) | nr |
| 5. | Akani Simbine | (South Africa) | 8 |
| 6. | Ferdinand Omanyala | (Kenya) | 4 |
| 7 | Letsile Tebogo | (Botswana) | 6 |
| 8. | Kenny Bednarek | (USA) | nr |
| 9. | Fred Kerley | (USA) | 7 |
| 10. | Louie Hinchliffe | (Great Britain) | nr |
| 200 METERS | |||
| 1. | Noah Lyles | (USA) | 1 |
| 2. | Kenny Bednarek | (USA) | 5 |
| 3. | Erriyon Knighton | (USA) | 2 |
| 4. | Letsile Tebogo | (Botswana) | 3 |
| 5. | Andre De Grasse | (Canada) | 6 |
| 6. | Zharnel Hughes | (Great Britain) | 4 |
| 7. | Joe Fahnbulleh | (Liberia) | nr |
| 8. | Alexander Ogando | (Dominican Republic) | 8 |
| 9. | Tarsis Orogot | (Uganda) | nr |
| 10. | Wanya McCoy | (Bahamas) | nr |
| 400 METERS | |||
| 1. | Quincy Hall | (USA) | 4 |
| 2 | Matthew Hudson-Smith | (Great Britain) | 6 |
| 3. | Steven Gardiner | (Bahamas) | 8 |
| 4. | Alexander Doom | (Belgium) | nr |
| 5. | Michael Norman | (USA) | nr |
| 6. | Charlie Dobson | (Great Britain) | nr |
| 7. | Chris Bailey | (USA) | nr |
| 8. | Christopher Morales Williams | (Canada) | nr |
| 9. | Bayapo Ndori | (Botswana) | nr |
| 10. | Lythe Pillay | (South Africa) | nr |
| 800 METERS | |||
| 1. | Djamel Sedjati | (Algeria) | 4 |
| 2. | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | (Kenya) | 1 |
| 3. | Mohamed Attaoui | (Spain) | nr |
| 4. | Marco Arop | (Canada) | 2 |
| 5. | Bryce Hoppel | (USA) | 9 |
| 6. | Wyclife Kinyamal | (Kenya) | 5 |
| 7. | Gabriel Tual | (France) | nr |
| 8. | Ben Pattison | (Great Britain) | 6 |
| 9. | Elliott Crestan | (Belgium) | nr |
| 10. | Hobbs Kessler | (USA) | nr |
| (other American: Brandon Miller) | |||
| 1500 METERS | |||
| 1. | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | (Norway) | 1 |
| 2. | Josh Kerr | (Great Britain) | 3 |
| 3. | Yared Nuguse | (USA) | 2 |
| 4. | Timothy Cheruiyot | (Kenya) | nr |
| 5. | Narve… | ||
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