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Grant Holloway wins the 110m hurdles in Szekesfehervar (© Organisers)
Many events at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial in Szekesfehervar – a
World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting – on Monday and Tuesday (5-6) will offer a sneak preview of what may happen at the Olympic Games in a few weeks’ time.
In fact, the men’s 400m should come with a spoiler alert because world record-holder Wayde van Niekerk and US champion Michael Norman have decided that the Hungarian city, and not Tokyo, should be the site of their first ever head-to-head.
It will also be the first time that Norman takes on world 400m champion Steven Gardiner of The Bahamas, setting up an intriguing three-way battle over one lap of the track.
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Erriyon Knighton Runs 20.04 in First Round of US Olympic Trials to Break High School 200m Record
Noah Lyles and
Michael Norman put on a show in the men’s 200 meters at the US Olympic Trials, finishing fourth and fifth and almost making the team to Rio as teenagers.
This year, 17-year-old
Erriyon Knighton, who just completed his junior year at Hillsborough High School in Tampa, will look to do them one better. He’s off to a good start.
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Running in the first heat of the preliminary round of the men’s 200 at the 2020 Olympic Trials at Hayward Field, Knighton came off the turn tied for the lead, then pulled away over the final 100 meters to win in 20.04, taking five-hundredths of a second off of the US high school record set by Lyles at the 2016 Trials. It also lowered Knighton’s own world U18 record of 20.11 a record that belonged to