Sprinter Morales Williams loses lead, places 3rd in men's 400m at Ostrava Golden Spike

Doug Harrison · CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 24, 2025 3:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

Perhaps Christopher Morales Williams volition look backmost connected Tuesday arsenic a time of learned lessons.

The Canadian sprinter went retired hard disconnected the enactment successful the men's 400 metres astatine the 68th Ostrava Golden Spike and led the field of 8 by astir 5 metres done the archetypal half.

Fourth astatine the apical of the straightaway, Morales Williams began to stone side-to-side portion fading over the last 100 metres to spot 3rd successful 45.10 seconds astatine the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold conscionable successful the Czech Republic.

The 20-year-old ran a season-best 45.02 to triumph connected June 2 successful Rovereto, Italy, aft opening his outdoor play successful the region successful 45.16 astatine the Doha Diamond League conscionable successful Qatar.

Morales Williams, from Maple, Ont., boasts a 44.05 idiosyncratic champion from past May 11 astatine the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships successful Gainesville, Fla.

WATCH | Morales Williams earns 3rd-place decorativeness successful men's 400m in the Czech Republic:

Last season, the five-foot-10 athlete competed successful 2 Diamond League competitions after winning an NCAA rubric during his sophomore play astatine the University of Georgia.

He placed sixth astatine some meets, successful Monaco connected July 12 and 8 days aboriginal successful London.

On Aug. 6, Morales Williams clocked 45.25 successful the 3rd and last semifinal vigor of his Olympic debut successful Paris.

Belgium's Daniel Segers, 24, took Tuesday's contention successful a 44.63 PB, 36-100ths of a 2nd faster than two-time Olympic bronze medallist Samuel Reardon of Great Britain, who was 2nd successful a 44.99 SB aft battling hamstring injuries successful caller months.

The conscionable grounds of 44.16 by now-retired American sprinter LaShawn Merritt has stood since 2014.

Lumb gains invaluable ranking points successful 1,500m

Kieran Lumb, the different Canadian competing successful Ostrava, placed 5th successful the men's 1,500 metres.

His clip of 3 minutes 36.14 seconds is 21-100ths faster than his June 15 effort astatine the Portland Track Festival successful Oregon, wherever the middle-distance runner was 10th. Lumb opened  his outdoor run successful the region clocking 3:34.25 successful Renton, Wash.

The 26-year-old Vancouver autochthonal has yet to automatically suffice for a spot astatine the Sept. 13-21 World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo by moving the 3:33.00 introduction standard. Lumb entered Tuesday's contention 49th successful the satellite rankings quota among the 56 athletes to beryllium selected for the 1,500.

In the men's 200, 17-year-old Gout Gout acceptable an Australian grounds successful his archetypal elder contention abroad, stopping the timepiece successful a personal-best 20.02 seconds to bushed Cuba's Reynier Mena by astir 1 metre.

Gout, who entered the contention ranked 21st successful the world, gained crushed connected Mena downt the straightaway and overtook him successful the last metres.

WATCH | Late-charging Gout prevails implicit Mena successful men's 200m:

Gout, who won the 200 successful a non-legal 19.84 at the Australian championships successful April, topped his erstwhile PB of 20.04 from past December erstwhile helium broke Peter Norman's 20.06 nationalist mark that had stood for 56 years.

In April, Gout was confirmed for Australia's satellite title team.

He is scheduled to contention the 200 successful Diamond League enactment astatine the Herculis EBS Meeting competition connected July 11 successful Monaco.

WATCH | Full replay sum of the 68th Ostrava Golden Spike meet:

Fraser-Pryce set for her last Jamaican championships

Jamaican way icon Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce volition vie successful her last nationalist championships erstwhile they statesman this week, the three-time Olympic golden medallist said, winding down 1 of athletics' astir decorated careers.

The 10-time satellite champion antecedently announced her comeback to the way for 2025, successful what was wide expected to beryllium her last twelvemonth of competition, saying she had "unfinished business."

The 38-year-old told reporters astatine a Nike lawsuit connected Monday the Jamaican nationalist championships that start Thursday would beryllium her last.

"It's 1 of those moments that I americium looking guardant to. You cognize why? Because I person perfectly thing to suffer and each to gain," said Fraser-Pryce, who won back-to-back 100m Olympic titles successful 2008 and 2012.

The qualifying lawsuit for this year's worlds comes aft a disappointing last Games successful Paris, erstwhile she missed her 100 semifinal after sustaining an wounded successful the warmup.

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