FILE – Eric Shauwn Brazas Cray from the Philippines races forward of Edwin Halomoan Binsar (#0205) from Indonesia within the males’s 400m hurdles athletics occasion on the SEA Video games in Clark, Capas, Tarlac province, north of Manila on December 10, 2019. (Photograph by TED ALJIBE / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines—Eric Cray crossed the road seventh amongst 9 contenders within the preliminary qualifying warmth of the lads’s 400m hurdles on Sunday, abruptly ending his marketing campaign on the 2023 World Athletics Championships.
Cray, the six-time Southeast Asian Video games champion and document holder, clocked 50.27 seconds in warmth 2 on lane 6 held on the Nationwide Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary topped by Kyron Mcmaster of the British Virgin Islands in 48.47 seconds.
Rasmus Magi of Estonia checked in at second in 48.58 seconds adopted by Trevor Bassitt of america (48.73) and Wiseman Mukhobe of Kenya (49.10), all of whom progressed to the semifinal heats with Mcmaster.
The previous Asian champion and 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympian Cray likewise missed the Olympic qualification clocking of 48.70 for subsequent 12 months’s Paris Olympics.
Robyn Lauren Brown, one other Filipino-heritage trackster like Cray, has made it to the Budapest worlds by topping the latest Asian championships in Bangkok, Thailand and can present up on the beginning block of the ladies’s 400m hurdles on Monday.
EJ Obiena, the world’s No. 3 in pole vaulting, is scheduled to determine within the elimination spherical of 35 opponents from 23 international locations on Wednesday.
Obiena made historical past as the primary Filipino to succeed in the rostrum within the worlds with a bronze-medal output final 12 months within the Eugene, Oregon model of the worldwide meet.
The present Asian champion and record-holder of six meters has no intention of once more winding third behind world champion Armand Duplantis of Sweden and American Chris Nilsen within the finals on Saturday (Aug. 26).
Duplantis, the reigning Olympic gold medalist, owns the world commonplace of 6.22 meters, method forward of the No. 2 Nilsen and Obiena on this planet rankings.
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