2023 BLAZING IN BUDAPEST
and her event, the 400 hurdles, starts on the 21st. For a woman who ran four races in four days and finished with a flat 400‐ metre personal best of 50.76 seconds, that should be just fine. CONCLUSION If the women uphold their end of the bargain and score seven times, the men earn themselves five trips to the podium and the mixed relay team fires as well, this Jamaican team will have 13 medals. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the 2009 team, led by Bolt and Shelly‐ Ann Fraser‐ Pryce, established a benchmark of 13 medals in Berlin, Germany. The team to Budapest is unlikely to come home with seven gold medals as Bolt and company did in 2009. If they match the Berlin benchmark, though, it will be a great achievement.
Wayne Pinnock
World Under-20 and NCAA triple jump champion, 18 year-old Jaydon Hibbert will be a favourite in Budapest.
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