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Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Sport
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Two-time shot put world champ Jackson posts world leading 20.95m
American Chase Jackson made the longest women's shot put throw in the world since 2012 to win the Iron Wood Classic and break her own American record (Pedro PARDO) Two-time reigning women's shot put world champion Chase Jackson unleashed a world-best effort for the year with a distance of 20.95 meters to win the Iron Wood Classic on Saturday. Jackson broke her own American record of 20.76m from 2023 and her effort was the world's best women's throw since 2012. Advertisement "Got a little excited but know I've got more in the tank!" Jackson posted on social media along with a video of her performance. Jackson, who turns 31 next month, won world titles in 2022 at Eugene and 2023 in Budapest but she was eliminated in qualifying in her Olympics debut last year in Paris. Jackson is a four-time US indoor champion and four-time US outdoor champion. She is a three-time podium finisher at the world indoors, taking second in 2022 at Belgrade and third in 2024 at Glasgow and earlier this year at Nanjing, China. js/bb
Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Chase Jackson breaks American record in shot put
Chase Jackson improved her own American record in the shot put by throwing 20.95 meters (68 feet, 8 3/4 inches) at the Iron Wood Classic meet in Rathdrum, Idaho, on Saturday. Jackson, the two-time reigning world outdoor champion, bettered her own American record of 20.76 meters from 2023. Advertisement It's the world's best outdoor throw since 2012. "Got a little excited but know I've got more in the tank!" was posted on her social media. Jackson, 30, was eliminated in qualifying from her Olympic debut in Paris. Two weeks after that, she launched what was at the time the second-farthest throw in American history — 20.64 meters, a distance that would have won Olympic gold by more than two feet. Then in February, she won her fifth U.S. indoor title and broke the American indoor record by throwing 20.24. "I'm riding that (Olympic) disappointment into something good instead of something bad," Jackson told RunnerSpace at the time. "Technically, I feel like I look better than I've ever looked." Advertisement Jackson is in the field for next Saturday's Prefontaine Classic, which airs live on NBC Sports and Peacock from 4-6 p.m. ET. Chase Ealey Chase Ealey returns home at USATF Indoors a world champ after COVID denied her Olympics Chase Ealey went from missing the Tokyo Olympics to win the world championships shot put. She competes in the USATF Indoor Championships on NBC, Peacock.
Forbes
05-06-2025
- General
- Forbes
Gretchen Walsh's American Record Streak Continues At U.S. Nationals
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA - JUNE 03: Gretchen Walsh reacts after competing in the Women's 100m Freestyle ... More Final on day one of the Toyota National Championships at Indiana University Natatorium on June 03, 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by) Gretchen Walsh continues to maintain her record-breaking wins at the U.S. National Championships. Qualifying for her second World Championships, Walsh broke the American record for the fourth time so far this season in the 50 fly by posting a time of 24.66. Her performance helped her significantly lower her own previous record of 24.93, set at last month's Fort Lauderdale Pro Series. 'I wanted to go for a best time; that would have meant another American record,' said Walsh as she candidly spoke about not expecting to lower the record 'by that much.' She was followed by her former University of Virginia teammate Kate Douglass in 25.39. Currently Walsh is the second-fastest swimmer in the event, following Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom. In a previous article, I wrote about how Sjostrom, a six-time consecutive world champion in the 50 fly, being absent from the 2025 season will provide an opportunity for Walsh. As the 22-year-old is getting closer to breaking Sjostrom's 11-year-old world record of 24.43, Walsh is now also in line to upgrade her bronze medal in the fly event and claim her first individual gold medal at the World Championships in July. Walsh has succesfully carried the momentum from the previous season. She set multiple records at the 2024 Short Course championships using her flexibility and underwater dolphin kicks to their full potential. Since last year, her performance in long-course pools has also made a significant development. Walsh is currently the fastest woman in the 100 fly in 55.09, breaking the previous world record she set at Olympic trials. Overall, she managed to set 25 individual American records last year across all courses (short-course yards, short-course meters, and long course metres.) In the men's 200 freestyle, Luke Hobson broke a 17-year-old. The 21-year-old became the sixth swimmer in the world to break the 1:44 barrier with a 1:43.73 finish. With this, he also broke Michael Phelps' U.S. Open record of 1:44.10 set in the super suit era at the trials of the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Texas swimmer is now the second-fastest American swimmer in the fly event after Phelps. His performance also helped him post the fifth-fastest time of all time and clock the fastest time ever in a U.S. pool. '1:43, that's kind of been a goal of mine for a couple of years now,' said Hobson as he revealed his 'overall goal' to break Germany's Paul Biedermann's supersuited world record of 1:42.00 set at the 2009 World Championships in Rome.
