The Australian hype for the World Athletics Championships will reach a new peak tonight, as Gout Gout, Torrie Lewis and our superstar high jumpers take to the National Stadium in Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Here is everything you need to know ahead of the action on day six, which you can follow on the ABC Sport live blog, and watch on SBS and Channel Nine.<\/p>\n
What time is Gout Gout’s 200m semifinal?<\/p>\n
Gout Gout is running in the second of three men’s 200m semifinals, with his race starting at 10:09pm tonight.<\/p>\n
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Gout Gout says it feels good to be “running against the big dogs”. (Getty Images: Christian Petersen)<\/p>\n
The first semi is at 10:02pm, featuring Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek and 400m world record holder Wayde van Niekerk.<\/p>\n
The third heat includes Paris bronze medallist and Gout’s training partner, Noah Lyles, and Tokyo gold medallist Andre de Grasse.<\/p>\n
The top two finishers in each heat, plus the two next fastest runners, progress to the eight-man final.<\/p>\n
Who is Gout Gout racing against?<\/p>\n
Gout Gout finished third in his heat after Jamaica’s Bryan Levell (not pictured) bolted from the start. (Getty Images: Sam Barnes\/Sportsfile)<\/p>\n
Gout’s heat time of 20.23 was good enough for third place in his race and an automatic qualification into the semis but was the 12th-fastest time overall.<\/p>\n
The winner of his race, Jamaican 21-year-old Bryan Levell, was the fastest qualifier overall in 19.84 seconds and they will meet again in the semis.<\/p>\n
Also running in his semi is reigning Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana.<\/p>\n
Here is the full startlist and their season bests:<\/p>\n
Jerome Blake (CAN) \u2014 19.95Ryan Zeze (FRA) \u2014 20.23Gout Gout (AUS) \u2014 20.02Xavi Mo-Ajok (NED) \u2014 20.01Letsile Tebogo (BOT) \u2014 19.76Courtney Lindsey (USA) \u2014 19.82Bryan Levell (JAM) \u2014 19.69Timoth\u00e9 Mumenthaler (SUI) \u2014 20.27<\/p>\n
The men’s final will be run on Friday at 11:06pm.<\/p>\n
What time is Torrie Lewis’s 200m semifinal?<\/p>\n
Torrie Lewis is in action in the second women’s 200m semifinal at 10:31pm.<\/p>\n
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After a disappointing 100m, Torrie lewis made amends in the 200m. (Getty Images: Michael Steele)<\/p>\n
After missing out in the heats of the 100m, Lewis shook off her disappointment and ran a personal best of 22.56 in the 200m to finish second behind British star Dina Asher-Smith.<\/p>\n
Lewis has the 15th fastest time this year among the 24 semifinalists, but was eighth fastest in the heats.<\/p>\n
Here’s her startlist:<\/p>\n
Olivia Fotopoulou (CYP) \u2014 22.90Julia Henriksson (SWE) \u2014 22.74Ashanti Moore (JAM) \u2014 22.31Sophia Junk (GER) \u2014 22.53Dina Asher-Smith (GBR) \u2014 22.14Melissa Jefferson-Wooden (USA) \u2014 21.84Torrie Lewis (AUS) \u2014 22.56Imke Vervaet (BEL) \u2014 22.63When do our high jumpers take off?<\/p>\n
Australia’s best chance for a gold medal at this meet is in the women’s high jump, with two world champions and perennial podium stars.<\/p>\n
Reigning two-time indoor world champion Nicola Olyslagers and 2022 outdoor world champion Eleanor Patterson<\/a> are both jumping in the qualifying round from 8:15pm.<\/p>\n Nicola Olyslagers (right) and Eleanor Patterson (left) have shared multiple podiums with Yaroslava Mahuchikh (centre). (Getty Images\/Patrick Smith)<\/p>\n Olyslagers and Patterson have been sharing podiums and shuffling positions with Ukrainian Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh for the past few years.<\/p>\n Mahuchikh won the last outdoor world championship in 2023 with Patterson second and Olyslagers third, before the Australians switched places behind Mahuchikh at last year’s Paris Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n Olyslagers is ranked number one in the world after defending her indoor world title in March<\/a>, as well as four Diamond League gold medals this season<\/a>, while Patterson is ranked third, with her only major victories this season coming without her great rivals in the field.<\/p>\n Assuming they clear the automatic qualifying height of 1.97m or finish in the top 12, Olyslagers, Patterson and Mahuchikh will jump for gold on Sunday at 8:30pm.<\/p>\n Who are the other Australians in action tonight?Georgia Griffith (8:05pm), and Linden Hall and Rose Davies (both 8:33pm) are running the 5,000m heats, hunting a top-eight finish to reach Saturday’s final.Cameron McEntyre is in the men’s javelin final from 8:23pm, marking his first major international final at 26 years old.1,500m bronze medallist Jess Hull<\/a> returns to the track for her 800m heat at 9:46pm. Abbey Caldwell is in the fourth heat at 9:22pm, Claudia Hollingsworth runs at 9:38pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian hype for the World Athletics Championships will reach a new peak tonight, as Gout Gout, Torrie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[101371,64,63,8914,16741,63002,63001,85,89784,81437],"class_list":["post-151043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-200m-semfinals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-eleanor-patterson","tag-gout-gout","tag-high-jump","tag-nicola-olyslagers","tag-sports","tag-torrie-lewis","tag-world-athletics-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n