The ultimate goal for the World Championships in Athletics remains to be stuck in the neck with yellow metal, but the eighteenth edition, which takes place in Eugene, USA from July 15-24, is full of stars waiting to leave. historical imprint.

Listed below are five of the most prominent stars who are serious candidates to draw attention to the first World Championship for the “Mother of Games” in the United States:

Swede Armand “Mundo” Duplantis

Duplantis has so dominated the pole vault for the past three years that it’s easy to forget he never won an outdoor world title. When the rising 22-year-old Swedish star plays his 18th episode in Eugene, the question most people will worry about will not be whether he will cross the bar, but how far. Duplantis is an Olympic champion and world indoor champion. When he won the last title earlier this year, he set a world record of 6.20m just 13 days after breaking the 6.19m barrier, another world record. Then on June 30, Duplantis took first place in the Stockholm Diamond League with a score of 6.16 m, the highest outdoor pole vault in history. It remains to remove the curse from his last two international outdoor tournaments: ninth in London in 2017 and second in Doha in 2019.

Norwegian Carsten Warholm

Warholm has two of the top three times in 400m hurdles history and four of the top ten times. He has not lost a distance in the 400m hurdles since the 2018 Confederations Cup. The world champion at the last two competitions in London in recent weeks suffered a torn thigh muscle fiber, which he called “catastrophic” because he kept him out of the competition, but two days ago he insisted that this would not reduce his chances, recalling his achievement last year at the Tokyo Olympics when he managed to take gold in his first appearance of the season with a legendary world record of 45.94. seconds.

* American Sidney McLaughlin

McLaughlin is seen as an outstanding candidate to lift her record with world gold, which she lacks. If she puts in a performance close to what she achieved last month in the U.S. World Cup Qualifiers in Eugene, where she broke the world record with a time of 51.41 seconds, she will inevitably be littered with the yellow metal she lacks for court. next to her heart, Hayward Field. “Every time I come here (Hayward Field) I feel like something amazing is going to happen,” she said after the record-breaking US Championship race. “He always encourages me to put on amazing performances.” McLaughlin’s career was remarkable from a very early age, as she set the world’s best 400m hurdles records in the 14-19 age groups, as well as the under-18 world record (54.15). 20 s (53.60 s), and since her last loss in this race (at the Doha 2019 World Championship Final) she has broken the world record three times with 51.90 seconds and 51.46 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics and 51. 41 seconds.

* American Ating Mo

Last August in Tokyo, Mo became the second American to win an Olympic title in the 800 meters. Now back home at the World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, she has a shot at becoming the first ever women’s World Championship winner. Ating is optimistic at Eugene’s Hayward Stadium, home of the 18th World Wedding, the stadium where she set an outstanding time in the 400m (49.57 s) to win the American University title last year and then won her first title. in the U.S. Championships, and later that season she improved her record by taking first place in the Diamond Eugene bout of 1.55:04 min. Returning to Eugene last month, she retained her US title with a time of 1.57:16 minutes.

Venezuelan Julimar Rojas

Rojas has arguably won five gold medals at Triple Jump World Championships (2017 World Championships in London and 2019 in Doha, World Championships in Portland in 2016 and Birmingham in England in 2018 and Belgrade in 2022 indoor) and one Olympic medal in Tokyo in 2020. and holds the world record (15.74 m.), but there are always new goals to strive for. In Eugene, the Venezuelan star is aiming to become the first outdoor world champion three times in a row in the competition and is watching her world record improve knowing that in Tokyo she recorded 15.67 meters. Rojas made her Hayward Court debut at the 2014 World Under-20 Championships and has since become the greatest athlete of all time in the women’s triple jump. The 26-year-old has not lost in a major tournament since the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, when she placed second, and won her third world indoor title in Belgrade last March with her world record (15 .74 m).