Day 5 of the World Athletics Championships in Oregon is quiet. There is only one session of action (it starts at 8:15pm ET) and Canadians are only participating in one event. Here’s what to watch tonight: Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake in the men’s 200m semifinals at 9:50 p.m. ET Olympic champion Andre De Grasse’s decision to withdraw from his best event after struggling in the 100m left two Canadians in yesterday’s heat. Both advanced to tonight’s semi-finals, though not without some drama. After Jerome Blake qualified automatically by finishing third in the opening group, Aaron Brown struggled more in heat 2. Just after the gun, the Canadian 200m champion lost his footing and went down the track, drawing gasps from the crowd at Hayward Field. The match was immediately stopped because the stumble was not Brown’s fault: his initial turnbuckles were not properly anchored, causing them to slide backwards when he pushed away. After a restart, Brown shook off the freak accident to finish second in the heat (behind Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago) and secure a place in the semi-finals. Watch Brown’s rocky start and cool recovery to advance here: WATCHES | Brown books ticket for the 200m semi-final:
Toronto’s Aaron Brown advances to 200m semifinals at world championships
Toronto’s Aaron Brown takes second in his heat with a time of 20.60 to book a spot in the men’s 200m semifinals at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Ore. Brown, who finished sixth at the Tokyo Olympics and at the 2019 world championships in the 200, will be looking to advance to his third consecutive major final tonight. It’s in the last of three semifinal games, which will be played at 10:10 p.m. ET and features Erriyon Knighton. The 18-year-old American sensation ran 19.49 at worlds in April to become the fourth-fastest 200m runner of all time, behind Usain Bolt, Johan Blake and Michael Johnson. Blake, who has never reached an individual final at worlds or the Olympics but teamed with Brown and de Grasse to win an Olympic 4x100m medal last year, will run in the first semifinal at 9:50 p.m. ET. His team includes Jamaica’s Blake and newly crowned 100m world champion Fred Curley of the United States. Heat 2, at 10 p.m. ET, is headlined by defending world champion and Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Noah Lyles, who beat Knighton to win the U.S. title a few weeks ago at the same track before running the fastest overall time in yesterday’s races. The final is on Thursday night. The women’s 200m semifinals continue tonight, starting at 9:05 p.m. ET. No Canadians involved after Lauren Gale and Catherine Léger failed to overcome yesterday’s heat. Reigning Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah of Jamaica and defending world champion Dina Asher-Smith of Great Britain both advanced. So did Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, who won her fifth world title in the 100m on Sunday. Tonight’s finals are the women’s high jump (8:40 p.m. ET), the men’s discus (9:33 p.m. ET), the men’s 1,500 meters (10:30 p.m. ET) and the 400 pm men’s hurdles (10:50 p.m. ET). How to watch: CBC Sports’ exclusive live coverage of the world championship is now and continues daily until the conclusion of the meet on Sunday. The events are streamed live on CBCSports.ca, the CBC Sports app and the free CBC Gem streaming service, and there will be weekend broadcasts on the CBC TV network. See the full streaming and broadcast schedule here for details. CBC Gem also carries a live daily primetime show focused on covering the day’s events with broadcasters Andi Petrillo, Mark Lee, Kate Van Buskirk, Michael Smith and Scott Russell on the track. It is preceded by a daily 30-minute digital show hosted by Olympian Anastasia Bucsis with reporting by Devin Heroux, who is on the ground in Eugene. This broadcast is available on the CBC Gem, CBCSports.ca and CBC Olympics streams on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
