Kerley, Jacobs, Simbine fall short of qualifying for Sunday's world 100m final
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How deep is the men's 100 metres?
Consider the reigning world and Olympic champions, Fred Kerley and Marcell Jacobs, won't race in Sunday's final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Neither will Akani Simbine, the only sprinter to beat Kerley this season. The South African had appeared in each of the previous five global championships.
Kerley failed to finish among the top two in the third and final semifinal heat to automatically qualify for the final, beat out by young Botswanan Letsile Tebogo, who reached the finish in 9.98 seconds, 4-100ths of a second ahead of Kerley. Jamaica's Oblique Seville won in 9.90 after clocking 9.86 in Saturday's heats.
The 22-year-old Seville, went 9.97 to finish fourth in last year's world final in Eugene, Ore, had not run 9.90 or lower in nine previous races this season (heats and finals combined).
Brendon Rodney, from Etobicoke, Ont., was seventh of eight finishers in the same semifinal heat as Seville, Tebogo and Kerley. He, too, will not compete in the final at 1:10 p.m. ET.
Jacobs, who has been plagued by injury since becoming the first Italian to win Olympic gold in the 100 two years ago in Tokyo, ran a 10.05 season best but was 4-100ths shy of the eighth and final qualifier, 2022 Commonwealth Games champion Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya.
Simbine, 29, was set to run in heat two but was disqualified for a false start. A new rule allows athletes to race under protest but he elected not to after reviewing his start with judges.
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On the women's side, all the big names progressed safely through the first round, with the remarkable Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce looking in great form again as she seeks her sixth title at the age of 36.
The Jamaican, who had an injury-hit first part of the season, blasted out of the blocks and eased home in 11.01.
Jamaica has taken gold in six of the last eight 100 finals — five to Fraser-Pryce — but compatriot Shericka Jackson is probably favourite to extend that domination in Budapest.
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