Team USA dominates sprints and hurdles at World U20 Championships
Tate Taylor and Mia Maxwell made history as the first athletes from one country to sweep 100- and 200-meter World U20 gold.
Team USA claimed victory in both sprints and hurdles at the World U20 Championships, with Mia Maxwell and Tate Taylor making history as the first athletes from the same country to sweep both 100- and 200-meter titles. Maxwell set a personal record of 22.37 seconds in the women's 200, while Taylor won the men's 200 in a meet-record 19.83 seconds.
In the hurdles, Georgia Bulldogs Madeline Cooper and Le’Ezra Brown dominated, with Cooper winning the women's 100 and Brown claiming gold in the men's 110 hurdles, tying the world U20 record. Other notable performances included Morocco's Imad Bouchajda winning the men's 800 in 1:44.64, Ethiopia's Yordanos Tsigab and Shito Gumi claiming gold and silver in the women's 3000, and Sweden's Liam Belo Da Silva taking the decathlon title with an 8,112-point performance.
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