On Friday night, Miller-Uibo won the 100m in a new personal best of 10.98 and the 200m in 21.98 – both world-leading times for 2020. The performances now mean she is ranked among the very best female combined sprinters in history.
Among the women, Miller-Uibo is ranked fourth with her new personal best of 10.98 in the 100m, good for 1204 points; 21.74 (1265) and 48.37 (1272). The weekend performances moved her into fourth all-time and bumped Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey out of the top 10 for the first time.
Ottey’s 10.74, 21.64 and 51.12 sees her fall to 11th on the all-time rankings.
The lists of combined sprinters are based on the World Athletics scoring tables and the most recent personal best times of the athletes. The lists use the World Athletics scoring tables, which assign a points value to athletics performances.
Among the men athletes like Usain Bolt, Michael Johnson, and Tyson Gay and the fast-rising Michael Norman, are among those who have run exceptional times at the 100m, 200m and 400m. For example, Bolt leads the list with times of 9.58 (1356 points), 19.19 (1351 points) and 45.28 (1160 points).
Despite falling out of the top 10, Ottey is still the highest-ranked Jamaican woman.
Grace Jackson (11.02, 21.72, 49.57) is ranked 14th while Veronica Campbell Brown (10.76, 21.74 and 52.24 (indoors) is ranked 16th. Sherone Simpson, Shericka Jackson and Kerron Stewart are ranked 21, 22, and 23, respectively.
Pauline Davis of the Bahamas is ranked 18th.
The 22-year-old quarter-miler ran a world-leading 45.07 to win ahead of Josephus Lyles, brother to 200m World Champion Noah Lyles, who was timed in 45.40. For Bloomfield, it was a solid follow up performance coming up after his 20.8 200m just over a week ago.
“ I feel satisfied with my 45.07 season opener. It is the fastest I have ever opened my season in the 400m,” said the former Auburn man, who suggested that he could have gone even faster.
“I could not execute the race in the manner I wanted to due to my hamstring cramping during the race but I just kept a steady pace and tried to finish strong so to see a time of 45.07 is a good enough result for me.”
Bloomfield, who has a personal best of 43.94, 0.01 outside Jamaica’s national record indicated that the run was a sign that training has been going according to plan, despite the pandemic lockdown
“Training has been going fairly well. We have been back on the track for about a month and we are just trying to make up for the time we lost during lockdown due to the coronavirus,” he said.
Bloomfield was not the only Jamaican winner at the meet last Friday night as World U20 silver medallist Britany Anderson racing against sisters Tiffany Porter and Cindy Ofili, ran 12.82 to take the 100m hurdles.
Porter was second in 12.92 while Ofili clocked 12.95 for third.
Both were world-leading times and made the Bahamian sprint queen the fastest in the world in the 100, 200, and 400m for 2020.
No one would be more pleased with her progress this season than her coach Lance Brauman, who continues to be dazzled by Miller-Uibo’s extraordinary talents.
“I was really happy about the performance in both the 100 and 200, but more impressed with how she and everyone else in the group have handled this crazy year,” he told Sportsmax.TV on Monday.
He was referring to the pandemic that forced the postponement of the Olympics until 2021 as well as the cancellation of most of the Wanda Diamond League season that restricted his cluster of world-class athletes at PURE Athletics to just a few small meets.
Miller-Uibo, who ran a huge personal best of 48.37 and still surprisingly lost the 400m at the 2019 World Championships in Doha last October, had an outstanding year nonetheless. Prior to the shock loss to Salwa Eid Nasser in Doha, she had run unbeaten in both the 200m and 400m for the last two years.
Brauman said the plan this year was to be even better.
“After last season the plan was to continue to build on the success of 2019, to continue to become a better athlete and to work on becoming a better overall sprinter. This has not been a wasted year,” he said.
Allen, 24, ran a personal best 20.45 over 200m at the Back to the Track Meet in Clermont, Florida on Saturday, eclipsing his previous best of 20.46 set in Luzern in July 2018.
The seventh-place finish did little to dampen the spirits of the former St. Jago High sprinter, who finished in the wake of 200m World Champion Noah Lyles, who won in 19.94 and 400m World Champion Stephen Gardiner who was a close second in 19.96.
“Given the circumstances around and the limited training I’m pleased,” Allen told Sportsmax.TV Tuesday, confessing that it feels good to be running fast once again.
“It’s a joy to be able to be competing with the best guys in my country and around the world and is therefore why I’m just trying to give my best each day in practice and follow my coach instructions.”
Allen won a pair of silver medals at the 2019 World Championships in Doha as a member of Jamaica’s mixed relay and 4x400m relay teams but it could have easily been different. Having turned up at the national championships to attempt to win an individual spot on the team, Allen suffered an injury on the eve of competition and was unable to compete.
So, it was a bit of a surprise to many when he was chosen to fly with the team to Doha where he duly rewarded the faith of the selectors.
The pandemic presented a new set of challenges in 2020 because while the nationwide lockdown in the United States prevented athletes from competing, it gave Allen a chance to continue healing and strengthen his body.
“At one point we were unable to train when things got really bad, then we started doing basic training on our own just trying to keep as fit as possible as we could in that time,” he said. “And we got ran off tracks a few times but otherwise coach tried his best to find someplace where we could at least do some drills for that day.”
It seems to have paid off because after opening up his outdoor season with a 46.50 over 400m in Marietta, Georgia on July 11, he returned to the track on Saturday and left with a new 200m PB.
