The 29-year-old Lawrence North graduate won bronze in 2016 to become the first Indiana woman to win an individual Olympic medal in track and field. Her time of 55.19 was her fastest since the 2019 World Championships. In the 400-meter hurdles, Spencer was third in a semifinal and third overall. On Friday, she ran the final 100 meters in 14.20, which was 10th among 16 semifinalists. It will be important for Irby, a Pike High School graduate, to close fast after fading to sixth at last year’s Olympic Trials. Kendall Ellis won semifinal 2 in 51.06, followed by Irby in 51.28. Talita Diggs, 19, an NCAA champion from Florida, won that semifinal in 50.88. She barely made the final, getting in with a fourth-place 51.32 from semifinal 1. Sentimental favorite in Saturday’s 400 will be Allyson Felix, 36, an 11-time Olympic medalist in her last season. All eight finalists in the 400 meters from last year’s US trials ran in the Tokyo Olympics, where Irby won gold and bronze medals in relays. Top three in each event make the team for next month’s World Championships, which will be on US soil for the first time, also at Eugene. Irby after 2 Olympic medals:‘Now my dreams are bigger.
Irby and Spencer qualified for finals Friday night in the USA Championships at Eugene, Ore. Two Indiana women who own Olympic medals, Lynna Irby and Ashley Spencer, will try to return to track and field’s world stage.Ī third, Rachel Dincoff, will go for her first global medal.
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