Tim Hall Coaches Christian Coleman to World 100M Gold
DOHA, Qatar – The Kentucky Track and Field program can now boast having “the world’s fastest man” serving on staff as a volunteer assistant coach. Christian Coleman – a Tennessee alumnus who trains at UK and mentors some of the Wildcats – won the 100 meters at the IAAF World Athletics Championships this weekend.
Kentucky Assistant Coach Tim Hall continues to work with Coleman at UK as a key part of his impressive stable of talented collegians and professionals alike. The two worked together at UT before both moved to Lexington in Summer 2018 as Hall and Coleman joined the UK staff with Head Coach Lonnie Greene.
POETRY. IN. MOTION.
Here is what 9??.7??6?? FTW looks like at the #WorldAthleticsChamps from 2017 #TheBowerman winner Christian Coleman (@__coleman)!pic.twitter.com/z5jdPOE49J
— The Bowerman (@thebowerman) September 28, 2019
Coleman ran a personal-best 9.76 in the World Championships Final – the sport’s marquee event. The American’s time was the sixth fastest in history.
He won his first global outdoor Gold Medal. His performance cut .05 seconds off the American’s 2019 world-leading time.
Hall famously guided Coleman to World Silver in the 2017 World Championships, ahead of legendary Usain Bolt in his final World Championships.
Another Hall charge, Daniel Roberts who turned pro this spring after a historic junior campaign at UK, will compete later in these World Championships alongside an impressive list of Kentucky alumni.
Roberts’ continued 2019 rise at the USATF Championships in July to make the U.S. Team for Worlds. Following a historic junior season this past spring, now professional Roberts won his first U.S. title in the men’s 110m hurdles with a time of 13.23.
Roberts ran the second fastest time in the world this year, 13.00, en route to NCAA Silver in an epic race that served as the finale of his collegiate competition of his career.
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