Great Britain’s Deajah Stevens won her Heat with the 2nd fastest time of 22.45s going into the Semis.
Winners of other Heats were USA’s Jenna Prandini (22.62), Bulgaria’s Ivet Lalova-Collio (22.61) and Bahrain’s Edidiong Odiong (22.74).
Odiong won the Heat with Veronica Campbell Brown (VCB) and Trinidad’s Semoy Hacket came 2nd. VCB failed to qualify coming 3rd with 22.97. She crossed over into another athlete’s lane again. Although she would not have been disqualified because it was on the strerch and she did not impede the other athlete it seemed to have thrown her off this time. She also crossed over into the lane on the outside of her costing her time.
N.B. Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas has chosen not to run the 200m and will just focus on the 400m.
Jamaica’s Champion, Danielle Williams held off World Leader, Sharika Nelvis from the USA with a PB of 12.58. The fastest Semi Final. Nelvis ran 12.59.
USA’s Dawn Harper-Nelson crashed and burned from about the 2nd or 3rd hurdle.
Semi Final 2
Drama. USA’s collegiate Champion, Kendra Harrison false started. She went way out of the blocks.They fantastic 4 are now down to 2.
GB’s Confident Tiffany Porter blazed through easily with a tine of 12.62 ahead of Cindy Roleder of Germany.
Jamaica’s Kimberly Laing was way behind so failed to qualify.
Semi Final 3
USA’s Defending Champion, Brianna Rollins won in 12.71 and Danielle’s sister, Shermaine had a bad start and was behind but persevered and powered through to come 2nd and qualify. Well done Shermaine.
WOMEN’S 200M FINALS! Suga called it!
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What a cracker!
Dafne Schippers runs a Championship record of 21.63! She passed Elaine Thompson at the end. Elaine ran 21.66, her PB, also faster than the Championship record, making her the second fastest ever at World Champs! BUT you can never count out the veteran VCB! Veronica Campbell-Brown was ahead for most of the race. She ran the race of her life in a young A field finishing 3rd SUB 22 – 21.97.
Silver and Bronze for Jamaica!
USA’s McGrone came 4th and GB’s Dina Asher Smith 5th.
Our Sherone Simpson finished last but with her Season’s best.
WOMEN’S LONG JUMP FINAL
USA’s Bartoletta has made the right move to stop running. She has won Gold in the Women’s Long Jump final with a huge jump of 7.14, ahead of favourite GB’s Proctor who won silver with 7.07.
Men’s 110m Hurdles!
The Russian wins! Oliver hit the first hurdle badly. Sergey Shubenkov won in 19.98! Hansle Parchment of Jamaica won silver after a horrible start but persevered and finished fast. USA’s Merritt won Bronze.
France’s Martinot-Lagarde and Bascou came 4th and 5th.
Ja’s McLeoud came 6th. Once he stops hitting hurdles he can win.
Women’s 100m Hurdles
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DANIELLE WILLIAMS WINS GOLD FOR JAMAICA IN THE 100M HURDLES FINAL! WOW! 12.57 PB. What were the odds?! 12.5 for the win and 8.5 if she placed in top 3. Don’t you wish you had that tip. But after she beat USA’s WL Nelvis this am in the semi final she was in good standing.
The German, Roleder wins silver and Talay! from Belarus Bronze edging out GB and USA!
First of all, Congratulations to our Pocket Rocket, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce for winning Gold for the 3rd time at the World Championships 100m Finals this morning in 10.76s! With the times Shelly has been running, she knew she was in a class by herself and celebrated before the line. She will sure get a mouthful from Coach Francis about that. Look out for the Dutchie who she passed on the right hand side, Dafne Schippers next year who has been running well all season, who finished in a close second with a PB of 10.81. US’s Torie Bowie finished 3rd, edging out our very own VCB. Congrats also to VCB who still went all out an managed to finish 4th in a packed field! Imagine Okagbare came last. The 4*100m relay should be a thriller.
200m action starts tomorrow morning. Look out for Ja’s Warren Weir, Usain Bolt, Julian Forte and Nickel Ashmeade! Check out the schedule below.
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TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 25 – Jamaica time
6:00am   Women’s Discus Throw Final
6:05am   WOMEN’S 400M SEMI-FINAL
6:25am   Men’s Long Jump Final
6:30am   MEN’S 200M HEATS
7:25am   Men’s 400m Hurdles Final
7:35am   Women’s 1500m Final
7:55am   Men’s 800m Final
TUESDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 25 – Jamaica time
8:30pm   Women’s Hammer Throw Qualification Group A
8:35pm   Men’s 5000m Heats
9:00pm   Men’s Triple Jump Qualification
9:25pm   WOMEN’S 800M HEATS
9:55pm   Women’s Hammer Throw Qualification Group B
