Bayanda Walaza seals dash double at World Below-20 Champs

Britain’s Jake Odey-Jordan wins 200m bronze for as GB team-mate Innes FitzGerald is a high quality fourth within the 3000m on day 4 of the occasion in Lima

South African sprinter Bayanda Walaza accomplished a golden double on the World Below-20 Championships in Lima, Peru, on Friday (Aug 30) when the 18-year-old added the lads’s 200m title in 20.52 (-0.7) to the 100m crown he received earlier within the week.

Australian 16-year-old Gout Gout completed strongly after a poor first 100m to take silver in 20.60 as Jake Odey-Jordan received Britain’s second medal of the championships with bronze in 20.81.

For Odey-Jordan, who can be 16, bounced again from his run on the European Below-18 Championships in July when he was successful his warmth however inexplicably slowed down and did not qualify, resulting in widespread criticism on social media.

The US-based Brit stated: “It feels nice. I’m simply younger, I’ve extra to return. I bought extra years of being in under-20s so I’ll make it rely.

“I used to be simply making an attempt to finish my race mannequin. I didn’t need to do one thing dangerous like chase on the curve.

“I simply did what my coach wished me to do and execute. I did what I might however the final 50m I gave out so I simply need to work on it.”

Within the girls’s 200m, Adaeja Hodge of British Virgin Islands received in 22.74 (0.0) from Australia’s Torrie Lewis as Britain’s Renee Regis was a high quality sixth in 23.38.

Innes FitzGerald got here near successful one other medal for Britain however the teenager from Devon completed fourth within the girls’s 3000m in a PB of 8:57.01.

The 18-year-old was in contact with the leaders with 300m to go however Aleshign Baweke of Ethiopia kicked away to win in 8:50.32 from Marion Jepnegetich of Kenya with Marta Alemayo of Ethiopia third.

GB team-mate Jess Bailey additionally ran a PB of 9:06.92 in eighth.

“The overwhelming feeling is I’m pleased,” stated FitzGerald. “There may be clearly that little bit of me that’s gutted as a result of I used to be so shut.

“I put numerous strain on myself as a result of I wished to do my coach proud and everybody again at house and they are going to be happy with me no matter.

“I’m glad I used to be racing for a medal and I didn’t simply sit again. I wished to rise up there and I knew I needed to be there on the bell. I didn’t fairly have the legs within the final 100m however I fought and fought and got here away with fourth which I’m happy with.”

After a race which was sluggish within the early levels, Bailey stated: “I believed our ways going into it had been bob on, I knew what I wanted to do, after I wanted to do it. On the level after they pushed on, I knew I wanted to be there however I feel particularly after the heats yesterday I simply didn’t have it in my legs.

“I’ve actually loved it. Peru isn’t someplace I’ve ever been earlier than. I’ve introduced the membership’s Paddington Bear, he has been on a little bit tour of Peru and I’ll give it again to the children on the membership. It’s a part of inspiring the following technology.”

Elsewhere, Ja’Kobe Tharp impressed within the males’s 110m hurdles when he clocked an American report of 13.05 (-0.5) to win gold as Kerrica Hill of Jamaica efficiently defended her girls’s 100m hurdles title by successful in 12.99 (-0.3).

The much-anticipated girls’s 800m noticed Sara Moraa, the cousin of world senior champion Mary Moraa, win after a front-running efficiency in 2:00.36.

Within the rounds there was a British under-20 report within the males’s 400m hurdles as Sam Lunt clocked 50.00 to beat Alastair Chalmers’ finest of fifty.07.

Czechia’s Tomas Jarvinen received the decathlon with a championship report of 8425 whereas one other decathlete, Roko Farkas of Croatia, received the lengthy bounce with 8.17m (2.4).

Jarvinen was 10 factors in need of Niklas Kaul’s world under-20 report and he moved to second on the world under-20 all-time rankings.

The ladies’s javelin, in the meantime, noticed China’s Yan Ziyi successful by virtually 9 metres with 63.05m.

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