Britain’s Nia Wedderburn-Goodison and Teddy Wilson are the top Europeans heading into the world junior sprint finals but finish outside the medals in Lima.
British sprinters Nia Wedderburn-Goodison and Teddy Wilson missed out on the podium in the 100m final at the U20 World Championships in Lima on Wednesday (28 August).
Wedderburn-Goodison finished fourth in 11.46 (0.0) as Jamaica’s Alana Reed took gold in 11.17 ahead of British Virgin Islands’ Adaejah Hodge and Barbados’ Kisauna Niall.
Earlier this month, Reid ran the lead leg of Jamaica’s 4x100m relay, which finished fifth at the Paris Olympics.
Adajah Hodge, Alana Reid, Kishauna Niles (World Athletics)
Wedderburn-Goodison is a former European Under-18 crown winner and said: “It’s disappointing, but I tried my best in the race. I’ll go back and look to see what went wrong.”
The Harrow athlete added: “It’s a final, there’s going to be nerves, everyone was probably nervous, but it was good to run in the final. There was a much bigger crowd today which was really nice.”
Wilson of Shaftesbury Barnet was seventh in the men’s final in 10.47 (-0.9) and, like Wedderburn-Goodison, became the first European to finish.
Alana Reid wins 100m gold (World Athletics)
The title went to Bayanda Walaza of South Africa in 10.19, ahead of Puripol Bunson of Thailand in 10.22 and Bradley Nkoana of South Africa in 10.26.
The heptathlon came to a close with Croatia’s Jana Koscak narrowly defeating Switzerland’s Lucia Acklin in the final as she scored 5,807 points to Acklin’s 5,755 and Czech Republic’s Adela Tkačova won the bronze medal with 5,601 points.
Jana Koschak (world athletics)
Britain’s Eden Robinson, a pupil at Millfield School, finished fifth overall at the age of 17.
“It’s been a lot of ups and downs, more downs than ups, but a great learning experience and I’ll be back next year for the European Under-20s. I’m definitely coming back stronger.”
Heptathletes in Lima (World Athletics)
In the women’s long jump, Australia’s Delta Amidzowski jumped a PB of 6.58m to claim a surprise win. Sophia Beckmon (USA) won the silver medal with a result of 6.54m, and Julia Adamczyk of Poland won the bronze medal with a result of 6.34m.
Julia Adamczyk, Delta Amidzowski, Sofia Beckmon (world athletics)
China’s Han Bingyang threw a PB of 57.57m to win the women’s discus title. With 56.47m, Huang Jingru made it a Chinese one-two.
Han Bingyan (World Athletics)
From the qualifiers, Ava Lloyd, a member of Keely Hodgkinson’s training group, booked her place in the women’s 1500m final as she won in 4:21.53.
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