Bayanda Walaza seals sprint double at World Under-20 Champs

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

South African sprinter Bayanda Walaza accomplished a golden double on the World Underneath-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 gained 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 gained 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 Underneath-18 Championships in July when he was profitable his warmth however inexplicably slowed down and did not qualify, resulting in widespread criticism on social media.

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

Bayanda Walaza (World Athletics)

“I used to be simply attempting 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 needed me to do and execute. I did what I might however the final 50m I gave out so I simply must work on it.”

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

Innes FitzGerald got here near profitable one other medal for Britain however the teenager from Devon completed fourth within the ladies’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.

Aleshign Baweke (World Athletics)

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

“The overwhelming feeling is I’m comfortable,” mentioned 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 stress on myself as a result of I needed to do my coach proud and everybody again at dwelling and they are going to be pleased with me no matter.

“I’m glad I used to be racing for a medal and I didn’t simply sit again. I needed 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 gradual within the early levels, Bailey mentioned: “I believed our techniques going into it have been bob on, I knew what I wanted to do, once 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 will not be someplace I’ve ever been earlier than. I’ve introduced the membership’s Paddington Bear, he has been on a bit of tour of Peru and I’ll give it again to the youngsters on the membership. It’s a part of inspiring the following technology.”

Ja’Kobe Tharp (World Athletics)

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 ladies’s 100m hurdles title by profitable in 12.99 (-0.3).

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

Sarah Moraa (World Athletics)

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’ greatest of fifty.07.

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