Dina Asher-Smith claims 200m bronze at World Championships to earn GB’s third medal in America and insists she is ‘so completely satisfied’ with the consequence regardless of narrowly shedding the title she gained three years in the past to overwhelming favorite Shericka Jackson
- Dina Asher-Smith set a season’s better of 21.96 to succeed in the 200m ultimate in Eugene
- The defending champion went on to clinch the bronze medal within the 200m ultimate
- The 26-year-old misplaced the title she gained three years in the past to Shericka Jackson, 28
- Asher-Smith ran 22.02 seconds at Hayward Field to earn GB’s third medal
Defending champion Dina Asher-Smith clinched bronze within the 200m at the World Championships.
The 26-year-old misplaced the title she gained three years in the past to overwhelming favorite Shericka Jackson.
Asher-Smith ran 22.02 seconds at Hayward Field to earn Great Britain’s third medal in America.
Defending champion Dina Asher-Smith gained bronze within the 200m at the World Championships
Jackson’s 21.45 seconds was a private finest and championship report and added to her silver from the 100m with Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce second.
Asher-Smith had already equalled her British report of 10.83 seconds when she got here an agonising fourth within the 100m ultimate on Sunday as Jamaica – led by Fraser-Pryce – claimed a clear sweep.
She had at all times mentioned she was in higher form than her pre-championship type instructed, having misplaced the British 100m title to Daryll Neita in Manchester final month.
The 26-year-old misplaced the title she gained three years in the past to favorite Shericka Jackson (centre)
On Thursday in Eugene she began properly and managed to carry off the problem of Nigeria’s Aminatou Seyni and the USA’S Abby Steiner to seal her podium spot.
Asher-Smith mentioned after the race: ‘I’m so completely satisfied. The calibre of that ultimate was insane. All these ladies are able to operating sub-22 and I do not suppose we have ever been in a world ultimate with that sort of expertise.
‘For me I knew that I simply needed to run as quick as my legs have been going to hold me and actually pray and hope that it was sufficient to get on the rostrum. I’m so completely satisfied to have gotten it.
Asher-Smith mentioned she was ‘so completely satisfied’ with the consequence due to the ‘calibre of the ultimate’
‘I assumed I bought it however I used to be like let me simply see it in writing, there may be nothing extra embarrassing than celebrating with out seeing it in writing.’
Asher-Smith now runs within the 4x100m relays with the ultimate on Saturday.
The USA’s Noah Lyles took the boys’s 200m title in 19.31 seconds forward of teammates Kenny Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton.
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