British sprinter Reece Prescod sees off former world champion Yohan Blake on the Golden Spike 100m in simply 9.93 SECONDS to place himself again on the elite-level map after being disqualified at Tokyo 2020
- Reece Prescod crushed 100m discipline on the Golden Spike in Ostrava on Tuesday
- The Brit recorded a powerful time of 9.93 seconds to beat Yohan Blake
- It adopted a sluggish show on the Diamond League meet in Birmingham
- Blake has endured a wilderness interval and was disqualified at Tokyo 2020
British sprinter Reece Prescod delivered a wonderful run of 9.93sec to crush a robust 100m discipline in Ostrava on Tuesday and reinstate himself as an element on the world stage.
Prescod had been in hazard of slipping off the elite-level map in the previous couple of seasons, however stormed by in the second half of the race on the Golden Spike in Ostrava, Czech Republic, to beat former world champion Yohan Blake into second place.
His time, all of the extra spectacular for being run towards a 1.2m/s headwind, was a private greatest and put him tenth in the all-time European standings.
British sprinter Reece Prescod beat Yohan Blake on the Golden Spike 100m in simply 9.93 seconds
Prescod put himself again on the map after wilderness interval that noticed him disqualified from the Tokyo 2020 semi-finals because of a false begin
It got here 10 days after he laboured to a ten.65sec end on the Diamond League meet in Birmingham and adopted a wilderness interval dominated by accidents, weight fluctuations and a disqualification in the Olympic semi-finals for a false begin.
Prescod, whose time would have equated to a 9.85sec in nonetheless circumstances, stated: ‘That is what I’m used to doing.
‘I’ve been working so onerous the final two years making an attempt to return again, folks have been doubting me, however I put run in. Now I must hold this momentum. That meant so much.’
The British prodigy Max Burgin was third in the 800m in 1:44.54.
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