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Namibia's @BeaMasilingi tops the 100m heats with a national U20 record 11.20 👏🇳🇦
The other leading qualifiers for tonight's #WorldAthleticsU20 semi-finals are:
Tina Clayton 🇯🇲11.50
Camille Rutherford 🇧🇸 11.59
Tima Seikeseye Godbless🇳🇬 11.59
Praise Ofoku 🇳🇬 11.65
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Sprint nation Botswana 🇧🇼
Letsile Tebogo is the fastest 100m qualifier in the heats in a national U20 record 10.22.
In the men's 400m Anthony Pesela wins his heat in 45.88 – a personal best and the second fastest qualifying time for Friday's #WorldAthleticsU20 semi-final.
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Fantástico 45.63 para Luis Avilés Ferreiro que establece un nuevo récord mexicano U20 en los 400m lisos en Nairobi #WorldAthleticsU20
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The first champions of #WorldAthleticsU20 are crowned! 👑
After setting a championship record in the heats this morning, Nigeria's Mixed 4x400m Relay smashes it again and takes the title in 3:19.70!
Johnson Nnamani
Imaobong Nse Uko
Opeyemi Deborah Oke
Bamidele Ajayi
Congrats🇳🇬
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In a thriller right to the line, Nigeria takes the #WorldAthleticsU20 Mixed 4x400m Relay title in a championship record 3:19.70 🇳🇬
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Blink and you'll miss him!
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo goes one better on his national U20 record from the heats and clocks 10.11 to cruise into the #WorldAthleticsU20 final 🇧🇼
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Tadese Worku leads home an Ethiopian 1-2 in the 3000m in a #WorldAthleticsU20 championship record 7:42.09.
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The #WorldAthleticsU20 women's 100m title stays in Jamaica 🇯🇲
Tina Clayton storms to a PB 11.09 to award herself a golden belated 17th birthday present 🥇
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Pride of Botswana! 🇧🇼
Letsile Tebogo cements his name in the #WorldAthleticsU20 history books and wins the men's 100m title in 10.19 👏
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History in the making!
Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼 wins Botswana's first ever #WorldAthleticsU20 sprint title – and only the country's second ever 🥇 medal in the history of these championships.
🥈 for South Africa's Benjamin Richardson 🇿🇦 and 🥉 goes to Cuba's Shainer Rengifo Montoya.
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Tina Clayton 🇯🇲 retains the #WorldAthleticsU20 women's 100m crown in Jamaica and secures 🥇 in a personal best 11.09.
Beatrice Masilingi 🇳🇦 takes 🥈 for Namibia and 🥉 goes to Switzerland's Melissa Gutschmidt 🇨🇭.
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WORLD U20 RECORD!
@sasha_zhoya 🇫🇷 flies to 12.93 in the 110m hurdles semi-finals. It's the first time the Frenchman has gone sub-13 in wind-legal conditions... and there's still a #WorldAthleticsU20 final to come.
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These 200m 🤯
・Udodi Chudi Onwuzurike 🇳🇬 leads the semi-finalists with 20.13 (+2.3)
・100m champion Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼gets a PB 20.31
・Tarsis Orogot sets a 🇺🇬U20 record 20.37
・Blessing Akawasi Afrifah becomes 🇮🇱's first #WorldAthleticsU20 sprint finalist since in 2008
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8.12m ‼️
Erwan Konate 🇫🇷 produces a superbly consistent series and takes the #WorldAthleticsU20 title with an U20 world-leading 8.12m leap 🥇
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12.93 🔥
19-year-old @sasha_zhoya 🇫🇷 breaks the 110m hurdles world U20 record during the semi-finals of the #WorldAthleticsU20 Championships in Nairobi.
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More 🥇 for Kenya! 🇰🇪
Heristone Wanyonyi wins the #WorldAthleticsU20 10,000m race walk title in a personal best 42:10.84 🙌
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It doesn't matter how, just get over the bar ✨
So much talent at the #WorldAthleticsU20 championships 🙌
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WORLD U20 RECORD ‼️
After 12.93 yesterday, @sasha_zhoya 🇫🇷 demolishes his own world U20 record with a 12.72 clocking in the 110m hurdles final to become the #WorldAthleticsU20 champion.
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Botswana 🇧🇼 is laying down a marker in the sprints!
Anthony Pesela produces a sensational finish to clinch the men's #WorldAthleticsU20 400m title in a championship record 44.58.
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Turning #Tokyo2020 🥈 into #WorldAthleticsU20🥇
Namibia's @christine_mboma wins the 200m world U20 title with 21.84 – just 0.03 outside her personal best and her own world U20 record! 🇳🇦
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This is what 12.72 over 110m hurdles (99.0cm) looks like 🤯
Incredible performance from @sasha_zhoya 🇫🇷 who breaks his own world U20 record at #WorldAthleticsU20.
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200m 🥇 for Nigeria's Udodi Chudi Onwuzurike in a national U20 record 20.21 🇳🇬
100m champion Letsile Tebogo 🇧🇼 secures his second medal of these #WorldAthleticsU20 Championships with 20.38 in 🥈
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Olympic silver medallist @christine_mboma is the #WorldAthleticsU20 200m champion.
She wins in 21.84 to lead a Namibian 1-2 ahead of compatriot @BeaMasilingi.
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Emmanuel Wanyonyi, remember the name! 🙌
The Kenyan lays down a marker to win the men's 800m in impressive style and a #WorldAthleticsU20 championship record 1:43.76 🇰🇪
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Steeple nation Kenya 🙌
Amos Serem leaves no room for doubt over who rules the 3000m steeplechase 🇰🇪 here in Nairobi.
He wins the men's #WorldAthleticsU20 title in 8:30.72.
