Michelle-Lee Ahye reached the semi­fi­nal round of the women’s 60m sprint at the World In­door Track and Field Cham­pi­onships, which comes to an end in Nan­jing, Chi­na on Sun­day.

Ahye was sixth in the first of three semi­fi­nals in 7.31 sec­onds on Sat­ur­day. The 2018 Com­mon­wealth Games women’s 100m cham­pi­on was aim­ing to fin­ish in the first two spots in the semis to ad­vance to the fi­nal (al­so on Sat­ur­day) for a fifth time af­ter do­ing so in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022.

The 2015 World Out­door Cham­pi­onships women’s 4x100m bronze medal­list was beat­en to the line by Za­ynab Doss of Italy (7.07), Great Britain’s Amy Hunt (7.15), Chi­nese Xi­ao­jing Liang (7.17) and Joel­la Lloyd of An­tigua and Bar­bu­da and Ja­maican Natasha Mor­ri­son, who both clocked 7.25.

Ju­lia Hen­riks­son of Swe­den (7.35) and Ba­hami­an Camille Ruther­ford (7.41) fin­ished be­hind Ahye.

Ahye’s time of 7.31 was 23rd quick­est over­all and shy of her sea­son’s best of 7.24, while Dus­so was the fastest.

The 2011 Pan Amer­i­can Ju­nior 100m win­ner reached the semis af­ter fin­ish­ing fifth in Heat Five in the pre­lim­i­nary round ear­li­er on Sat­ur­day in 7.28. Ewa Swo­bo­da won the heat (7.16) with Lang (7.17), Mori­son (7.20) and Switzer­land’s Geral­dine Frey (7.26) all get­ting to the line ahead of Ahye.

The four-time Carif­ta cham­pi­on missed a top three plac­ing to au­to­mat­i­cal­ly book a lane in the semi­fi­nal round. How­ev­er, her time was the sixth time qual­i­fi­er. Dus­so was the top per­former once again (7.09).

In the fi­nals, al­so held on Sat­ur­day, Ma­jun­ga Kam­bund­ji of Switzer­land raced to gold in 7.04 ahead of Dus­so (7.06) and Pa­trizia Van Der Weken of Lux­em­bourg (7.07).

Kam­bund­ji re­gains the ti­tle she won at the 2022 World In­doors in Bel­grade, Ser­bia. She was al­so third in 2018.

Ahye is one of two lo­cal ath­letes at the World In­doors. T&T’s oth­er en­trant, Tyra Git­tens-Spotsville com­pet­ed in the women’s long jump fi­nal, which got un­der­way at 10:19 on Sat­ur­day night (TT time)/10:19 on Sun­day morn­ing (Chi­na time).

T&T ath­letes Re­sults

Women’s 60m

Fi­nal

Gold-Mu­jin­ga Kam­bund­ji (Switzer­land) 7.04

Sil­ver-Za­ynab Doss (Italy) 7.06

Bronze-Pa­trizia Van Der Weken (Lux­em­bourg) 7.07

Semi­fi­nals

Heat 1

1. Doss 7.07Q

2. Amy Hunt (Great Britain) 7.15Q

3. Xi­ao­jing Liang (Chi­na) 7.17 (pb)q

4. Joel­la Lloyd (An­tigua and Bar­bu­da) 7.25

5. Natasha Mor­ri­son (Ja­maica) 7.25

6. Michelle-Lee Ahye (T&T) 7.31

7. Ju­lia Hen­riks­son (Swe­den) 7.35

8. Camille Ruther­ford (Ba­hamas) 741

Pre­lim­i­nar­ies

Heat Five

1. Ewa Swo­bo­da (Poland) 7.16Q

2. Liang 7.17 (pb)Q

3. Mor­ri­son 7.20Q

4. Geral­dine Frey (Switzer­land) 7.26q

5. Michele Lee Ahye (T&T) 7.28q

6. Dim­i­tra Tsoukala (Greece) 7.46

7. Nat­acha Ngoye (Re­pub­lic of Con­go) 7.59