Dou­ble World In­door cham­pi­on Jereem Richards and Com­mon­wealth Games women’s 200 me­tres cham­pi­on Michelle-Lee Ahye will re­sume the quest for podi­um spots when the sec­ond rounds in the Men’s 400 me­tres fi­nal take place and the se­mi-fi­nal and fi­nal of the Women’s 100 me­tres sprint takes place on the third day of World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships at the Na­tion­al Ath­let­ic Cen­tre in Bu­dapest, Hun­gary on Mon­day.

Richards, who has run a sea­son-best of 44.54 sec­onds and a new per­son­al-best time record­ed dur­ing his gold medal run at the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games in El Sal­vador on Ju­ly 6, clocked 45.15 sec­onds to qual­i­fy for the sec­ond round as the third au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­er from heat 3 on Sun­day.

The race win­ner was Nor­way’s Havard Bent­dal In­g­vald­sen, who clocked 44.39 sec­onds, which was the fastest time from all six races, and a new na­tion­al record for him, while Amer­i­can Ver­non Nor­wood clocked 44.87 sec­onds for third place. In fact, all six race win­ners went be­low the 45 sec­onds bar­ri­er.

Grena­da’s Ki­rani James clocked 44.91 sec­onds to top the field from heat 4 with Fu­ga Sato of Japan sec­ond in 44.97, a per­son­al-best time for him and Sean Bai­ley of Ja­maica third in 44.98 sec­onds.

Ja­maica’s An­to­nio Wat­son best­ed the field in heat 5 when he re­turned 44.77 sec­onds while hold­ing off Amer­i­can Quin­cy Hall (44.86) and Japan’s Yu­ki Joseph Naka­ji­ma, who clocked 45.15 sec­onds.

Heat 6 was won by Bayapo Ndori, who clocked 44.72 sec­onds with the fi­nal qual­i­fiers for the next round be­ing Alexan­der Doom of Bel­gium (44.92) a per­son­al-best ef­fort and Zan­dri­on Barnes of Ja­maica third in 45.05 sec­onds.

On the women’s side, T&T’s Leah Bernard run­ning in lane 6 of heat 3 clocked 11.32 sec­onds to fin­ish sixth.

The race was won by Poland’s Ewa Swo­bo­da run­ning out of lane 1 in 10.89 sec­onds with Amer­i­can Tamari Davis sec­ond in 11.06 sec­onds from lane 2 and N’ke­tia See­do of the Nether­lands third from lane 3 in a per­son­al best time of 11.11 sec­onds. Bel­gium’s Rani Ro­sius run­ning out of lane 4 clocked 11.18 sec­onds to round off the four qual­i­fiers from that heat to the sec­ond round.

Bertran’s com­pa­tri­ot, and reign­ing T&T na­tion­al 100 me­tres sprint cham­pi­on Michelle-Lee Ahye, 31, a for­mer World Cham­pi­onship bronze medal win­ner, and eight-time fi­nal­ist, pro­duced a sea­son-best of 11.16 sec­onds to im­prove on her pre­vi­ous sea­son’s best of 11.24 sec­onds to qual­i­fy for the sec­ond round from heat 4.

Ja­maica’s Sh­er­ic­ka Jack­son won the heat in 11.06 sec­onds, while Ger­many’s Gi­na Luck­enkem­per came in third in 11.21 sec­onds and Nige­ria’s Rose­mary Chuk­wu­ma crossed the fin­ish line in fourth place in 11.24 sec­onds.

Amer­i­can vo­cal track star Sha’Car­ri Richard­son won heat 5 from Ja­maica’s Natasha Mor­ri­son when she clocked an im­pres­sive 10.92 sec­onds with Mor­ri­son reg­is­ter­ing 11.02 sec­onds.

Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce won the sev­enth and fi­nal heat in 11.01 sec­onds.

There were sev­en pre­lim­i­nary races in which the fastest three and the next three fasters qual­i­fiers ad­vanced to the sec­ond round.

<Seville, Forde miss out as Lyles wins gold>

BU­DAPEST, Hun­gary – Ja­maicans Oblique Seville and Ryiem Forde both missed out on medals as Amer­i­can Noan Lyles pro­duced a world-lead­ing 9.83 sec­onds to win the men’s 100 me­tres fi­nal on day two of the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onship on Sun­day.

The 22-year-old Seville, one of the stand­outs from the qual­i­fy­ing rounds, end­ed fourth in 9.88 sec­onds while Forde, al­so 22, was last in 10.08

Lyles, the reign­ing 200m World cham­pi­on, pro­duced a qual­i­ty run from lane six to fin­ish ahead of Botswana’s Let­sile Tebo­go who took sil­ver in a na­tion­al record 9.88, and Britain’s Zhar­nel Hugh­es who clinched bronze al­so in 9.88.

An­oth­er Amer­i­can Chris­t­ian Cole­man left the blocks well in lane four to lead ear­ly, tak­ing with him Tebo­go in lane three, as both Ja­maicans strug­gled to get in­to the con­test af­ter 50 me­tres.

Lyles then found ac­cel­er­a­tion over the last 40 me­tres to burst in­to con­tention, Seville al­so run­ning on strong­ly to the Amer­i­can’s out­side but find­ing him­self short at the line.

Cole­man was fifth in 9.92.

T&T Team

Men

Javelin: Keshorn Wal­cott (Un­at­tached)

400m: Jereem Richards (Abi­lene Wild­cats)

4x100m re­lay: Devin Au­gus­tine (PFNJ), Jerod El­cock (Abi­lene Wild­cats), Rev­ell Web­ster Con­corde, Omari Lewis (Con­corde), Ju­dah Tay­lor (Abi­lene Wild­cats)

Men 4x400m re­lay: Jereem Richards, Asa Gue­vara (Abi­lene Wild­cats), Sha­keem Mc Kay (Abi­lene Wild­cats), Ren­ny Quow (Zenith Ath­let­ic Club), Joshua St Clair (Abi­lene Wild­cats)

Women

100m: Leah Bertrand (Sim­plex), Michelle-Lee Ahye (Un­at­tached)

4x100m re­lay: Leah Bertrand, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Re­yare Thomas (Abi­lene Wild­cats), Ak­i­lah Lewis (Con­corde), Tae­jha Badal (Mem­phis Pi­o­neers)

Of­fi­cials

Dex­ter Voisin (man­ag­er), Ke­ston Bled­man (coach), An­to­nia Bur­ton (coach), Charles Joseph (coach), Mas­tra­pa Lopez (coach), Anyl Gopeesingh (Doc­tor), Dr Al­ban Merepeza (phys­io­ther­a­pist), Nicole Fuentes-Charles (sports ther­a­pist), An­tho­ny Wal­cott (sports ther­a­pist).