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Barbadian Sada Williams has advanced to the semifinals in the Women’s 400 Metres at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Williams finished fourth in Heat 2 Sunday morning, Barbados time, clocking 50.93 seconds. This made Williams one of the six non-automatic qualifiers. She will be in the first semifinal, running out of lane three, at 8:07 Tuesday morning, Barbados time.
Meantime, Barbadian Kuron Griffith made it out of the Men’s 100 Metres preliminary round, winning Heat 3 in 10.47 seconds. However, he finished seventh in Heat 1 in a time of 10.40 and did not progress to the semifinal phase.
That final was eventually won by Jamaica’s Oblique Seville. The new world champion won his country’s first Men’s World 100 Metre title in ten years, after out-sprinting his teammate Kishane Thompson who got the silver, and defending champion American Noah Lyles.
