ROUND 1 - JOB DONE!

Heat 3

Thursday 12 July 2012 - 19:14

Lane	Bib	Athlete	Country	SB 2012	PB
2	213	Michal Desensky	CZE	21.23	21.23
3	660	Okeudo Jonathan Nmaju	NGR	21.31	21.31
4	181	Zhenye Xie	CHN	20.54	20.54
5	534	Akiyuki Hashimoto	JPN	20.89	20.82
6	336	David Bolarinwa	GBR	20.69	20.69
7	918	Tyreek Hill	USA	20.14	20.14
8	733	Khalfani Muhammad	PUR	21.10	21.10
9	400	Solomon Afful	GHA	21.20	21.20

This is the challenge that stands between Trackspeed1 sprinter David Bolarinwa, and tomorrow night's World Junior Championship 200 metres final!

David Bolarinwa's heat can be viewed with commentary here:

youtu.be/r9gRyFcREjQ  


The European Junior Champion will be faced with the fastest junior in the world, Tyreek Hill, but will be unfazed after a hugely confident run in this morning's heat.

David stormed to a heat winning 20.78s in the Barcelona Olympic stadium - one of the fastest 200s of his life, and yet he was watching the other athletes even as he came off the bend.  Keeping the afterburners ticking over to the line as the Bahrainian athlete mounted a late assault from lane 9, David kept his head and clapped his hands as he knew he had done the job.

The 200m is a hugely competitive event this year, and the semi-final will not be a breeze, but David looks to have drawn a good race with the main threat emanating from Hill and the Chinese athlete, Zhenye Xie, who looked very comfortable in the heats.