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00:00Dina Asher-Smith, world champion six years ago, made the final of the one.

00:07So consistent, multiple global medalists individually and in the relays.

00:12This is her best event, could she get in the shake-up?

00:14It could be really close for the bronze if the two favourites are battling for the gold.

00:19An avia battle, huge performances this year, winning in Xiamen, Shanghai, Rome.

00:25Only fourth in Zurich, but she's looked really good in qualification for the final.

00:28The American will have to get out so hard because the favourites are on her inside.

00:33Sharika Jackson, the fastest living woman on earth, over 200 metres.

00:39Her first sub-22 second run for two years in the semis, coming back to her best.

00:44Could she deliver a third successive 200 title and match Alison Felix?

00:50Melissa Jefferson Wooden, brilliant in the 100 metres.

00:55Could she do the double?

00:57No American woman has ever achieved that in the World Championship.

01:01She's in six.

01:03Amy Hunt of Great Britain.

01:05She moves second on the British all-time list with a wonderful running qualification.

01:10Keep an eye on the clock.

01:11Only 10 European women have broken 22 seconds.

01:14She's in shape to add her name to that list.

01:17Marie-José Talu-Smith, seventh in the 100.

01:20The greatest female African sprinter the world has ever seen.

01:25Silver in the 200 back in 17 and still delivering at the highest level.

01:29She's in four.

01:31Brittany Brown.

01:33What a season.

01:34What a runner.

01:34Silver in Doha behind Dina Asher-Smith.

01:37Bronze last year in Paris.

01:39She won the Diamond League final and with it came a place at the World Championship.

01:47Mackenzie Long.

01:48Fifth in the trials.

01:50Benefited not only from Gabby Thomas pulling out, but Brittany taking that wild card.

01:55And tied for the second non-automatic spot with the woman on her inside.

02:00So she makes it here by thousandths of a second.

02:03Your heart goes out to Antonique Straughan.

02:06She pulled her hamstring as she crossed the line and she's gamely here.

02:09Ready to try and do the business.

02:11She did brilliantly to qualify.

02:13I really hope the hamstring holds up for the hugely likable Bahamian on the inside.

02:19Straughan Bahamas in one.

02:21Long USA in two.

02:22Brown USA three.

02:24Talu-Smith, Ivory Coast four.

02:26Amy Hunt, Great Britain five.

02:28Jefferson Wooden, USA six.

02:30Jackson, Jamaica seven.

02:32Battle USA eight.

02:33Asher-Smith, Great Britain in nine.

02:38Jackson bidding for a hat-trick of world titles.

02:43Jefferson Wooden bidding to take a step into the unknown as no American woman has ever done

02:49the one-two double in the same World Championship.

02:53It may well take one of the fastest times in history to win this title.

02:59It's a mouth-watering climax to an incredible night in Tokyo.

03:02It's the final of the women's 200 meters.

03:05Oh, it was on the inside.

03:22It was on the inside.

03:24Oh, dear.

03:25Oh, dear.

03:25Well, there's so much going on in the mind of Antonique Straughan at the moment.

03:29Is the hamstring going to hold?

03:31How is she going to cope with the inside lane?

03:34I remember Usain Bolt making the final of the 200 meters back in Helsinki in 05,

03:40and he was on the inside lane and pulled his hamstring.

03:42That's a real shame for Straughan.

03:46She won the NACAC title, and it was by far and away.

03:50I think she's so worried about the leg.

04:01Well, your heart has to go out to Antonique Straughan.

04:03Perhaps she's going to ask if she can run under protest.

04:06She's asking to see it.

04:10To be honest, Hannah, I'm surprised that she's on the start line

04:14because she was in agony after she crossed the line in an automatic spot.

04:18She was in agony driving out of the blocks there.

04:20It wasn't even a full drive as well.

04:22She could not put all the force through that left leg,

04:25and the strapping is quite something there with Antonique Straughan.

04:29She earned the spot in this final.

04:31She deserved to have a go if she wanted to,

04:33and sometimes athletes can't always see the logical solution in front of them

04:39and Straughan, unfortunately,

04:40just not able to even stay in her blocks here in this final.

04:45Long USA 2, Brown USA 3,

04:48Talu Smith, Ivory Coast 4,

04:50Hunt, Great Britain 5,

04:52Jefferson Wooden, USA 6,

04:54Jackson, Jamaica 7,

04:56Battle USA 8,

04:57Asher Smith, Great Britain in 9.

05:00For the second time of asking,

05:01they prepare for the women's 200-metre world final.

05:05This will be quick.

05:11Jackson, third from the left-hand side,

05:13has got away well,

05:14and she's already up onto battle.

05:15Dina Asher-Smith with a brilliant start round the bend.

05:18The champion from 19 going well.

05:20Jefferson Wooden with half a yard on Sharika Jackson.

05:23Jefferson Wooden is floating here.

05:25Amy Hunt trying to get in the mix,

05:26but look at this from Jefferson Wooden.

05:29She's absolutely flying in the night sky of Tokyo.

05:3321-69.

05:35It's one of the fastest times we've ever seen.

05:38Rounded down to 68.

05:41Hunt may well have gone on the podium there.

05:43She was coming through really well.

05:45She's taken the silver.

05:46What a performance by the British woman.

05:49Jackson takes the Brom this time.

05:51Not to be a third gold.

05:54Tonight belonged to Jefferson Wooden.

05:57She put Jackson under pressure coming round the corner,

06:00and she was miles, miles clear with 70 metres to go.

06:05She's done something that no American woman

06:07has ever, ever achieved before.

06:10Jefferson Wooden does the double,

06:12and it's a sensational silver for Hunt,

06:14the defending champion,

06:16beaten into third this time.

06:18What a run,

06:18and what a night for the American.

06:20She thoroughly deserves all the plaudits.

06:23She's been in a class of her own all week,

06:26and has just proved it

06:27with the run of her life over 200 metres.

06:33Good running from Sharika Jackson.

06:36If you think she couldn't make either start line in Paris,

06:38she was unbeatable in Budapest.

06:41Perhaps that was her purple patch.

06:42Perhaps that was the best she'll ever be.

06:44But for Sharika Jackson

06:45to fight back onto a podium here was great.

06:48Melissa Jefferson Wooden,

06:49brilliant out of the blocks.

06:50I think to have Jackson to chase was great for the Americans.

06:54But here, swinging off the bend,

06:56we've said this all week,

06:57you've got to convert that bend into the straight.

06:59And Jefferson Wooden has done that brilliantly.

07:02She's able to run away here.

07:03She's pushing.

07:04She's working hard.

07:05She wants the time.

07:06And behind her,

07:07Amy Hunt of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,

07:10having the run of her life.

07:12She wasn't under 22 seconds.

07:14It was slower than her own lifetime best.

07:16But she put together the best race of everybody else behind the American.

07:21Everyone else was tense.

07:22They were stressed.

07:23They were pushing.

07:24Amy Hunt just stuck to her plan

07:26and was rewarded with a silver medal.

07:28Melissa Jefferson Wooden is a very,

07:34very special woman.

07:35When her dad needed a bone marrow donor,

07:40she did it.

07:41And I don't even think she told her coach,

07:43even when her form dipped.

07:47Hunt can't believe it.

07:49She's absolutely flying now that she's based in Italy.

07:52By far the best season of her career.

07:54And that is an incredible silver for her.

07:58But Jefferson Wooden has owned the sprinting environment.

08:04Brilliant in the 100.

08:05And I think that was even better.

08:10The joint eighth fastest time in history.

08:16Rounded down actually to 21.68.

08:19Jefferson Wooden has done the double.

08:22She'll never be forgotten in Tokyo.

08:24Amy Hunt a sensational silver.

08:26And it's bronze this time for the former champion, Jackson.

08:33I think that was even better than her winning the 100.

08:36I think it was as well.

08:38You can see a lot of motion going on here for Amy Hunt.

08:42It was just a wonderful, wonderful run by her.

08:45I enjoyed that from Jefferson Wooden.

08:47I think with the absence of Julian Alfred,

08:49with a strained hamstring.

08:51Melissa Jefferson Wooden could,

08:53she just had to do kind of a nine out of ten bend

08:56with the form that she's in.

08:57And that would probably be enough for the gold.

08:59It was then that she decided,

09:01I'm going to push all the way.

09:02I'm going to see what my limit is today.

09:04And see how fast I can run.

09:06And it's great to see her rewarded

09:08with a new personal best at 21.68.

09:10And you said it, Rob, quite well on the line-up.

09:14Could Amy Hunt become one of the few Europeans

09:16to have dipped under 22 seconds?

09:18And she didn't.

09:19But I think that makes that run even more impressive.

09:22It wasn't about who was the quickest,

09:23who's got the fastest personal best.

09:25It's who can stand up to the pressure.

09:27And in the end, Amy Hunt was the woman that didn't crumble,

09:30that didn't let the pressure get to her.

09:32Of course, Jefferson Wooden didn't either.

09:34But out of the rest of them, if you like,

09:36the mere mortals behind the American,

09:38it was very impressive from Hunt.

09:40It was when she went past Kathy Cook

09:41on the all-time list for Great Britain

09:43that I thought, right, okay,

09:45she's absolutely serious here.

09:47But Jefferson Wooden, what a season.

09:51It's been phenomenal.

09:52She's built so well

09:53on the Olympic bronze over the 100 metres.

09:58She had Jackson under pressure,

10:00ran that bend.

10:01She was still having to work hard for it here.

10:04But the margin with which she pulled away

10:06from a brilliant field with 50 to go

10:09was fantastic.

10:11She's not the biggest built.

10:13She's not the tallest.

10:15But she is a real pocket rocket.

10:18Eyes laser fixed on the finish line.

10:22Double glory in Tokyo.

10:24One of the fastest times we've ever seen.

10:27And she's beaten the fastest living woman

10:30on earth over 200 metres.

10:32I think the fact you could see the knee lift

10:34drop over so slightly for Jefferson Wooden

10:36just in the last 20 metres.

10:37I think that was her absolutely flat out.

10:40At the end of a very hard week,

10:42three rounds of the 100,

10:43three rounds of the 200.

10:44And I think fresh in a one-off race,

10:48she could go quicker.

10:50But she's got the 4x100 to face as well.

10:54Could she possibly get three gold medals?

10:56Noah Lyles did it in Budapest.

10:58It'd be wonderful if Melissa Jefferson

11:00wouldn't manage it here in Tokyo.

11:02And I remember Lyles doing interviews

11:05after he did the 4x1.

11:06And as only double winners of the sprint title

11:09can attest,

11:10he could hardly string a sentence together.

11:13He was so mentally wrecked after that.

11:16So it'll all come crashing to the ground

11:19for Jefferson Wooden.

11:19But she can go away on holiday somewhere nice

11:21and celebrate.

11:23But amazing.

11:24Hunt couldn't believe it.

11:25She was so dominant as a junior

11:29and then concentrated on her degree

11:31at Cambridge University.

11:33But going to Italy has been the making of her.

11:35She's like an athlete transformed this season.

11:38She really is.

11:41Out dipping

11:42the fastest living woman on earth

11:45for the silver.

11:47Well, that's a much needed medal

11:49for the British team.

11:50We've had great performances

11:51from Keely Hodgkinson

11:52and Georgia Hunter-Bell

11:54in the semi-final

11:55of the 800s

11:55and got interest

11:57with Max Bergen

11:57in the 800m final.

11:59But for a nation

12:00that normally performs

12:01really, really well

12:02on the medal table

12:03they're just needing

12:04to build some momentum.

12:05And that's what you look

12:06as a nation that's looking

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