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00:00If they do clip one, it's part of the race, as long as it doesn't throw them off of their
00:05rhythm and their pattern.
00:08This should be really, really exciting, but we might see more traditional now.
00:13We might see some athletes doing their business, and as soon as they come off that 10th herd.
00:17He will go in lane 2.
00:19He's at 14.98 this season.
00:22Roshan Maratunga of Sri Lanka will go in lane 3.
00:25He's just 100th outside the Sri Lanka national record, actually, with 13.73.
00:30Robert Oa of Papua New Guinea will go in lane 4.
00:34Actually, their triple jump national champion from a few years ago.
00:42India in lane 7.
00:44New national record for them of 13.27.
00:47He only won his fifth consecutive Indian title last month.
00:52And the Vitalis of St Lucia completes the line-up in lane 8.
00:55First three across the line, automatically qualified for this evening's final.
01:03Set.
01:06And the race, the first of 10 hurdles is away.
01:09Campbell looking good at the moment.
01:11The Jamaican in the middle of the field have already lost.
01:13One of the other athletes is carnage behind with hit hurdles.
01:16And there's Sam Bennett finishing incredibly strongly.
01:20Oh, the win's just over the legal limit.
01:23Plus 2.1.
01:24That would have been a massive lifetime best for Sam Bennett by a couple attempts.
01:28But he'll get to go again tonight.
01:31Really composed run over the final three hurdles from Sam Bennett.
01:35Jerome Campbell was the best of the first half of the race.
01:39He is very good over 60-meter hurdles with 7.48 indoors.
01:44That from Sam Bennett.
01:45I feel like that's been building all season.
01:47He's been getting better with every race.
01:49That was absolutely fantastic by Sam Bennett from Team England.
01:53Because he had Jerome.
01:57Campbell just gets the edge on him in the first few hurdles.
02:00And then Bennett just gets into his rhythm and starts pulling away for the last four hurdles.
02:06And just keeps driving all the way through to the line.
02:08And he will be really, really pleased.
02:10Really pleased.
02:11Slightly frustrated about the win.
02:12I think you're right.
02:13And I've mentioned the Jamaican dominance here.
02:16The last three champions.
02:17Rasheed Broadbilt.
02:18Ronald Levy.
02:19Andrew Riley.
02:20But before that, of course, it was Andy Turner of England.
02:23So, I think, well, who knows?
02:26If Sam Bennett can recreate that kind of run this evening, he could be very, very competitive.
02:32Such a shame for Lara Reduce here.
02:33We'll look at the replay again.
02:35The Mauritian, I think, just stumbling out of the blocks.
02:37And pulling up before the first hurdle.
02:40And he's an athlete that you'd expect to make it through to the final.
02:43But under the kind of pressure cooker of a championship environment,
02:48it can make you make unforced errors, I think, really.
02:52And Lara Reduce just leaving the track.
02:54Not where he would have wanted to be.
02:55I wonder if he just felt something.
02:57Because he didn't even attack that first hurdle, did he?
02:59He just jogged into it.
03:01And even a little stumbling out of the blocks, you're still going to go for it.
03:05I'm not sure about Campbell.
03:07He's run a season's best.
03:09So, he's obviously not in the best shape of his life at the moment.
03:13But he's still going to go through to the final.
03:15So, we'll see what he has to bring for that.
03:17So, Bennett Campbell, Shursay of India.
03:20They're your top three that qualify automatically.

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