00:00Fleming of Antigua and Barbuda will go in lane 2. Best of 10.26 this year, but he's isolated in
00:06lane 2.
00:09Yudasinghe goes in lane 4 for Sri Lanka. Massive hoax for Sri Lanka with remiss Patheraje when we look towards
00:14the men's javelin in a few days.
00:17Makati Kassili of Tavula will go in lane 5. The 17-year-old hasn't got a 100m best on our
00:23database.
00:24I'll just have a bit of fun with the 100. It's the first time I've seen him at a championships
00:28in the 100.
00:30So the full line up here for round 1 heat 8 of the men's 100m. Fleming in 2. Yudasinghe in
00:384. Kassili in 5. Johnson in 6. Karol in 7. And Tuna in lane 8.
00:51Perhaps the best start from Yudasinghe of Sri Lanka, or is it Fleming over in lane 2 all on his
00:56own?
00:57Cheswold Johnson getting into his running in the second half of the race. The South African crosses the line first.
01:02It's 10.21. So not the sort of runaway winner we've seen in some of the other heats here. A
01:08bit more competitive and you might have expected those athletes side by side, they would have pushed each other to
01:13a faster time.
01:14The wind's not as kind as we move through to heat 8 here. Just the following wind of 0.6
01:19and we've been up to 2m in some of the other races.
01:21But job done for Cheswold Johnson. And what do we think, Danny? I think 10.21. That might be okay.
01:28I think that should be okay, but we can also see that they're slightly slower, these later stage heats.
01:41That probably is because the wind is just dropping off a little bit, even though it's a little bit warmer
01:45out there and we're seeing a bit of sunshine.
01:47But he's in a bit of a battle here with Crowell, isn't he? And he just starts to pull away
01:53in the last 15, 20 metres.
01:56And that's unusual. You've got a long jumper and they're only used to sprinting kind of, what do you reckon,
02:0120 metres, 30 metres?
02:03They're very explosive. They've got to generate that speed over such a short runway.
02:08I think it's quite interesting to see Johnson almost coming to his own as the race progressed.
02:13Yeah, it's not a bad decision to make, the long jump or the 100, when you can run 10.02,
02:18right?
02:18Yeah, and I think Johnson, he's been in the South African 4x1 squad at some championships.
02:24And sometimes when you do the same thing year in, year out, it can become a bit monotonous.
02:28We see other other world-class athletes in Tara Davis-Woodle has been dabbling in the hurdles in the long
02:33jump.
02:33And so Chesworth Johnson, a successful kind of move to the 100 metres so far.
02:38He'll go through, we think, to the semi-finals.
02:4110.21 for the win ahead of Jael Kroll.
02:4310.21.
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