… Brenessa Thompson into 100m semifinal

IT WAS a bittersweet day for the Guyana team at the IAAF World Junior Championships earlier yesterday afternoon as Kadecia Baird found herself ousted from the women’s 400m after she was disqualified but Brenessa Thompson moved into the women’s 100m semifinal last night.As the event continued at Hayward Field, Oregon in the USA, Baird came up against six other contenders in heat two of the women’s 400m, running out of lane seven. The world junior silver medallist seemed poised for a win in the heat before being disqualified for running out of her lane. This gave the race to Croatia’s Yana Glotova who clocked 53.61 seconds to qualify for the semifinals.
Also disqualified from the race, for the same reason, was Croatia’s Dora Filipovic running out of lane 8. This was Baird’s only race at the Championships, which is set to conclude this Sunday.
Guyana’s participation at the event will end today if Thompson, taking on the women’s 200m later this afternoon at 14:40hrs, local time, fails to make it to the final of the race. Thompson is competing out of heat seven of seven, running in lane eight. The heats will precede the semi-finals later tonight as well, while the final is billed for tomorrow.
With a 23.91 seconds season-best, Thompson has the fourth fastest entry time in the heats, entering with the same time as Brazil’s Victoria Rosa.
In last night’s 100m semi-finals Thompson was set to run in heat one out of lane three. From the three heats being contested the top two finishers along with the athletes with the next two fastest timings moving into the final which was also scheduled to run off last night.