U.S.-based athlete, Favour Ofili would need to dig deeply into her tactical books of tricks and come up with a winning formula to stand a chance of picking one of the two automatic tickets for Friday’s final.
She has been drawn against defending champion, Shericka Jackson of Jamaica, who holds a 21.71 personal season’s best, Marie-Josee Talou of Ivory Coast, who has ran 22.26 this season and 100m champion, Shar Carri Richardson of the USA, who set a 21.94 lifetime best this season.
U.S.-based Favour Ofili picked her ticket to run in her second straight 200m semifinal on Thursday after running 22.66secs in her first round to qualify as one of the six nonautomatic qualifiers.
In the male category, Alaba Akintola qualified for the next round of the 200m event of the ongoing World Championships in Budapest Hungary on Wednesday.
Running in lane 6 of Heat 7, Akintola finished third in 20.45sec to advance. The Tennessee-based sprinter, with a Personal Best of 20.26sec and Season Best of 20:43 secs, made the cut following the disqualification of France’s Ryan Zeze in the race.
The men’s 200m heat continues on Thursday at 22:15 pm.
