Divine Oduduru Emerges 3rd In 200m Semi-Final Heat, Crashes Out


Nigeria’s top athlete, Divine Oduduru, has emerged third in men’s 200m semi-final heat at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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L-R: Italy’s Eseosa Fostine Desalu, Nigeria’s Divine Oduduru, Jamaica’s Rasheed Dwyer and Qatar’s Femi Ogunode and heat winner 17-year-old Erriyon Knighton  of the USA competes in the men’s 200m semi-finals during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo

Divine Oduduru’s 20.16sec, failed to advance to the final. Seventeen-year-old Erriyon Knighton won his heat in 20.02sec while Rasheed Dwyer emerged second in 20.13 sec.
World champion Noah Lyles endured a finish-line gaffe to qualify from Tuesday’s semi-finals for the Olympic 200 metres finals.
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The 24-year-old inexplicably slowed up with 10 metres of his semi to run and was promptly overtaken at the line by Canada’s Aaron Brown and Liberian Joseph Fahnbulleh, all three credited with 19.99sec.
It meant Lyles didn’t qualify automatically as one of the first two finishers, instead handed an anxious wait as the third and final semi-final went ahead.
That was won in some style by Brown’s teammate Andre de Grasse, the Rio silver medallist, who clocked a national record of 19.73sec ahead of American Kenneth Bednarek, in 19.83. Lyles has left a sigh of relief as he qualified as one of the next two fastest, along with Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago.
US teen sensation Erriyon Knighton won the opening semi-final convincingly in 20.02sec, scoring a psychological blow by casually looking across the field no less than four times on the backstretch through to the line.
The 17-year-old will become one of the youngest ever 200m finalists when he lines up at the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday.
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