{"id":422364,"date":"2025-09-14T00:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422364\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:13:17","slug":"great-britain-miss-out-on-mixed-relay-medal-but-sprinters-make-world-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/422364\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain miss out on mixed relay medal but sprinters make world semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeargin said: \u201cI knew I should have taken them on the back stretch. I was going too slow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI almost stepped on Femke twice, on her heels. I knew we were going too slow. I was hoping I\u2019ll catch them in the end but I should have trusted myself to go earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.81591720.jpg\" alt=\"Great Britain's Zharnel Hughes, centre, in the 100m heats at the World Championships\" data-title=\"World Athletics Championships 2025 \u2013 Day One \u2013 Japan National Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Martin Rickett\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Zharnel Hughes qualified in second from his 100m heat (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain will have a full complement of men\u2019s 100m semi-finalists after Jeremiah Azu, Zharnel Hughes and Romell Glave all booked places from the heats.<\/p>\n<p>And it was the same story for their female counterparts as Daryll Neita, Dina Asher-Smith and Amy Hunt all automatically qualified.<\/p>\n<p>These championships were billed as an atonement and reward for Japanese fans, who expected to welcome the world to their Olympics in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But Covid-19 had other plans for Tokyo and those Games were postponed a year, then eventually played out in front of empty stadia.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s first evening session was sold out, with Japan\u2019s Crown Prince and Crown Princess Akishino among guests of honour alongside governor of Tokyo Yuriko Koike and IOC president Kirsty Coventry.<\/p>\n<p>The mixed 4x400m relay was the final event of the evening session.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giving it their all \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Davey, Emily Newnham, Toby Harries and Nicole Yeargin take fifth in a close mixed 4x400m relay final in a time of 3:10.84 \u2728<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NovunaGBNI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NovunaGBNI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WCHTokyo25?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WCHTokyo25<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldAthleticsChamps?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WorldAthleticsChamps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DVLSXZ4TDH\">pic.twitter.com\/DVLSXZ4TDH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 British Athletics (@BritAthletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritAthletics\/status\/1966858194472599737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Great Britain claimed silver in the same event at the last World Championships in Budapest and bronze at the Paris 2024 Olympics but were unable to recreate that success in Tokyo, finishing fifth in three minutes 10.84 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The United States took gold in 3:08.80, the introduction of reigning world 400m hurdles champion Femke Bol propelled the Netherlands to silver and Belgium collected bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Welshman Azu, who was disqualified for a false start in the heats on his Olympic debut in Paris, this time booked his place in the 100m semis in 10.10s.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes was second in heat six, clocking 10.06, while Glave had to sit through six heats to confirm he was one of the three best-of-the-rest going through.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes said: \u201cI know when I get to the semi-finals I have to step it up, and I will step it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neita set a season\u2019s-best 10.94 seconds to win the fifth of the women\u2019s 100m heats, and emerged the second-fastest from all seven heats behind St Lucia\u2019s Olympic champion Julien Alfred.<\/p>\n<p>Asher-Smith and Hunt were second in their heats in 11.07 and 11.13 respectively.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.81590251.jpg\" alt=\"Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith, centre, in the 100m heats at the World Championships\" data-title=\"World Athletics Championships 2025 \u2013 Day One \u2013 Japan National Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Martin Rickett\" data-usage-terms=\"Use subject to restrictions. Editorial use only, no commercial use without prior consent from rights holder.\"  \/>Dina Asher-Smith, centre, finished second in her heat (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy and excited to get started,\u201d said Asher-Smith. \u201cI have been out here for a while and I have just been waiting and waiting. That was a good run for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shot-putter Scott Lincoln qualified for his first world final on Saturday morning, ultimately finishing eighth with a best attempt of 21 metres as American Ryan Crouser defended his title for a second time with a season\u2019s-best 22.34.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Keith and Calli Hauger-Thackery finished 10th and 11th in their 10,000m final.<\/p>\n<p>Revee Walcott-Nolan booked her place in the women\u2019s 1500m semi-final but debutant Erin Wallace and Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Laura Muir missed out.<\/p>\n<p>Long jumper Jazmin Sawyers \u2013 who recently returned to action following a 20-month Achilles injury absence \u2013 needed to finish in the top 12 to advance but came 16th.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yeargin said: \u201cI knew I should have taken them on the back stretch. I was going too slow.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-422364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115199764737135003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}