Alana Reid advances to women’s 100m final at World Under-20 Champs
LIMA, Peru — Alana Reid stayed on course to become the fourth Jamaican in succession to win the women’s 100m at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships when she advanced to the final with an easy win in her semi-final round in Lima, Peru on Tuesday.
Reid, the world Under-20 leader, ran 11.44 seconds (-0.3m/s) to win her semi-final ahead of Nigeria’s Justina Tiana Eyakpobeyan who was second in 11.56 seconds and Australia’s Aleksandra Stoilova who finished third in 11.58 seconds.
Reid, who had run 11.46 seconds in the morning’s preliminaries, is hoping to join compatriots Briana Williams, who won in Tampere, Finland in 2018; and Tina Clayton, who took the title in Nairobi, Kenya in 2021 and again in Cali, Colombia in 2022, to extend Jamaica’s dominance in the event over the last six years.
— Paul A Reid
