World Athletics Championships live: Results and updates as Noah Lyles goes for 200m gold and Keely Hodgkinson returns – UK Times

“It’s a tough timetable today, I can’t lie, it’s a solid first day for me, I’ve had a lot worse, but I’ve had better. I just need to recover. My day two has got better in recent years, I’m excited for tomorrow, excited for the long jump. Third overall, that’s really good.”

“It’s an interesting one. It doesn’t feel good out there. Not really – I think the whole warm up situation – you’re warming up for almost two hours, can be quite draining. So maybe I could look at doing something better when it comes to Sunday

“I’m happy to be in my fifth world finals in a row. I’m really happy to do that and be in contention for another medal.

“This would mean more to me than last year, just the journey here makes it that much sweeter. And it’s so difficult to get here anyway, and then to come here and perform, especially off the year that I’ve had. So I’m just, I’m grateful to be running, and I just want to put together a performance I’m proud of, and I want to be able to say, I left it all out there.”

The USA’s Rai Benjamin was temporarily disqualified minutes after winning the gold medal in a controversial men’s 400m hurdles in Tokyo.

The American knocked over the final hurdle, before coming home in first with a blazing time of 46.52secs.

But his collision on the last hurdle moved it into the path of Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel, who was initially fourth and just outside of the medals, handing the Olympic champion a disqualification for several minutes before the decision was reversed.

“I feel really good and just wanted to get the job done. Today felt a lot better than yesterday. I felt like I just needed a run out.

“This is really cool tonight, like, when we were in Miyazaki training in the morning – Trev did that on purpose – it was like hell, so that when we came here, it wouldn’t feel bad! And yeah, this is like a nice British summer’s evening!

“I like getting through the rounds as smooth as possible. I think at this level, it’s how you can recover the quickest and do everything to be your best for Sunday. So the goal is to do everything to get through comfortably without using everything you’ve got to come.”

Femke Bol with a superb run, the Dutch athlete is dominant without Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

It’s 51.54secs for Bol, then Jones in silver with a PB (52.08secs) and Zapletalova and a new Slovakian national record (53.00secs) for bronze.

A disaster for the Americans, really, only one grabbing a medal. Anna Cockrell went off hard but faded to fourt, while Dalilah Muhammad was way back in seventh.

Warholm is out quick, making up ground, but Benjamin is out with him, the American looks to be ahead at half-way…

Benjamin is too strong, he’s storming down the straight, Warholm can’t come back, but oh no!

The Olympic champion batters the last barrier, is he in trouble? No, he’s too far clear and it’s gold in 46.54secs!

Warholm was nowhere, he’s out of the medals, a disaster for the Norwegian.

Alison Dos Santos, out in lane nine, came home for silver, 0.32secs behind, while Qatar’s Ismail Doudai Abakar nabbed the bronze.

That was close, too, with Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel just five hundredths back.

Keely Hodgkinson looks very relaxed as she chats to BBC Sport. “Happy with that, it wasn’t anything special, getting through, getting around,” like it’s easy, which I suppose it is for her.

“It’s my fifth global final at 23, so I’m proud of that, it’s an achievement. I’ll have a nice day off tomorrow. It’s tough out there, no pacemaker, no lights, that’s what makes championship racing so different and interesting. But me and G in the final, so happy.

“I was having a cheeky look [up at the screen in the home straight], but the semi-final is the final before the final.”

So Keely Hodgkinson and Georgia Hunter Bell both progress to the final, with Kenyans Mary and Sarah Moraa (no relation) and Lilian Odira looking threatening, Odira the fastest of the qualifers. Swiss record holder Audrey Werro is safely through too.

Jess Hull and Sage Hurta-Klecker go through as the next fastest two from the semis.