The 21-year-old would surely have won her first global senior medal had her season not been decimated by a fractured navicular bone in February. But she lowered her season’s best by half a second to finish fourth in 22.22sec as the Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers defended her title. In another couple of steps Asher-Smith would have run down Shaunae Miller-Uibo, the Bahamian. Miller-Uibo, who suffered a Devon Loch style collapse metres from the line in the 400m final, pulled ahead but Asher-Smith began to claw back the ground. It means Great Britain languish equal 13th in the medal table, with only Mo Farah’s 10,000m gold to fill the cabinet, but Asher-Smith sounded an optimistic note.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2017 22:09 UTC