Williams finishes 5th in U-20 World Championships heat

Since there has not been much talk about Guyana’s participation at the World Under-20 Championships (Track and Field), Guyana’s lone participant, 19-year-old Revon Williams, on Wednesday morning quite unexpectedly took to the track in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Hopetown Flames runner, who currently plies his trade at the Jamaica college which he has been attending on scholarship since 2019, participated in
his pet event, the 400m sprint, the Heats for which took place at the Kasarani Stadium.
Drafted in Heat 3 of 3, and racing out of lane 8, the Guyanese clocked 47.50s to finish fifth in the heat. The race was won by South Africa’s Lythe Pillay in 46.55s, while Kenya’s Kennedy Kimeu and Belarus’s Raman Valodzkin clocked 47.05s and 47.17s to complete the top three positions.
Bamidele Ajayi of Nigeria was the next athlete to cross the line before Williams, finishing in 47.44s for fourth position.
For the three Heats staged, the top two finishers have gained automatic qualification to the final, while the other two athletes would qualify on time. With Williams’s time being the 13th best out of the 23 athletes competing, he was unable to advance to the final, scheduled for Saturday, August 21st at the same venue, the Kasarani Stadium.