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Dartford sprint star Adam Gemili smashes PB and runs 19.98secs to reach 200m final of World Championships in Moscow

Adam Gemili, Team GB athlete.
Adam Gemili, Team GB athlete.

Kent sprint ace Adam Gemili produced a superb run to smash his Personal Best and earn a place in Saturday's World Championship 200m final in Moscow.

The 19-year-old Dartford ace set a new PB as he cruised through the heats in Russia on Friday morning – improving his previous best time, set just two months ago, by 0.13 seconds to stop the clock in 20.17.

It made the former Dartford Grammar School pupil – who reached the semi-finals of the 100m at the London 2012 Olympics and won the World Junior Championship title last July – the fifth fastest Brit of all time over 200m.

However less than nine hours later on Friday evening the Blackheath & Bromley star was back on track in the semi-final and produced a stunning run to break the magical 20-second barrier, dipping to beat Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade on the line and finish in a time of 19.98.

It put the former football star second on the British all-time list behind John Regis – whose record has stood for 19 years – and made him the fastest European teenager in history over 200m.

Gemili was the second fastest qualifier for Saturday evening’s final (5.10pm BST) and more than half a second faster than Olympic champion Usain Bolt.

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