Vorivon Boonson, a Thai national runner, cut a fraction of a second to take first place and qualify for the men's 100m final at the 2024 World Youth Championships in Athletics for the second time in a row.
The 2024 IAAF World U20 Championships or IAAF World U20 Championships will be held at the Estadio Atlético de la Vidina in Lima, Peru on the night of 27 August 2024, local time which was 12 hours slower than Thailand time. , was the first day of competition.
The highlight of the event was the men's 100m semi-final. Competition in the morning, August 28, 2024, at 5:00am.
Thep Pyu Vorivon Boonson, a member of the Thai team that won the silver medal at the 19th Asian Games 2023 in China, competed after previously competing in the first round. He crossed the finish line in first place in the first round with a time of 10.41 seconds.
In the semi-finals, he had to compete in the second round with two favorites in Bradley Quanah of South Africa (the 2024 Olympic silver medalist in the men's 4x100m relay) and Gary Gard, a rising star from Jamaica.
But after hearing the gunshots at the starting point, Zhao Biu moved full length despite having a bad start and was behind. But he gained speed in the last ten meters. He crossed the finish line first in 10.30 seconds, beating Bradley Quanah of South Africa. He crossed the finish line with the same record of 10.30 seconds but with Biu's chest plane reaching the finish line just a fraction of a second earlier.
This put Pio in the final of the men's 100m at the World Youth Championships for the second time in a row. When the semi-final statistics of the eight finalists were compared, Thib Pio's statistics appeared to be the best.
Revealing the statistics of the eight people who reached the finals.
Vorivon Ponson (Thailand) 10.30 seconds, Bradley Quanah (South Africa) 10.30 seconds, Bayanda Falasa (South Africa) 10.33 seconds, DeAndre Dailey (Jamaica) 10.34 seconds, Teddy Wilson (United Kingdom) 10.35 seconds, He Jinxian (China) 10.36 seconds, Gary Gard (Jamaica) 10.39 seconds and Naoki Nishioka (Japan) 10.43 seconds.
Follow, watch and cheer on Phoriphun Boonson who made history as the first Thai to win a medal. From the IAAF World Youth Championships Early race tomorrow, August 29, 2024, 6:47 am
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