Monday 13 September 2021
History was almost made at the ISTAF Berlin meet where Jeremiah Azu [Helen James] ran a new personal best in the 100m. Azu who earlier this year ran 10.19 claiming the European U23 title lined up in lane 1 in a stacked heat consisting of 6 sub-10 runners and a German athlete Wagner who had been showing great form as he had recently set a new personal best of 10.11 3 weeks ago.
Nerves were high as it was expected to be an extremely competitive race. Unfortunately, the athletes had to endure a stressful process of 3 false starts before the race got underway.
Azu got out to a strong start as he usually does and ran an incredible race for 2nd place in a new personal best of 10.16 behind the inform American Marvin Bracey who won in 9.95s.
This run from Azu puts him only 0.05s off of the Welsh Record held by Christian Malcolm puts him clear at the top of the Welsh rankings and 5th in the overall UK rankings.
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