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Justine into 200m semis at world champs

Lcoal sprinting ace through to World Champs semi finals

JUSTINE Palframan qualified for the semi-finals of the women’s 200m at the International Athletics Federation World Championships in Beijing, China on Wednesday afternoon.

Running in the second heat, Justine finished third in a time of 23.09 seconds.

First in her heat was Marie-Josee Ta Lou of Ivory Coast who finished in a personal best time of 22.73 seconds and second was American Jenna Prandini in a time of 22.95 seconds.

She will now line-up in the third heat of semi-final against Maria Belimpasaki (Greece), Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica), Dina Asher-Smith (Great Britain), Jeneba Tarmoh (USA), Gloria Hooper (Italy), Kimberly Hyacinthe (Canada) and Rosângela Santos (Brazil) today (Thursday) at 1.35pm.

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