MUNRO College athlete Delano Williams failed in his bid to make the United Kingdom team for next month’s Olympic Games in London after a disappointing seventh place in the 200m final in their trial in Birmingham on Saturday.

After running 20.91 seconds to finish second in the morning’s preliminary heats, the fourth fastest time of the round, Williams, who was unbeaten all year against junior and senior competition, ran 21.15 seconds for seventh in the finals that was won by James Ellington in 20.56 seconds, ahead of Christian Malcolm- 20.63 seconds and Chris Clarke- 20.69 seconds.

Of the top three, however, only Ellington-20.55 seconds and Malcolm (20.46 seconds) have the Olympic A qualifying times.

Williams had run the A standard 20.53 seconds at the Milo Western Champs earlier this year in February as well.

As he did in the prelims, Williams recorded a slow reaction time to the starter’s gun, going off at 0.331 in the finals compared to James Kilty who recorded 0.127 but finished eighth.

Williams, who acquired a British passport this year, will now concentrate on competing at the 14th IAAF World Junior Championships for the Turks and Caicos Islands in Barcelona, Spain, July 10th-15hth where he is a medal favourite in the 200m.

It was not a good weekend for athletes with Jamaican connections at the UK Trials as former Wolmers Boys jumper Julian Reid also finished seventh in the long jump finals on Saturday and failed to make the team as well.

Reid, who made the switch last year after competing at the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Trials, had a best jump of 7.54m well short of the B standard 8.10m.

World leader Greg Rutherford won the event

with 8.12m.