Nigel Ellis, the second-fastest junior male sprinter in the world, will not run the 100m at next week’s IAAF World Under-20 Championships that starts at Zawiszaw Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland, next week, the Jamaica Observer has been reliably informed.

Ellis, whose personal best 10.16 seconds achieved as he won the boys’ Under-20 final at the Carifta Games in Grenada earlier this year, was sensationally disqualified in the first round of the 100m at the JAAA National Junior Trials at the National Stadium in mid-June after false-starting, but made the team after he won the 200m on the second day.

A source told the Observer last weekend that Ellis will only run the 200m that starts next week Thursday and the 4x100m relays later in the week, although the St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) runner’s name has been included among the three submitted to the IAAF, along with Raheem Chambers, who won the event at Trials, and Jhevaughn Matherson, who was second.

Ellis has three times in the top 10 in the world, 10.16 seconds, 10.18 seconds and 10.20 seconds; Matherson and Chambers are tied for ninth with 10.25 seconds season best times.

Countries are allowed to enter three athletes in each event, but only two will be allowed to take part and will be declared at the technical meeting normally held the day before the start of the competition.

Danny Hawthorne, head coach of the team that is scheduled to leave the island on Thursday, sought to steer clear of the situation, telling the Observer on Sunday that he left that section of the team to the selection committee and concentrated on his job of getting the athletes “technically ready for competition”.

Reynaldo Walcott, Ellis’s coach at STETHS, who is also a member of the coaching staff to Poland, also sought to steer clear of the situation, saying he was concentrating on his responsibilities at the JAAA pre-competition camp at GC Foster College.

Hawthorne was the head coach eight years ago when Yohan Blake was similarly disqualified in the 100m, but was second in the 200m to then St Jago High teammate Nickel Ashmeade, and made the team.

In Poland, Blake and Dexter Lee contested the 100m, while Ashmeade and Ramone McKenzie ran the 200m.

Dexter Lee won the gold in the 100m and Blake was fourth, while Ashmeade was second in the 200m, just edged on the line by France’s Christophe Lemaitre.