KINGSTON, Jamaica— Jamaica’s Rusheen McDonald ran a lifetime best 46.02 seconds to book his place in Saturday’s final of the men’s 400m at the World Athletics Indoor Championships at the Glasgow Arena in Scotland on Friday.

McDonald was running a second personal best on Friday’s opening day after he had run 46.25 seconds for second in his first round race in the opening session, was second behind Norway’s Karsten Warholm who won with a season’s best 45.86 seconds.

It was McDonald’s first major championship final.

Meanwhile, women’s 400m runner Stacy Ann Williams and shot putter Rajindra Campbell failed to make it to their respective finals on Friday’.

Williams finished fifth in her semi-final heat in 52.72 seconds and failed to get into Saturday’s final, while Campbell failed to record a legal throw in all three attempts in the first round of the men’s shot put.

It was the second straight major final where Campbell, the double shot put record holder-indoors and outdoors, had failed to record a legal throw after he also fouled out at last August’s World Championships final in Budapest, Hungary.

-Paul A Reid