Jamaica's Oblique Seville reacts after winning the men's 100m in a personal best 9.86s inside the National Stadium on Saturday, May 21, 2022. (Photo: Dwayne Richards)
May 18, 2024
Seville runs sub 20 seconds in 200m
Jamaica’s Oblique Seville ran a big personal best 19.96 seconds (-1.1m/s) to win the 200m at the Adidas Atlanta City Games in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday.
It was Seville’s second personal best in the 200m this year after he ran 20.17 seconds (1.9m/s) at the national stadium in March.
Seville’s time is joint seventh best in the world this year.
A two-time World Championships men’s 100m finalist, Seville is the first Jamaican man to dip under 20.00 seconds in the 200m this season but had said in March that he has no plans to run the half lap event at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.
World Championships men’s 400m gold medallist Antonio Watson was fourth in the event in 20.99 seconds.
-Paul A Reid
