KINGSTON, Jamaica — Adrian Kerr became the second Jamaican man to get the qualifying standard in the 200m for September’s Tokyo World Athletics Championships when he ran a big personal best 20.09 seconds (1.8m/s) at the Ed Murphy Track Classic – World Athletics Continental Tour-Silver — at the Billy J Murphy Track and Field Complex in Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday.

Kerr, who was third in the event at last month’s JAAA National Senior Championships, joins two-time national champion Bryan Levell as the qualifiers so far, running faster that the 20.16 seconds qualifying standard set for the World Championships.

His time which was the fastest wind legal time by a Jamaican this year, under the 20.10 seconds run by Levell at the National Championships, is under the 20.47 seconds he ran in March this year.

Kerr and Christopher Taylor were earlier this week selected to represent Jamaica in the men’s 200m at the NACAC Senior Championships in Freeport, Bahamas next month.

– Paul Reid