Christopher Taylor is still chasing the qualifying time for the men’s 200m for next month’s World Athletics Championships after he placed second in the half-lap event at the Memorial Wieslawa Maniaka meet in Szczecin, Poland, on Wednesday.

Taylor, who was second at the National Senior Championships (Trials) in late June, but is yet to get the 20.16 seconds qualifying mark, ran 20.35 seconds to finish behind compatriot Bryan Levell, who ran 20.26 seconds.

Levell, a semi-finalist at the Olympic Games in Paris last year, and won back-to-back national titles, and Adrian Kerr, who was third at Trials, have both achieved the qualifying mark.

Levell has a season’s best 20.10 seconds, just behind Kerr’s personal best 20.09 seconds.

Taylor will have up to August 24 to get the qualifying mark but there is a silver lining as he is in the World Ranking quota, in position 42 with 48 runners set to line up in the first round of the World Athletics Championships on September 17.

Levell and Ryiem Forde were winners in the men’s 200m and 100m, respectively.

Odaine McPherson, who was disqualified in the 100m for a false start earlier in the day, ran 20.84 seconds (1.7m/s) in his heat of the 200m.

Forde, who was fourth in the 100m at Trials, won the short sprint on Wednesday, running 10.07 seconds (1.0m/s) to edge Goldson (10.10), with Sri Lanka’s Yupun Abeykoon taking third in 10.29 seconds.

Another Jamaican, Travis Williams, was fifth in 10.42 seconds.

Jevaughn Powell was second in the men’s 400m, running 45.63 seconds, and Delano Kennedy placed sixth in 45.90 seconds, as Australia’s Reece Holder won in 44.78 seconds.

Demish Gaye also ran 47.35 seconds while Candace McLeod was fifth in the women’s 400m, in 53.76 seconds.