Tokyo 2025: Thompson, Seville advance to 100m final
Kishane Thompson will hope to improve on his Olympic Games silver medal while Oblique Seville will be hunting his first global individual podium finish when they line up in the men’s 100m final at the Tokyo World Athletics Championships on Sunday.
Both qualified for the final after outstanding executions in their respective semi-final races earlier Sunday, but Ackeem Blake failed to advance after he was fifth in his heat.
Seville, who ran out of lane eight after his third place finish in the first round, executed brilliantly to win his semi-final in 9.86 seconds (0.0m/s), beating Olympic Games 200m champion Letsile Tebogo who ran a season’s best 9.94 seconds.
Thompson was second in his semi-final, credited with the same time as American Kenny Bednarek who was given the edge.
Defending champion Noah Lyles won his semi-final with 9.92 seconds, also advancing to the finals along with South Africans Akani Simbine and Gift Leotlela.
