Able Mills in two finals at U20 Championships
OREGON, USA — Jamaica’s Able Mills will contest back-to-back finals on Thursday’s second day of the World Athletics Under-20 Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, just under two hours apart.
Mills, who qualified for the discus final on Wednesday’s opening day, will start her quest for honours at 6:00pm local time, (8:00pm Jamaica time) before the start of the shot put at 9:40pm local time.
The US-based Mills threw 53.37m in the discus throw qualification, good for seventh best overall. She qualified for the shot put final on Thursday morning with 15.84m, ninth best overall.
Both distances are just short of her personal bests, 53.85m in the discus that she threw to win the gold medal at the Carifta Games in Grenada, and 15.88m set in Kingston on July 27.
-Paul A Reid
