OREGON, USA — Shanoya Douglas says her quest for an individual gold medal at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships is not over, as she gets ready for her preferred 200m after taking the silver in the 100m on Thursday.

Douglas and Gary Card, who came into the championships as world leaders in the 100m, were beaten into second-place finishes by Americans Mia Maxwell and Tate Taylor, respectively. It was only the second time athletes from the same country had won both gold medals in the 100m at the same Under-20 Championships, after Noah Lyles and Candace Hill won in 2016 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

These were the first medals for Jamaica at the championships.

Both Douglas and Card had advanced to their respective 200m semi-finals after qualifying in the first round on Friday’s morning session.

Douglas, who also leads the women’s 200m ranking, says she was happy with her silver medal — her second individual medal at the World Under-20s — after winning bronze in the 200m two years ago in Lima, Peru. She, however, underlined that she is still hungry for more.

“The championships are not over yet. I still have the 200m, and there is still room to correct and to get my mental space where it is supposed to be — and it is not easy to win all the time,” she said. “I am not going to lay down and take silver; I am coming back stronger and better in the 200m.”

Douglas, who broke the national junior record twice this year, has a best of 22.11 seconds, and tied for third-best all-time with American legend Allyson Felix, says she knows what to fix.

“There are some tweaks and twerks to getting me where I’m at, and it’s on a bigger stage where anything is possible. It is just to come out on the day and perform. I felt like [Mia] came out on the day, and that’s it. She got the edge over me this time [but] it’s not gonna be the last. We’ll see each again on a different stage where we run together, and I feel like I’ll be winning too.”

Gary Card (right) is beaten to the finish line by American Tate Taylor (centre) in the men’s 100m final at the World Under-20 Championships at Hayward Field, Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday, August 6, 2026. Taylor ran a personal best 9.94 seconds to win ahead of Card who ran 10.05 seconds, while South Africa’s Marko Ferreira (left) was third in 10.16 seconds. Paul Reid

Card was grateful for his medal. And after placing sixth two years ago in Lima, Peru, he said things could have been different and he was grateful.

“I know I could have done better but, just to be honest, just to be in the moment right here, healthy, being able to do what I did, it could have gone so many other ways, could have gone much worse but I’m just glad that God allowed me to finish healthy and came home with this medal. So, I’m grateful,” Card said.

“It’s very good that I’m one of the best under-20 athletes right now. We’re all going to be seniors soon — and all seniors also came through the junior ranks — and there is not a lot of generations [of athletes] who have performed like how we perform out here so everybody should be grateful. I feel like everybody should be grateful, and everybody should just be happy about it,” added Card.

He had high praises for Taylor, who he said was an “amazing person … So I’m very glad for him, and I was honoured to be sort of seen to be his rival in this event. I am grateful, I know he’s grateful, so I’m just glad it both worked out well, in some way, for both of us.”

Card got off to a fast start but was chased and caught by Taylor who passed him to win in a personal best 9.94 seconds (0.1m/s). The Jamaican was second in 10.05 seconds, and South Africa’s Marko Ferreira took the bronze with 10.16 seconds.

Maxwell got the edge over Douglas at the start and held off the Jamaican to the tape, running 11.14 seconds (-0.1m/s), Douglas ran 11.17 seconds, with Italy’s Kelly Ann Maevane Doualla Edimo taking the bronze medal with 11.27 seconds.

Theianna-Lee Terrelonge was sixth in 11.37 seconds

Maxwell’s win was the first time in 10 years that an American took the women’s 100m and snapped the run by Jamaicans, who won the last four editions – Briana Williams in 2018, Tina Clayton in 2021 and 2022 and Alana Reid in 2024.

Jamaican standout Shanoya Douglas celebrates her silver medal in the women’s 100m at the World Athletics Under-20 Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday, August 6, 2026. Paul Reid