Kithome misses out on medals in 400m hurdles final
Kenya's Peter Kithome takes part in the 400m hurldes during the World Under-20 Championship at Kasarani on August 22, 2021.
What you need to know:
- Kithome, who qualified for the final as the one of two fastest athletes, got off to a slow start and couldn't close the gap between him and the leading pack at the home straight
- He clocked 50.94 seconds in the race won by Sweden's Oskar Edlund in a new national Under-20 record of 49.20 seconds
- Turkey's Berke Akcam came second in 49.38 seconds, also a national U-20 record
Kenya's Peter Kithome Sunday wound up seventh in the men's 400 metres hurldes final to miss out on the meda bracket at the ongoing World Athletics Under-20 Championships.
Kithome, who qualified for the final as the one of two fastest athletes, got off to a slow start and couldn't close the gap between him and the leading pack at the home straight.
He clocked 50.94 seconds in the race won by Sweden's Oskar Edlund in a new national Under-20 record of 49.20 seconds.
Turkey's Berke Akcam came second in 49.38 seconds, also a national U-20 record.
Denis Novolseltsev was third in 49.62 seconds pipping Jamaica's Devontie Archer to the bronze at the death.
