Asher-smith puts her best foot forward in 200m semi

Great Britain’s Dina Ashersmith put her injury nightmares behind her with a dream run into tonight’s women’s 200m final.

The 21-year-old Londoner, who finished fifth at last year’s Rio Olympics, has battled back to fitness and finished second in her semi-final in a season’s best of 22.73.

“I completely broke my foot, had to have surgery to put two screws in and then spent six weeks putting no weight on it,” she said.

“For three months I was completely unable to walk, then I learnt to walk, run, jog under water, and here we are. I wouldn’t recommend it, it’s no fun.

“Running a quicker time than I did here would be good in the final. That time for me isn’t particularly great, but in the context it is. I’d love to get in the mix a bit, but we’ll see.

“There was stuff I was doing in that race that I wasn’t too happy with, especially my straight, but I can work on that.”

Shaunae Miller-uibo shook off the disappointment of missing out on a medal in the 400m and cruised into the final of the 200m.

The Bahamian got her long stride going in the finishing straight and had no problems in winning her semi-final heat in 22.49.

Miller-uibo looked like she would win the 400 on Wednesday but started stuttering in her final strides and went from first to fourth in the finishing straight.

Morgan Lake and Katarina Johnson-thompson, who finished fifth in the heptathlon on Sunday, qualified for tomorrow’s high jump final.

Johnson-thompson’s bid for a heptathlon medal was undone by her 1.80m leap in the high jump, 18 centimetres short of her personal best.

But her performance in the individual event was far better, with one failure at 1.89m en route to leaping over 1.92m.

Lake had one failure at 1.92m before also achieving that height to advance.