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Dina Asher-Smith began her bid to turn out to be the primary British girl to win an Olympic particular person dash gold with routine progress from the 100m heats.
Asher-Smith completed behind American Teahna Daniels however reached the semi-finals with a run of 11.07 seconds.
Crew-mates Daryll Neita and Asha Philip additionally completed second of their heats to qualify for Saturday’s semi-finals.
Within the girls’s 800m, British trio Jemma Reekie, Keely Hodgkinson and Alex Bell safely reached the semi-finals.
Excessive jumper Tom Gale reached the lads’s last with a season’s finest of two.28m.
The ladies’s 100m has been billed as the most important draw of Tokyo 2020.
Asher-Smith, 25, is the quickest British girl in historical past, reigning world champion at 200m, a four-time European champion and an Olympic bronze medallist from the 4x100m relay in Rio.
“It felt good to be out right here and to lastly get going, and it is simply nice to lastly get my Olympics below approach,” she mentioned.
“I used to be simply fascinated about making it via to the subsequent spherical safely, similtaneously figuring out I’ve obtained one other stage to provide.
“I’m actually completely happy. And I do have one other stage – in fact I do, it is an Olympics.”
Within the 800m heats, Reekie, 23, was one in all solely two athletes to run below two minutes, whereas 19-year-old British champion Hodgkinson and Bell additionally went via.
