Records broken as action starts at Kasarani

Finland's Saga Vanninen in action. [World Athletics]

A pair of national U20 100m records by Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and Namibia’s Beatrice Masilingi and a strong start by Finnish heptathlete Saga Vanninen highlighted the first morning of action at the World Athletics U20 Championships at Kasarani Stadium on Wednesday.

Vanninen, the reigning European U20 champion, showed she is well on track to become Finland’s first ever world U20 heptathlon gold medallist by shooting out to an early lead, clocking 13.60 in the 100m hurdles and clearing a season’s best of 1.78m in the high jump. The 18-year-old’s hurdles time was just outside her best of 13.55 while her high jump was just 1cm down on her best.