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Sport in brief: August 20 2023
with Jamie J

ATHLETICS: The World Championships continue in Budapest this evening with the finals of the men’s triple jump, 110 metres hurdles and discus, where Briton Lawrence Okoye failed to qualify by just 13 centimetres.

Cubans Lazaro Martinez and Cristian Napoles made it to the triple-jump final after Jamaican Jaydon Hibbert set the longest qualifying jump.

The semi-finals and final of the women’s 100 metres also take place today.

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