26 Aug 2015

Sport: Samoa's Dodson into 200m semi finals at World Champs

11:39 am on 26 August 2015

Samoa's Jeremy Dodson has qualified for today's 200m semi finals at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

American Justin Gatlin celebrates his 100m win at the IAAF Diamond League Meeting, Belgium, 2014.

American Justin Gatlin celebrates his 100m win at the IAAF Diamond League Meeting, Belgium, 2014. Photo: PHOTOSPORT

The 27 year old was fifth in his heat in a season best time of 20.31, four hundreths of a second off his personal best.

Dodson is in the second semi final heat alongside in-form American Justin Gatlin, who is unbeaten in the 200 since 2013.

Beouch Ngirchongor from the Northern Marianas set a new personal best time of 23.93 seconds, despite finishing last in his heat.