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DINA ASHER-SMITH has been

backed to rule the world this

autumn – despite being beaten in

Birmingham.

Britain’s sprint star turned on the

style to finish second in a high-class

200 metres behind Shaunae Miller-Uibo

at the Birmingham Grand Prix.

Asher-Smith, 23, led off the bend

before being reeled in by the Olympic

400m champion, who is unbeaten

in two years over her two

distances.

But Miller-Uibo quickly put

the smile back on her young

rival’s face by then revealing

that she will not be running the

200m in Doha – and tipped Asher-

Smith to strike gold.

“Dina is doing extremely well and I

think it’s going to be her time,” said the

Bahamian. “I’m really excited for her.

She’s definitely stepping it up.”

No female British sprinter has ever

won a world title. Linford Christie took

100m gold in 1993 but that is the height

of it. Despite leaving Shelly-Ann Fraser-

Pryce and reigning 200m world

champion Dafne Schippers in her wake

with a time of 22.36 seconds, Asher-

Smith refused to get carried away. “I

DINA

SOARS

Flyer Asher-Smith is tipped for

world gold... by the superwoman

who beat her into second place

don’t really think of things like that,” she

said when asked if she is now the one

to beat. “I do feel I’m in that world level

now. That was like an Olympic or world

final so it would have been a silver.

“But my coach John (Blackie) always

says we don’t run on paper. Obviously

that isn’t funny, it’s a dad joke, but it is

very true. I ran well here, great, but it

doesn’t mean anything because it is

what happens in the three rounds in

Qatar that matters.”

It was a day of near misses for Britain,

ending the Birmingham Diamond

League without a home winner

for the first time since 2011.

But there were encouraging

signs in the men’s 100m from

Adam Gemili (left), who

matched the 10.07secs time of

former world champion Yohan Blake

but was given second place by eight

thousandths of a second.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson also

pulled a rabbit out of the hat with a

6.85m long jump – her best for four

years.

But she too had to settle for a minor

podium place, one centimetre behind

her great heptathlon rival Nafi Thiam.

European 400m champion Matthew

Hudson-Smith made a welcome return

after a run of injuries, clocking 45.55secs

in his first major race of the year.

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BY ALEX SPINK

Athletics Correspondent

@alexspinkmirror

ATHLETICS

DIAMOND LEAGUE

BIRMINGHAM

SHAUN APART Bahamas star Shaunae Miller-Uibo finishes

clear of Asher-Smith, but the British sprinter remains upbeat

FOOTBALL

PREMIER LEAGUE

CHELSEA (1) 1 LEICESTER (0) 1

Mount 7 Ndidi 67

40,629

SHEFF UTD (0) 1 C PALACE (0) 0

Lundstram 47

30,197

SKY BET CHAMPIONSHIP

READING (2) 3 CARDIFF (0) 0

Puscas 25, 40 14,252

Swift 83

VANARAMA PREMIER

NOTTS CO (0) 1 WREXHAM (0) 1

Dennis 69 Redmond 74

6,263

SCOTTISH LEAGUE CUP

DUNDEE (1) 1 ABERDEEN (0) 2

Johnson pen 43 Considine 90

Cosgrove 103

5,740

(AET 1-1 at 90minutes)

EAST FIFE (0) 0 RANGERS (1) 3

1,991 Defoe 26

Helander 56

Aribo 84

FA WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP

Aston Villa 3 Sheff Utd 2

Crystal Palace 0 Coventry 0

Leicester 1 Durham 5

Lewes 5 Blackburn 1

London Bees 0 London City 2

RUGBY LEAGUE

BETFRED SUPER LEAGUE

HUDDERSF’D (0) 0 CASTLEF’D (4) 24

T: Clare, Milner

McMeeken

Sene-Lefao

G: Ellis 4

HULL KR (10) 10 WAKEFIELD (14) 38

T: Crooks T: Miller 2

Garbutt Jones-Bishop

G: Shaw Wood, Tupou

Hampshire 2

G: Brough 5

BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP

DEWSBURY (0) 10 BRADFORD (18) 34

LEIGH (22) 34 WIDNES (6) 22

SHEFFIELD (16) 44 BARROW (12) 18

SWINTON (20) 32 HALIFAX (6) 12

YORK (10) 22 FEATH’STONE (12) 18

CRICKET

2ND ASHES TEST, Lord’s

England 258 (Burns 53, Bairstow

52) & 258-5 dec (Stokes 115 no)

v Australia 250 (Smith 92, Broad

4-65) & 154-6 (Labuschagne 59).

Match drawn

1ST TEST, Galle

New Zealand 249 (Dananjaya

5-80) & 285 v Sri Lanka 267 (Patel

5-89) & 268-4 (Karunaratne 122).

Sri Lanka won by 6 wkts

COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

DIVISION ONE

Canterbury: Kent 125-6 v Essex

Kia Oval: Hampshire 222-7

(Clarke 5-52) v Surrey

Edgbaston: Warks 303-4 (Yates

139 no) v Somerset

Scarborough: Yorkshire 232

(Wood 5-67) v Notts 41-0

DIVISION TWO

Derby: Derbyshire 200 (Higgins

5-54) v Gloucs 46-2

Riverside: Durham 368-5

(Lees 181) v Leicestershire

Colwyn Bay: Glamorgan 257 v

Lancashire 85-1

Northampton: Worcestershire

186 (Hutton 6-57) v Northants

140-3

Hove: Middx 75 (Robinson 8-34)

v Sussex 128-3

ATHLETICS

IAAF DIAMOND LEAGUE,

Birmingham

Men’s 100m: 1 Y Blake (Jam)

10.07sec, 2 A Gemili (Eng) 10.07,

3 M Rodgers (USA) 10.09

Men’s 400m: 1 A Bloomfield

(Jam) 45.04sec, 2 O Igbokwe

(USA) 45.53, 3 M Hudson-Smith

(Gbr) 45.55

Women’s 200m: 1 S Miller (Bah)

22.24sec, 2 D Asher-Smith (Gbr)

22.36, 3 S-A Fraser-Pryce (Jam)

22.50

Women’s Long Jump: 1 N Thiam

(Bel) 6.86m, 2 I Spanovic (Ser)

6.85, 3 K Johnson-Thompson

(Gbr) 6.85

GOLF

EUROPEAN TOUR D+D REAL

CZECH MASTERS, Prague (Gbr

& Irl unless stated, par 72)

269 T Pieters (Bel) 67 67 66 69

270 A Arnaus (Spa) 71 65 65 69

272 S Horsfield 69 66 69 68, A

Pavan (Ita) 68 68 71 65

TENNIS

ATP & WTA WESTERN &

SOUTHERN OPEN Cincinnati,

Women’s Singles Final

(16) M Keys (USA) bt S

Kuznetsova (Rus) 7-5 7-6 (7-5)

TODAY’S FIXTURES

FOOTBALL

Premier League

Wolves v Man Utd (8)

BetVictor Northern

Basford Utd v Matlock (7.45)

RESULTS &

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