Favour OFILI (Nigeria) | Women's 200m Heat 4 Round 1 | Commonwealth Games 2022 Athletics | 4th Aug |

The final for this event incidentally is the last event on Saturday's schedule. Gina Bass of Gambia will start in lane number eight. Fourth in her heat at the World Championships recently, under 23 seconds at her best. Chanti Perera of Singapore starts in lane number seven, running the heats of the 100 meters here and in the heats of the World Championships a couple of weeks ago in Oregon. Lane number six, Asanyemwe Simwaka of Malawi, an unlocked country in the southeast of Africa. Inside the Malawi athlete in lane number five, Angunu of Cameroon, fourth at the African Championships in the 400 meter hurdles this year. In lane number four from Guyana, Kanisha Phillips, the 21-year-old in personal best form this year, 23.34 seconds, and the fastest in the field. Rob was talking about Nigeria flying. Fedor Ophelie will start in lane number three, the 19-year-old, 21.96 seconds this year. And in the semi-finals at the World Championships, she completes our lineup in heat number four. There's the current qualifiers by time in terms of non-automatic qualifiers, that 24.12 second clocking. Ovenjado in the earlier heat, still leading the way of our six non-automatic qualifiers. So no majorly spectacular times so far in the heats of these 200 meters. Natalia White of Jamaica, 23.61 in the last heat, the most impressive so far in terms of qualifiers for me. We get wind readings of course for 200 meters in the home straight, but we don't of course have them on the bend, but I can tell you the wind is as stiff as a poker in the direction of the face of the athletes on this top bend in Birmingham. Ophelie running well in lane number three, that's to be expected. It's a nice smooth transition. Massive Gambia going well on the outside in lane number eight. Off the pace in this one, that's better though and that's more impressive, that's good 22.72 seconds. And the Nigerian Ophelie looking good there, a nice little plus 1.3 meter wind behind him, a nice comfortable qualification for the Nigerians and they're flying here at this Commonwealth Games in the field and on the track. Yes, very impressive there. 200 heats have to be accommodated, Kath, you know this full well, with as little effort as possible and retain energies for the later rounds. Bass happy enough I think with that performance and Ophelie as well. Certainly wasn't flat out and shouldn't be from lane three. Around a very strong bend as you can see. Nice looking runner, beautifully smooth, negotiates that bend pretty well. It's a good draw actually lane three, you don't have to negotiate really tight bends but get a good view of the rest of the field and the rest of them. A long way back, aren't they? Gosh, quite a gap between Ophelie, the winner from Bass of Gambia and then Simwaka of Malawi. But a personal best for Simwaka, 23.28. Good effort from her, she needs to go a lot quicker in the next round and a personal best indeed for Pereira of Singapore out in lane seven with 23.46. New ground for her. Yeah, nicely done and there's confirmation the Nigerian 22.71 and Pereira with that personal best that Tim mentioned is now the fastest non-automatic qualifier and just in the back of that result graphic you can see.