Sada Williams (BARBADOS ) | Women's 400m Heat 3 | 51.66 Sec | Commonwealth Games 2022 Athletics |

From Barbadians around the world who were so overjoyed with her great performance. Here's the lineup then for the third heat of the women's 400 meters. Sade Williams on the inside, namesake Jodie in the lane outsider. Broke 50 seconds last year making the Olympic final but struggling for form this year. Watch out as well for Zoe Clark of Scotland in seven and McGregor of Jamaica in eight. Going through from the outside. Shireen Vallabhoy, SEA Games bronze medalist back in 2015. That was when she was a teenager. She'll have to go out hard because Renisha McGregor will be chasing her down. Semi-finalist in the Olympics last year and a bronze in Doha in the 4x4 and in Tokyo. Zoe Clark of Scotland will get a great reception. A PB in Geneva this year. Made the semis on the Gold Coast. She's a better athlete now. She'll hope that she's two races away from the final. Lydia Djele, six of the African champs, the Botswanan. What a fabulous conveyor belt of 400 meter runners the African nation have and she's the latest of them. Chelsa Ray represents the Cayman Islands. National record holder with that 52.17 she studies at Kansas State University. So good experience on the collegiate circuit. Aminath Mohammed of the Maldives. Just 17 years of age. What a moment and what a stage for her. Performing in front of what, 30-odd thousand? It's almost a sellout. Jodie Williams, a brilliant performance last year to make the Tokyo final. Can you believe she was the world youth champion back in 2009? Sade Williams was a revelation in Oregon. She is flying, scorched to that PB and the world championship bronze behind Shawnee Milowibo. It was the performance of a lifetime and she will be brimming with confidence and intent. And there's just a clarification as to the times required for any of the athletes not finishing in the top three. Semis on Friday. Final on Sunday. Williams of Barbados in two. Williams of England in three. Mohammed Maldives in four. Ray Cayman Islands five. Djele Botswana six. Clark Scotland seven. McGregor Jamaica eight. Valleboy Malaysia on the outside in lane nine. Watch for Williams in two, coming around that tight bend. A polite hush turns into an expectant roar. McGregor's gone out really well, second from the outside. We would have expected her to close down on Valleboy. Both Williams on the inside, going well. Jodie for England went out really aggressively, but Sade right up on her shoulder now, coming through on the inside. And Zoe Clark running well, now reeling in the Jamaican who started hard. Sade Williams leading on the inside. A lovely flowing stride, as I said, brimming with confidence. Good run by Jodie Williams at the moment. She's in second place with Zoe Clark coming through. McGregor's tying up a little bit, the Jamaican. Sade Williams from Zoe Clark and Jodie Williams. They are the three qualifiers, 51.67. Not quite as quick as we saw from Victoria Uhurugu in the first of the heats, but this is a young woman flying at the moment. A world championship medalist. She has the whole nation back home. Proud Caribbean Island willing her on. And I'll tell you what, she is looking very, very good. Not as fast as the first heat, but that was an excellent qualification as it was from Zoe Clark of Scotland and Jodie Williams taking that third spot. Yeah, the Beijing Williams looking really strong there on the outside. She has to be tired, doesn't she, from those world championships. It's a strange thing when you come back from a major game, especially on long haul flights. It's the emotional drain that takes the time to recover from almost more than the physical drain sometimes. The highs of especially being involved in the final and getting a medal and then the celebrations really do take it out of you. And you have to be very, very careful if you're going to go from one championship to the next in a short space of time. But that's a really good run from Jodie Williams, who has been struggling with injuries a great deal through this year. She gets her place into the semis in lane three. She's a much better athlete than that, of course. We saw her run under 50 seconds last year. She runs in third place here in 52.47 there for England, second to right. And I love Zoe Clark the way she runs. She's beautifully fluid runner, very powerful, lovely, symmetrical stride. And she comes through strongly. She is strong, always finishes well and closing there over the final meters. But the gloves come off in the next round. That was a very relaxed, confident piece of qualification from Sade Williams. Barbados have got a good crop of 400m runners at the moment. Jonathan Jones made it through to the final of the men's race in Oregon. And he's an excellent 800m runner as well. I could see him stepping up to the two-lap event sometime soon. But at the age of 24, Sade Williams has really found another gear. Semi-finalist in Doha, semi-finalist in Tokyo. But this season has been excellent. Watch that nicely timed run by Zoe Clark. Tim was mentioning third from the outside. She had the Jamaican McGregor to chase who went off arguably a little bit too hard judging by how labored she was down the last 50. Clark came home ahead of Jodie Williams. As you mentioned, Tim, it's been a tough season for Jodie despite breaking 50 last year. So she is into the semis but not looking quite in the kind of shape she was in Japan last summer. Sade Williams, the world championship bronze medalist with an excellent piece of qualification for the semis. She'll be joined by Zoe Clark and Jodie Williams, finalist from Tokyo last summer. One more heat to come.