Team GB athlete Abigail Pawlett was left in tears after suffering a nasty fall in the first event of the heptathlon.
The Welsh star fell heavily during her last jump in the 110m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Pawlett, who had clocked a personal best of 12.94 seconds coming into the season, was in third place coming into the final hurdle. But disaster struck late on in the race.
What led to Pawlett’s nasty fall?
Occupying lane four, Pawlett’s leap over the final hurdle fell just short of the distance she needed, leading to her left leg clipping the top of the hurdle.
Pawlett take a huge fall, and suffering a nasty bang to her head on the track in the process.
She bravely picked herself back up before the devastation quickly set in.
The 22-year-old was seen making her way to the side of the track in floods of tears.
She was subsequently consoled by her team and other GB members as he came to terms with her unfortunate last-placed finish.
Pawlett was offered medical assistance, but she appeared to wave them away to carry on competing in her seven-discipline event.
Incredibly, Pawlett went on to put in a personal best in the high jump to give her a huge boost as she aims to claw her way back up the heptathlon standings.
But there is still much work to do as she finds herself third-bottom with five disciplines to go.
There were high hopes for Pawlett who was crowned the English national indoors pentathlon champion and national indoor champion in the 60 metres hurdles earlier this year.
In August she finished second in the 100 metres hurdles at the 2025 UK Athletics Championships in Birmingham, recording a time of 13.12 seconds.
Elsewhere, British record holder Zharnel Hughes finished fifth in the men’s 200m final on Friday.
Lyles reigns supreme again
Hughes lined up alongside Olympic champion Noah Lyles, Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo and Olympic silver medallist Kenny Bednarek in a star-studded final.
However, the Brit was unable to prevent Lyles matching Usain Bolt‘s record of four world 200m titles in a row, as the United States star clocked a winning time of 19.52 seconds.
Fellow American Kenny Bednarek picked up silver once again with Bryan Levell of Jamaica taking bronze.
Tebogo could only finish fourth despite running a season best 19.65 seconds.
