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Aikines-Aryeetey takes 100m gold

BEIJING: British sprinter Harry Aikines-Aryeetey clocked 10.37 seconds on Wednesday to win the men's 100 metres on the second day of the World Junior athletics championships.

The 17-year-old world youth champion at 100 and 200m headed off Canada's Justyn Warner (10.39) and Jamaican Yohan Blake (10.42), who claimed the silver and bronze medals respectively.

Aikines-Aryeetey spent 10 days training with disgraced sprinter Justin Gatlin and his coach Trevor Graham earlier this year, but severed ties with the pair after news of the American's positive doping test.

Gatlin, the Olympic and World champion and co-world record holder in the 100 meters, tested positive for testosterone or other steroids April 22 after a relay race in Kansas. He denies knowingly using banned substances.

On Wednesday, Aikines-Aryeetey said he was ``extremely excited'' by his win.

``Other people were very strong in the final with better PBs than me,'' he was quoted as saying by Chinese state-rune news service Xinhua. Naimova triumphs

In the women's 100m, Tezdzhan Naimova of Bulgaria claimed the gold medal with a time of 11.28 seconds, her country's first gold at the championship.

American runner Gabby Mayo and Jamaican Carrie Russell were credited with the same time, 11.42, but Mayo took the silver in the photo-finish.

Ethiopia's Ibrahim Jeilan Gashu won the men's 10,000m in 28 minutes, 53.29 seconds. Kenyan runner Joseph Ebuya finished second, 17 seconds behind, while Bahrain's Aadam Ismaeel Khamis took the bronze. Australia's Robert Crowther won the men's long jump with a leap of eight meters. — AP

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