T&T had two of its four sprint­ers ad­vance to the next round of the 100 me­tres event Wednesday, the open­ing day of the World Ath­let­ics Un­der-20 Cham­pi­onships in Eu­gene, Ore­gon, USA.

​Alexxe Hen­ry and Imani Mills pro­gressed to the semi­fi­nals in the women’s event, while nei­ther men’s sprint­er—Tre­vaughn Stew­art and Alex Seep­er­sad—ad­vanced from round one.

​Hen­ry was an au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­er in heat sev­en of eight in the women’s dash, fin­ish­ing in sec­ond place in a time of 11.55 sec­onds. She placed be­hind Aus­tralian Zara Ha­gan, who took first in 11.40, and ahead of Italy’s Car­lot­ta Sup­pi­ni, who ran a per­son­al best of 11.57 for third. Fourth-placed Kerelle Eti­enne al­so ad­vanced on time with a 11.57 clock­ing. Hen­ry clocked the 16th-fastest time among the 25 qual­i­fiers.

Mills al­so ad­vanced as a non-au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­er, plac­ing fourth in heat four with a time of 11.57 sec­onds to fin­ish 21st over­all. She crossed the line be­hind win­ner Theian­na-Lee Ter­re­longe of Ja­maica (11.21), Ger­many’s Em­ma Goret­z­ka (11.29), and Eliz­a­beth Tan­nis (11.54) of Cana­da.

​Seep­er­sad was first up for T&T, fac­ing the starter in the third of eight heats.

Run­ning out of lane sev­en, he placed fifth in 10.51 and was 31st over­all. Mean­while, Stew­art fin­ished high­er in the over­all rank­ings, plac­ing 22nd af­ter cross­ing fourth in lane one of heat six with a 10.41 clock­ing.

​Mills was sched­uled to line up in lane one of semi­fi­nal heat one, while Hen­ry was to race in heat two, lane three. Both lo­cal sprint­ers were aim­ing to reach to­day’s medal race at 11.35 pm (T&T time).

​Al­so on Thurs­day, the quar­ter­mil­ers will take to the track from 1.45 pm. Za­ck­ery Frank and Ki­ile Alexan­der will com­pete in round one of the men’s 400m, while Kay­la Charles and Kyah Hyson will tack­le the women’s race. Charles will be up first in heat five of sev­en in lane five at 1.21 pm, fol­lowed by Hyson in the next heat in lane three at 1.35 pm.

​All four will seek to reach the semi­fi­nals Wednes­day night, with the fi­nal card­ed for to­mor­row.

​Lat­er in the day, Kris­tiano Perez will com­pete in Group A of the men’s triple jump qual­i­fi­ca­tion round start­ing at 3 pm.

He will try to achieve the au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fy­ing mark of 16.00m or at least fin­ish among the top 12 to reach the fi­nal, set for to­mor­row.

​Al­so in ac­tion Thurs­day is Omari Brown, who will race in heat four of the men’s 400m hur­dles from lane two. The semi­fi­nals are set for Sat­ur­day, with the fi­nal on Sun­day.