Jereem Richards missed out on the fi­nal in the men's 400 me­tres at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships Bu­dapest23 in Hun­gary on Tues­day.

The T&T quar­ter­mil­er crossed fourth in semi­fi­nal heat one in a time of 44.76 sec­onds and did not progress to the medal race set for Thurs­day.

The first two run­ners across the line did it in per­son­al best times. Win­ner Ja­maican An­to­nio Wat­son (44.13) and run­ner-up Ver­non Nor­wood (44.26) of the Unit­ed States were the au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fiers from the open­ing heat which saw third-place fin­ish­er South African Wayde Van Niek­erk, a two-time 400m World cham­pi­on, mov­ing on to the fi­nal as one of the fastest losers with a time of 44.65.

Richards had the eighth fastest time over­all but on­ly the first two in each heat qual­i­fy au­to­mat­i­cal­ly and the next two fastest times.

The oth­er fi­nal­ists are last year's bronze medal­list Matthew Hud­son-Smith of Great Britain, who won the sec­ond heat with 44.26, Amer­i­can Quin­cy Hall (44.43), win­ner of heat three, Grena­di­an Ki­rani James, sec­ond in heat two, with 44.58, Nor­way's Havard Bent­dal In­g­vald­sen (44.70) third in heat two and Sean Bai­ley of Ja­maican (44.94), sec­ond in heat three.