Ireland's Sarah Lavin has qualified for the 100m hurles semi-finals at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
The Limerick native qualified after the first heat where she finished 3rd with a time of 12.69. The top four in each of the five heats were guaranteed qualification.
Lavin's time was just 0.02 of a second slower than her personal best time set at the Citius Altius meeting in Bern earlier this month.
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Speaking to RTE afterwards, Lavin said, "I need to be more clinical about the start; you are against the best girls in the world and only 40 are good enough to come here. Now you are down to the 24; it just keeps dropping and dropping to the final eight.
"It will require something special and everything really, really precise in the moment. I think it's going to require something beyond the national record and we know Derval [O'Rourke, time of 12.65] is one of the most prolific athletes. It's no mean feat."
Lavin's semi-final is on Wednesday at 7:45pm.
