Amy Hunt sped to a dazzling silver in the women’s 200m as the Novuna Great Britain & Northern Ireland Team earned a second medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.

Hunt (Marco Airale, Charnwood), who burst on to the scene as a junior world record holder in 2019, fulfilled her promise on the senior global stage by storming home in 22.14 to occupy the second spot on the podium behind Melissa Jefferson-Wooden.

“I knew I had something was within me,” she said.

“I think running so fast, so young, I’m running faster than, than any of these girls have run aged 17.

“I knew I was too talented for it to go to waste. I had a fire. I had a light inside of me that just said, like, it’s worth it. Keep going.

“Before this race, I visualized it so many times, and to actually finally do it is so incredibly surreal. That’s why I screamed.”

Dina Asher-Smith (Blackheath & Bromley), running in the outside lane, finished fifth in 22.43 while Zharnel Hughes (Glen Mills, Shaftesbury Barnet) occupied the same position in the men’s 200m final, clocking a season’s best 19.78.

In the women’s heptathlon, Katarina Johnson-Thompson (Aston Moore, Liverpool) sits in the bronze medal position after four events as she sets her sights on a third World Championship medal.

The reigning champion began with 13.44 in the 100m hurdles, a race won by compatriot Jade O’Dowda (John Lane, Newham and Essex Beagles) in a 13.44 PB, before clearing 1.86m in the high jump and recording 13.37m in the shot put.

That left Johnson-Thompson in sixth but she climbed back into the top three overnight courtesy of her 23.50 in the 200m.

The reigning champion sits 261 points behind leader Anna Hall, with Ireland’s Kate O’Connor in second.

“Today was solid, not great, not disastrous. We’re in a good position, so let’s see what tomorrow brings,” Johnson-Thompson said.

O’Dowda sits 15th after following up her excellent hurdles display with 1.80m in the high jump, 13.55m in the shot put and 25.07 in the 200m.

Abigail Pawlett (Ashley Bryant, Trafford) is a place better off after recovering well from an early setback in the hurdles, when she was well set but tumbled over the last hurdle.

The 23-year-old followed up with a 1.80m PB in the high jump and won her 200m race in 23.25, leading home Johnson-Thompson, either side of 13.85m in the shot put.

Training partners Keely Hodgkinson (Trevor Painter, Leigh) and Georgia Hunter Bell (Trevor Painter, Belgrave Harriers) will go up against each other in the women’s 800m final after both qualified from their semis with ease.

The reigning Olympic champion won her contest in 1:57.53 while Hunter Bell finished her semi-final second in 1.58:62 behind Mary Moraa, who pipped Hodgkinson to the post in Budapest two years ago.

“I’m happy to be in my fifth world finals in a row,” Hodgkinson said. “I’m really happy to do that and be in contention for another medal.

“I’m grateful to be running, and I just want to put together a performance I’m proud of, and I want to be able to say, I left it all out there.”

George Mills (Thomas Dreissigacker, Brighton Phoenix) also made it safely through to give himself a shot at a medal in the men’s 5000m.

Mills finished a dramatic heat in fourth, clocking 13.41:76 in a race which saw third and sixth separated by less than a tenth of a second.

“Heats are always deceptive. You want to save as much energy as possible and just get through it without too many issues. I managed to do that today.”

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