Former Coug Louie Hinchliffe gets Brits into the finals of the men's 4 x 100 meter relay...

SAINT-DENIS, France--With two days remaining of Olympic track and field competition remaining at the Stade de France, former WSU Cougar Louie Hinchliffe (right center/photo courtesy British Athletics) ran a strong second leg & had the fastest split of the eight runners on that leg at 8.88, as his Great Britain squad finished third and qualified for the finals of the men's 4 x 100 meter relay.

Hinchliffe ran head to head on the second leg against his Houston teammate Shaun Maswanganyi of South Africa, and Olympic 100 meter bronze medalist Fred Kerley of the USA.

The USA won the heat in 37.47, followed by South Africa at 37.94, with the Brits third in a season best 38.04.

Recent Washington State graduate Maribel Caicedo finished second in her repechage heat of the 100 hurdles, running 12.83. She finished 1/100th of a second behind winner Ebony Morrison of Liberia.

Brandon Miller of the Brooks Beasts won the last of four repechage heats of the men's 800, leading wire to wire.

Miller, a former NCAA champ at Texas A&M, split 50.16 at the 400 and took the win in 1:44.21. In the process, the two runners behind him earned time qualifiers for Friday's semifinals, with only the winner of each of the four heats guaranteed to move on.

THURSDAY'S FINALS RECAP...

In the most anticipated women's race of the meet, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (Dan Vernon/World Athletics photo) broke her own world record in the 400 hurdles, running 50.37, lowering it from 50.65 that she set at the Olympic Trials in Eugene.

USC alum Anna Cockrell was second in a personal best of 51.87, with Femke Bol of the Netherlands third in 52.15.

Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem set an Olympic record by winning the men's javelin with a throw of 305-0 (92.97m), beating defending world and Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra of India, who threw 293-5 (89.45m).

Anderson Peters of Grenada, a two-time world champion was third at 290-6 (88.54m).

Letsile Tebogo of Botswana upended both Americans Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles, winning the first 200 meter Olympic title by an African athlete.

Tebogo won in an African record 19.46 with Bednarek second in 19.62 and Lyles, the 100 meter champion earlier in the week, third in 19.70.

In the final race of the evening, American Grant Holloway got the one championship missing in his resume, as the three-time world champion added the Olympic title in the men's 110 hurdles, running 12.99.

Teammate Daniel Roberts was second in 13.09, the same time as Jamaica's Rasheed Broadbell.

Tara Davis-Woodhall of the USA was the only woman to exceed 7 meters, winning the long jump with a best of 23-3.5 (7.10m). Defending Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo of Germany finished second at 22-19.75, and Jasmine Moore of the USA was third at 22-10 (6.96m).

Moore, who was third in the triple jump earlier in the meet, became the first woman to medal in both the long and triple jumps since 2004, when Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia won the long jump and finished third in the triple jump at the Athens Olympics.

ON TAP FRIDAY...

On Friday, four runners with Washington ties will compete in the morning session, starting with Washington State grad Jasneet Nijjar in the 4 x 400 meter relay pool for Canada.

The Canadians will run in heat 2 at 1:52 am Pacific/10:52 am Paris time.

Nijjar, who was fourth in the Canadian championships in the 400, earned selection for Canada's relay pool. The composition of their team will be announced shortly before the race.

Brandon Miller, who won his repechage heat of the men's 800 meters, will run in the semifinals of the 800 at 2:30 am Pacific/11:30 am local time. He'll need to place in the top two or get one of the two time qualifiers out of the three heats to go to Saturday's finals.

Charisma Taylor and Maribel Caicedo are in the same heat of the women's 100 hurdles at 3:13 am Pacific/12:13 pm Paris time. In fact, the two former Cougars will line up next to each other in lanes 8 (Taylor) and 9 (Caicedo).

Like the 800, they have to place in the top two or get one of the two time qualifiers out of the three heats to go to Saturday's finals.

Louie Hinchliffe is scheduled to run on Great Britain's 4 x 100 relay team in the finals at 10:45 am Pacific time/7:45 pm Paris time. Barring any changes in the relay order, he's expected to remain on the second leg for the Brits.

The start lists and results for the Olympic track and field competition is available on the World Athletics microsite, which is available here.

In the United States, streaming is available on the NBCOlympics.com site or Peacocktv.com ($).

Friday's session will also be shown live on USA Network starting at 1 am Pacific, while the evening session will be broadcast on NBC starting at 10 am Pacific, and on KING5 in Seattle (check local listings for times of the NBC network broadcasts).

In Canada, Olympic action will be shown on CBC and streamed on CBC.ca.

NOTE: World Athletics, and British Athletics contributed to this report.

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