Matt Hudson-Smith insists he can emulate Jake Wightman and become a world champion in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The battling Brummie overcame stomach cramps to qualify second fastest for the men’s 400m final in 44.38 seconds.
“I can win this,” Hudson-Smith declared after pushing race favourite Michael Norman all the way to get within 0.03secs of his own British record.
“I’ll get ready for the final. I had something left but I messed up on the last 50, big time.
“I just went long, which means I started striding long and it broke my speed, just like doing the chicken dance – that’s what we call it!
“He got the victory because of that but if I correct those two things, I’m on my way through.”
The Wightman effect also brought the best out of Aimee Pratt, who took more than three seconds off the British 3000m steeplechase record she broke for the first time just four days ago.
While Kyle Langford (1:45.68) qualified alongside Daniel Rowden (1:45.53) for the 800m semi-finals and said how much he had been inspired by Wightman and fellow medallist Laura Muir.
“It’s been amazing,” he said. “Laura winning a medal gave the team a boost and then Jake winning just sparked us – we were all cheering watching in the lounge, crying, tearing up.
“For me it really lit a spark up as I wasn’t really too bothered for the whole week and even yesterday, right up until Jake’s race and then after it I felt ‘okay, I’m excited to go now!’”
Sadly the middle-distance duo were not joined by Max Burgin, Britain's 20-year old world No1, after injury forced him to pull out of the championships before he had laced a spike.
He will bounce back but what the future holds for Caster Semenya is less clear after the three-time 800m world champion failed to get out of her heat in the women's 5,000m.
The South African is barred from her best event because of rules that demand she take hormone-reducing drugs to enter certain races.
She signed up instead for 12 1/2 laps in 33-degree heat and, unsurprisingly, looked a shadow of her former self.
"It was hot, I could not keep up with the pace,” said the 31-year old who has been denied entry into her favoured event since 2019, when she lost an appeal against a World Athletics regulation that made women with certain intersex condition ineligible for races of between 400m and a mile.
“But just being able to finish the 5k, for me it is a blessing. I am learning and I am willing to learn even more.”
