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Tokyo 2020: Abeiku Jackson misses out 100m butterfly semis

Ghana’s Abeiku Jackson failed to make the semi-finals of the men’s 100m butterfly swimming event yesterday despite winning his heat.

Jackson was in Heat 2 and he finished first in a time of 53.39 seconds.

He finished ahead of India’s Prakash Sajan who recorded a time of 53.45 seconds.

The race had swimmers from countries like Korea, Kuwait, Senegal, Thailand, Paraguay and Haiti.

However, Jackson’s effort was not good enough as the rest of the swimmers in the other heats recorded better times of 52 seconds or lower.

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In all, 16 swimmers made it to the semi-finals of the event and eight will progress to the final which will take place on Saturday, July 31.

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