Orpington sprinter Dina Asher-Smith has broken the women's British 200m record at the World Athletics Championships.

The 19-year-old finished fifth in the women's 200m final race in Beijing with a time of 22.07 seconds.

Asher-Smith, a former Newstead Wood School pupil, had been the fastest qualifier for the 200m final with a time of 22.12 seconds.

Holland’s Dafne Schippers won gold with a time of 21.63, narrowly beating Jamaica's Elaine Thompson.

The King's College London history undergraduate broke the British record by three hundredths of a second with the fastest-ever fifth place position in a championship final.

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Great Britain's Dina Asher-Smith falls behind Jamaica's Elaine Thompson to finish in fifth place in the Women's 200m (Photo: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)

She is now also the fastest teenager ever over 200m.