Jason Smyth also competes over 200m in Germany on Saturday

The Eglinton lad clocked a PB of 10.61 in Mannheim in Germany which matched Derek O'Connor's mark set in 1983.

Smyth will be joined at the championships in Beijing by Lagan Valley hurdler Chris Quinn, who had a PB of 53.23 in Gothenburg on Friday.

North Down's Amy Foster has narrowly missed the World Junior Championships 100m and 200m standards.

Foster finished 2nd in 11.93 in the 100m on Friday - .03secs outside the Beijing standard - and missed out by just .02 when she finished fourth in 24.32 in the 200m on Saturday.

Kildare's David McCarthy qualified for Beijing after running 1.49.93 in the 800m.

Meanwhile, Paul Hession claimed an impressive 200m victory in Friday's international meeting in Cuxhaven in Germany.

Hession clocked a season's best of 20.75 and those behind included this year's fourth fastest European Johan Wissman of Sweden.

Anna Boyle finished fifth in the women's 100m by producing a time of 11.67, which was .18 outside her impressive new Northern Ireland record set last week in Cork.

Boyle then clocked 24.29 to finish 10th overall in the 200m where Ciara Sheehy was sixth in 23.86.

In the 1500 metres in Cuxhaven, Liam Reale was again under 3:40 when he clocked 3:39.29 to finish third.

Reale has already run a personal best of 3:38.65 this year.

Also at Cuxhaven, Thomas Chamney finished fifth in the 800 metres in 1:48.61.

In her first run in Europe this season, Sinead Evans finished fifth in the women's 1500 metres in 4:13.94