13th July 2013 09:21
Bakare, 17, won the girls’ 400m in a time of 52.77, the ninth fastest time in the UK in 2013 across all age groups.
American Olivia Baker, 17, had been the runner to catch with a personal best of 52.71 but Bakare was left in disbelief when the clock flashed up her time after her triumph.
Baker was second in 53.38 with Jamaica’s Tiffany James third in 53.56.
Bakare, who had broken her personal best when she ran 53.23 in the semi-finals, said after her golden glory: “It is such an overwhelming feeling. When I saw my time, I was shocked but to have won, it's something else.
“I knew Olivia was on the inside of me and in the first 100m I could feel that.
“But my coach said to me before the race to relax and run your own race and I did just that. I just pushed harder in the last 100m and came home strong.”
Greguric, 16, entered the Hammer (5kg) with a personal best of 77.22m, but it seemed it would be a tall order to overcome Australian Matthew Denny, 17, who had thrown 81.44m.
Denny put down the early marker of 77.66m in the first round as Greguric threw 76.19m and then in the third round Belarusian Pavel Paliakou, 16, took the lead with 78.45m.
The Australian responded by going in front with 78.67m in the fifth round where Greguric reached 78.37m for a personal best before taking that distance even further in the final round with 79.38m for gold as Paliakou then recorded 79.02m to take silver ahead of Denny.
Florentina Marincu, 17, of Romania, had quite an afternoon as she won gold in the girls’ triple jump final.
Marincu had only one legal attempt, in the second round, and that was all she needed.
She jumped 13.75m, which took her to the top of the podium and to the top of the season’s World youth rankings as she beat China’s Rong Wang, who was second on countback with 13.69m from America’s Keturah Orji.
At the halfway point of the heptathlon, Britain’s Morgan Lake, 16, leads with 3736 points after personal bests in the 100m hurdles of 14.12 and a superb 1.90m in the high jump.
Morgan is in front by 192 points from Sweden’s Emma Stenlof with Germany’s Celina Leffler in third with 3444.