Alexander Ogando wanted to star in another feat at the World Championships in Athletics, this time individually.
Noah Lyles took gold with 19.31 seconds, followed by Kenneth Bednarek in 19.77 and Erriyon Knighton in 19.80.
Ogando and his teammates from the 4x400 mixed relay had lit up the opening day at Hayward Field with a gold medal. The athlete from the eastern municipality of San Juan de la Maguana had been critical last year for the silver medal in Tokyo, moving his head forward to cross the finish line with the previous post.
In Thursday's race, he couldn't handle the American might. The fourth place went to the Liberian Joseph Fahbulleh, with 19.84, while the Dominican stopped the clock at 19.93.
In the semifinal, Ogando had hinted that he would achieve something unprecedented. He advanced with a time of 19.91 seconds, which represented the best mark in history for a Dominican athlete.
Ogando, 22, who studied at the University of Puerto Rico, is trained by Felix Sanchez, considered the best athlete in the history of the Dominican Republic. "Supersánchez," born in New York, won Olympic gold for the Dominican Republic in Athens in 2004 and London in 2012 in the 400-meter hurdles.
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