His ascent to the upper sports sections has been elegant.
Last summer, he became a championship record when he won the British title, leaving Laviai Nielsen and Jodie Williams in their slip.
In Nanjing, in the tight curves of a covered track, it was beaten by the American Alexis Holmes with 175m by the end.
Anning went wide, back and, potentially, out of dispute.
But she registered, nibbled the leadership of Holmes, went to the last curve and hit her rival on the dip.
His winning margin was only three hundredths of a second.
“With 400m you have a lot of time to think, it’s not like 60m where you only do it,” he said.
“When I pushed no, I did not understand panic, I told Myelf ‘it is not how you visualized it, this is not the execution you wanted, but what are you going to do before and the end to get your gold medal?”
“I had to wait and be patient, stay committed and keep in touch with her and then perfectly.
“When I saw it I realized that if I had made that movement even a second before or later, I was drinking. It’s crazy how it works.”
There is a beautiful symmetry in Anning, Ohuruagu in success as the British record holder.
Lloyd Cowan, who guided Ohuruogu’s career, also trained Anning as Junior. He died in January 2021 due to complications derived from a 58-year-old COVID-19 infection.
“It was like my dad trajectory,” said Anning. “Simply cools so warmly, he felt so home to be around him. It was such a difficult loss.
“I thought I would be here with today achieving these things and I know that now I despise me and I know I would be proud.
“It seems that we kept the record in the family, which is really pleasant.”
Anning’s mother sits next to Ohuruogu at the Lloyd Cowan scholarship board, which helps reduce financial barriers for promising athletes and coaches who could otherwise be lost to athletics.
If Cowan shaped Anning’s early potential, he has a leg soldier in the United States.
Encouraged by his mother, Anning left the United Kingdom for Louisiana State University when he was a teenager.
The head of the Alma Mater world or the World Holder of the Pole Armand Duplantis and the 100 -meter world champion Sha’Carri Richardson takes it out of their comfort zone.
“I felt that maybe I was too comfortable here [in the UK] And I needed that additional thrust, “he said.
“There, you are seeing success on your face every day.
“Because it is such a big place and a large population, only a small percentage will do it, maybe they want it much more because knowing that the Chans are smarter.
“I needed to assume that mentality of wanting to be the best in the world because that is the level they are there.”