But he looked set to be excluded from the individual event in London after failing to run the Olympic 'A' standardqualification mark twice in international competition.
Meanwhile, Liverpool's compatriots Arsenal made no mistake in their quest to secure qualification, cruising to a 2-0 home win over Standard Liege to finish top of Group H.
The fear was that the English Baccalaureate certificate with its 'more challenging' tag, with its big bang end of year exam would mean universities and employers outside Wales regarded a qualification gained in Wales, in future, as not quite as shiny as the gold standard EBacc.
Kate Haywood came home second, and was left counting the cost of having met the qualifying standard for Montreal in the semi-final, as only times clocked in the final counted towards qualification.