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Golden Ahye

Trinidad and Tobago track star wins Beijing 100

Michelle-Lee Ahye secured a comfortable victory in the IAAF World Challenge women's 100 metres dash at the Bird's Nest stadium, in Beijing, China, yesterday.

The Trinidad and Tobago track star stopped the clock at 11.05 seconds to finish well ahead of second-placed Charonda Williams, the American sprinter getting to the line in 11.28. Third spot went to Jamaican Schillonie Calvert (11.42).

Ahye's victory was her fourth this year in the 100m. In late March, at the Bobcat Invitational in Texas, the US-based sprinter won her 2015 100m opener in 11.36 seconds. She followed up with a wind-assisted 10.87 triumph at the Texas Relays.

In early April, Ahye produced a superb run at the Florida Relays. Running into a 2.5 metres per second headwind, she won the race in 10.97 seconds.

On Sunday, at the Shanghai Diamond League meet, in China, Ahye suffered her first 2015 defeat in the 100m event, the 23-year-old athlete finishing third in 11.13 seconds, behind Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare (10.98) and American Tori Bowie (11.07).

Ahye had the satisfaction, though, of beating a pair of Olympic champions to the line-Jamaicans Veronica Campbell-Brown and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Campbell-Brown finished fourth in 11.22 seconds, one spot ahead of Fraser-Pryce (11.25).

Ahye bounced back from Sunday's setback to win easily at the Bird's Nest, yesterday. She hopes to be victorious again at that stadium in late August, at the 2015 IAAF World Championships

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