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Another bronze

4x100 women 3rd at Diamond League

Kelly-Ann Baptiste, Michelle-Lee Ahye, Reyare Thomas and Semoy Hackett combined for third spot in the women's 4x100 metres relay, at the Weltklasse Zurich IAAF Diamond League final, in Switzerland, yesterday.

The same quartet bagged bronze at the IAAF World Championships last Saturday, and repeated the feat with a 42.94 seconds run at the Diamond League meet. As they did at the Worlds in Beijing, the Jamaicans won yesterday, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce anchoring them to a Diamond League and meet record time of 41.60. United States, meanwhile, secured second spot in 41.83.

In the women's 100m dash, Ahye finished fifth in 11.19 seconds, while Baptiste clocked 11.30 for eighth spot.

Ahye and Baptiste, running side by side in lanes three and two, respectively, were on level terms for more than half the race. In the latter stages, however, Ahye pulled away from her T&T teammate.

A dominant front-running performance from world champion Fraser-Pryce earned the Jamaican sprint great victory in 10.93 seconds, a fine effort into a 1.4 metres per second headwind. Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare finished strong but could not catch the “Pocket Rocket”, and had to settle for silver in 10.98. Americans Tori Bowie and Candyce McGrone were third and fourth, respectively, clocking 11.06 and 11.09.

Jamaicans Veronica Campbell-Brown and Natasha Morrison finished between Ahye and Baptiste. Campbell-Brown clocked 11.22 seconds for sixth spot, while Morrison was seventh in 11.30, the same time credited to Baptiste. Switzerland's Mujinga Kambundji was ninth and last in 11.51.

Thomas clocked 11.66 seconds for ninth spot in the women's 100m "B" race.

Mikel Thomas finished fifth in the men's 110m hurdles, the T&T athlete getting to the line in 13.54 seconds. After his disastrous World Championship campaign last month when he crashed out in the first round after hitting the first hurdle hard, yesterday's completed run would have come as a relief for Thomas.

Newly-crowned world champion, Russian Sergey Shubenkov enjoyed a comfortable victory in the Weltklasse sprint hurdles. He clocked 13.14 seconds for a big cushion on David Oliver, the American finishing second in 13.30. Third-placed Cuban, Orlando Ortega was also timed in 13.30, while Barbadian Shane Brathwaite got home in 13.43 for fourth spot.

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