Kemba Nelson, an Alternate Particular person (AP) Reserve for Jamaica’s 4x100m relay workforce heading to the Paris Olympic Games, showcased her athletic prowess at a World Continental Challenge meet on Sunday.
Nelson, who completed fifth within the 100m on the JAAA/PUMA Senior and Junior Nationwide Championships, equaled her season’s finest by securing third place in the identical occasion with a time of 11.04 seconds. The race was received by Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji, who set a meet document 10.90 seconds, adopted by her compatriot Salome Kora, who posted a private better of 10.95 seconds for second place.
Fellow Jamaican Imani Oliver additionally delivered a robust efficiency, ending third within the girls’s triple soar with a distance of 13.75m. Senegal’s Saly Sarr received the occasion with a leap of 14.10m.
A number of exceptional performances
The meet featured a number of exceptional performances. Dutch athlete Femke Bol dazzled within the girls’s 400m hurdles, changing into the second girl to interrupt the 51-second barrier within the occasion. Bol set a brand new European document with a time of fifty.95 seconds, surpassing her earlier better of 51.45 seconds. Kemi Adekoya of Bahrain completed second in 53.41 seconds. Bol’s time is now the third quickest in historical past, with solely American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone recording quicker occasions of fifty.65 and 50.68 seconds.
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Within the girls’s 100m hurdles, Nadine Visser of the Netherlands clocked a powerful 12.36 seconds, tying for the sixth-fastest time of the season. Poland’s Pia Skrzyszowska was an in depth second in 12.37 seconds.
The lads’s 100m noticed South Africa’s Benjamin Richardson obtain a private better of 9.86 seconds to win the race. Ronnie Baker of the US adopted in 9.95 seconds, with Camara Ebrahims of Gambia securing third place with a time of 9.98 seconds.
