LONDON, England, CMC – St. Lucian dash sensation Julien Alfred and Jamaican Indirect Seville electrified the London Diamond League with world-class performances. On the similar time, different Caribbean athletes confronted extra brutal battles on a day of highs and lows right here on Saturday.
Olympic silver medalist Julien Alfred delivered a press release run within the ladies’s 200m, scorching the observe in a world-leading 21.71 seconds, a private greatest and a brand new meet document.
The St. Lucian star shattered the earlier mark of 21.82s set by American Gabby Thomas and left Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith 22.25s and Amy Hunt 22.31s trailing in her wake.
All eyes had been on Olympic champion Noah Lyles and Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo within the males’s 100m, however Jamaica’s Indirect Seville stole the present with a blistering 9.86-second victory.
Indirect Seville
Seville exploded from the blocks and by no means relented, leaving Lyles 10.00s effectively behind. Britain’s Zharnel Hughes 10.02s and Jamaican Ackeem Blake 10.08s rounded out the highest 4.
Whereas Alfred and Seville soared, different regional athletes confronted extra formidable challenges.
Within the Ladies’s 400m Hurdles, Jamaica’s Andrenette Knight clocked 57.39s and took third, whereas teammate Janieve Russell 1:00.55 completed eighth as Dutch star Femke Bol dominated in 52.10s.
The Ladies’s 800m noticed St. Vincent’s Shafiqua Maloney clocking 1:58.47 for fifth, whereas Jamaica’s Natoya Goule-Toppin struggled to eighth in 1:59.27. Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell gained in a time of 1:56.74.
The Males’s Lengthy Bounce noticed Jamaica’s Wayne Pinnock edge Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou. Pinnock leapt 8.20m to beat the Greek Tentoglou, who leapt 8.19m. Jamaica’s Carey McLeod secured third following his lead of 8.10m.
Olympic champion Roje Stona, rumoured to be switching allegiance to Türkiye, positioned sixth with a throw of 64.71m within the males’s discus, as Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna set a meet document following his throw of 71.70m.
