Jamaica’s Stacey-Ann Williams and Trinidad & Tobago’s Jereem Richards have been the standout Caribbean athletes at Tuesday’s Spitzen Leichtathletik Meet, each securing victories of their respective occasions.
Williams claimed victory within the girls’s 400 meters, clocking 50.58 seconds, her second-fastest time this season. She narrowly edged out Dutch athlete Lisanne de Witte and Switzerland’s Annina Fahr, who completed in 51.99 and 52.08 seconds, respectively. Williams’ efficiency follows her spectacular 50.56 seconds at Jamaica’s Nationwide Championships in June, the place she completed second.
Richards, the 2017 World Championship bronze medalist and two-time Commonwealth Video games Champion within the 200 meters gained the boys’s 200 meters with a time of 20.19 seconds. He outpaced Zimbabwe’s Makanakaishe Charamba (20.42) and Tapiwanashe Makarawu (20.48). The 30-year-old Trinidadian can also be set to compete within the 400 meters in Paris, having gained gold within the distance on the World Indoor Championships in 2022.
Different notable performances
In different notable performances, Jamaican Olympian Lanae-Tava Thomas narrowly missed victory within the girls’s 200 meters, ending second to the Ivory Coast’s Jessika Gbai, who clocked 22.57 seconds. Thomas completed in 22.60 seconds, simply forward of Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji, who took third in 22.61 seconds.
Kemba Nelson of Jamaica secured third place within the girls’s 100 meters with a time of 11.21 seconds, behind New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs (11.17) and Kambundji (11.20).
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In the meantime, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce withdrew from the occasion throughout warm-ups, citing a priority she felt and selecting to not threat harm.
Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, the defending Olympic champion within the girls’s 100-meter hurdles, gained her occasion with a time of 12.41 seconds. Ecuador’s Maribel Caicedo completed second in 12.64 seconds, and Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France took third in 12.85 seconds.
Within the girls’s lengthy bounce, Jamaican nationwide champion Ackelia Smith completed fourth with a distance of 6.61 meters.
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Within the males’s occasions, Michael Campbell positioned fifth within the males’s ‘B’ 100 meters with a time of 10.37 seconds, whereas final yr’s nationwide champion Rohan Watson completed seventh within the ‘A’ race with 10.32 seconds. Gary Card was seventh within the males’s 200 meters with a time of 21.32 seconds, and nationwide 400-meter file holder Rusheen McDonald completed eighth with 47.41 seconds, persevering with a troublesome season.
