Kishane Thompson of Staff Jamaica competes through the Males’s 100m Spherical 1 on day eight of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 at Stade de France on Aug. 03, 2024 in Paris, France.
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The MVP Observe Membership duo of Jamaicans Kishane Thompson and Tia Clayton, each received gold on the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes in Kazakhstan just lately.
The 23-year-old, Olympic 100 metres silver medallist, Kishane Thompson was capable of get his indoor season off to a profitable begin by capturing the 60 metres ultimate in a time of 6.56 seconds on the opening World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold assembly of the 12 months.
Nevertheless, he did trigger a little bit concern when he got here up limping moments after profitable the race.
Thompson had already beforehand signaled his intentions with a season-opening 6.48 seconds outside again in Jamaica final weekend when he received comfortably forward of Oman’s Ali Anwar Baluchi who was second in 6.60 seconds and Japan’s Shuhei Tada who was third in 6.62 seconds.
Clayton, Thompson’s coaching associate, additionally captured gold within the girls’s equal on her approach to setting a brand new meet document of seven.18 seconds, forward of Portugal’s Lorene Bazolo in 7.34 seconds who took silver.
Clayton’s twin sister, Tina, claimed bronze in 7.36 seconds, the identical time as fourth place Magdalena Stefanowicz of Poland.
