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Jamaicans second-best at Fanny Blankers – Koen Games
THOMAS... edged out in the men’s 110 hurdles
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May 30, 2010

Jamaicans second-best at Fanny Blankers – Koen Games

HENGELO, Netherlands (CMC) — Churandy Martina came close to his best form this season, when he won the men’s 100 metres dash for one of two Caribbean victories at the 20th Fanny Blankers-Koen Games here yesterday.

Martina, the 2007 Pan Am Games 100m champion, has made a sluggish start to the international season, but the top Netherlands Antilles sprinter gained a timely boost of confidence, when he clocked 10.15 seconds to prevail in the FBK Stadium.

Mario Forsythe of Jamaica finished second in 10.25 secs ahead of Trell Kimmons of the United States, whose time was 10.27.

Brian Mariano, another Dutch Antilles sprinter, finished fifth in 10.46 secs.

Yargeris Savigne of Cuba collected the only other Caribbean win at the meet, which commemorates the achievements of the Dutch champion sprinter.

Savigne was measured at 14.36 metres in the women’s triple jump for her first major victory of the season.

The long-standing Bahamian pair of Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Chandra Sturrup finished 2-3 in the women’s 100m, which was won by unstoppable American Carmelita Jeter in 11.16 secs.

Ferguson-McKenzie clocked 11.23, and Sturrup finished in 11.29, with Schillonie Calvert of Jamaica in sixth place at 11.60.

Jamaican Dwight Thomas was edged in the men’s 110 hurdles, when Andy Turner of Great Britain stopped the clock at 13.34.

Thomas ran 13.49, and Tyrone Atkins of the United States was third in 13.56 ahead of fourth-place Maurice Wignall of Jamaica (13.69), with Olympic champion Dayron Robles falling over the last hurdle.

Cydonie Mothersill, the pride of Cayman Islands’ sprinting, had to settle for second in the women’s 200 behind American Debbie Dunn, whose 22.97 was good enough to take her to the line first.

Mothersill ran 23.14 to outlast Britain’s 400 Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu (23.52).

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