Fraser-Pryce leads Jamaica charges at Monaco meet
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce and American Carmelita Jeter will renew rivalry in the women’s 200m when they clash at the Herculis Meeting in Monaco on Friday, the penultimate stop on the IAAF Diamond League series before the IAAF World Championships start in Moscow, Russia, next month.
Fraser-Pryce, the leader in the Diamond race, has a season’s best 22.13 seconds and will face Jeter, who is coming back from an injury she suffered earlier this season, American champion Kymberlyn Duncan, and the Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure.
Nickel Ashmeade and Kemar Bailey-Cole will line up in what looks to be an exciting men’s 100m against American Justin Gatlin, Kim Collins of St Kitts and another American Michael Rodgers.
With Tyson Gay out of the World Championships after failing an out-of-competition drug test, Gatlin, who has a season’s best 9.89 seconds, best in the field, will carry the American flag.
Bailey-Cole has a personal best and season’s best 9.96 seconds, but 37-year-old Collins is on a high after running a personal best 9.97 seconds within the last month.
Three Jamaicans will contest the women’s 400m — Stephanie McPherson, Rosemarie Whyte, and national champion Novlene Williams-Mills — and they will test world leader Amantle Montsho of Botswana, and American Francena McCorory.
