Kaliese, Williams-Mills win in Oslo
KINGSTON, Jamaica –Jamaica’s Kaliese Spencer continued her successful run on the Diamond League circuit this season clocking 54.94 seconds to win the women’s 400 metres hurdles at the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway today.
Spencer finished ahead of Kemi Adekoya of Bahrain who posted 54.96 seconds and Britain’s Eilidh Child (55.33) in third.
Meanwhile Novlene Williams-Mills of Jamaica ran a season’s best 50.06 to win the flat 400 metre from American Natasha Hastings in 50.60, also a season’s best, and Botswana’s Amantle Montsho (51.05). Another Jamaican, Patricia Hall, was fifth in 52 seconds.
Trinidadian Richard Thompson brushed aside his opponents to win the men’s 100 metres in 10.02. Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut in 10.04 seconds was second with Great Britain’s rising sprint star Adam Gemili in third in 10.11 seconds,
The evergreen 38-year-old St Kitts and Nevis sprinter Kim Collins was fourth in 10.13.
In the men’s sprint hurdles, Andrew Riley of Jamaica (13.36) took second behind Frenchman Pascal Martinot-Lagarde who clocked a world-leading 13.12 seconds.
Olympic bronze medallist Jamaican Hansle Parchment was fifth in 13.39 seconds.