Shelly-Ann finishes second in 100m
World and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce looks to be on the mend after running a season’s best 11.10 seconds for second place in the women’s 100m race on yesterday’s second day of the two-day Glasgow Diamond League meeting at Hampden Park, Scotland.
Despite the time being well below her best, it marked the best result she has had and it follows in the wake of a series of poor performances, during which time she battled leg injuries that forced her to miss a number of events, including the recent National Senior Championships.
Yesterday, Fraser- Pryce got off to a fast start and led for most of the way before Trinidad’s Michelle-Lee Ahye stormed through at the end to win in 11.01 seconds, thus extending her record to nine races unbeaten this season.
The Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure was third in 11.17 seconds ahead of two other Jamaicans, Kerron Stewart in 11.22 seconds for fourth and Simone Facey in 11.30 seconds in fifth place.
Schillonie Calvert was fourth in the B race in 11.34 seconds (0.9m/s).
Meanwhile, the news on former World Championships men’s 100m gold medallist Yohan Blake is that he suffered a grade one strain to the left hamstring in Friday’s men’s 100m race and could be out for three weeks.
He pulled up just after the midway point of the race that was won by Nickel Ashmeade, and was taken off the track in a wheelchair.
Also yesterday, three-time national champion Damar Forbes finished fifth in the men’s long jump with 7.75m done on his final effort as he fine-tunes for the XX Commonwealth Games.
He opened with 7.57m and followed with 7.45m before fouling his next two jumps, then finishing strongly with 7.57m and 7.75m.
Samantha Henry-Robinson finished at the back of the field in the women’s 200m that was won by Holland’s Dafne Schippers in a national record of 22.34 seconds, her second record of the day after she won the 100m B race in 11.03 seconds hours earlier.
Schippers, a heptathlete, upset American Olympic champion Allyson Felix, who clocked 22.35 seconds and World Championships bronze medallist Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria in 11.41 seconds.