KINGSTON, Jamaica— World Championship finalists Roshawn Clarke and Sada Williams won the men’s and women’s 400m Open races on Saturday’s 47th staging of the Gibson/McCook Relays held at the National Stadium, both in season’s best times.

Clarke the World Under- 20 record holder in the 400m hurdles and who ran on the medal winning Jamaica men’s 4x400m relay team at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary last year, equalled his season’s best 46.05 seconds to hold off Malik James King of Titans who ran 46.28 seconds, while Bahamian Wendell Miller of MVP who had won his section win 47.11 seconds, was third overall.

Williams, the Barbadian two-time World Championships bronze medallist, ran her first outdoors 400m, winning in 51.93 seconds, well ahead of Annecia Richards of GC Foster 55.65 seconds and Vanessa Ward, also of GC Foster, 55.73 seconds.

Meanwhile, illegal winds prevented Nigel Ellis and Kasheika Cameron, both of Elite Performance, from achieving personal best times in the 100m finals.

Ellis, who ran 10.15 seconds (1.8m/s) in the semi-finals, clocked 10.09 seconds (2.1m/s) in the final, ahead of training partner Javorne Dunkley- Elite 10.17 seconds and Jazeel Murphy of Dynamics 10.23 seconds.

Cameron ran 11.13 seconds (3.0m/s) to win the women’s 100m, beating

Ashley Williams of Sprint Tech (11.53 seconds) and Mickaell Moodie of GC Foster was third in 11.65 seconds.

-Paul A Reid