Parchment, Williams third in Wanda Diamond League hurdle events
SHANGHAI, China — Sprint hurdlers Hansle Parchment and Danielle Williams were third in their respective events at Saturday’s second Wanda Diamond League meeting in Shanghai/Suzhou in China.
Parchment, the Olympic champion, ran a season’s best 13.28 seconds (0.8m/s), improving from last week’s sixth place and 13.33 seconds performance in his season opener.
American Daniel Roberts, who won last week, won again on Saturday in 13.12 seconds with Japanese Shunsuke Izumiya third with 13.23 seconds.
Williams, the World Athletics Championships gold medallist last year, ran 12.74 seconds (0.3m/s) and Megan Tapper was seventh in a season’s best 12.83 seconds.
Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho Quinn won back-to-back races, clocking 12.63 seconds and beating Bahamas’ Devynne Charlton (12.64 seconds) after World Record holder Tobi Amusan of Nigeria was disqualified for a false start.
Carey McLeod was fourth in the men’s long jump with 7.93m (0.8m/s) and Tajay Gayle was seventh with 7.56m (-1.7m/s).
Ackeem Blake clocked 10.23 (-0.1m/s) for fifth in the men’s 100m and national champion Rohan Watson was sixth in 10.29 seconds as South Africa’s Akani Simbine won with 10.01 seconds, beating the American pair of Christian Coleman, who had a season’s best 10.04 seconds, and Fred Kerley 10.11 seconds.
Stephenie Ann McPherson ran a season’s best 53.75 seconds for sixth in the women’s 400m that was won by World Champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic in 50.89 seconds, ahead of American Talitha Diggs – 51.77 seconds- and Barbados’ Sada Williams in 52.00 seconds.
Danniel Thomas-Dodd threw 19.08m for eighth in the women’s shot put, improving on her 18.76m effort last weekend as American world champion Chase Jackson won with a season best 20.03m, making up for her third-place finish last week.
Christoff Bryan was eighth in the men’s high jump, clearing 2.16m as New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games champion Hamish Kerr 2.31m with Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim second with 2.29.
— Paul A Reid