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Ackera Nugent and Stacey Ann Williams win in Croatia
From left: Alaysha Johnson of the United States and the Jamaican pair of Ackera Nugent and Danielle Williams compete in the Women’s 100m hurdles event during the Silesia Diamond League athletics meeting in Chorzow, Poland, on Sunday. Nugent won in a meet record 12.29 seconds.Photo: AFP
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September 8, 2024

Ackera Nugent and Stacey Ann Williams win in Croatia

KINGSTON, Jamaica — World-leader Ackera Nugent and Olympic Games semi-finalist Stacey-Ann Williams were winners on Sunday’s final day of the three-day Memorial Borisa Hanžekovića in Zagreb, Croatia.

Nugent won the 100m hurdles while Williams set a meet record in the women’s 400m to join long jumper Shawn-D Thompson who had won the men’s event on Saturday.

Nugent clocked 12.55 seconds (-0.5m/s) to win her event, beating Great Britain’s Cindy Sember- 12.67 seconds and American Kendra Harrison-12.76 with former World Championships silver medallist Britany Anderson finishing sixth with 12.91 seconds.

Williams ran 50.00 seconds to set a new meeting record, finishing ahead of Norway’s Henriette Jaeger- 50.22 seconds and American Shamier Little- 50.58 seconds.

On Saturday, Thompson won the men’s long jump on the second tie-breaker as he and Uzbekistan’s Anvar Anvarov had identical marks of 7.99m and 7.94m for the first and second marks.

Thompson’s third best mark of 7.90m was better than Anvarov’s 7.82m with Croatia’s Roko Farka taking third with 7.90m (0.6m/s).

Shashalee Forbes was second in the women’s 100m, running 11.23 seconds (-0.7m/s), Gambia’s Gina Bass won with 11.13 seconds while the American Jenna Prandini was third with 11.30 seconds.

Natoya Goule-Toppin placed second in the women’s 800m with 1:57.43 seconds, as Kenya’s Nelly Chepchirchir won with a meeting record of 1:57.00 seconds while Ethiopia’s Nigist Getachew set a personal best 1:57.47 seconds for third place.

Olympic finalist Hansle Parchment was third in the 110m hurdles in 13.25 seconds (-0.5m/s) behind Japan’s Rachid Muratake’s 13.14 seconds and American Daniel Roberts- 13.18 seconds.

Olympic record holder Roje Stona was fourth in the men’s discus throw with 65.98m; Slovenia’s Kristjan Ceh won with 67.95m, followed by Great Britain’s Lawrence Okoye who threw a season’s best 67.05m with Australia’s Matthew Denny third with 66.99m.

-Paul A Reid

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