Williams, Levy hurdle to victory in Berlin
TWO-TIME World Championships gold medallist Danielle Williams and Olympic Games bronze medallist Ronald Levy were winners in their respective sprint hurdles at the ISTAF World Athletics Continental Tour – Silver meet in Berlin, Germany, on Sunday.
Williams, who won the 100m hurdles at the recent World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, was an easy victor, running 12.71 seconds (0.5m/s) to beat Australian Michelle Jenneke (12.89) and American Amber Hughes (12.98).
Megan Tapper did not complete the race.
Levy, who missed this year’s national championships and had not competed since July, clocked 13.45 (0.5m/s) — just a shade off his season’s best 13.44 seconds set in June. He just got to the line ahead of France’s Just Kwaou-Mathey (13.46) and Italy’s Lorenzo Ndele Simonelli (13.50).
Jonielle Smith was third in the women’s 100m in 11.33 (0.1m/s), behind the United States’s Jenna Prandini (11.24) and Belgium’s World Championships semi-finalist Rani Rosius (11.32).
Tissanna Hickling finished fifth in the women’s long jump with a best of 6.34m (-0.9m/s); and in what was a fiercely fought contest she had been in second place up to the fifth round before three athletes passed her.
American Tiffany Flynn won with 6.48m (-0.1m/s), followed by Germany’s Mikaelle Assani with 6.42m (-0.3m/s) and Great Britain’s Jazmin Sawyers, also with 6.42m (0.0m/s).