LONDON, England, CMC – Jamaica’s new world sprint hurdles champion Brigitte Foster-Hylton sustained her winning form with a fine victory at the IAAF Aviva British Grand Prix on Monday
Running into a head-wind, the veteran Foster-Hylton clocked 12.88 seconds to defeat Canadian Perdita Felicien (12.95) for the only CARICOM win during the meet at Gateshead’s International Stadium.
Fresh from her recent victories at the Berlin IAAF World Championship and Zurich Golden League in the past week and a half, the 34-year-old Foster-Hylton dominated the event to dismiss ex-world champion Felicien, with American Virginia Powell a distant third on 13.21.
The only other top-three finishes for Caribbean Community athletes at the meet came in the sprints.
In the men’s 100 metres, veteran Kittitian Kim Collins clocked 10.44 seconds behind runaway winner Tyson Gay, who convincingly dismissed the field in 10.15 seconds into a headwind.
Collins, running in Lane One, held on for second and Trinidadian Marc Burns was third in the same time, 10.44 seconds.
American Carmelita Jeter clocked 11.07 seconds to win the women’s 100, defeating Bahamians Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (11.26) and Chandra Sturrup (11.34), who placed second and third, respectively.
The US Virgin Islands’ LaVerne Jones-Ferrette was fifth in 11.57 and Virgil Hodge, of St Kitts and Nevis, eighth in 11.88 seconds.
Jamaica Dwight Thomas, the Zurich Golden League winner on Friday, was disqualified in the 110-metre hurdles, victory going to American David Payne (13.60).
