DOHA, Qatar, CMC – Jamaica’s Olympic double medallist Kerron Stewart logged another impressive sub-10 clocking and creamed the 100-metre field at the Qatar Athletic Super Grand Prix yesterday.
On an evening of high quality performances at the Doha meeting, world-leader Stewart, who won 100-metre silver and 200 bronze at the Beijing Olympics last year, clocked a fast 10.93 seconds to win with authority ahead of American Stephanie Durst and Jamaican Sheri-Ann Brooks.
That result served up the only Caribbean win on the programme as Jamaicans Michael Frater and Shericka Williams and the Bahamian Leevan Sands all secured podium finishes without winning.
Coming off last weekend’s 2009 world best 10.92 victory at the Jamaica International meet in Kingston, the in form Stewart outclassed her rivals in registering a clear win over Durst (11.15).
Brooks, the reigning Commonwealth Games champion, was third in 11.20 seconds.
Frater clocked 10.15 seconds for second spot in the men’s 100 metres behind American Travis Padgett, who won in 10.00 seconds and equalled Walter Dix’s world-leading time.
After winning his heat (one) in 10.14 seconds, Frater tussled with heat two winner Padgett in the final and lost out to the American.
Britain’s Marlon Devonish was third in 10.19 seconds and Jamaican Nesta Carter finished a disappointing seventh in 10.34 seconds.
Carter, who notched sprint relay gold in Beijing for Jamaica – with Frater, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell – in a world record 37.10 seconds, had placed second behind Padgett in heat two in 10.15 seconds.
Williams, who picked up 400-metre silver in Beijing, was outgunned by Allyson Felix in the women’s one-lap event.
The American toppled Jamaican Novlene Williams-Mills as world leader by winning in 50.75 to defeat Botswana’s Amantle Montsho, who clocked the same time (51.08) as Williams in third position.
Felix’s time eclipsed the 50.99 Williams-Mills posted in Kingston last weekend.
Sands, a bronze medallist at the Beijing Olympics last year, had his best effort in the triple jump measured at 16.59 metres, giving him second spot behind the Frenchman Julien Kapek (16.64m).
Grenada’s Randy Lewis finished sixth at 16.25 metres.
Jamaican Commonwealth Games champions Lacena Golding-Clarke and Maurice Wignall missed out on top frame finishes in the sprint hurdles.
In the women’s 100-metre hurdles, Canada’s Priscilla Lopes-Schliep posted a commanding win in a 2009 world best 12.52 seconds over Americans Damu Cherry (12.72) and Danielle Carruthers (12.73).
Golding-Clarke, the 2002 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, finished fourth in 12.78, her quickest time in four years.
