| September 17, 2005 -
SHANGHAI, China -
Bahamian World and Olympic champion Tonique Williams-Darling, compatriot
Chandra Sturrup and Jamaica's Christopher Williams recorded wins at the IAAF
2005 Shanghai Golden Grand Prix meeting at the Shanghai Stadium in China on
Saturday.
Williams-Darling comfortably won the women's 400-metres while, Williams and
Sturrup took the men's 200m and women's 100m respectively.
Williams-Darling,
the world no.2 rank female 400m runner, clocked 50.25 seconds to win that
event Saturday night, thus ending another successful season in which she not
only won the world title, but also established a new personal best of 49.55
in doing so.
"I think I had more
dominant years before but of course, I ran my personal best [in Helsinki] so
I am not angry at all and to win the World Championship was my main goal and
I have accomplished that," Williams-Darling said.
"It was a good
performance for me. It was a great season and this was a good way to end
it," she added.
Following her to the
line were Americans Dee
Dee Trotter (50.90), Monique Hennagan (50.92) and Moushami Robinson (51.66).
Sturrups beats
world champion
Chandra Sturrup, who
holds the best performance of 10.84 this summer, held off a strong challenge
from American world champion Lauryn Williams to win the women's 100m. Using
her familiar explosive start, Sturrup, another Caribbean stand-out in the
sprints this season broke the tape at 11.02, edging Williams, who took
second in 11.05. American champion Melisa Barber took third in 11.22.
Christopher
Williams, the 2001 world silver medallist won the men's 200m dash in
convincing style. In the absence of American in-form sprinter Tyson Gay, the
Jamaican ran a well relax race to cross the finish line in a stadium record
time of 20.24. Britain's Christian Malcolm was second in 20.42 ahead of
countryman Marlon Devonish, third in 20.55.
World and Olympic
champion Justin Gatlin won the men's 100m in a fast 10.01, Russia's
Yelena Isinbayeva claimed the
women’s Pole Vault title with a stadium record clearance of 4.65m,
while
World champion Allyson Felix (23.09) of USA beat Bahamian Christine Amertil
(23.26) in a slow women's 200m.
In other results: Dwight
Phillips leaped to a 8.39m win in the men's long jump, Kenenisa Bekele
(7:36.36) edged sibling Tariku (7:36.63) for the men's 3000m crown, Xiang
Liu (13.05) took the men's 110m hurdles and Meseret Defar of Ethiopia won
the women's 5000m in 14:58.79.
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