Briana Williams overpowered the field to win the women’s 100m in 10.97 to equal her personal best at the JAAA/SDF Jubilee Series at the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica College on Saturday.
Shockoria Wallace of MVP Track Club finished second in a ne
KINGSTON, Jamaica Olympic Games relay gold medallist Briana Williams equalled her personal best 10.97 seconds to win the women’s 100m at Saturday’s fourth JAAA/SDF meet held at Jamaica College’s Ash.
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Sachin Dennis of St Elizabeth Technical High School wins section eight of the men s 100m at the JAAA/JOA Olympic Destiny Series at the National Stadium on Saturday, May 22, 2021. (PHOTOS: Marlon Reid).
Schoolboy Sachin Dennis and promising sprint hurdler Rasheed Broadbell, of MVP Track Club, highlighted the first meet in the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) Olympic Destiny Series at the National Stadium on Saturday.
The series, which is designed to provide a huge boost to the nation’s athletes gearing up for the Olympic Games, offered prize incentives courtesy of financing from the Jamaica Olympic Association.
Dennis followed up his gold medal performance from the ISSA-GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships last week with an impressive victory in the men’s 100m time final.
Jamaica’s double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah.
Jamaica’s double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah returned to winning ways at the Velocity Fest No. 9 meeting at the National Stadium in Kingston on Saturday.
Racing the distance for the first time this year, Thompson-Herah, of MVP Track Club, won the women’s 100m in 11.21 seconds (0.0m/s).
The 28-year-old, who was competing for the second time this season, looked a bit sluggish but despite that won easily in the end. Remona Burchell, of Sprintec, finished second in 11.35, while Natasha Morrison, of MVP Track Club, was third in 11.41.
The victory for Thompson-Herah came a week after she was beaten into fourth place over 200m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting in Miramar, Florida.