Sabrina Dockery, Jodean Williams join sub-11 seconds club

Sabrina Dockery and Jodean Williams joined the growing list of Jamaican women who have run under 11 seconds in the 100m, after outstanding performances at Saturday’s USATF Lone Star Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event held at Cushing Stadium at Texas A&M University.

Dockery won the event in a massive personal best 10.92 seconds (1.6m/s) while Williams was third in a lifetime best 10.97 seconds and takes the number of Jamaican women to run under 11 seconds this season to 11, less than two weeks before the National SeniorChampionships is set to get underway.

There were four Jamaican winners at the event as Demisha Roswell sprung a surprise in the 100m hurdles, Romaine Beckford won the men’s high jump and national record holder Navasky Anderson took the men’s 800m.

Dockery, who lowered her personal best 11.05 seconds set two weeks ago in Florida, got off to a fast start and managed to hold off the field with Canadian record holder Audrey Leduc being given second ahead of Williams, both with the same time.

Williams was part of the Jamaican women’s 4x100m team that won at the World Athletics Relays Championships earlier this year, and she lowered her previous best of 11.00 seconds.

Niesha Burgher was seventh in 11.27 seconds and former World Athletics Under-20 Championships sprint double champion Briana Williams was eighth with 11.32 seconds.

Roswell ran a season’s best 12.53 seconds (1.3m/s) to win the 100m hurdles, just ahead of national record holder Ackera Nugent, who had a season’s best 12.61 seconds with American Rayniah Jones third with 12.62 seconds.

Fresh from a third-place finish at the Rome Diamond League meeting on Thursday, Beckford cleared 2.25m to win the men’s high jump and attempted what would have been a personal best 2.31m.

Americans Vernon Turner, who cleared 2.22m, and Kason O’Riley with 2.17m were second and third, respectively.

World Championships finalist Anderson took over the lead at the 400m mark and went on to win the men’s 800m in 1:46.33, comfortably ahead of Abraham Alvarado of Mexico 1:46.75 and Sean Dolan of the USA, who was third with 1:46.90.

Kelly-Ann Beckford lowered her personal best for the second-straight outing after she was second in the women’s 800m, running 1:58.46, taking two-tenth off the 1:58.66 she ran at a meet in Florida on April 20.

Adelle Tracey was fifth in 1:59.24 as St Vincent and the Grenadines’ Shafiqua Maloney won with a season’s best 1:57.34, sixth best in the world with American Victoria Bossong taking third with a personal best 1:58.52.

Stacey-Ann Williams became the third Jamaican woman to run the 400m under 50 seconds when she clocked a season’s best 49.80 for second place.

Nigeria’s Ella Onojuvwevwo was impressive with a personal best 49.47, second best in the world with American Alexis Holmes third in a season’s best 50.42.

Jodean Williams (Photo: Karl Mclarty)

World Champion Oblique Seville had to settle for third place in the men’s 100m with a wind-aided 9.91 (3.8m/s) as American Trayvon Bromell used his fast start to win with 9.85 with Andre De Grasse was second, also timed in 9.91.

Kadrian Goldson was ninth in 10.06.

Antonio Watson finished fifth in the men’s 400m with 45.17 and Roshawn Clarke, who is reported to be concentrating on the flat event this year, was ninth with 46.17.

Americans filled the first three spots, Chris Bailey winning with a season’s best, 44.35, followed by Bryce Deadmon, 44.74, and Elija Godwin, 45.00.

Andrenette Knight ran a season’s best of 55.25 for fifth place in the women’s 400m hurdles, while Shiann Salmon was seventh in 55.58.

Kemi Adekoya of Bahrain was impressive with a season’s best 53.71 to win, followed by Ashley Miller, who set a Zimbabwean national record 54.98, while Shamier Little of the USA was third in a season’s best 54.15.

National champion Ashanti Moore was sixth in the women’s 200m with 22.53 (0.7m/s) as Olympic champion Gabby Thomas of the USA ran a world-leading 21.70, 10th-fastest ever to win.

Kayla White, also of the USA, was second in a season’s best 22.07 with Nigeria’s Favour Ofili third with a season’s best 22.15.

Malik James-King finished seventh in the men’s 400m hurdles with 49.23 and Tyrece Hyman was ninth in 56.79 after hitting several hurdles.

Nigeria’s Ezekiel Nathaniel ran a season’s best 47.37 to win, edging American Trevor Bassitt, who was given the same time, his lifetime best, while Caleb Dean was third in a season’s best 47.42.

Adrian Kerr finished eighth in the men’s 200m with 20.62 (0.1m/s) with Demar Francis in ninth place in 20.79, behind Makanakaishe Charamba of Zimbabwe, who won in a personal best 19.88 seconds.

Eighteen-year-old American Tate Taylor was second in a personal best 19.97 seconds, under his previous best of 20.05 seconds, second best in the Under-20 rankings.