Six Jamaican athletes, including five from the MVP Track Club, will be on show at the DN Galan Samsung Diamond League meet in Stockholm, Sweden, today.With leading stars Usain Bolt, Yohan Blake and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce taking a well-deserved rest following their heroics at the London Olympics, the supporting cast gets a chance to shine at the 46th running of the meet which is being staged at the historic stadium which hosted the Olympic Games 100 years ago.Most Jamaican attention will be focused on Brigitte Foster-Hylton who crashed out of the women’s 100 metres hurdles heats at the fifth hurdle in London when leading comfortably in heat six.
Foster-Hylton, whose season best is 12.51, said at the Games that she was in good enough shape to run below 12.40 seconds for the event. She will be called on to clock a fast time if she hopes to beat American Olympic silver medallist Dawn Harper, who clocked a personal best 12.37 in London, and fellow American Kellie Wells, who also did a personal best 12.48 in bagging bronze.Among the men, MVP’s duo, sprint relay gold medalists Nesta Carter and Michael Frater, will be hoping to further underline Jamaica’s claim as the sprint centre of the world when they face American Ryan Bailey, a finalist in the men’s 100 metres in London.
Carter and Frater ran the first two legs on the sprint relay team which clocked a world record 36.84 seconds at the Olympics. Bailey, viewed widely as a future American sprint star, was humbled by Bolt on the anchor leg but reached the 100m final where he placed fifth in 9.88, and could have too much finishing speed for the Jamaican duo and Great Britain’s World Junior champion Adam Gemili.Two Jamaican women will face the starter in the 200 metres. In an event lacking real star quality, Sherone Simpson and Anneisha McLaughlin, both of MVP, will oppose American Bianca Knight, a sprint relay gold medalist in London, fellow American Jenebah Tarmoh, who ran in the sprint relay for the USA, and Russia’s Alesandra Fedoriva, who has a 2012 best of 22.19.Leford Green, who finished seventh in the 400 metres hurdles final, faces gold medallist Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic and Americans Michael Tinsley, who won silver, and fifth-place Angelo Taylor in the one-lap obstacle event.
- Selected events
1:03 p.m: Men’s 400m hurdles
1:05 p.m: Women’s high jump
1:10 p.m: Women’s 1500m
1:25 p.m: Women’s 200m
1:50 p.m: Men’s 100m
2:05 p.m: Women’s 100m hurdles
2:15 p.m: Men’s 3000m
2:35 p.m: Women’s 400m
2:45 p.m: Men’s 800m
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