Diamond League 2019

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2019 IAAF Diamond League calendar
3 May – Doha, QAT
18 May – Shanghai, CHN
30 May – Stockholm, SWE
6 Jun – Rome, ITA
13 Jun – Oslo, NOR
16 Jun – Rabat, MAR
30 Jun – Stanford, USA
5 Jul – Lausanne, SUI
12 Jul – Monaco, MON
20-21 Jul – London, GBR
18 Aug – Birmingham, GBR
24 Aug – Paris, FRA
29 Aug – Zurich, SUI
6 Sep – Brussels, BEL

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Double Olympic 100m champion Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce looked in immaculate condition as she easily won the women's 100m in a meet record of 11.20 (0.6 mps) following her usual bullet start at the third staging of the Grenada Invitational last night in St George's.

Fraser-Pryce was quickest out of the blocks and cruised home ahead of her compatriot Jonelle Smith, who closed well for second in 11.35 with American Aliyah Brown third with 11.46, the same time as Jamaica's Gayon Evans in fourth.

The big match-up of the meet never materialised as Jamaica's rising star Akeem Bloomfield pulled up at the top of the straight in the 200m as did Amrican Olympic champion Justin Gatlin. The race was won by Great Britain's Miguel Francis of Racers Track club in a world-leading 20.16. Canadian star Andre degrasse was second in 20.20 with Kyle Greaux of Trinidad and Tobago third in 20.51.

Earlier, Jamaica's Asafa Powell was absent from the Men's 100m A race which was won by Adam Gemili of Great Britain in 10.10 (0.4 mps) just outside his personal best of 9.97. Aaron Brown of Canada was second in 10.13, with Christopher Belcher of the USA third in 10.14. The Jamaicans were down the track with Nesta Carter fifth in 10.26, Nigel Ellis (10.31) in sixth, Tyquendo Tracey in seventh with 10.32 and Julian Forte eighth in 10.35.

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In Doha on Friday. ....

100m hurdles

Danielle Williams of Jamaica 12.66
Tobi Amusan of Nigeria 12.71
Sharika Nelvis USA 12.78

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In Shanghai today. ...

110m hurdles
Omar Mcleod of Jamaica 14.12
Xie of China 13.17
Sergey Shubenkov of Russia 13.28

Men's long jump
Tajay gayle of Jamaica 8.24
Wang Jianan of China 8.16
Ruswahl Samaai of South Africa 8.14

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Meanwhile, in the Stockholm DL yesterday:

Men's 400m

1) Michael Norman (US) 44.53
2) Rai Benjamin (US/Antigua) 45.13

Men's 200m

1) Aaron Brown (Can) 20.08
2) Ramil Guliyev (Turk) 20.40
3) Jereem Richards (TT) 20.45

Men's discus

1) Daniel Stahl (Sweden) 69.57
2) Frederick Dacres (Jca) 68.96

Women's 200m

1) Dina Asher-Smith (GB) 22.19
2) Elaine Thompson (Jca) 22.66
3) Dafne Schippers (Neth) 22.78

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At the Rome Diamond League meet....

Women's 100m

1) Elaine Thompson (Jca) 10.89
2) Dina Asher-Smith (GB) 10.94
3) Aleia Hobbs (US) 11.12
4) MJ Ta Lou (CIV) 11.14

Women's 400m

1) Salwa Naser (Bahrain) 50.26
2) Shericka Jackson (Jca) 51.05
3) Steph McPherson (Jca) 51.39

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Track Racers meet results, held in Kingston Jamaica yesterday....

Men's 100m

1) Zharnel Hughes (GB) 9.97
2) Yohan Blake 10.01
3) Kendal Williams (US) 10.13

Women's 100m

1) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce 10.88
2) Jonielle Smith 11.20
3) Michelle-Lee Ahye (TT) 11.20

Men's 200m

1) Akeem Bloomfield 20.34
2) Rasheed Dwyer 20.43
3) Julian Forte 20.76
4) Delano Williams 20.79

Women's 200m

1) Brittany Brown (US) 22.65
2) Sashalee Forbes 22.83
3) Tynia Gaither (Bah) 22.88
4) Jodie Williams (GB) 23.03

Men's 400m

1) Fred Kerley (US) 44.49
2) Machel Cedenio (TT) 44.92
3) Demish Gaye 45.37

Women's 400m

1) Shaunae Miller-Uibo (Bah) 49.54
2) Phyliss Francis (US) 50.85
3) Chrisann Gordon 51.83

Men's 400m hurdles

1) Khaliffer Rosser (US) 49.49
2) Leandro Zamora (Cuba) 50.07
3) Jaheel Hyde 50.35

Women's 400m hurdles

1) Ashley Spencer (US) 54.49
2) Nikita Tracey 55.25
3) Rhonda Whyte 55.31
4) Rista Tracey 55.71

110m hurdles

1) Ronald Levy 13.33
2) Shane Brathwaite (Bdos) 13.37
3) Aleec Harris (US) 13.42

100m hurdles

1) Kendra Harrison (US) 12.54
2) Queen Harrison (US) 12.69
3) Megan Tapper 12.93

Men's discus

1) Frederick Dacres 68.10
2) Reggie Jagers (US) 64.33
3) Sam Mattis (US) 63.85

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Frederick Dacres of Jamaica threw a world-leading, Diamond League record, meet record, personal best and national record of 70.78 to win the men's discus at the Rabat Diamond League. He finished ahead of Sweden's Daniel Stahl (69.94) and Austrian Lukas Weisshaidinger (68.14).

Jamaican Omar McLeod was leading the 110m hurdles, when he hit the final hurdle and tumbled to finish fifth in 13.48 behind winner Sergei Shubenkov (13.12).

Tyrone Smith of Bermuda finished ninth in the men's long jump with 7.49.

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At Eugene on Sunday....

Men's 400m hurdles

1) Rai Benjamin (US/Antigua) 47.16
2) Kyron McMaster (BVI) 48.94

Caster Semenya (RSA) won the women's 800m in 1:55.70, with Natoya Goule (Jca) fifth in 1:59.82.

Women's shot putt

1) Gong (China) 19.79
2) Danielle Thomas-Dodd (Jca) 19.26

110m hurdles

1) Orlando Ortega (Spain/Cuba) 13.24
2) Belocian (France) 13.29
3) Omar McLeod (Jca) 13.29
4) Ronald Levy (Jca) 13.30

Women's 200m

1) Blessing Okagbare (Nigeria) 22.05
2) Elaine Thompson (Jca) 22.21
3) Dina Asher-Smith (GB) 22.42

I'm more encouraged by ET's performance here. Coming off a gruelling Trials, she came second, beating DAS, Schippers and Naser. Augurs well for the future.

Men's 400m

1) Michael Norman (US) 44.62
2) Kahmari Montgomery (US) 45.12
3) Fred Kerley (US) 45.33
4) Jonathan Jones (Bdos) 45.46

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At Lausanne yesterday....

SAFP is back!

Women's 100m

1) Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (Jca) 10.74
2) Dina Asher-Smith (GB) 10.91
3) MJ Ta Lou (CIV) 10.93
4) Dafne Schippers (Neth) 11.04

Women's 400m

1) Salwa Eid Naser (Bahrain) 49.17
2) Seyni (Niger) 49.19
3) Steph McPherson (Jca) 50.88

110m hurdles

1) Orlando Ortega (Spain/Cuba) 13.06
2) Daniel Roberts (US) 13.11
3) Ronald Levy (Jca) 13.25