Sprinter Ahye bags 100m silver at Puerto Rico Classic

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TRINIDAD and Tobago sprinter Michelle-Lee Ahye powered to silver within the ladies’s 100-metre last on the 2022 Puerto Rico Athletics Basic which sped off on the Estadio Francisco Montaner in Ponce, on Thursday.

Working out of lane three, Ahye had an excellent begin and clocked 11.06 seconds to complete behind the quickest girl alive and multiple-Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah.

The Jamaican favorite crossed the end line in a nippy 10.93s to safe yet one more gold medal in superb model. Bagging bronze was American Shania Collins in 11.08s. Present world chief and 2021 NCAA double champion, Cambrea Sturgis completed seventh in 11.29s.

Ahye’s silver medal was her fourth podium end from 5 ladies’s 100m finals contested this yr.

Moreover, TT sprinter Jereem Richards returns to motion within the males’s 200m last on the Wanda Diamond League in Doha, Qatar from 1.10pm (TT time). Richards runs out of lane three and may have his work lower out towards among the world’s finest sprinters.

Reigning Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse (Canada) leads the star-studded subject alongside world champion Noah Lyles (USA) and Tokyo Olympic 100m silver medallist Fred Kerley (USA).

De Grasse is the Canadian nationwide document holder (19.62s) and a a number of Olympic and world medallist. He additionally captured silver within the 200m and bronze within the 100m on the 2019 World Championships.

Lyles, Olympic 200m bronze medallist, was a double gold medallist in Doha 2019 over 200m and within the 4x100m relay. He’s a former world Beneath-20 100m champion.

Aaron Brown (Canada), Filippo Tortu (Italy) and Femi Ogunode (Qatar) additionally make up the stellar 200m subject.