Jeter highlights Colorful Daegu Meeting

25 September 2009

Americans Tyson Gay and Carmelita Jeter confirmed their excellent post-Berlin form winning the men and women 100m races in style before a decent Korean crowd at the Daegu Stadium. Head wind was measured for every running event tonight and therefore top marks were out of reach in this meet.

Jeter still won the women’s 100m in 10.83 into a minor 0.3 m/s head wind and although her time wasn’t bad either it was the 0.52s gap to the next athletes which really was the news in this event. Gay won another tough race against Jamaican Asafa Powell in 9.94s with the Jamaican close behind in 10.00s into a -0.6 m/s wind.

The best mark in the field events was set by Teemu Wirkkala of Finland in the javelin where he hit an 86.95m throw to win the competition.

Jeter remains undefeated

Carmelita Jeter really underlined her newly found superiority in the women’s 100m with another emphatic win in Daegu. The 29-year-old had a good start immediately powering away from the rest of the field and was in a clear lead 30m into the race. From this point her trademark high-frequence sprinting set a massive gap with the rest of the runners with a 10.83 clocking in the end equalling her third fastest career result. Jamaican Sherone Simpson was a distant second in 11.35s and fellow American Gloria Asumnu third with the same time with both athletes an unbelievably more than half a second behind the winner. 200m specialist Allyson Felix (USA) finished in fourth place in 11.50s.

from IAAF.org

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