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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Baptiste beats Olympic champion for 100m gold

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T&T's Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste sent a strong warn­ing to her Ja­maican and Amer­i­can ri­vals ahead of next month's World Track and Field Cham­pi­onships, when she roared to vic­to­ry in the women's 100 me­tres at the Sam­sung Di­a­mond League Paris Leg in the Stade de France, Paris yes­ter­day. A late surge by Bap­tiste saw her clock a quick 10.91 sec­onds with a +0.6m/s tail­win, to beat dou­ble Olympic 200m cham­pi­on Veron­i­ca Camp­bell-Brown of Ja­maica (10.95) and an­oth­er Ja­maican, 2009 World 100m sil­ver medal­list Ker­ron Stew­art (11.04). Bap­tiste's win­ning time is a new sea­son best, im­prov­ing on the 10.94 she set in fin­ish­ing sec­ond at the Ja­maican In­vi­ta­tion­al on May 7.

The 2003 World Youth bronze medal­list beat a qual­i­ty field. The na­tion­al record hold­er (10.84) whipped Bul­gar­i­an Ivet Lalo­va who has run 10.96 ear­li­er this sea­son. The Bul­gar­i­an was fourth in 11.18. This year's Amer­i­can 200m cham­pi­on Shalon­da Solomon was fifth (11.19) with mul­ti­ple Olympic medal­list Sherone Simp­son of Ja­maica in sixth (11.33). With her win, Bap­tiste is third (4 points) on the Di­a­mond League 100m rank­ings be­hind Camp­bell-Brown and Carmeli­ta Jeter of the USA, who are both in first on six points. The tri­umph comes with less than two months to go to the World Cham­pi­onships. Bap­tiste, who has been rac­ing spar­ing­ly in the first half of this year, will be aim­ing to make her first fin­ish in her third World Cham­pi­onships. She bowed out at the semi­fi­nal stage at the last edi­tion of the meet in Berlin, Ger­many in Au­gust 2009.

Cap­tion: Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste of T&T wins the 100m women's race at the AF Di­a­mond League ath­let­ics meet­ing at the Stade de France in Saint-De­nis, north of Paris, yes­ter­day. She ran 10.91 sec­onds. AP Pho­to

The 2003 World Youth bronze medal­list took her sec­ond French win of the week af­ter win­ning in Reims on Tues­day in 11.11 sec­onds. T&T ath­letes have been en­joy­ing rac­ing in France as Ke­ston Bled­man was first in Sot­teville in 10.25, a week ago. In the Men's 200m, Ron­del So­ril­lo was fifth in 20.81. The two time na­tion­al cham­pi­on start­ed on the out­side lane was well be­hind World and Olympic Cham­pi­on Us­ain Bolt. The Ja­maican world record hold­er got to the line in 20.03. Eu­ro­pean cham­pi­on Christophe Lemaitre of France was sec­ond in 20.21 with Amer­i­can Darvis Pat­ton (20.59) and Mario Forsythe of Ja­maica (20.61) all get­ting to the line ahead of So­ril­lo.

RE­SULTS

Women's 100m (+0.6)

1 Kel­ly Bap­tiste T&T 10.91 (SB)

2 Veron­i­ca Camp­bell-Brown Ja­maica 10.95

3 Ker­ron Stew­art Ja­maica 11.04

4 Ivet Lalo­va Bul­gar­ia 11.18

5 Shalon­da Solomon USA 11.19

6 Sherone Simp­son Ja­maica 11.33

7 Veronique Mang France 11.33

8 Myr­i­am Soumare France 11.36

9 Lashau­natea Moore USA 11.89

Men's 200

1 Us­ain Bolt Ja­maica 20.03

2 Christoph Lemaitre France 20.21

3 Darvis Pat­ton USA 20.59

4 Mario Forsythe Ja­maica 20.61

5 Ron­dell So­ril­lo T&T 20.81

6 Ted­dy Tin­mar France 21.15

7 Shawn Craw­ford USA 22.17

dns Alon­so Ed­wards Pana­ma


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