Clay­ton Clarke

Na­tion­al Sprint queen Kel­ly-Ann Bap­tiste fired a warn­ing to her ri­vals when she sped to a fast time of 22.49 sec­onds in tak­ing the women's 200m at the NTC Clas­sic in Clear­mont, Flori­da, USA on Sat­ur­day. Bap­tiste nar­row­ly missed out break­ing her na­tion­al record mark of 22.60 as the wind read­ing of 2.1m/s was just over the 2.0 le­gal lim­it. The 2011 World Cham­pi­onships 100m bronze medal­ist got to the line ahead of Ja­maican Saman­tha Hen­ry-Robin­son (22.87) and Amer­i­can Sherisse Woods (23.49). Ron­dell So­ril­lo was joint fourth in the men's 100m clock­ing 10.18, the same time of Den­tar­ius Locke of the USA.

For­mer World Youth 200m cham­pi­on Ja­maican Ra­mon McKen­zie sped to vic­to­ry in 10.10 ahead of USA's Cordero Gray (10.11) and Os­hane Bai­ley of Ja­maica (10.12). Em­manuel Cal­len­dar emerged as the top sprint­er on the Brazil­ian Ath­let­ic Tour when he sped to vic­to­ry on the Rio de Janeiro leg on Sun­day in a sea­son's best time of 10.07. Com­pa­tri­ot Marc Burns nar­row­ly missed out on a podi­um fin­ish tak­ing fourth in 10.25. He was beat­en to the line by two-time World Ju­nior cham­pi­on Dex­ter Lee of Ja­maica (10.21) and Ger­ald Phiri of Zam­bia (10.22). Cal­len­der won in Belem, Uber­lan­dia be­fore fin­ish­ing fourth in Sao Paulo be­hind Burns. Je­hue Gor­don was third in the rarely run 200m hur­dles at the Great City Games in Man­ches­ter, Eng­land on Sun­day. The 2010 World Ju­nior 400m hur­dles cham­pi­on clocked 23.00 to fin­ish be­hind Andy Turn­er (Great Britain) 22.54 and Fe­lix Sanchez (Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic) 22.75. (CC)