Clay­ton Clarke

Hur­dler Je­hue Gor­don was fifth in the men's 400-me­tre hur­dles race at the Avi­va Paris Grand Prix leg of the Sam­sun Di­a­mond League se­ries in Paris, France yes­ter­day. In his first race since his leg in­jury the 2010 World Ju­nior cham­pi­on clocked 49.03 and had the sat­is­fac­tion of dip­ping un­der the Olympic A stan­dard of 49.50 for yet an­oth­er time for the year. Tak­ing the gold ahead of the na­tion­al record hold­er was Javier Cul­son (Puer­to Ri­co) who clocked a world lead­ing time of 47.78 to re­main un­beat­en in the Di­a­mond League se­ries.

Reign­ing World cham­pi­on David Greene (Great Britain) 47.84 and for­mer world cham­pi­ons Fe­lix Sanchez (Dom­in­can Re­pub­lic) 48.56 and Ber­shawn Jack­son (USA) 48.67 all fin­ished ahead of the 20-year-old for­mer Bel­mont Boys/QRC hur­dler. Reign­ing Olympic 100m sil­ver medal­list Richard Thomp­son fin­ished down the field in the men's 100m clock­ing 10.20 to take eighth spot.

For­mer World Cham­pi­on Tyson Gay (9.99) got the bet­ter of Justin Gatlin (10.03) in a re­verse of the top two fin­ish at the USA tri­als. Two time Eu­ro­pean cham­pi­on Christo­pher Lemaitre (France) was third (10.08). Ja­maicans Nick­el Ash­meade (10.14) and Michael Frater (10.14), and Amer­i­cans Michael Rodgers (10.16) and Trel Kim­mons (10.18) all fin­ished ahead of Thomp­son. The 2008 NCAA 60m/100m cham­pi­on was third in Reims on Wes­nes­day in 10.26.