T&T's Michelle-Lee Ahye clocked 11.05 seconds to win the women 100 metres yesterday at the World Challenge Beijing meet at the Bird's Nest, which will also host the world championships in August.
The local sprinter finished ahead of ChaRonda Williams of the United States and Schillonie Calvert of Jamaica, who crossed in 11.28 and 11.42, respectively.
Ahye gave a much improved performance from the weekend, when she placed third in 11.13 in the same event at the Shanghai Diamond League. Winning was Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare in 10.98 and she was followed by USA's Tori Bowie in 11.07.
Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica, who skipped the 100, expectedly won the 200 easily with a time of 22.60, leaving American Kaylin Whitney (23.06) and Jamaican Schillonie Calvert (23.12) to take the second and third places.
The men's 100 was won by Marvin Bracy, a day after American teammate Justin Gatlin withdrew from the event. Bracy clocked 9.95 seconds to beat Mike Rodgers by four hundredths of a second, with Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian taking third in 10.06
Gatlin had arrived for the meet with an injury concern after running a world-leading 9.74 in Doha, Qatar, on Friday.
In other men's results, Kenya's Jonathan Muia Ndiku won the steeplechase in 8:11.64, Alexis Copello of Cuba recorded 16.70 meters to clinch the triple jump title and Petr Frydrych of the Czech Republic won the javelin with a throw of 83.10 metres.
World-record holder Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland won the women's hammer with a throw of 77.73 meters.
The 29-year-old Wlodarczyk, world champion in 2009 and the reigning Olympic and world silver medalist, won comfortably with China's Wang Zheng second with 73.99 and Martina Hrasnova of Slovakia third with 73.80.
Zhang Wenxiu, the 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medalist, finished sixth.
In the women's shot put, Christina Schwanitz of Germany recorded a world-leading 20.77 meters to avenge her loss to China's Gong Lijiao at the Shanghai Diamond League meet on Sunday.