NEW YORK CITY, New York, USA – De­vynne Charl­ton of the Ba­hamas and Jereem Richards of Trinidad & To­ba­go were the on­ly two ath­letes from the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean to grab wins at the Mill­rose Games in­door ath­let­ics meet on Sat­ur­day.

Charl­ton con­tin­ued her strong start to the ath­let­ics sea­son with a win in the women’s 60 me­tres hur­dles, and world in­door cham­pi­on Richards avenged his loss last week to Amer­i­can Noah Williams in the men’s 400m.

Charl­ton, 27, the on­ly hur­dler from North Amer­i­ca in the race, clocked 7.91 sec­onds for her sec­ond suc­ces­sive win in the event, fol­low­ing her suc­cess last Sat­ur­day at the World Ath­let­ics In­door Tour Gold meet in the Amer­i­can city of Boston.

Tonea Mar­shall of the Unit­ed States ran a sea­son’s best time of 7.94 secs to fin­ish 0.02 sec­onds ahead of her com­pa­tri­ot Shari­ka Nelvis, who edged Olympic sprint hur­dles sil­ver medal­list and fel­low Amer­i­can Nia Ali by one hun­dredth-of-a-sec­ond.

Richards, 29, the Trinidad & To­ba­go Sport Per­son­al­i­ty-of-the-Year for 2022, ran a sea­son’s best of 45.84 to beat Amer­i­can Noah Williams, who clocked 46.20, in the quar­ter mile.

On­ly 0.004 sec­onds sep­a­rat­ed the pair last Sat­ur­day in Boston, and Richards may have felt re­as­sured about his form af­ter dis­miss­ing the chal­lenge of Williams this time.

Williams clocked 46.20s this time with com­pa­tri­ots Bryce Dead­mon (46.34s) hold­ing on to bronze and Je’von Hutchin­son (48.55s) fourth.

Last week, Richards and Williams both stopped the clock on 45.88s but the for­mer was edged in­to sil­ver medal po­si­tion by frac­tions of a sec­ond.

Travis Williams of Ja­maica fin­ished sec­ond in a per­son­al best time of 6.59 in the men’s 60m dash, which was won by world record-hold­er Chris­t­ian Cole­man of the Unit­ed States in a sea­son’s best of 6.47, with Jose­phus Lyles third in 6.593.

Lyles’ el­der broth­er, Noah was charged with a false start and ran the race un­der protest, clock­ing 6.53, but the time did not count.

Lyles, the U.S. record-hold­er in the 200m out­doors, ad­mit­ted a lit­tle bit of move­ment, but he said his feet nev­er left the pad.

Leah An­der­son of Ja­maica clocked 36.68 to fin­ish third in the women’s 300 in which Ab­by Stein­er claimed broke the U.S. record.

Stein­er, run­ning on­ly her sec­ond 300, held off a spir­it­ed chal­lenge from com­pa­tri­ot Brit­tany Brown to fin­ish in 35.54 and eas­i­ly go un­der the five-year-old mark of 35.71 set by Quan­era Hayes. Brown ran 36.13.

(CMC)