Aaron Brown scored his first win of the season. The Canadian sprinter won the 200m in Nairobi in 20.05 seconds on Saturday.
Brown edged American Kyree King (20.18) and Batswana Isaab Makwala (20.31).
This is the first 200m race in 2022 for the 29-year-old Toronto native.
The meeting in Nairobi was an event of the Continental World Tour, the second division of world athletics, behind the Diamond League.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce led the 100m
Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, an eight-time Olympic medalist, ran her first 100m of the season in Nairobi in 10.67 seconds, an impressive time, the world’s best performance of the year.
On the track in the Kenyan capital, the 35-year-old sprinter, Olympic vice-champion in the straight line in Tokyo last summer, was crushed in the race. New sprint sensation, Namibian Christine Mboma (18), abruptly stopped her effort mid -race before falling and evacuating, apparently injured.
At 10.67 s despite slightly bad winds (-0.4 m / s), Fraser-Pryce approached her personal best (10.60 in August 2021 in Lausanne) early in the season.
Only four other athletes have run faster in history than her daily time, some of them several times: Americans Marion Jones (best time at 10.65) and Carmelita Jeter ( 10.64), her compatriot Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah (10.54), and controversial world record holder, American Florence Griffith-Joyner (10.49).
Source: Radio-Canada
