BERLIN, Germany, CMC – Trinidadian Richard Thompson won the men’s 100 metres at the ISTAF athletics meeting here yesterday, as the Caribbean swept both sprints.
Thompson, a double silver medallist at the Beijing Olympics six years ago, clocked a pedestrian 10.15 seconds to cross the line ahead of American Dentarious Locke who was timed at 10.16 seconds, and fellow Trinidadian Keston Bledman who was third in 10.23.
Thompson’s time was well off his 9.82 seconds posted at the National Championships in Port of Spain back in June, which was then the fastest time in the world this year.
Jamaican Kerron Stewart, meanwhile, narrowly won the women’s 100 metres, beating American Joanna Atkins into second in a tight finish.
