Carmelita Jeter and Sally Pearson live up to expectations at the Aviva London Grand Prix
At the Aviva London Grand Prix, Carmelita Jeter, the 31-year-old veteran sprinter from America, emerged against a strong field for clocking a 10.93 finish in the Women’s 100m final. Similarly, other performers who lived up to the expectations of their fans
were Sally Pearson, an Australian hurdler and Russian high jumper, Andrey Silnov.
Jeter, who was unstoppable at the Crystal Palace in London and who has bagged two bronze medals at the World Championships in 2007 and 2009, is vowing to embark on the championships title this year. The form and fitness she showed at Aviva London Grand Prix
was formidable, as the emphatic field she faced on the track was comprised of the best runners from Jamaica – the land of the sprinters.
For marking a top-podium finish, the American runner had to beat Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the gold medallist of the 2009 World Championships in Berlin, who, after running shoulder to shoulder against Jeter, could not keep her breath in the final 20m of the
race.
The Jamaican girl, who was tipped-off for a leading finish could not fall even for a second place as Kelly-Ann Baptiste, the runner from Trinidad earned this privilege for stopping the clock in 10.97 seconds. Fraser Pryce ended up third for covering the
desired distance in no later than 11.10 seconds.
After finishing at the top of the podium, a confident Jeter said, “I’m going to Daegu running great, but I know that the other girls are running great too. My start wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be, but it was better than all of last year.”
In the hurdling competition, Pearson observed an impressive and ever dominating finish of 12.58 seconds. A run where each athlete was bent upon annihilating the other displayed close results as Danielle Carruthers, the second placed runner from America also
clocked 12.67 seconds, while Tiffany Ofili-Porter ended up bagging the third place for hitting the finishing line in 12.78 seconds.
Australian runner, Pearson, who has been leading the world list for a finishing time of 12.48 seconds, was rather disappointed over her finishing time. However, she was confident about improving this time further by the start of the Daegu event. Expressing
her views, she said, “I’m slightly disappointed with my time today, but hopefully I can run quicker in Korea.”
Finally, another world-class performance in London was observed by Russian high jumper, Andrey Silnov. The performance displayed by Silnov, the 2008 Olympic champion, could only add up to the noise of electrified spectators at the Crystal Palace track in
London. The Russian athlete’s victory came with the depiction of a season’s best 2.36m, leaving far behind his close rival, Jesse Williams from America.
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