US's Gail Devers clears a hurdle on her way to winning the women's 100 metre hurdles event at the Stockholm grand prix athletics meeting yesterday with a time of 12.42 seconds. Jamaican Bridgette Foster (12.49) was second. - ReutersJAMAICA'S LORRAINE Fenton continued her good form in Europe yesterday with victory in the 400 metres at the annual DN Galan track and field meet at Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, Sweden.
The World and Olympic 400 metres silver medallist won the one-lap event in 50.13, well ahead of Kaltouma Nadjima of Chad who clocked 51.01. The US pair of Monique Hennegan and Suzianne Reid were third and fourth in 51.43 and 51.68 respectively.
Jamaican 100m hurdler Bridgette Foster also turned in a top-notch performance at the event.
Foster clocked 12.49, a national record, to finish behind American Gail Devers, who maintained her dominance by winning the 100m hurdles in 12.42. Third and fourth went to two other US athletes, Anjanette Kirkland, who clocked 12.63 and Jenny Adams who did 12.88.
Jamaica's Tayna Lawrence, the Sydney Games 100metres bronze medallist, Beverley McDonald, Michael Blackwood and World Championship bronze medallist Gregory Haughton finished down the track in their events.
Lawrence ended up fifth in the 100m in 11.22 and McDonald finished sixth in 11.24. The event was won by Zhanna Pintusevich-Bock of Ukraine who clocked 10.91 ahead of Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas (11.10).
Blackwood clocked 45.20 for fifth in the 400m and Haughton was sixth in 45.21. American Alvin Harrison won the one-lap event in 44.57 ahead of another American, Leonard Byrd in 44.82.
