Ottey ZAGREB, Croatia, CMC:
JAMAICA-BORN veteran Merlene Ottey captured the women's 100 metres in 11.42 seconds at the Zagreb IAAF Grand Prix meet on Monday.
Ottey, a two-time world 200-metre champion, now representing Slovenia, registered a close win over Austria's Karin Mayr (11.49) to land the women's sprint crown.
Meanwhile, Jamaican Kemel Thompson ran his second consecutive season's best time as he won the men's 400m hurdles in 48.24 seconds. Thompson bettered his Poznan win (48.28) last week to defeat American Joey Woody (48.45).
Ian Weakley, who kept Jamaica's Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championship officials waiting in vain for his arrival in Grenada this past weekend, appeared at the meet and finished fourth in 48.85 seconds. Ghana's Azuz Zakari won the men's 100 in 10.17.
Kenya's Faith Macharia won the women's 800m in one minute 59.80 seconds, with Burnett (2:01.71) second, and Suriname's reigning Pan American Games champion Letitia Vriesde placing fifth in 2:02.37.
Jamaica's Debbie-Ann Parris (56.62) finished fifth in the women's 400m hurdles which Britain's Natasha Danvers won in 54.32, and Dionne Rose-Henley, Jamaica's reigning CAC Games champion, was sixth behind American winner Melissa Morrison (12.72) in the women's 100m hurdles.
American Shawn Crawford won the men's 200m in 20.10 seconds.
