WIGNALL
BELEM, Brazil (CMC):
COMMONWEALTH Games champions Maurice Wignall and Sheri-Ann Brooks were among three Jamaican winners at the IAAF's Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Wignall topped the men's 110-metre-hurdles field in 13.43 seconds and Brooks landed the women's 200 metres in a personal season's best of 22.81 seconds.
Ainsley Waugh also produced a Jamaican win when he snatched a surprise victory in the men's 200 metres.
DIPPED AHEAD
Wignall, who won the Commonwealth Games title in Melbourne in March, dipped in ahead of American Joel Brown (13.57) in the men's sprint hurdles.
Brooks led a one-two finish for Jamaica in the women's 200 metres, as she won ahead of Peta-Gaye Dowdie (22.98). American Rachelle Boone-Smith was third in 23.02.
Waugh also ran his season's best as he clocked 20.49 seconds to beat Jamaican colleague and 2001 World Championship silver medallist Chris Williams (20.58) and Bahamian 2004 World Indoor champion Dominic Demeritte (20.83).
Waugh had placed second in the 100 metres in 10.35, chasing American winner Jason Smoots (10.24).
In the men's 400 hurdles, Jamaicans Dean Griffiths (50.74) and Gregory Little (61.97) placed second and seventh, respectively, as Raphael Francis of Brazil won in 50.71 seconds.
Gary Kikaya, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, won the men's 400 metres in 44.85 clocking, followed home by American Derrick Brew (45.31).
Jamaicans Sanjay Ayre (45.75) and Davian Clarke (45.97) got fourth and fifth, respectively.
CUBAN WIN
In the women's 400, Jamaican Lorraine Fenton posted her quickest time this year, 51.09 for second to Senegal's Amy Thiam (50.86).
Cuban world record holder and Olympic champion Osleidys Menendez (62.33 metres) and Sonia Bissett (61.27m) made it a Cuba one-two in the women's javelin in which Bahamian Lavern Eve got fifth at 57.48 metres.
