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Impressive Trecia Smith lands big jump
published: Thursday | July 27, 2006


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World triple jump champion Trecia Smith, Common-wealth Games champion Maurice Wignall and Novlene Williams were Jamaican winners at yesterday's GE Money Grand Prix in Helsinki, Finland.

Smith leapt a season best 15.05 metres to win the women's triple jump, beating her previous season best of 14.84m.

She finished ahead of Sudan's Yamile Aldama (14.61m) and Anastasiva Juravleva of Uzbekistan (14.33m).

The Jamaican's jump is also the third best this year, only behind two by Russian Olympic champion Tatyana Lebedeva (15.23, 15.19).

In the men's 110m hurdles, Wignall ran away with the event in 13.26 seconds. Wignall beat Americans David Oliver (13.33) and Aubrey Herring (10.40).

Williams, the Commonwealth Games bronze medallist, won the women's 400m in 51.02 seconds. Two-time World Championships silver medallist Lorraine Fenton was fourth in 51.94, while another Jamaican, Shereefa Lloyd, was sixth in 52.30.

In the men's long jump, national champion James Beckford leapt 7.99 metres for third. Ghana's Ignisious Gaisah won the event with a leap of 8.32m.

Dean Griffiths was second in the men's 400m hurdles in 49.10, beaten by American Kenneth Ferguson (48.84).

Steve Mullings, who recently resumed competitive racing following a two-year ban imposed by the Jamaica Athletic Amateur Association (JAAA) when his urine sample showed traces of a banned substance at the National Trials in 2004, finished fourth in the men's 100m in 10.36 seconds.

Nigerian Deji Aliu won the event in 10.28 seconds ahead of American Darvis Patton (10.32).

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