Bracy wins 100 metres in Beijing after Gatlin withdrawal
Marvin Bracy clocked 9.95 seconds to win men's 100 metres at the World Challenge Beijing meet.
BEIJING (AP) - Marvin Bracy clocked 9.95 seconds to win the men s 100 metres at the World Challenge Beijing meet Wednesday, a day after American teammate Justin Gatlin withdrew from the event.
Bracy beat Mike Rodgers by four hundredths of a second, with Chinese sprinter Su Bingtian taking third in 10.06 at the Bird s Nest, which will also host the world championships in August.
Gatlin had arrived for the meet with an injury concern after running a world-leading 9.74 in Doha, Qatar, on Friday.
In other men s results, Kenya s Jonathan Muia Ndiku won the steeplechase in 8:11.64, Alexis Copello of Cuba recorded 16.70 metres to clinch the triple jump title and Petr Frydrych of the Czech Republic won the javelin with a throw of 83.10 metres.
The women s 100 was won by Michelle-Lee Ahye of Trinidad and Tobago in 11.05, ahead of ChaRonda Williams of the United States and Schillonie Calvert of Jamaica.
Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica, who skipped the 100, expectedly won the 200 easily with a time of 22.60, leaving American Kaylin Whitney and Jamaican Schillonie Calvert to take the second and third places.
World-record holder Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland won the women s hammer with a throw of 77.73 metres.
The 29-year-old Wlodarczyk, world champion in 2009 and the reigning Olympic and world silver medalist, won comfortably with China s Wang Zheng second with 73.99 and Martina Hrasnova of Slovakia third with 73.80.
Zhang Wenxiu, the 2008 Beijing Olympic bronze medalist, finished sixth.
In the women s shot put, Christina Schwanitz of Germany recorded a world-leading 20.77 metres to avenge her loss to China s Gong Lijiao at the Shanghai Diamond League meet on Sunday.
