Foster-Hylton in seventh heaven

Published: Saturday | September 26, 2009 DAEGU, South Korea (CMC): World champion Brigitte Foster-Hylton streaked to her seventh consecutive victory and led a quartet of English-speaking Caribbean winners at the Pre-Championship Daegu track and field international meeting yesterday. In spite of a headwind of -0.5 metres per second, Foster-Hylton won the 100-metre hurdles in a new championship record 12.60 seconds, and her Jamaican colleague Dwight Thomas took the men's sprint hurdles in 13.36 seconds. Bahamians Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Leevan Sands captured the women's 200 and men's triple jump, respectively, and in-form Americans Tyson Gay and Carmelita Jeter registered championship record wins in the 100-metre races. maintained supremacy The 34-year-old Foster-Hylton maintained her supremacy over the American Olympic... [read full story]                    

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