The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

On Father’s Day, Shaunae Miller-Uibo repeated as the 150 metre champion at the 2019 Adidas Boston Games.

In Sunday’s race, Miller-Uibo stopped the clock in 16.37 seconds, but it was shy of the 16.23 that she posted in winning last year’s race.

Miller-Uibo, 25, also had some Bahamian flavour in the race as Tynia Gaither finished fourth in 16.84. Last year, Gaither contested the women’s 200m where she was fourth as well in 22.86.

Coming in second and third respectively in between Miller-Uibo and Gaither were Trinidad & Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye in 16.60 and American Shania Collins in 16.83.

It was Miller-Uibo’s third consecutive victory in the meet that got started in 2016. In 2017, Miller-Uibo stopped the clock in 21.76 to take the victory in the 200m.

The Bahamas had one other competitor entered in the meet, but Steven Gardiner was unsuccessful in defending his title in the men’s 200m.

Gardiner, coming off an Achilles tendon injury that prevented him from running on the men’s 4 x 400m relay at the IAAF World Relays, had to settle for third place in 20.49.

Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes won the race in 20.00 with Trinidad & Tobago’s Kyle Greaux taking second in 20.09.

Last year, Gardiner won the race in 19.88. The year before in 2017, Gardiner slipped coming out of the blocks and ended up finishing fifth in the 200m in 31.28.

The Boston Games is staged on an elevated straight track constructed along Boylston Street between Exeter and Clarendon Streets where the fans watch from only feet away from the track. It’s the only event held of its kind.

Thomas tenth

At the Rabat Diamond League Grand Prix Meeting, Donald Thomas was last in a field of 10 competitors with a leap of 2.15 metres or 7-feet, 0 1/2-inch in the men’s high jump. It was the same height as Sylvester Bednarek, but the Polish jumper beat out Thomas on fewer knockdowns.

Ukraine’s Bohdan Bondarenko clinched the title with 2.28m (7-5 3/4), the same height as three other competitors. But he also had fewer knockdowns on the count back.

Thomas was the lone Bahamian competing in the sixth meet in the IAAF Diamond League series that started in Doha, Qatar, the site for the 2019 IAAF World Championships in September.