The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

AFTER running in the pack in the women’s 200 metres on Friday, sprinter Anthonique Strachan didn’t have it to contend in the 100 two days later as she competed in a pair of Diamond League meets over the weekend.

In the final meet before the World Athletics’ World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, next month, Strachan competed in the women’s 100 metres in London, England, where she placed eighth in a time of 11.13. Marie-Josee Ta-Lou stunned the field in a meet record and season’s best of 10.75.

Great Britain’s Dana Asher-Smith was second in her season’s best of 10.85 and Jamaican Shericka Jackson took third in 10.94.

“It’s the 100m. Honestly there’s nothing for me to take from it,” said Strachan, whose specialty is the 200m.

“I started and before I processed anything, it was over. Nothing happened in the race. The competition is always what it is. It is great. I love it.”

Strachan, 29, was coming off a fourth place finish in the 200 metres at the Monaco Diamond League meeting in 22.40.

Jackson took the tape in 21.86 ahead of St Lucía’s NCAA double sprint queen Julien Alfred, who did 22.08. Asher-Smith was third in a season’s best of 22.23. After the race, Strachan pointed out that “everything is going good.”

She added that she doesn’t “have expectations. I’m just trying out things now.”

But she admitted that the “competition was great as always.”

A trio of Americans. including national champion Gabreille Thomas, trailed the international field as Kayla White was tied with Great Britain’s Daryll Neita for fifth in 22.54.

Thomas did 22.67 for seventh and Tamara Clark was eighth in 22.83.

Strachan, the national sprint champion, is now focusing on the World Champions August 19-27 in Budapest.

“I feel good,” said Strachan, who has rejuvinated her career after moving to Jamaica to train. “I’m going back to full training and work on things I discovered, but I feel good.”