The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Chief Sports Editor

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

World indoor 60 metre hurdles champion and record holder Devynne Charlton announced yesterday that she will shut down the rest of her season after suffering a “fracture in her foot” in her last meet in Rome last week.

Charlton, 28, was competing in her first meet since the Olympic Games in Paris, France, on Friday at the Wanda Diamond League Meet when she stumbled running over the ninth of the 10 flights of hurdles in the women’s 100m hurdles.

As she approached the final hurdle, Charlton pushed her way through and eventually tumbled and rolled over just before the final line and was unable to complete the race.

On her social media account, Charlton said she was “super disappointed” to share the news that she has to “cut the rest of my outdoor season short.”

She went on to explain exactly what caused her to shut down her season.

“I had a little mishap in Rome where I landed awkwardly coming off a hurdle and sustained a fracture in my foot,” she said. 

“I was hoping it was just a sprained ankle that I could power through but for my long term health, it’s best to call it a season.”

Charlton thanked the medical team at @weltklassezurich for taking good care of her.

During the meet, Charlton got off to a great start and was in contention with a quality field of competitors that was similar to the line-up in Paris.

But as she stumbled and fell, Jamaican Ackera Nugent powered through the finish line to pull off the win in a personal best of 12.24 seconds for a national record.

Nugent, in redeeming herself as she had a similar fall in Paris and wasn’t able to finish the race at the Olympics, also produced the world-leading time, surpassing the previous best of 12.25 by American Olympic champion Masai Russell, the meet record of 12.37 by Puerto Rico’s Olympic bronze medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, whose time was 12.37.

Russell, the training partner of Charlton in Lexington, Kentucky, who ran 12.33 for the gold in Paris, was second in 12.31, while the Netherlands’ Nadine Visser, who was short of the medal stand at the Olympics in fourth in 12.43, got third in 12.52 in Rome. Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France, who was fourth in Paris in 12.57, finished in that same spot in 12.57 and American Alaysha Johnson, seventh in Paris, came through for fifth in 12.66.