JULIEN Alfred, Megan Tapper and Jordan Scott were among the top Caribbean performers at Friday’s Monaco Diamond League.
Alfred, St. Lucia’s reigning Olympic champion, rebounded from her loss at last week’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene with 10.79, her third straight sub 10.8 clocking, to comfortably take the 100m ahead of American Jacious Sears (11.02) and New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs (11.12).
The women’s 100m hurdles saw Jamaica’s Tapper, fresh from her fourth Jamaican title, dominate a loaded field in her first Diamond League appearance of the season.
The 2021 Olympic bronze medallist produced a personal best of 12.34 to take top spot ahead of Switzerland’s Ditaji Kambundji (12.43) and the Netherlands’ Nadine Visser (12.56).
Elsewhere on the track, Jamaica’s Nickisha Pryce, who also defended her National title recently, ran a season’s best 49.63 for third in the women’s 400m behind American Aaliyah Butler (49.09) and the Dominican Republic’s reigning World and Olympic champion, Marileidy Paulino (49.06).
In the field, Jordan Scott continued his career-best season with another personal best to claim top spot in the triple jump.
Scott opened his series with 16.79m in the first round before getting out to 17.10m in round two.
He then produced 16.81m in round three before a foul in round four.
In round five, Scott entered a new stratosphere in the event, leaping out to a then-personal best 17.44m to take the lead from Algeria’s Yasser Mohammed Triki.