Chambers is fast: 6.50
14.02.2010 World
The first day of the UKA Aviva World trials in Sheffield brought a few interesting duels.
Dwain Chambers dominated men´s 60m dash, as he clocked in semi-finals 6.58s to win the first heat and even improving in the final to world leading 6.50, showing his back to Harry Aikines Aryeetey in 6.55s, a new PB, and third Craig Pickering with 6.66s. It is third successive UK title for Chambers. „It‘s nice but it‘s still early days, I‘m sure the Americans are going to come out and do something crazy,“ said Chambers. „It‘s nice to know I have made the team and can hopefully focus my attention towards Doha now. I‘ve made my fair share of mistakes, I just want to put that behind me now and concentrate on what‘s right for the sport. Me running fast is the best thing I can do. There‘s lots of things I wish I‘d done correctly but it‘s done now and I just want to do the best I can while I‘m in the sport. Running fast is what I enjoy doing and it spurs these guys on as well,“ he was quoted, writes David Martin. Trecia Smith from Jamaica won the women´s triple jump with 13.69m. Victory in women´s high jump went to Vicki Hubbard for 187. Kate Dennison was the strongest woman in pole vault winning with jump over 440m in her second attempt. Callum Priestley clocked 7.69 to beat the others in men´s 60m hurdles. Joice Maduaka was the fastest at 60m among women achieving 7.29s. In the men´s long jump, nobody broke 8 meters. Greg Rutherford was the closest one jumping into 794. Far behind him, second Christopher Tomlinson achieved 775. The final of 3000 m brought five PBs. Hazel Murphy from Ireland was the fastest woman winning in new PB 9:02.06, ahead of Gemma Turtle in 9:02.81.The new PB of 8:00.70 brought the gold medal to Andy Vernon beating the field at men´s 3000m. The Aviva World trials continues tomorrow with 14 finals.
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