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#Belgrade22 | Odds-on favourite Danielle Williams out

Published:Saturday | March 19, 2022 | 7:06 AM
Danielle Williams, of Jamaica, breaks a hurdle while competing in a Women's 60-metre hurdles heat at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, earlier today. At left is Kreete Verlin, of Estonia, and at right is Helena Jiranova, of the
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Danielle Williams, of Jamaica, breaks a hurdle while competing in a Women's 60-metre hurdles heat at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, earlier today. At left is Kreete Verlin, of Estonia, and at right is Helena Jiranova, of the Czech Republic.

Jamaica's women had mixed fortunes in the preliminary round of the Women's 60 metre hurdles in Belgrade as World number one, Danielle Williams, was out, while Britany Anderson finished third in her Heat in 8.10 seconds to advance to this afternoon's semi finals.

Unbeaten all season in the event after winning eight races, Wiliams, who came to the Championships as howling favouriite for the gold medal with a time of 7.75 seconds, ran into early problems, hitting the top of hurdle three.

Williamswould lose momentum, fail to recover and clatter into hurdle four, breaking it.

That was too much and Williams decelerated rapidly to finish sixth in 8.23 seconds.