Jamaicans win meets in Berlin

Nesta Carter, Sherone Simpson and Jermaine Gonzales kept the Jamaican flag flying high internationally, when they won their respective events at the (IAAF) World Challenge Series yesterday at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany.



Olympic silver medallist Simpson looking a lot fitter, after injury slowed her down early in the season, posted her first victory since the national championships in May.



Simpson powered through the last 15 metres to win the women's 100 metres in 11.09 seconds ahead of Trinidad and Tobago's Kelly-Ann Baptiste by five hundredths-of-a-second.



Carter clocked 9.96 seconds to lead home Mario Forsythe in the men's 100 for a Jamaican one-two finish.



Forsythe finished in 10.11, and was just ahead of T and T's Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson, whose time was 10.18.



Gonzales rebounded from defeat last Thursday in Zurich at the hands of American Jeremy Wariner to take an easy victory in the men's 400 in 44.90.



Meanwhile, Jamaicans Kaliese Spencer and Shericka Williams followed American Debbie Dunn home in the women's 400.



Spencer chose to run the flat 400, after being crowned the best 400 hurdler for the year at the IAAF Diamond League in Zurich, Switzerland, and gave Dunn quite a scare.



The two ran stride-for-stride to the wire, but Dunn prevailed in a time of 50.56, just eight hundredths-of-a-second ahead of Spencer, with Williams third in 50.85.