Parchment, Ricketts record wins at Zagreb meet
World Championships finalists Hansle Parchment and Shanieka Ricketts were winners on Sunday as the 73rd Boris Hanzekovic Memorial — a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet — came to an end at Sports Park Mladost in Zagreb, Croatia.
Both athletes, who were coming off top performances, delivered with good wins. There were podium finishes for another five Jamaicans — Oblique Seville, Tajay Gayle, Kimberly Williams, Candice McLeod, and Fedrick Dacres.
Parchment, the World Championships silver medallist, held off bronze medallist Daniel Roberts of the United States to win the 110m hurdles with 13.13 seconds (0.0m/s), two hundredths of a second ahead of the American who clocked 13.15.
Another World Championships finalist, Frenchman Wilhem Belocian, was third in 13.30.
After setting her lifetime best 15.01m two days prior, it took 14.53m (0.2m/s) for Ricketts to win her third-consecutive competition.
The Jamaican had just two legal jumps — the other was 14.22m (-0.3m/s) — to beat Italy’s Dariya Derkach who had a best of 14.07m (0.3m/s). Ricketts’ compatriot Kimberly Williams placed third with 13.70m (-0.2m/s).
Seville had the tables turned on him as he was second in the men’s 100m in 10.07 seconds (0.9m/s), beaten by Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala (9.94). The order had been in reverse in Reverto, Italy, on Wednesday.
Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy was third in 10.08 and Rohan Watson was seventh in 10.32.
World Championships finalist and relay medallist McLeod ran 50.94, but was just edged on the line in the women’s 400m by Great Britain’s Laviai Nielsen who clocked 50.93. Ireland’s Sharlene Mawdsley ran a personal best 51.09 for third.
Dacres rallied in the fifth round with 66.54m to get second place in the men’s discus throw, as World Championships medallist Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia won with 68.48m. Matthew Denny of New Zealand was third with 65.25m.
On Friday’s first day of the meet, Gayle, the World Championships bronze medallist, was second in the men’s long jump with a best mark of 8.07m (-0.8m/s).
Croatia’s Filip Pravdica equalled his personal best 8.09m (0.1m/s) to win, while American William Williams finished third with 7.99m (0.0m/s).
Amoi Brown finished fourth in the 100m hurdles with 12.78 (-0.7m/s) as World Championships silver medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico broke the meet record with 12.47. She went under the 12.60 set in 1999 by Olga Sisigina of Kazakhstan.
Nadine Visser of Holland, who won the 100m earlier, was second in 12.64. Poland’s Pia Skrzyszowska took third in 12.73.
Michael Campbell finished eighth in the men’s 200m in 21.24 (0.6m/s). American Kyree King won with 20.10, ahead of his compatriot Brandon Carnes (20.19). Canadian Brendon Rodney was third in 20.42 seconds.
On Saturday, national record holder Rajindra Campbell placed 10th in the men’s shot put with 19.81m.
New Zealand’s Tom Walsh threw 22.46m to beat World Championships medallists Joe Kovacs (21.72m) of the USA. Leonardo Fabbri of Italy threw 21.55m.