TAYLOR...clocked 45.52 seconds behind 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James of Grenada who won with 44.78 seconds<strong>Photo:Observer file</strong>
June 16, 2022
Christopher Taylor third in Oslo
Olympic Games finalist Christopher Taylor was the best placed Jamaican at Thursday’s Oslo Diamond League meeting at the Bislett Stadium, placing third in the men’s 400m.
World Championships silver medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd was fourth in the shot put, Natoya Goule-Toppin was sixth in the women’s 800m while Omar McLeod failed to show for the 110m hurdles event.
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Taylor, who was running his third race in Europe in the last two weeks, clocked 45.52 seconds behind 2012 Olympic champion Kirani James of Grenada who won with 44.78 seconds with Botswana’s Isaac Makwala second with 45.45 seconds.
Thomas-Dodd’s first-round effort of 19.04m was good enough for fourth and was in second for most of the competition until big efforts in the latter rounds.
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American Chase Ealy threw a personal best 20.13m in the final round after she had thrown 19.66m in the third round to win, Jessica Schilder threw a Dutch national record 19.46m for second and Portugal’s Auriol Dongmo was third with 19.43m.
Goule-Toppin ended up sixth with 1:59.31 seconds after being well placed in third place with just under 100 metres to go as Great Britain’s Olympic silver medallist Keely Hodgkinson won with a season’s best 1:57.71 seconds, her compatriot Laura Muir was second with 1:58.09 seconds and France’s Renelle Lamote was third with 1:58.50 seconds.
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Botswana’s Isaac Makwala (left), Grenada’s Kirani James (centre) and Netherlands’ Liemarvin Bonevacia compete in the men’s 400m at the Bislett Games 2022, Diamond League athletics meeting in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday. (Photo: AFP)
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