Alysson Felix won going away from the pack, with a world leading 21.81s in the women’s 200M but Veronica Campbell ran strongly to secure her medal. She ran a season’s best 22.34s to secure Silver. Susanthika Jayasinghe made a late surge to secure bronze, outleaning Torri Edwards on the line in 22.63s.

After a spirited challenge on Tyson Gay in the early part of the race, Gay proved too much and Bolt had to settle for second. Bolt clocked 19.91s at the end behind Gay’s new championship record of 19.76s. Wallace Spearmon, after a false start, never really got back into the race and finished just ahead of Rodney Martin at 20.05.

A keenly contested women’s 100M hurdles saw Ennis-London running a personal best,12.50s , to captured 3rd. Ahead of her were Michelle Perry (USA) in 12.46s and Perdita Felicien (CAN) in 12.49s.

With a jump of 2.35m, Donald Thomas left his mark in Osaka by capturing the men’s high jump ahead of Yaraslav Rybakov of Russia and Kyriakos Ioannou of Cyprus. All three contestants pinned the World Leading mark for this season but Thomas with the least tries to that height took home the hardware.

Despite a spirited run and beating her rival Deedee Trotter, Novlene Williams could only manage to mine a bronze in a time of 49.66s. A visibly disappointed Williams ran from the front for most of the race but was pipped on the line by the British pair of Christine Ohuruogu and Nicola Sanders who finished 1 and 2 respectively.

The Dominican Republic was not to be outdone in Osaka. They mined their first medal on the track with a silver medal from their very own Felix Sanchez. Sanchez ran a season’s best 48.01s to cop the medal ahead of Marek Plawgo of Poland 48.12s and behind Trinidadian born Kerron Clement 47.61s who now runs for the USA.

Veronica Campbell of Jamaica continued to add to the legend that is now the Jamaican track program by winning her event at the World Championships in Osaka. Campbell clocked 11.01 to take the event. The photo finish which had Torri Edwards, Lauryn Williams and Carmelita Jeter contesting the medal had both Campbell and Williams clocking 11.01. Campbell did just enough to pip Williams on the line, however, making a sterling run from the back of the pack after a bad start. Read more here

Asafa Powell had to settle for third best at the World Championships. Any other day, 9.96 probably would have cut it to top the podium but not this day as Gay ran close to his personal best at 9.85 with Atkins coming in to pip Powell on the line as well setting a new national record at 9.91. Read more here

St. Lucia has but one athlete bearing the flag on their behalf at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Osaka Japan. Levern Spencer is not to be outdone  in the hopes and dreams department, however, and we salute her stance and her previous accomplishments here at Windies Sports. Read more about her here.

Jamaica’s Under 19 Cricketers captured the Limited Overs Trophy at the recently concluded TCL  West Indies Regional Under 19 challenge in Antigua. They dedicated the victory to the victims of Hurricane Dean back home in Jamaica. Read more about them here.