World champion Sha’Carri Richardson won her first 100m of the Olympic season on Saturday, clocking 10.83sec at the Eugene Diamond League where Kenyan Beatrice Chebet shattered the 10,000m world record.
Richardson, who won the world title last August in her personal-best of 10.65sec, was coming off a pair of sluggish 200m performances in China.
But she signaled her intentions for next month’s US Olympic trials with the second-fastest time of the year behind American Jacious Sears’s 10.77 in April and came out on top of a stacked field in which Jamaica’s Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Elain Thompson-Herah finished last in 11.30.
Mayela continued her build up to a home Olympics with a win in the 100m hurdles, matching her national record of 12.52, with Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico settling for second in 12.54.
Camacho-Quinn, who was denied world championships gold last year by Jamaica’s Danielle Williams, was just one one-hundredth of a second ahead of third-placed Tonea Marshall of the United States.
Three-time and reigning world champion Grant Holloway of the United States won the 110m hurdles in a world leading 13.03sec as Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Hansle Parchment of Jamaica was relegated to fourth.
Holloway delivered a dominant performance to finish a tenth of a second ahead of compatriot Daniel Roberts. American Freddie Crittenden was third in 13.16 while Parchment clocked 13.28.
“It’s definitely a building block but I think I could be better,” Holloway said.
Kenyan Daniel Manteiko booked his trip to Paris with a victory in the men’s 10,000 in world leading 26:50.81.
Other season leading performances included Ethiopian Tsigie Gebreselama’s women’s 5,000m victory in 14:18.76, Ugandan Peruth Chemutai’s win in the women’s 3,000m steeplechase in 8:55.09 and American Joe Kovacs’ winning shot put of 23.13m.
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