Thompson wins Lausanne 100m after start fiasco

LAUSANNE, Switzerland: Double Olympic sprint champion Elaine Thompson overcame a start fiasco to produce a dominant run to win her favoured 100m at the Lausanne Diamond League meet on Thursday.

Thompson timed 10.78sec for the comfortable victory, American Jenna Prandini in second in 11.11sec.

Thompson’s teammate Omar McLeod was trumped in the men’s 110m hurdles by Cuba-born Spaniard Orlando Ortega. Lashawn Merritt raced 44.50sec to seal victory in the one-lap race.

European 100m champion Churandy Martina ran a Dutch record of 19.81sec as he blasted to victory in the men’s 200m.

Running in lane seven, the Dutchman came off a good bend and maintained his composure to motor past Panama’s Alonso Edward.

Elsewhere, there were wins for Jamaican Asafa Powell in the men’s 100m (9.96sec) and American Sam Hendricks in the pole vault, his best of 5.92m pushing France’s Renaud Lavillenie into second.

And Darya Klishina, Russia’s sole competitor in Rio, made the podium in the women’s long jump, finishing third with a best of 6.50m in a competition won by Serbia’s Olympic bronze medallist Ivana Spanovic (6.83).