Jamaicans got the biggest, most pleasant surprise of the World Championships today, when Brigitte Foster-Hylton, came first in the finals of the women's 110m Hurdles. She won the event (and the gold medal), in 12.51 secs.
Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep and Jamaican, Delloreen Ennis-London, got silver and bronze, respectively, in times of 12.54 and 12.55 secs.
Jamaica is now second in the number of medals, with a medal tally of 7: 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. The USA is above us with a medal tally of 8: 3 gold, 2 silver and 3 bronze.
Brigitte had retired from the event after a disappointing result in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the fact that she only seemed able to get silver and bronze medals in this event, in major championships. She however came out of retirement at the insistence of her family and her coach, Stephen Francis.
Brigitte didn't even know that she had won as the race, as it was a close one and she said she just closed her eyes and powered through to the finish-line, so she didn't see that she had won.
She became the first woman in history to win gold, silver and bronze in the World Championships, in this event.
Other Results for Today
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Ricardo Chambers just failed to qualify for the finals of the 400m (men) with a time of 45.13 secs
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Usain Bolt and Steve Mullings qualified for the finals of the 200m (men), in times of 20.08 secs and 20.26 secs, respectively.
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Dwight Thomas and Maurice Wignall qualified for the Semi-Finals of the 110m Hurdles(men) in times of 13.57 secs and 13.62 secs, respectively. Unfortunately, Richard Phillips did not qualify with his time of 13.70 secs.
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Simone Facey, Anneisha McLaughlin and Veronica Campbell-Brown qualified for the Semi-Finals of the 200m (women) in times of 22.83 secs, 22.91 secs and 23.01 secs, respectively.
Events for Tomorrow
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Alain Bailey and Nicholas Gordon will compete in Groups A and B of the Long Jump, respectively. They will seek to qualify for the event - the top 12 men qualify for the Semi-finals of the event. The event starts at 11:10 a.m.
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Dwight Thomas and Maurice Wignall will run in Semi-Final Heats 2 and 3, respectively, in the 110m Hurdles (men) at 1:23 p.m and 1:31 p.m., Jamaica time.
The finals will be run at 1:55 p.m.
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Veronica Campbell-Brown, Anneisha McLaughlin and Simone Facey will compete in the Semi-Final Heats 1,2 and 3, respectively, at 12:50 p.m., 12:56 p.m. and 1:02 p.m., Jamaica time.
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Melaine Walker and Kaliese Spencer will compete in the finals of the 400m (women) at 1:15 p.m. Jamaica time.
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Usain Bolt and Steve Mullings will compete in the 200m (men) finals at 1:35 p.m., Jamaica time.
Gillian
(I would like to thank olliemadonna for the use of her YouTube inset video above, of Brigitte Foster-Hylton winning the 100m Hurdles).
Sources Include
1) Television Jamaica's coverage of the 12th IAAF 2009 World Championships, August 19, 2009
2) CVM Television's coverage of the 12th IAAF 2009 World Championships, August 19,2009
3) 12th IAAF 2009 World Championships Schedule and Results at iaaf.org
