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Chandra Sturrup |
Despite the mental and physical pain of falling in the 4x100 relay at the 10th IAAF World Championships last month since then Chandra Sturrup has shown the toughness of a true warrior.
She has been competing with her right wrist bandaged for some time since the incident but she continued to run well.
On Sunday at the final leg of the TDK Golden League Series in Berlin, Germany she turned in another good performance.
She ran 11.02 seconds to finish second behind Frances Christine Aaron who just nipped her in 11.01 seconds. American Me’Lisa Barber was third in 11.16.
Russia’s triple jumper Tatyana Lebedeva 29 won the one million dollar prize after winning at all six events. She leaped 14.85 metres for the win on Sunday. She also won in Paris, Rome, Oslo, Zurich and Brussels.
Lebedeva, who is the Olympic long jump champion, has a three-year old daughter and she says she plans donate 10% of the prize to her old school in Russia.
Lebedeva must still compete in the September 9-10 finale in Monaco to ensure she collects her prize money. She has become only the second athlete to claim the full jackpot after 800-metre runner Maria Matola in 2003.
In 2004 quarter-miler Tonique Williams-Darling won half of the jackpot. The jackpot was open to 12 events this year but not the women’s 400.
- Austin DWI - New York DWI