SPRINTER Anthonique Strachan in action.
#By BRENT STUBBS
#Senior Sports Reporter
#bstubbs@tribunemedia.net
#AFTER running in the pack in the women’s 200 metres on Friday, sprinter Anthonique Strachan didn’t have it to contend in the 100 two days later as she competed in a pair of Diamond League meets over the weekend.
#In the final meet before the World Athletics’ World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, next month, Strachan competed in the women’s 100 metres in London, England, where she placed eighth in a time of 11.13. Marie-Josee Ta-Lou stunned the field in a meet record and season’s best of 10.75.
#Great Britain’s Dana Asher-Smith was second in her season’s best of 10.85 and Jamaican Shericka Jackson took third in 10.94.
#“It’s the 100m. Honestly there’s nothing for me to take from it,” said Strachan, whose specialty is the 200m.
#“I started and before I processed anything, it was over. Nothing happened in the race. The competition is always what it is. It is great. I love it.”
#Strachan, 29, was coming off a fourth place finish in the 200 metres at the Monaco Diamond League meeting in 22.40.
#Jackson took the tape in 21.86 ahead of St Lucía’s NCAA double sprint queen Julien Alfred, who did 22.08. Asher-Smith was third in a season’s best of 22.23. After the race, Strachan pointed out that “everything is going good.”
#She added that she doesn’t “have expectations. I’m just trying out things now.”
#But she admitted that the “competition was great as always.”
#A trio of Americans. including national champion Gabreille Thomas, trailed the international field as Kayla White was tied with Great Britain’s Daryll Neita for fifth in 22.54.
#Thomas did 22.67 for seventh and Tamara Clark was eighth in 22.83.
#Strachan, the national sprint champion, is now focusing on the World Champions August 19-27 in Budapest.
#“I feel good,” said Strachan, who has rejuvinated her career after moving to Jamaica to train. “I’m going back to full training and work on things I discovered, but I feel good.”