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The in-form Stacey-Ann Williams will be hoping for more success when she leads four Jamaicans into today's Paris Diamond League, the eighth stop on the Wanda Diamond League circuit, to be held inside the Charlety Stadium.
Fresh off her first national senior 400m title a week ago in Kingston, Williams followed up that good form with an impressive win two days ago in Zagreb at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet, where she raced to a new personal best and meet record, 49.48 seconds.
The second-fastest Jamaican female in the one-lap event this season and fifth in the world, Williams, who will take to the track at 11:39 a.m. Jamaica time, will face the likes of Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic and Lurdes Gloria Manuel of the Czech Republic, who have both gone sub-50 this season. Paulino, the Paris Olympic 400m champion, opened her season recently with 48.93 seconds, the second-fastest time in the world behind world leader Dejanea Oakley of Jamaica with 48.79. Manuel has a season's best of 49.74.
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