Jamaica well represented in Ultimate 100m finals

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica will be well represented in the men’s and women’s 100m finals on Saturday’s second day of the inaugural Ultimate Championships at the National Athletics Center in Budapest, Hungary.

World Champion Oblique Seville leads the men’s 100m qualifying while three Jamaicans will line up in the women’s final, including Diamond League champion Tina Clayton.

Despite a slow start, Seville showed his class as he caught the field and won in 9.90 seconds (-0.2m/s), ahead of Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, who ran 9.95 seconds to clip Christian Coleman of the USA, who finished with 9.96 seconds. South Africa’s Gift Leotlela took the other qualifying spot with 10.03 seconds.