World 100 meters hurdles silver medalist Britany Anderson of Jamaica and her compatriot Adelle Tracey had to settle for third place finishes at third World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meet on Wednesday.
Anderson, 22, ran 7.86 seconds to win the second qualifying heat in her debut meet for the season, but she could only shave three hundredths-of-a-second off that time in the final.
Pia Skrzyszowska of host nation Poland ran 7.79 secs to win the final, only 0.02 ahead of Reetta Hurske of Finland.
Earlier, distance runner Tracey was among a group of runners that was no match for Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia in the women’s 1,500 metres.
Tracey clocked four minutes, 30.17 seconds, but Tsegay stormed to second on the world indoor mile all-time list with a time of 4 mins, 16.16 secs for a runaway victory.
Tsegay, 26, who set the world indoor 1500m record of 3:53.09 minutes at the World Indoor Tour Gold event three years ago in Lievin, France, went into this race targeting the record mile mark of 4:13.31 minutes set by Genzebe Dibaba seven years ago.
She eventually won by almost 13 seconds, with Weronika Lizakowska of the host nation second in 4:29.06 minutes ahead of Tracey.
-CMC
