Sally McLellan and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep

July 31, 2009

Canadians proved once again that our best bet  for a podium finish in Berlin is the women’s 100m hurdles.  This time Priscilla Lopes-Schliep took the DN Galan Super Grand Prix in her personal best time of 12.51 (0.9) edging her rivals Lolo Jones, USA and Sally McLellan, Australia as well as team mate Perdita Felicien. Perdita ran 12.54 (1.8) in the heats while Priscilla clocked 12.53 (1.3).  You can count on the Berlin showdown to be won by millimeters as these sprint hurdlers are separated by 1/100th of  a second.  Canada can take comfort this event, complicated by crashes to the track, has two arrows in the quiver with Perdita and Priscilla both proven to be medal winners at both the Olympic and World Championship levels.

Dylan Armstrong

Dylan Armstrong in his second meet after a long session of training, threw 20.42m in 4th place in the Big Shot competition held in the streets of downtown Stockholm. Olympic Champion, Tomasz Majewski of Poland won the event in  a new Polish record of 21.85m. Insiders are hoping that Dylan’s training strategy planned by Dr. Anatoli Bondarchuk is geared to produce his peak in mid August in Berlin.

Nate Brannen dropped down to the 1000m and recorded 2:17.87  a second behind winner Ali Bilal Monsoor of Burundi.

Malindi Elmore and Hilary Stellingwerf did 4:10.45 and 4:13.27 in the 1500m behind Christin Wurth-Thomas of the US win in 4:03.01.