Armstrong wins Linz 200 metres

He clocked 20.38 seconds and sprinted home ahead of Jamaican Christopher Williams (20.46) and fellow Trinidadian Jacey Harper (20.65).

The Caribbean runners outsprinted American former world champion Coby Miller who finished fourth in 20.69 seconds.

It was the 27-year-old US-born Armstrong’s second best time of the year following his Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games silver-medal performance in Nassau, Bahamas, where he clocked 20.35 secs. Both Williams and Harper improved their season best. Champion Trinidad and Tobago sprinter Marc Burns was fourth and runner-up Darrel Brown sixth in a very fast 100 metres won by Jamaica’s Dwight Thomas.

Thomas powered his way to an impressive victory in a season-best 10.00 seconds flat.

He narrowly edged out Great Britain’s Jason Gardener who posted 10.09 while Ghanaian Aziz Zakari finished third in 10.10.

Burns registered 10.17 for his fourth place finish, while United States’ Tyson Gay got home ahead of Brown whose 10.29 represents one of his slower times this season. Bahamian Chandra Sturrup, this year’s world leader in the women’s 100 with a time of 10.84, expressed herself with an emphatic triumph in 11.12 seconds.

Cydonie Mothersill-Modibo won the women’s 200 metres in 23.05 seconds, beating Americans Stephanie Durst (23.19) and Angela Daigle (23.25).

There was a major upset in the women’s 100 metres hurdles when Jamaica’s world’s silver medallist Brigitte Foster-Hylton won in 12.65 seconds ahead of American world gold medallist Michelle Perry 12.70.