Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith won gold in the 200m at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational in Kingston.
Asher-Smith, aged 28, finished with a time of 22.51, narrowly beating Jessika Gbai from Ivory Coast, who took second place, and Jamaica’s Lanae-Tava Thomas, who came in third.
As the 200m world champion in 2019, Asher-Smith aims to augment her achievements by aiming for further success, hoping to build on her two Olympic 4x100m relay bronzes at the upcoming Paris Games this summer.
“I’m in really good shape so I was hoping to get a quicker time today,” said Asher-Smith.
“Clearly I’ve got some stuff that I’ve got to work on so I’m going to go back to Austin [Texas] and work on them, but I’m happy to have won here in Jamaica.”
In the men’s 200m, Zharnel Hughes made it a British double by taking gold in 19.96, in front of American Fred Kerley and France’s Pablo Mateo.
And Britain’s Matt Hudson-Smith won gold in the 400m, finishing in 44.69 before American Matthew Boling and Jamaica’s Zandrion Barnes.
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