The Electronic Telegraph Monday 18 June 2001 Tom Knight DWAIN Chambers made it three wins out of three at 100 metres so far this summer with victory in the Live 2001 meeting here yesterday. The time, 10.14 seconds, was not as fast as he would have liked, but given that it was into a swirling wind and came after five false starts, this was an impressive run. Chambers likes the track in the Frankenstadion. It was here that he first dipped under the magical 10sec barrier in 1999, the year he went on to claim bronze at the World Championships in Seville. His only serious opposition yesterday came from Francis Obikwelu on his inside, but the Nigerian was three strides adrift at the finish. Britain's Allyn Condon was fifth in 10.42sec. Chambers said: "I'd like to have run faster but this shows I'm strong, consistent and very confident." Jonathan Edwards received a special presentation as the athlete of the meeting after he returned to winning ways in the triple jump. The Olympic champion's fourth-round jump of 17.20m was easily the best of a competition affected by weather which ranged from bright sunshine to driving rain and gusting winds. Larry Achike completed a British one-two with 16.92m. Charles Friedek, the world champion and local favourite, could manage only 16.90m. In the absence of Katharine Merry, who pulled out of the meeting because of illness on Friday, Grit Breuer won the 400m in 50.60sec, a time which suggests the German is returning to form after missing the Olympics with injury. In France, Christian Malcolm completed a frantic weekend of sprinting with two second places in the Grand Prix II meeting in Lille. Only 24 hours after winning the Welsh 100m title with 10.41sec in Cardiff, Malcolm crossed the English Channel to finish runner-up to Canada's Bruny Surin with 10.28sec in the 100m and France's Christophe Cheval in the 200m, where he managed 20.60sec. Chambers may have been the quickest Briton at the weekend, but Britain's growing prowess as a nation of sprinters was confirmed with a plethora of good performances in a junior international match in Mannheim, Germany. Mark Lewis-Francis won the 100m in 10.18sec. Lewis-Francis is the fastest junior in the world over the distance after clocking 10.12sec in the United States earlier this year. Britain can now claim the fastest over 200m after Dwayne Grant won his heat yesterday in 20.64sec. Amy Spencer, meanwhile, offered hope that Britain could yet have a female sprinter to match the men with a performance that puts her fifth on the UK's all-time list for under-17s. The 15-year-old Spencer, racing against athletes five years her senior, finished third in the 100m in 11.66sec, a time which lowered by 0.01sec the national age-group record set by Merry in 1989. Eamonn Condon www.RunnersGoal.com
