Canada’s world indoor champion Sarah Mitton was the only athlete to surpass 20 metres within the girls’s shot put and she or he did so twice, throwing 20.15 and 20.07 metres to ultimately win by greater than a metre on the World Athletics Continental Tour cease in New York Metropolis on Sunday.
Olympic silver medallist Raven Saunders was second with 19.11m.
WATCH: Canadian shot putter Sarah Mitton wins Continental Tour cease in New York:
The 27-year-old Brooklyn, N.S. native earned a successful rating of 20.15 to come back out on high within the girls’s shot put occasion throughout the World Athletics Continental Tour cease in New York.
Jamaican star Elaine Thompson-Herah, the two-time defending Olympic champion within the 100m and 200m, needed to be helped from the observe after showing to harm her Achilles tendon within the girls’s 100m.
Shev burst out of the blocks at Icahn Stadium and was within the combine earlier than beginning to fade halfway by the race. The 31-year-old started limping close to the end line. She took off her proper spike and later was carried away from the realm across the observe.
Favour Ofili of Nigeria received the race in a season-best time of 11.18 seconds. Thompson-Herah completed final in 11.48.
