Yohan Blake, photo by PhotoRun.net
LOUGHBOROUGH (GBR): Former world champions Yohan Blake and Danielle Williams will compete in the Loughborough European Athletics Permit meeting on Wednesday, athleticsweekly.com reports. Blake, the the 2011 world 100m winner, will compete in both the short sprint and the 200m, on both occasions facing Iran’s Hassan Taftian, the Asian 100m champion. Also there will be Sean Safo-Antwi and Brendon Rodney. Williams, the 2015 global hurdles champion, will take on sister Shermaine, a twice Olympian, plus Commonwealth bronze medallist Yanique Thompson.
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Dave Hunter is an award-winning journalist who is a U.S. Correspondent for Track & Field News. He also writes a weekly column and serves as Senior Writer for www.RunBlogRun.com, and covers championship track & field competition domestically and in such global capitals as Moscow, Birmingham, Zurich, Brussels, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Zagreb, Ostrava, and Doha. Hunter frequently serves as the arena or stadium announcer for championship track & field gatherings, including the Ivy League, the Big East, the Mid-American Conference, the NAIA, the Big Ten, and the Millrose Games. Hunter has undertaken foreign and domestic broadcast assignments. He ran his marathon P.R. 2:31:40 on the Boston Marathon course back in the Paleozoic Era. To find out more about Dave, visit his website: www.trackandfieldhunter.com He can be reached at: [email protected]
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