06.07.2012 - Sally Pearson justifies her rank
A great favourite in the 100m hurdles, Australian Sally Pearson won the Meeting Areva hands down, improving on her own best performance of the year (12''40 compared with 12''49 in Melbourne in March).
She beat American Virginia Crawford, who beat her season’s best in 12''59, and Briton Tiffany Porter, third in 12''74. The two French hurdlers, who took the start in a bid to achieve the minimum requirement for the Olympics (set at 12''85), failed in their mission: Alice Decaux finished seventh in 12''96 and Aissetta Diawara eighth in 12''98.
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