Silver for Jamaican Ronald Levy in Continental Cup

Ostrava, Czech Republic, Sep 9 (Prensa Latina) Representing the Americas team, Jamaican Ronald Levy won the silver medal today in the 110 meters hurdles of the Continental Cup of athletics, which is held in this city.

Levy stopped the clocks in 13.12 seconds to record his best time of the year, although the gold medal went to the panniers of the Europa team, through the Russian Sergey Shubenkov (13.03).

The bronze was in the power of the French Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (13.31).

Jamaica and the Americas won a bronze medal in the 800 meters for women, through Natoya Goule, who scored 1: 57.36.

South African multi-champion Caster Semenya (1: 54.77) won gold in that specialty, while American Ajee Wilson (1: 57.16) took the silver.

In the male hammer, meanwhile, Dilshod Nazarov, of Tajikistan, won with a record of 77.34 to give the triumph to the Asian-Pacific delegation.

The Egyptian Mostafa Elgamel (Africa, 74.22) and the Hungarian Bence Halász (Europe, 74.80) got the silver and bronze respectively, while the Mexican Diego del Real was fourth with 75.86, his best shot of the season.

Bahamian sprinter Shaunae Miller-Uibo dominated today the 200 flat meters of the competition.

The Olympic champion of Rio de Janeiro-2016, representative of the Americas team, obtained the victory with a record of 22.16 seconds, ahead of the Dutch Dafne Schippers (Europe, 22.28) and the Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou (Africa, 22.61).

In triple jump for men, the American Christian Taylor also gave the title to the combined Americas, to impose with record of 17.59 meters.

Hugues Fabrice Zango, of Burkina Faso, and the Indian Arpinder Singh took the silver and bronze metals with 17.02 and 16.59, respectively.