DEFENDING world 400-metre champion Antonio Watson, who has hardly competed in the event since his success two years ago in Budapest, Hungary, was a winner in Europe yesterday.<\/p>\n
Competing at the Folksam Grand Prix in Sollentuna, Sweden, Watson showed signs of getting back to fitness by winning the men\u2019s 400m in a season\u2019s best 45.21 seconds. He held off the challenge of Ibrahim of Qatar, who was second in a season\u2019s best 45.28, with Havard Bentdal Ingvaldsen of Norway third in 45.77.<\/p>\n
Odaine McPherson, who was hoping to get back to winning ways in the men\u2019s 100m after being disqualified for a false start in his previous race, had to settle for second in 10.19 seconds (-1.0 mps). Gift Leotlela of South Africa won the event in 10.15, with Sweden\u2019s Henrik Larsson third in 10.27.<\/p>\n
Olympian and national champion Danniel Thomas-Dodd had to settle for third place in the women\u2019s shot put after a heave of 18.58 metres on her second attempt. Fanny Roos of Sweden won the event with 18.86m, while her compatriot Axelina Johansson was second with 18.59m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEFENDING world 400-metre champion Antonio Watson, who has hardly competed in the event since his success two years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-60630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}