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Yohan Blake runs season's best time in Austria

2011 world champion Yohan Blake ran a season's best and meet record 10.16 seconds in the men's 100m to win his heat at the Austrian Open, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze meet on Wednesday.

Blake ran the final under protest finishing third in 10.26 seconds, but the final result showed he was disqualified for a false start.

At the same meet, Olympic sprint relay silver medallist Christania Williams equalled the women's 100m meet record clocking 11.33 seconds to win her heat before going on to win the final in 11.36 seconds.

Meanwhile, Traves Smikle threw a meet record 61.65m to win the men's discus throw at the International Marseille meet, a World Athletics Continental Tour silver meet.

Danniel Thomas-Dodd ended second in the women's shot put with a mark of 18.50m behind Swede Fanny Roos, 18.60m, at the Klando Memorial in the Czech Republic, a World Athletics Continental Tour bronze meet.



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