Kanyinsola Ajayi’s sensational form continued on Monday evening as he powered to a personal best-equalling 9.92s to win the men’s 100m at the Meeting International Sotteville-lès-Rouen in France.
The 20-year-old surged from lane five at the Stade Jean Adret with a reaction time of 0.156s to edge out a strong field that included five sub-10 second runners, winning by daylight and rewriting the meeting record previously held by Trinidad and Tobago’s Keston Bledman since 2015.
Bledman’s mark of 10.02s stood for nine years until Ajayi lowered it with his smooth run aided by a legal +1.7 m/s tailwind.
Cameroonian veteran, Emmanuel Eseme, placed second in 10.04s while Senegal’s Mamadou Sarr followed in 10.10s.
Great Britain’s European Athletics Team Championships winner Eugene Amo-Dadzie and Australia’s Rohan Browning were next in 10.16s, with Amo-Dadzie marginally ahead by time separation.
Canada’s Jerome Blake ran 10.23s to finish sixth, ahead of South Africa’s Tsebo Matsoso (10.32s) and home favourite Jimmy Vicaut (10.36s).
The race was Ajayi’s first outing since finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships in Eugene last month, where he initially clocked 9.92s for the first time in his career.
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