BIRMINGHAM — Olympic sprint champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was upstaged on her indoor debut by Ivory Coast's Murielle Ahoure who took victory over 60 meters at the Birmingham Grand Prix Saturday. Britain's double Olympic champion Mo Farah had a better start to his season with a comfortable victory over 3,000 meters. The London Games 5,000 and 10,000 gold medallist was untroubled throughout the race but put on a turn of speed over the final lap to the delight of the crowd to win in seven minutes 42 seconds. The anticipated 60m matchup between two of the world's top sprinters, Jamaican Fraser-Pryce and American Carmelita Jeter, who finished second to her in the Olympic final, failed to materialize as Ahoure pulled away with surprising ease to win in 6.99 seconds. Fraser-Pryce, whose appearance in the earlier heat had been her first race over the distance, was second in 7.09, with Jeter fourth in 7.18. American Michael Rodgers held off fast-finishing Olympic 100 metres relay gold medallist Nesta Carter of Jamaica to win the men's 60 final in 6.53. Genzebe Dibaba, younger sister of three-times Olympic champion Tirunesh, faded over the final lap to fail in her attempt to break the world 1,500 indoor record. Dibaba, 22, was inside world-record pace with 200 meters to go. But grimacing down the home straight she clocked 4:00.83, missing Russian Elena Soboleva's world mark of 3:58.28. Olympic champion Ivan Ukhov had to settle for third in the high jump behind fellow Russian Aleksey Dmitrik, who cleared 2.33 metres for victory. — Reuters
