ZURICH — Twice Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce streaked to victory in the Diamond League women's 100 meters final Thursday with a time of 10.93 seconds against a head wind on a cold, blustery evening. The 28-year-old Jamaican, who dyed her hair green for her successful world title defense in Beijing last month before reverting to black during a two-hour visit to a Zurich hairdresser Wednesday, picked up $40,000 for winning the Diamond League Trophy in her event. Sixteen finals were staged Thursday at a meeting which featured 20 individual gold medalists from Beijing. The remaining 16 events will be decided in Brussels on Sept. 11. Fraser-Pryce completed the night by anchoring the Jamaican team to a meeting record of 41.60 seconds in the women's 4x100 meters relay. Britain's Greg Rutherford, who added the world men's long jump title to his Olympic, European and Commonwealth gold medals in Beijing, showed his competitive grit after a long season to win on a countback from American Marquis Dendy and clinch the Diamond League trophy. Both men leaped 8.32 meters. Former Olympic champion American LaShawn Merritt won the men's 400 meters in a race which finished with the Beijing medalists again taking the top three places but this time in a different order. The 2011 world champion Kirani James of Grenada, who finished third in Beijing, was second and South Africa's surprise world champion Wayde van Niekerk was third. James' second place was enough to give him the Diamond League Trophy for his event. Beijing bronze medalist Eunice Sum of Kenya surged to the front in the final 50 meters to win the women's 800 meters in 1:59.14 from Britain's Lynsey Sharp and pick up the trophy for her event. Another Kenyan, Asbel Kiprop, winner of the last three world 1,500 meters titles, got the victory he needed to confirm his $40,000 prize. Qatar's world indoor high jump champion Mutaz Barshim, who finished out of the medals in Beijing, won the men's event in Zurich ahead of his close rival Bodhan Bondarenko of Ukraine, the world bronze medalist, with a height of 2.32 meters. In the absence of Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin, Alonso Edward of Panama won the 200 in 20.03 to take the Diamond Race title. Edward, who was fourth in Beijing, was 0.17 ahead of Rasheed Dwyer. Anaso Jobodwana was third — just as he was at the worlds — 0.21 behind Edward. In another highly competitive event, world champion and double European champion Sergey Shubenkov of Russia won the 110 hurdles in 12.98 seconds. Former world champ David Oliver of the US beat Cuban Orlando Ortega to second place and the Diamond Race title, with both finishing 0.16 behind Shubenkov. Jason Richardson, the 2011 world champion, was sixth. Ivana Spanovic set a new Serbia record of 7.02 meters to win the long jump. She broke her own record, which she set on her way to claiming bronze in Beijing. Others to claim Diamond Race trophies were Piotr Malachowski (discus), Jairus Kipchoge Birech (3,000 steeplechase), Eunice Jepkoech Sum (800), Zuzana Hejnova (400 hurdles), Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou (pole vault), Christina Schwanitz (shot put), Barbora Spotakova (javelin) and Genzebe Dibaba (3,000). — Agencies
