Russell

Carrie Russell continued her impressive tail end of the 2013 season, with her fourth win since setting Jamaica's women's 4x100m gold medal team off at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics last month in Moscow, with a solid 200m victory at the Rieti World Challenge meet in central Italy yesterday.

Russell, who has won three of her five 200m races this season and was running her first half lap race since July 28, crashed the tape ahead of the pack in a time of 22.62, a big season and personal best for the improving MVP athlete.

confidence

With less distractions having completed her studies at the University of Technology and having gained more confidence from her experience in Moscow, Russell, under the guidance of Stephen Francis, looks poised for a big season next year.

Veteran Jamaican Aleen Bailey was fourth in the event in a time of 23.45, with Great Britain's Margaret Adeoye, 22.88 finishing second and Ukraine's Viktorya Pyatachenko, 23.23 running third.

personal best

In addition to her World Championships relay gold medal and 200m personal best, Russell, this season, became the 10th Jamaican woman to run sub - 11 second in the 100m with a 10.98 win in Zurich last month.

400m hurdles specialist Kaliese Spencer smashed her previous career best in the flat 400m (50.55) to post 50.19 for second place behind her MVP stable-mate Stephenie McPherson, with the worlds finalist clocking 50.00 for the win, while France's Gloria Guei, 51.70, was third. Christine Day finished fourth in 51.78.

Another MVP athlete Rusheen McDonald, the first leg runner for Jamaica's world 4x400m silver-medal winning relay team, crossed the line first in the seldom run 300m with a time of 31.97 ahead of Italian pair Diego Marani, 32.85 and Lorenzo Valentini, 33.18.

G.C. Foster College man Rasheed Dwyer - the World University Games silver medallist, ran a steady curve and solid last 100m to take the men's 200m in 20.30 for his second win on the European circuit, leading Serhiy Smelyk (Ukraine), 20.39, and Great Britain's Christopher Clarke, 20.44 to the line.

Andrea Bliss, 12.93 was second to Australia's Sally Pearson, 12.64, in the 100m hurdles as Russia's Yuliya Kondakova, 13.03 finished third.

University of Technology man O'Dayne Richards, 20.10m was second behind Tomasz Majewski (Poland), 20.30m in the shot put competition.

Russia's Anton Lyuboslavskiy, 18.68m was third.

McDonald