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 Brigitte Foster-Hylton: Wins gold in 100 hurdles
Jamaican veteran Brigitte Foster-Hylton won the 100-meter hurdles title on Wednesday at the world athletics championships. She took 12.51secs to claim gold.
The 34 year old runner, who won world bronze in Helsinki in 2005 and silver in Paris in 2003, finally secured gold at Berlin's Olympic Stadium.
Another Jamaican athlete, Delloreen Ennis-London, also won the bronze. Jamaicans are doing well here.
Ennis-London said, "We're doing very good and we're happy".
Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, won silver with 12.54.
Foster-Hylton initially danced a jig of delight with Lopes-Schliep when the pair realised they had both medalled, but the Jamaican then slumped to the track as her emotions got the better of her.
After winning the race, Foster-Hylton said, "The girls had been running so fast that when I visualised the race, I decided to close my eyes and power through to the finish. I actually crossed the line with my eyes closed and it was Priscilla who told me I had won. That is why I celebrated with her".
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