NEW YORK–T&T sprint­er Ke­ston Bled­man copped the bronze medal in the 100 me­tres at the Adi­das Grand Prix, New York Di­a­mond League meet at Ic­ahn Sta­di­um yes­ter­day, be­hind Amer­i­cans Tyson Gay and Ryan Bai­ley, re­spec­tive­ly. The Olympic sil­ver and bronze medal­list clocked 10.16 sec­onds to earn the third spot, bet­ter­ing his time of 10.29 he ran to qual­i­fy for the fi­nale.T&T's oth­er en­trant in the sprint event, Richard Thomp­son failed to ad­vanced to the fi­nal af­ter fin­ish­ing eight in the sec­ond semi­fi­nal with a time of 10.68.Ja­maicans though, stole the spot­light in the sprint events. Veron­i­ca Camp­bell Brown romped to vic­to­ry in the 200 me­tres in 22.53 ahead of a fast fin­ish­ing An­neshia McLaugh­in (22.63) al­so of Ja­maica. Sherone Simp­son fin­ished in fourth place with 22.96. Aleen Bai­ley sped to vic­to­ry in the wom­ens 100 me­tres in 11.37 sec­onds ahead of Amer­i­cans Mikele Bar­ber and Lekeisha Law­son who fin­ished sec­ond and third re­spec­tive­ly.

Ja­maica's Olympic 200m bronze medal­list War­ren Weir made light work of the field to clock an ef­fort­less sea­son's best 20.11 with Pana­ma's Ed­mond Alon­so (20.38) in sec­ond.

Je­re­my Dod­son of the US (20.65) was third.Ja­maicans Ra­mone McKen­zie and Kevin Thomp­son fin­ished fifth and sev­enth re­spec­tive­ly.Ja­maica's Nes­ta Carter was fourth in the Men's 100m.

Ja­maica's oth­er fi­nal­ists Jacques Har­vey, Nick­el Ash­meade and Ke­mar Bai­ley Cole fin­ished fifth, six and sev­enth.Al­so, Ja­maica's Na­tion­al Record hold­er Al­li­son Ran­dall threw a sea­son's best 57.85m in the dis­cus in rainy and windy con­di­tions.Ran­dall who start­ed slow­ly had two throws over 57.00m fin­ish­ing strong­ly with 57.66m.Croa­t­ia's San­dra Perkovic won in a World Lead­ing and meet record 68.48m.

Two hun­dred me­tres spe­cial­ist Mario Forsythe won the Men's 400m B race in 46.65 sec­onds beat­ing three oth­er Ja­maicans to the line -De­wayne Bar­rett–46.85 sec­onds, Al­lodin Fothergill–47.01 sec­onds and Nicholas Mait­land–47.05 sec­onds.For­mer world cham­pi­on Bar­ba­di­an Ryan Braith­waite al­so shared the spot­light for the Caribbean by win­ning the 110 me­tre hur­dles in a sea­son's best 13.19.Cu­ba's Or­lan­do Or­te­ga (13.24) fin­ished sec­ond.Olympic gold medal­ist David Rud­isha won the 800 in 1:45.14–well off his world record of 1:40.91, but about what he ex­pect­ed con­sid­er­ing the weath­er.Reign­ing world champ Aman­tle Montsho won the 400; Olympic gold medal­ist Sanya Richards-Ross, re­cov­er­ing from toe surgery, pulled out af­ter de­cid­ing her foot wasn't ready to re­turn to com­pe­ti­tion.Olympic sil­ver medal­ist Michael Tins­ley used the weath­er to his ad­van­tage to win the 400 hur­dles, stay­ing re­laxed and ral­ly­ing at the end when the wind was at his back.