T&T's Machel Ce­de­nio clocked 44.97 to win the Men's 400m at the IAAF Di­a­mond League meet in Stock­holm, Swe­den yes­ter­day.The 19-year-old un­leashed a burst of speed on the fi­nal stretch which left the crowd stunned."That was as­ton­ish­ing from Ce­de­nio," re­marked one tele­vi­sion com­men­ta­tor. "It just all changed in the last 40m. It was quite in­cred­i­ble."

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Luguelin San­tos nabbed the sil­ver in 45.21 while Great Britain's Mar­tyn Rooney was third in a sea­son's best of 45.41.The re­sult bumped Ce­de­nio up to third in the Di­a­mond League 400m stand­ings with four points. He is led by Grena­da's Ki­rani James and Rus­sia's Wayde Van Niek­erk, who have each won two races this sea­son.

It capped off a suc­cess­ful week for Ce­de­nio, who ear­li­er man­aged an in­di­vid­ual 400m sil­ver and an­chored T&T's gold medal win­ning 4x400m run at the Pan Amer­i­can Games in Toron­to, which end­ed on Sun­day.

Al­so an­nounc­ing her­self yes­ter­day was Ja­maican Shelly-Ann Fras­er-Pryce who warmed up for the world cham­pi­onships with a dom­i­nant win in the women's 100 me­tres. Fras­er-Pryce, the world and Olympic cham­pi­on, clocked 10.93 sec­onds in the head­line race to beat Tori Bowie of the U.S. by 0.12 sec­onds.

"The time wasn't what I want­ed, but I'm grate­ful I came out here and did my best," Fras­er-Pryce said. "There's al­ways pres­sure go­ing in­to a world cham­pi­onships, but I'm not wor­ried about that. I'm not wor­ried about any­thing."Fras­er-Pryce al­so re­it­er­at­ed her stance that she won't de­fend her 200 ti­tle at the worlds, a day af­ter hint­ing she may change her mind and run both dis­tances.

"In Bei­jing, I'm not run­ning the 200. I'm telling my coach he has to change my mind," she said. "The 200 is too far, so I'm set for the 100."