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The Guardian - UK
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Sean Ingle at King Baudouin Stadium

Amy Hunt left trailing by Julien Alfred in women’s 200m Diamond League final

The St Lucian sprinter Julien Alfred (centre) races clear of the USA's Anavia Battle (left) and Great Britain's Amy Hunt (right) to win the women's 200m at the Diamond League final in Brussels.
A season’s best for Amy Hunt (right) was not enough to win the Diamond League women’s 200m against the pace set by Julien Alfred (centre). Photograph: Omar Havana/AP

Britain’s Amy Hunt was given a jolting reminder of the gap between her and the world’s very best female sprinters as she finished nearly half a second behind Julien Alfred in the Diamond League 200m final.

But afterwards Hunt insisted that coming third in a season’s best time of 22.16sec, on tired legs on a dank Brussels night, amounted to one of the better races of her career.

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