BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Canada’s Michael Mason won the silver medal in men’s high jump on Saturday at the Birmingham Diamond League athletics event.
The 31-year-old from New Westminster, B.C., cleared 2.30 metres, just short of the 2.33-metre winning jump from Australia’s Brandon Starc.
American Jeron Robinson was third.
Also Saturday, Sage Watson of Medicine Hat, Alta., was fifth in the women’s 400-metre hurdles while Johnathan Cabral of Peribonka, Que., placed seventh in the men’s 110-metre hurdles.
In other Canadian results, Brandon McBride was ninth in men’s 800, Matt Hughes was seventh in the 3,000-metre steeplechase and Gabriela Stafford placed 11th in the women’s 1,500.
American Christian Coleman hung on to win the men’s 100 metres on his return from injury. The 22-year-old ran a season’s best of 9.94 seconds, holding off Britain’s Reece Prescod, who set a personal best with the same time.
Noah Lyles — the fastest man in the world this year — was third in 9.98 while former world champion Yohan Blake of Jamaica was fourth.
"It’s like a relief because you never know what to expect when you have so much time off," said Coleman, who was running his first race in more than a month.
Coleman got off to a trademark fast start before Prescod hit back to force a photo finish.
There was another American-British one-two in the men’s 400 as Fred Kerley saw off Matthew Hudson-Smith in 45.54 seconds.
Kerley’s American teammates, Paul Dedewo and Christian Taylor, were third and fourth respectively.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas eased to victory in the women’s 200 as she won in 22.15 ahead of newly crowned European champion Dina Asher-Smith of Britain.
— With files from The Associated Press
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