Jamaica's Olympic Games 200m champion Veronica Campbell failed to finish her 100 metres race at yesterday's Athens Grand Prix.

Campbell abandoned the race after a few strides. According to a report on the IAAF website, the national double sprint champion's management later confirmed that it was a slip of the blocks that forced the world leader to end her race, and not an injury.

American Angela Williams won the event in 11.12 ahead of Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of Bahamas (11.15). Campbell did not compete in the 200m won in 22.49 by Ferguson McKenzie.

No Jamaican finished in the top three of his/her event. The best performance came from sprinter Dwight Thomas, who was fourth in the men's 100m in 10.22.

Bahamian Derrick Atkins won the event in a national record 9.95 seconds ahead of Marlon Devonish of Great Britain (10.09) and Portugal Francis Obikwelu (10.11).

Maurice Wignall finished third in race one of the men's 110m hurdles, which gave him 11th overall. Dayron Robles of Cuba took the event in 13.11. In the women's 800m, Kenia Sinclair was a 10th-place finisher, running 2:00.85 in the two-lap event won by Russia's Svetlana Cherkasova (1:59.03).

Melaine Walker (55.88) was eighth in the women's 400m hurdles, which was won by Australia's Jana Pittman in 54.25. World champion Trecia Smith failed to register a mark in the women's triple jump. Olympic champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia won the event with a leap of 15.14m.