The United States' Wallace Spearmon (left) and Jamaica's Usain Bolt cross the line after the men's 200 metres during the British athletics Grand Prix at the Don Valley Stadium, Sheffield, England, yesterday. Spearmon won in a photo finish, as both athletes were timed in an identical 20.08 seconds. - AP

SHEFFIELD, England (CMC):

Jamaican Korine Hinds won the women's 3,000-metre steeplechase to log the only Caribbean victory at the IAAF Norwich Union Grand Prix track and field meeting yesterday evening.

Hinds clocked nine minutes 34.83 seconds to win the event ahead of her Jamaican colleague Mardrea Hyman (9:37.70). Britain's Dean Hattie took third in 9:38.56.

Jamaican Usain Bolt was narrowly beaten in the men's 200 metres and was one of four other top-3 finishers for the region at the meet that also witnessed a defeat for Jamaican Olympic champion Veronica Campbell over her Athens gold medal distance.

Hinds won her steeplechase distance run by almost three seconds in a confidence-booster, ahead of the Osaka World Championship starting late August.

Bolt and American Wallace Spearmon had a titanic battle in the men's 200 metres and Spearmon was given the victor both clocked in at 20.08 seconds.

They were well ahead of American Rodney Martin, who got third in 20.39 seconds.

Jamaican Chris Williams was way off his season's best 20.17 and finished seventh in 20.82 seconds.

Sprint hurdler Delloreen Ennis-London, a silver medallist at the 2005 World Championships, clocked a moderate 13.04 seconds for third in the women's 100-metre hurdles that world leader Michelle Perry (12.79) won ahead of Lolo Jones (12.89) in an American one-two finish.

There was another American one-two when reigning world 200-metre champion Allyson Felix clocked 22.35 to land the women's 200 metres ahead of Sanya Richards (22.44), pushing Campbell into third spot in 22.60 seconds.

The Cayman Islands' Cydonie Mothersill was fifth in 23.27.

Tyson Gay did not get his expected sub-10 clocking in the men's 100 metres, but dominated for a 10.13 victory over Britain's Marlon Devonish (10.23) and Portugal's Nigeria-born Francis Obikwelu (10.24) into a head-wind of 0.4 metres per second.

Dwight Thomas, of Jamaica, placed sixth in 10.42.

Bahamian Leevan Sands secured the runner-up spot in the men's triple jump, posting a best jump of 16.75 metres as American Aarik Wilson claimed an easy win at 17.19 metres.