No Canadian showdown: De Grasse withdraws from 100m Diamond League race with injury
So much for the Canadian battle in the men’s 100 meters in Stockholm.
The two Toronto natives took part in the 200m event in Switzerland’s Lausanne on Friday when Brown came out on top, but their next meeting in the Diamond League will have to wait.
Brown finished fifth in Sunday’s race with a time of 10.27 seconds, making his way through the wet conditions at the Olympic Stadium.
South Africa’s Akani Simbine took the win, crossing the line in 10.03. UK’s Reece Prescott finished second, while Germany’s Joshua Hartman completed the podium.
LOOK | Brown races through wet conditions in Sweden:
The Canadian sprinter ran a time of 10.27 in the Diamond League event in Sweden.
With the result, the Canadian moved into third place in the Diamond League 100m ranking.
The Kelowna, BC native finished behind Germany’s Hartman, who won the event, and South Africa’s Ben Richardson.
The next Diamond League stop is July 16 in Chorzów, Poland, just over a month before the world championships in Hungary.
