British sprinter Dwain Chambers warmed up for next week’s world indoor trials in Sheffield with a fine 60m victory at the Birmingham Games in 6.58 seconds.
Chambers, the world indoor 60m silver medallist, came home ahead of Mark Lewis-Francis and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey at the National Indoor Arena.
The 31-year-old went one-hundredth of a second quicker in his semi, moving him to second place in the world rankings.
The World Indoor Championships take place in March in Doha.
Chambers, the reigning European indoor gold medallist, was competing for the first time since placing sixth over 100m at last summer’s World Championships in Berlin.
The Brit is behind American Mark Jelks, who ran 6.56 in Dusseldorf on Wednesday, in the world rankings.
I was in the warm up area alot during this meet. What amazed me was that at no point did Chambers do any runs in spikes. Everything was done in flats. No flat out runs or any runs from blocks in spikes. a few 10’s and 20’s in flats and that was it for all 3 rounds. Unreal.
Ehhe…the 60 is the warm up:)…in Doha, when he’ll run 6"40…could add some more build ups in spikes:).BTw, I saw Aikinees last year in Italy, and used extensively flats ( marathons), even for a long 80-100m very fast effort 20’ before the race.With spikes on he just did something before blocks
Just remember this warm-up is not the recipe to run 6.58. WU should be adapted to circumstances. Sometimes you go to international meets and there’s only a grass pitch or a 20m long piece of mondo or no starting-blocks, and you have to be ready to race anyway.
