Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson got his indoor season off to a winning start at the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes – the opening World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2025 – in the Kazakh capital on Saturday (25).
But there was a slight fright as the 23-year-old grimaced over the line in the 60m and limped momentarily in the aftermath of a final he won in a time of 6.56.
The Olympic 100m silver medallist, denied agonisingly by just 0.005 by Noah Lyles last summer in Paris, had marked himself out as a serious threat to the US sprinter yet again in 2025 with a season-opening 6.48 outdoors back in Jamaica last weekend.
A week on after a 32-hour journey to the Kazakh capital, he was less assured, struggling with his start in the heats and again looking forced in his running but it was still enough to take a deserved win.
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