World high hurdles champion Sally Pearson returned to competition in her pet eve...
FILE PHOTO: Athletics - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Carrara Stadium - Gold Coast, Australia - April 13, 2018. Australia's Sally Pearson before the start of the evening session. REUTERS/Paul Childs
The London Olympic gold medalist, who has been hampered by injuries since winning a second 100 meters hurdles world title in 2017, won a tight heat in 12.99 seconds before announcing she would not go for a 10th national title. “Then from about October or November it was trying to get fast again and then the first race. So it was all in a very short amount of time to get back up to 100 percent.
Pearson, who missed last year’s Commonwealth Games in her home city of Gold Coast because of an Achilles problem, is hoping to win her third world title in the event in Doha in October.
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