Photo courtesy of University of Arizona Track & Field

By Scott Roblin

Capturing Gold

Watson races to gold in last tune-up ahead of World Championships

Sep 7, 2019 | 11:03 AM

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – Sage Watson’s final tune-up before the IAAF World Championships went about as well as she could have hoped on Friday.

Competing at a Diamond League event in Belgium, Watson dominated the women’s 400 metre hurdles to win her third gold medal of the season with a time of 55.58 seconds.

The Seven Persons racer was over a second faster than Paulien Couckuyt of Belgium, who ended up taking home a silver medal.

Friday’s victory was Watson’s first of the year on the Diamond League tour, however she also won a gold and silver at the 2019 Pan-Am Games and was a gold medallist at the Canadian Championships.

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Watson’s final hurdle of the 2019 season will come at the end of the month as she wears the maple leaf once more at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar.

Her first event will come on September 28 with the mixed 4×400 metre relay, before she begins heats for the women’s 400 metre hurdles on October 1.