Since finishing fourth at the 2009 Championships, former World junior champion Kaliese Spencer has become the most potent force amongst what is a highly competitive bunch of top notch 400m hurdlers and must be fancied for the gold medal.
The 24-year-old Jamaican sent a clear message out to her rivals last year of her growing stature when not only winning the Samsung Diamond League overall title, she ended her season scoring six out of seven victories on a very competitive circuit which saw her conclude the campaign with six of the 10 fastest times in the World.
Spencer has began virtually where she left off this summer starting her SDL schedule in Shanghai with a victory against two other fiery gold medal favorites, the USA’s Lashinda Demus and her own training partner Melaine Walker who will be defending her title in Daegu…..READ FULL PREVIEW