( L - R ) Campbell, Mullings, Sinclair

THESSALONIKI, Greece (CMC):

Rising British Virgin Islands (BVI) star Tahesia Harrigan and Jamaican Olympic champion Veronica Campbell led a plethora of Caribbean winners at the Thessa-loniki International track and field meet on Monday night.

Campbell registered a dominant win in the women's 100 metres in 11.04 seconds and Harrigan emerged an impressive winner of the 200 metres in 23.03 seconds.

Jamaican Kenia Sinclair posted a meet-record triumph in the 800 metres to continue her solid build up for the Osaka World Championship next month, while her compatriots Steve Mullings, Ricardo Chambers and Korine Hinds also logged wins at the meet.

In the women's 100 metres, Campbell, who captured the 200-metre gold at the Athens Olympics three years ago and is the current 100-metre world leader at 10.89 seconds, dismissed the American pair of Carmelitta Jeter (11.17) and MeLisa Barber (11.19) for her 100-metre success.

In the 800m, Sinclair ran a strong race and landed her two-lap run in a meet-record one minute 58.67 seconds, just 0.06 seconds outside her season's best.

Slovenia's Brigitta Langerholc (1:59.93) was closest at the finish to Sinclair, who had also won in Rome and Lausanne in July.

Mullings, running into negative wind - minus 0.6 metres per second - stopped the clock at 10.11 seconds to win the 100 metres ahead of Italian Simionne Kollio (10.26) and American Bernard Williams (10.29).

Chambers, winner of the NCAA Division 400 metres for Florida State University in June, was a clear winner of the men's 400 metres in 45.03, chased by American Derrick Brew (45.65) and Zimbabwe's Lewis Banda (45.89).

Took early control

Hinds took control from early and won the women's 3,000-metre steeplechasein nine minutes 34.84 seconds, her second triumph in two weeks. She had won the British Grand Prix in mid-July.

Romania's Cristina Casandra was runner-up 9:35.17 with American Carrie Messner (9.43.06) third.

Harrigan, who missed a medal - fourth in the 100 metres - at the Pan American Games last week, scored a surprise 200-metre win over Bahamian Olympic bronze medallist Debbie Ferguson.

She was 0.07 seconds faster than Ferguson, who clocked 23.10 seconds.

Harrigan had a second win of the evening with victory in Race 2 of the 100 metres in 11.26 seconds.

Elsewhere on the programme, the American Lashawn Merrit sped to a 20.02 victory in the men's 200 metres and Blanka Vlasic, of Croatia, landed the women's high jump at a world leading 2.06 metres.