World championships silver medallist Fabrice Lapierre has produced his first two legal jumps beyond the eight-metre mark this year to finish second at the Boost Boston Games.
Lapierre reigstered jumps of 8.03m in the first and third rounds to finish a narrow second behind American Jarrion Lawson (8.06m) at the street meet.
Lapierre and Lawson also went head to head at the Nitro Athletics series in Melbourne in February and could well clash again at the world championships in London in August.
Sally Pearson was fourth in the 100m hurdles final in Boston in 12.79 seconds, five hundredths of a second slower than she ran in her heat earlier in the day.
"Times are coming down 4th in heat 12.74 and 4th in final 12.79. Little disappointed with the result. Always a competitor," tweeted Pearson.
The previous weekend, Pearson clocked a winning time of 12.81 at the Great City Games in Manchester.
The 2012 Olympic champion now heads to Jamaica for one more meet before returning home to continue her preparations for the world championships.
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