New Delhi:
Australia's Sally Pearson said Friday she was "numb" after being stripped of her Commonwealth Games 100m gold medal for a false start.
In a dramatic chain of events in the final late Thursday, Pearson was first across the line in a time of 11.28 but was forced to endure an agonising wait for the outcome of a series of protests.
She eventually had her medal taken away hours later, elevating Nigeria's Osayemi Oludamola (11.32) into first and Natasha Mayers of St Vincent and The Grenadines (11.37) into second.
England's Kathryn Endacott was promoted to third, with the medal ceremony due to take place later Friday.
While the electronic timing system showed Laura Turner of England as the first athlete to have jumped the gun, Pearson's reaction time of 0.071 meant technically, she had also false-started.
England protested in order to get Endacott into the medals.
It prevented Pearson becoming Australia's first Commonwealth Games 100m champion in 36 years and she said it was a devastating outcome.
"I guess I'm just numb right now, I don't really know what I feel. I'm obviously devastated and disappointed," she said.
"It didn't go my way and that's what I have to deal with. I'm just going to use my emotions and my anger and disappointment and put it into the hurdles and hope that I can come out on top."