Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson produced the standout efficiency of the day, storming to victory within the males’s 100m and exacting candy revenge over Olympic champion Noah Lyles at Saturday’s twelfth Wanda Diamond League assembly of the season in Silesia, Poland.
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In a race that rekindled reminiscences of their Olympic showdown in Paris, Thompson edged Lyles on the line, clocking 9.87 seconds to equal the meet file and seal a dramatic victory. Lyles completed a detailed second in 9.90 seconds, with U.S. champion Kenny Bednarek third in 9.96 seconds. Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake positioned eighth in 10.11 seconds.
“This one was about redemption,” Thompson signaled along with his blazing end, underlining his intent to stay on the prime of worldwide sprinting.
Clayton sisters dazzle in girls’s 100m
The ladies’s 100m was equally electrifying, with Jamaica’s Tia Clayton delivering a breakthrough efficiency. The 2024 Olympic Video games finalist stormed to a private finest 10.82 seconds for second place behind the in-form American Melissa Jefferson-Picket, who scorched to a meet file of 10.66 seconds.
Veteran Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast claimed third in 10.87 seconds, whereas Tina Clayton, the reigning Nationwide champion, narrowly missed the rostrum, clocking 10.91 seconds for fourth. World champion Sha’Carri Richardson might handle solely sixth in 11.05 seconds.
Jackson again in command
World 200m champion Shericka Jackson signaled a return to type, storming to a season-best 22.17 seconds to win the ladies’s 200m. She held off a robust problem from Brittany Brown (22.21secs) and Nigeria’s Favour Ofili (22.25secs), reminding rivals of her standing because the premier half-lap sprinter.
The dash hurdles delivered fireworks, and Jamaica’s world champion Danielle Williams responded along with her quickest time ever—12.31 seconds. Regardless of the non-public milestone, she positioned fourth in a blistering last the place Olympic champion Masai Russell of the USA stormed to a Diamond League and meet file of 12.19 seconds, the third-fastest time in historical past.
Different Jamaican hurdlers battled laborious: Ackera Nugent (12.43secs) positioned seventh and Megan Tapper (12.66secs) ninth within the loaded area.
Within the males’s 110m hurdles, Orlando Bennett (13.25secs) and Olympic champion Hansle Parchment (13.27secs) completed fifth and sixth, with American Cordell Tinch profitable in a meet file 13.03 seconds.
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Combined fortunes in 400m hurdles and area occasions
Jamaica’s presence prolonged into the one-lap hurdles, the place Shiann Salmon clocked a season-best 54.56 seconds for fifth within the girls’s 400m hurdles. Dutch famous person Femke Bol received decisively in 51.91 seconds, setting a world lead and meet file. On the boys’s aspect, Roshawn Clarke completed sixth in 48.81 seconds, as world record-holder Karsten Warholm blazed to a shocking 46.28 seconds, the third-fastest time ever.
Within the area, Jamaican athletes turned in respectable efforts, although they narrowly missed the rostrum. Romaine Beckford cleared 2.25m for fourth within the males’s excessive bounce, Ackelia Smith leapt 6.52m for seventh within the girls’s lengthy bounce, whereas Danniel Thomas-Dodd positioned fifth within the girls’s shot put at 19.19m. Rajindra Campbell was sixth within the males’s shot put with 21.58m.
Information fall in a historic meet
Past the Jamaican highlights, the Silesia meet was marked by a cascade of information. Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon practically shattered the long-standing girls’s 3000m world file, blazing to eight:07.04 minutes, the second-fastest time in historical past. Norway’s Karsten Warholm strengthened his 400m hurdles dominance with a Diamond League file of 46.28 seconds, whereas the Netherlands’ Femke Bol prolonged her five-year win streak within the girls’s 400m hurdles with 51.91 seconds.
Nice Britain’s Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson clocked a world-leading 1:54.74 minutes, Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay dominated the 1500m in 3:50.62 minutes, and world record-holder Mondo Duplantis soared to six.10m within the males’s pole vault.
The day closed with an emphatic assertion within the girls’s 100m, the place Jefferson-Picket’s 10.66 capped off a historic afternoon of blazing sprints and shattered information.
