Thompson Herah clocks 10.92 to win 100m in Switzerland

Olympic champion Elaine Thompson Herah picked up her first 100 metres win of the season yesterday when she captured the 100 metres in a season’s best 10.92 seconds at the Gala del Castelli Bellinoza World Athletics Continental Tour Silver level series in Switzerland.

Imani-Lara Lavsiquot of Great Britain finished second in a personal-best 10.99, with Imani Bass of Gambia third in 11.12. World Championships 4x100m relay silver medallist Shashalee Forbes was fifth in 11.20.

Thompson Herah’s time was the joint third-fastest this season by a Jamaican female. It equalled Alana Reid’s record run at this year’s Boys and Girls’ Athletics Championships. Shericka Jackson (10.65) and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (10.77) are the two fastest Jamaican women this year.

Two other Jamaicans, Oblique Seville and Natoya Goule-Toppin, picked up wins at the meet, while Forbes, Orlando Bennett and Fedrick Dacres had top-three finishes.

Seville, the fourth-place finisher in the men’s 100m final at the Budapest World Championships, held off Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya for his win in the men’s 100m, clocking 10.01. Omanyala crossed the finish line in 10.04, with Akini Simbine of South Africa third in 10.13. Jamaica’s Ryiem Forde, a finalist in the event in Budapest, ended seventh in 10.28.

Following two below-average performances in Budapest and in Zurich, Goule-Toppin picked up the country’s third win of the day in the 800m.

Running a more controlled race this time around, Goule-Toppin, who raced in third at the 400m mark, took the lead at 200m and then held off American Addison Wiley to win in a meet record 1: 57.53. Wiley was second in 1:57.64 and Audrey Werro of Switzerland, third in 1:58.13.

Following her fifth-place finish in the women’s 100m, Forbes bounced back to place second in the 200m in 22.74 seconds behind Tamara Clarke of the United States, who won in 22.64.

Bennett clocked 13.40 seconds for third place in the men’s 110m hurdles. Jason Joseph of Switzerland won in 13.18, with Luis Francois Medley of Senegal second in 13.24.

Dacres threw 66.19m for third in the men’s discus as world champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden threw 67.29m to win ahead of the Kristjan Ceh of Slovakia, 67.15m.

World Championships women’s 400m hurdles champion Femke Bol of the Netherlands, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico, and Allison Dos Santos of Brazil won their respective events in meet record times.

Bol of the Netherlands won the 400m hurdle in 52.79 seconds, ahead of American Shamier Little, who was second in 53.64.

Camacho Quinn won the 100m hurdles in 12.56 seconds, while Santos captured the men’s 400m hurdles in 47.50.