WORLD Championships silver medallist Elaine Thompson had to settle for third place in a scintillating 200m race at yesterday’s final IAAF Diamond League meeting held in Brussels, Belgium.

The Jamaican national champion ran 22.26 seconds (0.0m/s) but was beaten to the line by the superb Dutch runner Dafne Schippers, the World Championships gold medallist who ran 22.12 seconds to hold off the impressive American Alyson Felix with 22.22 seconds.

All three runners were drawn in lanes in the middle of the track, but Thompson came off the bend significantly behind the top two who were almost together, but it was the Dutch runner who produced the goods with a strong stretch run as her long legs took her to the line just ahead of Felix, who defended her 200m Diamond Trophy title.

Sherone Simpson, who was a finalist at the World Championships in Beijing last month, finished in sixth place in 23.12 seconds.

A Jamaican also took third in the men’s 200m as NACAC champion Rasheed Dwyer clocked 20.27 seconds (-0.4m/s) and Nickel Ashmeade was fifth in 20.59 seconds as Qatar’s Femi Ogunode set an Area Record 19.97 seconds to win the race ahead of Miguel Francis of Antigua in 20.22 seconds.

Earlier in the meeting, Ogunode was just beaten to the line in the 100m by Diamond Trophy winner Justin Gatlin, both given the same time of 9.98 seconds (-0.4m/s) as France’s Jimmy Vicaut was just behind in third in 9.99 seconds.

Jamaica’s World Championships 4x100m relay gold medallist Asafa Powell was fifth in 10.04 seconds, while Nesta Carter was disqualified after a false start.

World Championships bronze medallist O’Dayne Richards finished second in the shot put despite just two legal throws of his six attempts in a close contest. A mere 0.04 metres separated the top three men.

Richards’ 21.37m in the first round which gave him the lead at the time, was his best effort as he threw 20.50m in the third round for his only other legal mark.

New Zealand’s Tom Walsh, who won in Berlin on Sunday, and Zurich a day later, continued his strong late season run to win with 21.39m, while American Joe Kovacs, the world leader and world champion, took third with 21.35m and the Diamond Trophy.

Peter Mathews was third in the men’s 400m with 45.74 seconds as Trinidad and Tobago’s Rene Quow won with 45.29 seconds, ahead of hometown favourite Kevin Borlee in 45.43 seconds.

National Record holder Rusheen McDonald finished ninth in 47.89 seconds in the one lap race.

In the women’s race Stephenie Ann McPherson took third place in 51.00 seconds as Bahamian Shaunae Miller chased American Francena McCorory to win in 50.48 seconds. McCorory, who won the Diamond trophy, clocked 50.59 seconds.

Christine Day was sixth in 51.96 seconds and Novlene Williams-Mills was seventh in 52.04 seconds.

Kimberly Williams finished fifth in the women’s triple jump with a best jump of 14.28m and had four jumps over the 14.00m mark and one of 13.99m.

Colombian Caterine Ibarguen won with 14.60m and won the IAAF Diamond Trophy, while Israel’s Hanna Knyazheva-Minenko was second with 14.42m and Russia’s Yekaterina Koneva was third in 14.37m.