KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Fredrick Dacres wrapped up his best season as a senior athlete today by winning the IAAF Diamond League trophy and the US$50,000 prize in the discus event at the Van Damme Memorial in Brussels, Belgium, the final meeting of the season and second half of the two-meet Diamond League finals.

The Commonwealth Games record holder and former World number one, up to a week ago, threw 68.67metres to win, exactly a metre shy of his personal best and national record mark set in June in Stockholm, Sweden.

Meanwhile, Aisha Praught set a new national record in the 3,000m steeple chase, as despite finishing in eighth place in 9 minutes 14.09 seconds, chopped over five seconds off her two-year-old record, and sprinter Yohan Blake ran a season’s best 9.94 seconds (0.3m/s) to finish third in the men’s 100m.

But Dacres, the NACAC record holder, was the man of the moment as he became the first Jamaican to win a Diamond League trophy in a throwing event, winning four of five discus events in the series, as he also finished on top in Rome, Stockholm and Paris.

The leader with 25 points coming into the meet yesterday, Dacres set the mark on his first throw as Lithuania’s Andrius Gudzius was second with 67.52m and Sweden’s World Leader Daniel Stahl third with 65.59m.

Paul Reid