JAMAICA’s Damion Thomas has continued his brilliant hurdling from the indoors after he clocked a world-leading 13.22 seconds (1.3m/s) to win the men’s 110m hurdles event on Saturday’s third and final day of the 93rd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas.

The Louisiana State University (LSU) senior added the programme’s outdoor record to his indoor record set three weeks ago when he won the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Indoor national title in Fayetteville, Arkansas, becoming the 10th-fastest performer in collegiate history and breaking the 13.32 seconds LSU record held by Barrett Nugent.

Thomas, the World Under-20 champion who also attained the Olympic Games qualifying mark (13.32 seconds), beat his previous best of 13.44 seconds, set in 2018 in Eugene, Oregon, and climbed to number eight on the all-time Jamaican list.

It was a Jamaican 1-2 in the event as former Rusea’s High and national junior representative Brithon Senior of the University of South Dakota was second in a personal best and school record 13.54 seconds.

Senior, who is participating in his first NCAA outdoor season, broke the 2016 record of 13.59 seconds that was held by former Herbert Morrison athlete Tevaskie Lewin, his current coach.

Meanwhile, there were also wins on Saturday for Kemba Nelson and Xavier Nairne of the University of Oregon; former St Jago High runner Leon Clarke, now at Mississippi State University; and Andrette Knight.

Fresh off her indoor, record-breaking 60m run, Nelson won the women’s 200m in a wind-aided 22.79 seconds (2.5) at the San Diego State University Aztec Invitational.

Nelson’s time will be recognised as the NCAA leading mark, despite the over-the-allowable-limit wind, and she also ran the second leg of the University of Oregon women’s 4x100m team that clocked 43.82 seconds to win.

Nairne, the former Wolmer’s Boys’ School sprinter who was part of the Oregon all-conquering distance medley relay team in the indoor season, ran a personal best and meet record 10.20 seconds (1.5m/s) to win the 100m.

His time was the sixth best in Oregon history, he also ran 20.73 seconds (1.5) for third in the 200m that saw his teammates occupy the top four places, and was part of the sprint relay team that won with 39.02 seconds.

Clarke, better known for his 800m running and who transferred from Essex County College, won the 400m in 47.50 seconds at the Al Schmidt Bulldog Relays held at Mississippi State.

University of Virginia’s Knight, the former St Jago High and Vere Technical runner, won her first 400m hurdles race outdoors, running 58.02 seconds as seventh-best in the country, at the Raleigh Relays at North Carolina State.

She was also fifth in the 100m hurdles in a personal best 13.56 seconds (1.1m/s) while her teammate, former St Jago sprinter Kayla Bonnick, was fifth in the 100m in 11.66 seconds (1.1m/s) after running a personal best 11.60 seconds in the preliminaries and also running a personal best 24.03 seconds (1.1m/s) for the 200m.

Former Edwin Allen star Kevona Davis of University of Texas was fourth in the international women’s 200m in 22.93 seconds (0.7m/s) while former Manchester High and Holmwood Technical runner Keva Francis of Baylor University was fourth in the college women’s race in 23.14 seconds (0.8m/s) breaking into the programme’s top 10 list.

Sean Bailey of University of Texas-El Paso was second in the men’s 400m in 45.46 seconds while his teammate Chevannie Hanson, formerly of Edwin Allen, was fourth in the 200m in 20.67 seconds (0.8m/s).

Indoor national 60m finalist Daszay Freeman placed fourth in the 100m hurdles in 13.08 seconds (1.6) in her first outdoor meet for the University of Arkansas.

At the Big10 Challenge at the University of Indiana, Janielle Josephs of Minnesota was second in the 200m in 24.01 seconds (1.5m/s) while Michaela Lewis of Alabama State was second in the women’s 800m at the Al Schmidt Bulldog Relays, running 2:07.90 minutes.