WORLD Championships long jump gold medallist Tajay Gayle set a meet record 7.83m (-0.9m/s) at Duval County Challenge — part of the American Track League series — which was held in rainy conditions in Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday.

He was one of three Jamaican winners at the event as hurdlers Britany Anderson and Shiann Salmon also won their events.

Gayle had just two legal jumps, passed on his two final attempts, and was just shy of his seaon’s best 7.84m. He beat Dominica’s Tristan James who had a best mark of 7.82m (0.8m/s). American Tariq Evans was third with 7.56m (0.5m/s).

Anderson ran a season’s best 12.59 seconds (-0.2m/s) to win the 100m hurdles, the joint eighth-best time of the season. Two Americans, Tonea Marshall (12.76) and Chanel Brissett (12.77), were second and third, respectively.

Salmon clocked 56.06 seconds to win the 400m hurdles, easily ahead of compatriot Andrenette Knight (56.44). American Anna Cockrell was third in 56.72 while Jamaican Kimisha Chambers was sixth in 58.24.

Andre Clarke was third in the men’s 400m hurdles with 51.26 and Romel Lewis was fifth in 52.46.

Nathon Allen was second in the men’s 400m running 46.27, beaten by American Trevor Stewart 45.91. Karayme Bartlett clocked 51.06 while Akeem Bloomfield stopped running after about 20 metres.

Andre Ewers was third in the men’s 100m in 10.39 (-0.3m/s) while Jelani Walker was fourth in 10.44 (-0.3m/s). Damion Thomas was fifth in the 110m hurdles in 13.63 (1.2m/s).

— Paul A Reid