KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican hurdlers Rasheed Broadbell and Rushell Clayton were winners at their respective meets on the European circuit on Tuesday.

Fresh from his second win over World Champion Grant Holloway in their meeting at the Lausanne Diamond League meet last week, Commonwealth champion Broadbell ran 13.36 seconds (-2.2m/s) to win the 110m hurdles event at the Spitzen Leichtathletik, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event held at Stadion Allmend in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Olympic champion, Hansle Parchment, was fourth in 13.54 seconds, the same time as third placed American Jamal Britt while Eric Edwards placed second in 13.53.

Damion Thomas was third in the B race in 13.71 seconds (-2.7m/s).

Meanwhile, at the 58th staging of the Palio Citta’ Della Quercia in Italy, another World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event, Clayton took the women’s 400m hurdles in 53.75 seconds, while her compatriot Andrenette Knight failed to finish the race.

There was a big upset at the Spitzen Leichtathletik as American Sha’Carri Richardson, running for the first time since June, edged Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games double sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah in the women’s 100m event.

The American clocked 11.29 seconds, (-2.0m/s) just edging out Thompson-Herah while another American Celera Barnes was third in 11.40 seconds.

Natasha Morrison won the women’s 100m B race in 11.42 seconds (-1.5m/s) while Shashalee Forbes was sixth in 11.87 seconds and was also fifth in the 200m B race in 23.91 seconds (1.7m/s).

Janieve Russell was second in the women’s 400m hurdles, running 55.25 seconds, beaten by American Dalilah Muhammad who clocked 54.57 seconds.

Tajay Gayle was second in the men’s long jump with 7.98m (-.8m/s) as Swiss athlete Simon Ehammer won with 8.00m (-0.3m/s).

Ackeem Blake was third in the men’s 100m, running 10.22 seconds (- 1.7m/s) as American Marvin Bracey won in 10.17 seconds and Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala was second in 10.18 seconds.

Nigel Ellis was third in the B race in 10.50 seconds (-0.6m/s).

NACAC champion Andrew Hudson was second in the men’s 200m in 20.47 seconds (0.3m/s) behind American Kyree King in 20.40 seconds.

Christopher Taylor ran 45.82 seconds for fourth in the men’s 400m that was won by American Bryce Deadmon in 45.11 seconds while Adelle Tracey was sixth in the women’s 1500m in 4:07.73 seconds.

Also at the Palio Citta’ Della Quercia meeting, Rusheen McDonald placed second in the men’s 400m in 45.63 seconds as American Michael Cherry won in 45.27 seconds.

Junielle Bromfield was second in the women’s 400m in 51.86 seconds as American Kaylin Whitney ran a season’s best 51.12 seconds to win.

Michael Campbell was eighth in the men’s 100m in 10.53 (-0.1m/s) and Aisha Praught-Leer finished 13th in the women’s 3000m in 9:03.60 seconds.

– Paul A Reid