National record holders Britany Anderson and Omar McLeod were winners at the 13th Savona International Meeting held at the Centro Sportivo Fontanassa in Savona, Italy, on Wednesday. The meet is a World Athletics Continental Tour – Challenger event.

Both ran their season’s best in the sprint hurdles as they continued their preparations for the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) national championships set for late June, which will be used to select the members of the team to the Paris Olympics.

Anderson, the silver medallist in the 100m hurdles at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in 2022 and who missed last season with an injury, ran 12.88 seconds (0.9m/s), her best in two years, beating Sara Lavin of Ireland — 12.92 seconds — and Italy’s Elisa Maria Di Lazzardo — 12.99 seconds.

This was Anderson’s second hurdles race of the season after she had run 13.23 seconds at a meet in Milan about a month ago.

McLeod, the former World Athletics, World Indoor, and Olympic champion who was racing over the barriers for only the second time in 12 months, ran 13.37 seconds (1.2m/s), making him the joint second fastest Jamaican so far this year with LaFranz Campbell, behind reigning Olympic Games gold medallist Hansle Parchment’s 13.26 seconds.

Great Britain’s Joshua Zeller ran 13.42 seconds for second and Enrique Llopis of Spain was third in 13.43 seconds, both also running their best so far this season.

Italy’s Mattia Furlani broke the World Under-20 record for the men’s long jump when he won with 8.36m (1.4m/s), just a head of the 14-year-old mark of 8.35m set by Russia’s Sergey Morgunov in Cheboksary, Russia, in June 2012.