Two-time World Athletics Championships men’s 100m finalist Oblique Seville says he has learned from his experiences over the last two years and hopes he can use his lessons to finally get on the medal podium.

Seville, who was fourth in the men’s 100m at the last two World Athletics Championships, in Eugene, Oregon, in 2022 and Budapest, Hungary, last year, won the men’s 200m, run on a straight course at the adidas Atlanta City Games in Piedmont Park, Atlanta on Saturday. He ran a personal best 19.96 seconds (-1.1m/s), his first time under 20.00 seconds and second time he was lowering his lifetime best in the event this year.

In March, Seville had run a then personal best 20.17 seconds (1.9m/s) at the National Stadium and his new time is joint seventh best in the world with Zharnel Hughes, who won the men’s 200m at last weekend’s Jamaica Athletics Invitational at the National Stadium.

He is the first Jamaican man to dip under 20 seconds in the 200m this season but had said in March that he has no plans to run the half-lap event at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer.

World Championships men’s 400m gold medallist Antonio Watson was fourth in the event in 20.99 seconds.

It was a busy weekend for Jamaican athletes as they prepared for the Jamaican Olympic Trials in late June and Roje Stona won the men’s discus throw at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix held at the UCLA Drake Stadium in Los Angeles last Friday.

In Atlanta, Carey McLeod was third in the men’s long jump with a best mark of 7.92m (0.1m/s) as newly minted World Under-20 record holder Mattia Furlani of Italy won with 8.06m (0.1m/s).

Chanice Porter leapt a season best 6.58m (0.1m/s) for fifth place while national champion Tissanna Hickling was sixth with 6.50m (0.2m/s).

Demisha Roswell was fourth in the 100m hurdles in 12.98 seconds (-2.3m/s), Yanique Thompson was fifth in 13.13 seconds while Ackera Nugent failed to complete her heat.

Junelle Bromfield was fourth in the women’s 200m running 23.44 seconds (-2.2m/s), Tyquendo Tracey was fifth in the men’s 150m with 15.90 seconds (0.3m/s) while Ashanti Moore 11.33 seconds and Ryiem Forde 10.33 seconds both failed to get past the first round of the women and men’s 100m respectively.

At the Los Angeles meet, Stona who took a break from trying to impress NFL coaches, won the men’s discus throw with 66.93m, beating Chile’s Claudio Romero 64.12m and American Brian Williams 63.36m.

Earlier in the week Stona had been at the New Orleans Saints Rookie training camp where he is trying to make the team as a defensive end.

World Championships finalist and World Under-20 record holder Roshawn Clarke was second in the men’s 400m hurdles, running 48.11 seconds, his best ever opening run as American Rai Benjamin won with a a world leading 46.64 seconds.

Clarke’s time was better than his previous best opening run of 51.35 seconds, done last year when he was still a junior.

Malik James-King, the winner at the Jamaica Athletics Invitational, was sixth in 49.09 seconds and Jaheel Hyde finished ninth in 50.15 seconds.

Andrenette Knight was also second in the women’s 400m hurdles in a season’s best 54.69 seconds.

Two-time World Championships silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts was second in the women’s triple jump with 14.36m (0.4m/s), just edged by Thea LaFond of Dominica who won with 14.37m (0.0m/s) while Kimberly Williams was fifth with 13.35m (-0.2m/s).

Lana-Tava Thomas was third in the women’s 100m A race in 11.35 seconds (-2.4m/s), just ahead of Alana Reid 11.36 seconds, Tia Clayton was sixth in 11.47 seconds and Natasha Morrison seventh in 11.51 seconds.

Briana Williams ran 11.47 seconds (0.0m/s) for fifth in the women’s 100m B race as Ackeem Blake false started in the men’s 100m.

World Championships 4x400m relay medallist Stacey Ann Williams placed fifth in the women’s 400m in 51.38 and Sean Bailey was also fifth in the men’s 400m in 45.19 seconds, his first competitive run of the season.

National record holder Rajindra Campbell was sixth in the men’s shot put with 21.07m while on Friday, National record holder Navasky Anderson

finished down the field in the men’s 800m B race, running 1:50.65 seconds after being well placed after the first 400m.