Two-time World Championship silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts’s third-place finish in the women’s triple jump was the best finish for a Jamaican at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday. It was the fourth stop in the Wanda Diamond League season at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Despite registering just two legal marks, the usually consistent Ricketts produced a season’s best 14.55m (-0.4m/s), with Kimberly Williams finishing in seventh place with a best of 13.74m (-0.1m/s).

Cuba’s Leyanis Perez Hernandez won with a wind-aided 14.73m (2.1m/) ahead of World Indoor champion Thea Lafond of Dominica who had a best 14.62m (-0.6m/s) after fouling her first two attempts.

The mega clash between two-time Olympic Games sprint double champion Elaine Thompson Herah and World Champion Sha’Carri Richardson, which was expected to be one of the top clashes of the meet, had an anticlimactic finish with the American running away to win in 10.83 seconds (1.5m/s), with the Jamaican trailing in at the back of the race in 11.30 seconds, both running the 100m for the first time this season.

Richardson caught the fast-starting Julien Alfred of St Lucia (10.93 seconds) and ran away from her to register the second fastest time of the year, with Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith third in a season’s best 10.98 seconds.

World Championships finalist Roshawn Clarke led the men’s 400m hurdles after nine barriers but hit the 10th and was thrown off balance, allowing Costa Rica’s Gerald Drummond to win in a season’s best 48.56 seconds.

Rasmus Magi of Estonia was second with a season’s best 48.85 seconds, with CJ Allen of the USA third in 48.99 seconds.

Clarke, the World Under-20 record holder, ran 49.07 seconds, just ahead of compatriot Malik James-King’s, 49.51 seconds, with Jaheel Hyde seventh in 49.83 seconds.

World Indoor Championships bronze medallist Ackeem Blake was also fourth in the men’s 100m, running 10.12 seconds (1.2m/s), with Sandrey Davison lowering his personal best to 10.13 seconds for fifth as Christian Coleman won in a season’s best 9.95 seconds, holding off Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala who ran 9.98 seconds, also his best this season.

Olympic champion Hansle Parchment was fourth in the 110m hurdles after a poor start, running 13.28 seconds (-0.1m/s) as three times world champion Grant Holloway ran a world leading 13.03 seconds, well ahead of Daniel Roberts (13.13 seconds), and Freddie Crittenden ran a season’s best 13.16 seconds as the Americans took the first three places.

Two-time World Champion Danielle Williams was sixth in the 100m hurdles, running 12.65 seconds (-0.9m/s) behind France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela who equalled her national record 12.52 seconds, beating Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (12.54 seconds) and American Tonea Marshall (12.55 seconds).

Rajindra Campbell was seventh in the men’s shot put with 20.68m. It was won by American Joe Kovacs with a world leading 23.13m. Natoya Goule-Toppin was ninth in the women’s 800m with 1:59.92 minutes.

There was also a world record on the day as Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet clocked 28:54.14 minutes to win the women’s 10,000m event. It was seven seconds faster than the previous record of 29:01.03 set by Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey in 2021. Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay moved to third on the world all-time list with her runner-up finish of 29:05.92, as the top four all ran faster than 30 minutes.