Three Jamaicans were winners on Thursday’s Weltklasse Diamond League meeting in Zurich and were among a number of Jamaicans who booked their places in next week’s two-day finals in Brussels, Belgium.

Despite persistent rain on a cold evening, Shiann Salmon ran a personal best and Roshawn Clarke ran a season’s best to win the women’s and men’s 400m hurdles, receptively, while Wayne Pinnock finally got the better of World and Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece in the men’s long jump.

Two athletes, Carey McLeod in the men’s long jump and sprint hurdler Rasheed Broadbell, did not show up for their events.

Salmon, clocked a personal best 52.97 seconds, lowering the 53.13 seconds she set in the semi-finals at the Olympics, and moved into fifth all-time on the Jamaican list past Janieve Russell.

Salmon came from fourth place after eight hurdles to overhaul American Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell, who was second with 53.17 seconds while Shamier Little, also of the USA was third with 54.07 seconds.

Jamaica’s Russell was fourth with 54.75 seconds and Andrenette Knight sixth with 55.42 seconds.

Afterwards Salmon said, “I came into this race with a strategy to come out, keep it up until the home straight and then finish strong. I did that and I came with the victory so I am grateful.”

She added that it was not the first time she had attempted the race plan. “It was not something new, it was just executed well tonight. I really wanted to end the season with the 52 and I did it. I had the goal to run the 52 seconds and that was my main motivation to run so well.”

Clarke made up for his fall in the Olympic final and fourth-place finish in Silesia with a season best 47.49 seconds in the men’s 400m hurdles, beating Qatar’s Abderrahman Samba -47.58 seconds and Estonia’s Rasmus Magi, 48.02 seconds.

“I came out with the mindset that this is a race than anybody could win and I wanted to come out on top and that is what I did today,” Clarke said afterwards. “The conditions were not the best today because yesterday, it was very warm and today it switched completely and we got very cold rain. But I just had to keep myself cool as everybody have the same conditions and we have to face the same weather. So I did what I had to do.”

He was happy that he qualified for the Diamond League finals saying, “This victory is very important to me because I am through to the Diamond League final, I was ninth in the standing and these points will put me into Brussels.”

After watching Tentoglou pass him on a number of occasions on his way to victory, Pinnock had the last laugh on Thursday as his 8.18m (-0.9m/s) held up to beat the Greek, who could only muster 8.02m (-1.2m/s) for second place.

Simon Ehammer of Switzerland, who led early, finished third with 7.98m (0.2m/s) while Tajay Gayle was sixth with 7.85m (-2.0m/s).

Hansle Parchment, who had booked his spot in the Diamond League final prior to Thursday, was fourth in the 110m hurdles in a season’s best 13.18 seconds (-0.3m/s). American Grant Holloway won with 12.99 seconds, beating France’s Sasha Zhoya, who ran a personal best 13.10 seconds while American Freddie Crittenden who replaced Broadbell was third with 13.16 seconds.

Pinnock, who is in his first season as a professional said, “My result today shows what I can do. My victory today is not like a revenge. I came out here with my best, that is all.”

“I think I will be in Brussels. Recently I have been a bit lazy with my jumps. Today my coach told me to feel the energy from the back, and it was as easy as that to achieve 8.18m in that weather.”

Danielle Williams was sixth in the 100m hurdles, running 12.57 seconds (0.8m/s) as Diamond League leader Jasmine Camacho Quinn of Puerto Rico won with 12.36 seconds, beating Cyrene Samba-Mayela of France, 12.40 seconds with Olympic champion Masai Russell of the USA third with 12.47 seconds.

Tia Clayton was sixth in the women’s 100m, running 11.09 seconds (0.1m/s) as American Olympic Games silver medallist Sha’Carri Richardson won with 10.84 seconds to turn the tables on Olympic champion Julien Alfred of St Lucia, who ran 10.88 seconds with Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith third with 10.89 seconds.

National high jump record holder Lamara Distin placed eighth in the women’s high jump with a clearance of 1.85m clearance, her lowest of the season with the exception of the NCAA D1 Western Regionals where she qualified for the national championships.

World record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine won with 1.96m, beating Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers, 1.93m and Iryna Gerashchenko of Ukraine, who also cleared 1.93m.

Rajindra Campbell was eighth in the men’s shot put with a best of 20.19m and booked his place in the Diamond League final.

Ryan Crouser of the USA won with 22.66m, well clear of Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri, 21.86m and Payton Otterdahl of the USA, who was third with 21.38m.