Former national champion and World Athletics Championships semi-finalist Rohan Watson won his first 100m final of the season at the Grand Prix Lombardia Brescia 2024, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze event, on Sunday.

Running into a strong head wind, the 2023 national champion clocked 10.48 seconds (-2.8m/s) ahead of compatriot Michael Campbell who finished second in 10.53 seconds and Cuba’s Janns Fernandez who ran 10.54 seconds for third.

Watson had only won one race prior to Sunday, his heat of the men’s 100m at the Miramar Invitational in early April.

Natasha Morrison was third in the women’s 100m in 11.43 seconds (-2.4m/s) behind winner Marie Josee Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast who ran 11.28 seconds and Great Britain’s Daryll Neita who was second with 11.31 seconds.

Stephenie-Ann McPherson was fourth in the women’s 400m in 51.93 seconds as American Alexis Holmes won with 51.32 seconds, beating Brittany Brown who was second in 51.48 seconds and Andrea Miklos of Romania who took third in 51.65 seconds.

Yanique Thompson was also fourth, in the 100m hurdles in 13.44 seconds (-1.6m/s), behind Puerto Rico’s Jasmine Camacho Quinn who won with 12.88 seconds, followed by American Masai Russell who was second with 12.91 seconds and Italy’s Giada Carmassi in third place with 13.42 seconds.

Lamara Distin was fifth in the women’s high jump with 1.82m and Janieve Russell was sixth in the women’s 400m hurdles in 56.13 seconds.

-Paul A Reid