DESPITE running a world-leading 10.92 seconds (2.0m/s) to win the event for the Doha leg of the Jetour Diamond League yesterday, Olympic Games women’s 100m finalist Tia Clayton said she was not satisfied with how she executed her race.

Clayton laid down a big marker in one of the more highly anticipated races on the schedule as her twin sister Tina was second in their first 100m outing of the season, while Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce was fourth.

There were three Jamaican winners at the event as Rasheed Broadbell won the 110m hurdles and Shanieka Ricketts took the women’s triple jump, both in season’s best performances.

It was a dominant display by Tia, lowering the world lead of 10.98 seconds set by American Anavia Battle in mid April.

“I made the world-leading mark but honestly, I didn’t do the best possible,” she said. “I didn’t do it because I couldn’t do the start I always get but other than that, it was a great race for me.”

In what was a rare occurrence of twins finishing first and second in a Diamond League race, Tia said, “It is very special for me and my twin sister to finish first and second in this event tonight. I wouldn’t say that I was nervous but I just needed to get it together.”

Tina, who ran 11.02 seconds, also said she could have executed her race better.

“I think I executed the race a bit poorly but I can’t complain, I have to be grateful for this result because it is still the beginning of the season and it is a season best for me.”

She said she was happy to have done well alongside her sister.

“To be second just behind my sister Tia is a great feeling,” Tina said. “We are twin sisters, we are training partners, and we also compete together. When we line up for a race we are no longer sisters, we are rival competitors, but after the race is over it feels really good to make the top two places.”

Fraser-Pryce also ran a season’s best 11.05 seconds, behind Great Britain’s Amy Hunt who ran a personal best 11.03 seconds for third.

“It had been a while since I competed consistently,” Fraser-Pryce said. “I’m glad that I finished fourth..It is a long season, we just continue to work and hope for the best. As a mother, I have to balance between being a mom and an athlete and being present at different moments when you’re required to be… And I really just enjoy the moment.”

Broadbell, the Olympic Games bronze medallist who has run faster in each succeeding race since the start of the season, clocked 13.14 seconds (1.1m/s), taking the lead at the seventh hurdle after a slow start to beat American Jamal Britt (13.25) and Spain’s Enrique Llopis (13.27).

“My aim is to be faster and faster in every race,” Broadbell said. “I came out okay so I pushed it. I felt some pressure and I was telling myself that I should just relax, it’s so early in the season and I don’t want to cause myself any problems. I relaxed, I came first to cross the line, and when I saw my mark I said, ‘Oh, okay.’

“I could have won with a faster time but I’m good with it anyway. In Paris I was nowhere near my best [but], of course, still in the finals I put on something and I won a medal, so I’m really grateful. This season I’m gonna run faster, I think, and I’m not worried.”

Commonwealth Games champion Ricketts won with a with-aided 14.72m (3.2m/s) but her opening 14.30m (1.9m/s) is also a season’s best.

“ [I’m in the] best state of mind of my career,” she said. “I’m at a point in which I’m just enjoying the sport. Tonight was really good. I got so much support from the crowd; I used that energy they gave me in order to feel good. It’s an internal thing for me to be really focused on the competition. I am a very relaxed person. Every season I aim to be at the top of the podium and this year will be no different. It is quite hot here at the Jetour Doha Diamond League but it’s rather hot in Jamaica, too, so being here makes me feel like home!”

Olympic champion Thea LaFond of Dominica placed second with a season’s best 14.39m (1.9m/s), and France’s Ilionis Guillaume was third with a wind-aided 14.20m (3.4m/s).

Romaine Beckford was fifth in the men’s high jump, clearing 2.20m — same as fourth-placed Vernon Turner — while World Indoor Championship medallist Raymond Richards was ninth with 2.15m.

Fedrick Dacres was seventh in the men’s discus throw with a best mark of 64.71m, Adelle Tracey was 11th in the women’s 1500m in 4:11.76 minutes, while Malik James-King hit a barrier and ended eighth in the men’s 400m hurdles in 1:03.09 minutes.

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (left) and Jamaica’s Tia Clayton (right) compete in the women’s 100m final during the Jetour Diamond League competition at Suheim Bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, Qatar, yesterday. Also pictured is Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji. (Photo: AFP)