Shericka Jackson won her first 100m race in almost a year after she clocked 11.04 seconds (0.2m/s) at Sunday’s Meeting International Mohammed VI d’Athletisme de Rabat held at Complexe Sportif Prince Moulay Abdellah, Rabat in Morocco, the fourth stop on the 2025 Wanda Diamond League series.

Jackson, who was contesting a 100m race for the first time since the Jamaican national championships in late June last year, overcame a slow start to beat Liberia’s Maia McCoy, who ran 11.08 seconds and American Jacious Sears – 11.11 seconds.

She was the only Jamaican winner at the event while Olympic Games shot put medallist Rajindra Campbell and women’s 400m intermediate hurdler Andrenette Knight was second in their respective events.

Jackson, who has lost just one 100m race since last year, in the semi-finals at the Jamaican championships, said she was happy with the result.

“I am healthy and that’s the most important thing. I did a lot of stuff good, but there are a lot of things that I can improve but it was a good race so I leave this competition with only happy feelings,” said Jackson.

Campbell threw a season’s best 21.95m, joint second in the world, improving on the 21.40m he threw a few days earlier in Germany and was just edged by American Payton Otterdahl, who threw a world-leading 21.97m in the final round.

The Olympic Games bronze medallist threw over 21.00m on all five legal marks on Sunday said afterwards, “It was a good competition, the circumstances were good, the atmosphere was nice, the stadium was packed so it was fun to compete.”

He pointed out that, “This is my second meet of the year so everything still feels rusty, but I am pleased with the result. We have the Diamond League in Rome in about a week so onto the next.”

Knight, who described her race as “a work in progress”, also had a season’s best 53.90 seconds and Rushell Clayton was fourth in 54.83 seconds, also her fastest so far this season as world champion Femke Bol of the Netherlands set a meet record 52.46 seconds, beating the 53.68 seconds set in 2011 by Bulgaria’s Vanya Stambolova.

Rushell Clayton was fourth in 54.83 seconds.

Knight shared, “I am happy with the season best. I need to work on my whole set up, the race pattern. I try different things every race and just go back and see what has to be done. Next race the goal is to go even faster.”

Romaine Beckford was fifth in the men’s high jump and Raymond Richards finished ninth, both clearing 2.21m as the top three men Hamish Kerr of New Zealand, Marco Fassinotti of Italy and Yual Reath of Australia all cleared 2.25m.

Many-time national champion Natoya Goule-Toppin was 10th in the women’s 800m running 1:59.92 seconds.