Olympic Games silver medallist Kishane Thompson says he has learnt his lessons from his loss to American Noah Lyles last year and says he is ready to compete after a statement win in the men’s 100m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Chorzow, Poland, yesterday.

Thompson was one of two Jamaican winners on the second day of the meet as reigning World Champion Shericka Jackson won the women’s 200m in a season’s best 22.17 seconds (-0.3m/s).

Thompson, who won in Hungary earlier in the week, showed off his race craft as after taking the lead in the race he held on to win with a meet record equalling 9.87 seconds (0.3m/s) set by Fred Kerley of the United States last year.

Lyles, who was running only his second competitive 100m race of the season, was second in a season’s best 9.90 seconds, with American Championships winner Kenny Bednarek third in 9.96 seconds.

Ackeem Blake finished eighth in 10.11 seconds.

Thompson, who is in his second full season of professional track and field, says he felt good about his race.

“My race today was not so good, not so bad,” he says. “I enjoyed competition against Noah today. It is all about execution. I had problems with that, but I am finding it. The key is to find the momentum in the race and to maintain it till the end.

“Nobody is perfect, but I am working on improving my strengths and improving on my weaknesses. Paris last year was a big learning factor. I learned it is me against myself. No disrespect to my rivals, but anything is possible when you execute well.”

After controlling her race from the start, Jackson was in a great mood, saying, “We are back!”

Running only her third 200m of the season, Jackson beat the USA’s Brittany Brown (22.21), with Favour Ofili third in 22.25.

“It has been a while and it has been a journey,” Jackson says. “Getting here was a roller coaster with missed flights, but I made it! I have not run a curve this hard since 2023. Last year was a disappointment, but now, mentally, I am here and I am strong.”

Despite saying she had not “executed” the start as she would have liked, Olympic Games finalist Tia Clayton, running in lane nine, produced a personal best 10.82 seconds (0.1m/s), under her previous best of 10.86 seconds set in June, to place second in the women’s 100m behind American world leader Melissa Jefferson-Wooden who equalled the meet record 10.66 seconds, just off her personal best 10.65 seconds.

“This was my first race coming back from the nationals and my hamstring injury,” Clayton says. “I tried my best to work on my start, but I did not execute it so well.”

Clayton moved up to fourth on the World Athletics rankings, just behind her twin sister Tina, who has a season’s best of 10.81 seconds.

Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast was third in a season’s best 10.87 seconds, while Tina Clayton was fourth in 10.91 seconds.

Two-time World Athletics Championships gold medallist Danielle Williams ran a personal best 12.31 seconds (1.4m/s) to place fourth in the 100m hurdles, just under the 12.32 seconds set in 2019 and tied for second best Jamaican with Britany Anderson.

National record holder Ackera Nugent was seventh in 12.43 seconds and national champion Megan Tapper finished ninth in 12.66 seconds.

The USA’s Masai Russell produced a stunning 12.19 seconds, breaking the meet and Diamond League records, with Tonea Marshall clocking a personal best 12.24 seconds and Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, the world record holder, was third in 12.25 seconds.

National champion Roshawn Clarke, who was racing competitively for the first time since late June, was sixth in the men’s 400m hurdles in 48.81 seconds as Norway’s Karsten Warholm won in a world lead, meet record, and Diamond League record 46.28 seconds.

Orlando Bennett was fifth in the 110m hurdles in 13.25 seconds (-0.5m/s), just ahead of Hansle Parchment (13.27).

Shiann Salmon ran a season’s best 54.56 seconds for fifth in the women’s 400m hurdles, while Romaine Beckford was fourth in the men’s high jump with a clearance of 2.25m.

Ackelia Smith was seventh in the women’s long jump with a distance of 6.52m (0.3m/s).

Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson (left) crosses the line ahead of South Africa’s Akani Simbine (centre) and USA’s Trayvon Bromell to win the men’s 100m final of the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Chorzow, Poland, yesterday. (Photo: AFP)

Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson catches her breath after winning the women’s 200m final. (Photo: AFP)