WORLD Indoor Championships medallist Danniel Thomas-Dodd set a world-leading and meet record 19.00m to win the women’s shot put during the BAUHAUS Gala Indoor at Satra Athletics Hall in Sweden on Thursday.

The event is a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meet.

Thomas-Dodd, Jamaica’s record holder in the event, had withdrawn from the national team to the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. But on Thursday she took the lead from Finland’s Emilia Kangas who threw 18.13m on Wednesday.

The Jamaican former Commonwealth Games gold medallist broke the meet record 18.99m set two years ago by American Chase Jackson.

The 19.00m effort was Thomas-Dodd’s best since 2024 when she threw 19.12m in the final at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Scotland.

After taking the lead with 18.18m and following with 18.66m in the second round, she produced her best in the final round.

Sweden’s Fanny Roos was second with a season’s best 18.46m, while Germany’s Julia Ritter was third with 17.32m.

Thomas-Dodd was one of two Jamaican winners at the meet, as Jonielle Smith won the women’s 60m in a meet record 7.12 seconds. Smith defeated twin sisters Tina and Tia Clayton, both of whom were timed in 7.14.

Olympic Games and World Championships medallist Kishane Thompson was third in the men’s 60m.

The Clayton twins and Thompson had missed the first rounds — because they were said to have arrived late in the country — but were awarded places in the finals on the eight-lane track.

Smith initially broke the meet record in the first round after she clocked 7.17 to better the 7.24 set by Julia Henriksson in 2024. Smith returned in the final to run even faster, pushed by both Claytons who also bettered the previous record.

Great Britain’s Romell Glave won the men’s 60m in 6.51, the third best in the world so far. He was ahead of compatriot Jeremiah Azu (6.54) and Thompson (6.56).

Rohan Watson, who was third in his first-round race in 6.69, finished seventh in the final in 6.64.

— Paul A Reid