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Nia Robinson gets third on Diamond League debut
Nia Robinson (Photo: AFP)
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June 7, 2026

Nia Robinson gets third on Diamond League debut

KINGSTON, Jamaica — World Athletics Indoor finalist Nia Robinson finished in third place in the women’s long jump on her Wanda Diamond League debut at Sunday’s Bauhaus-Galan at Olympiastadion in Stockholm, Sweden, with a wind-aided 6.80m (2.4m/s).

Robinson was the only Jamaican who managed a podium finish as Roje Stona was fourth in the men’s discus throw and Danniel Thomas-Dodd was sixth in the women’s shot put while Assinie Wilson placed seventh in the men’s 400m hurdles which was not a part of the Diamond League schedule.

Robinson who also had a wind-legal 6.78m (1.3m/s) jump, her legal best outdoors this season and was coming off a third place finish at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland on Wednesday, got her biggest jump in the opening round.

France’s Hilary Kpatcha won with a wind-aided 6.85m (2.4m/s) with Italy’s Larissa Iapichino second with 6.84m (2.1m/s), also wind-aided.

Stona threw 66.42m but was off the pace as Sweden’s former Olympic Games and World Championships gold medalist Daniel Stahl threw a season’s best 69.60m to win ahead of world leader Matthew Denny of Australia who threw 69.02m and Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia who was third with 67.67m.

Thomas-Dodd who was competing for the third time in three countries in eight days, had one legal throw getting out to 18.56m.

World leader Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands threw a meet record 20.89m to win ahead of American Chase Jackson – 19.91m and Canadian Sarah Mitton- 19.89m.

Wilson who has also been busy, running four times in just over a week, clocked 49.13 seconds in the men’s 400m hurdles won by world leader Alison dos Santos of Brazil in 47.11 seconds.

Mattheus Lima also of Brazil ran a personal best 47.37 seconds for second and Germany’s Emil Agyekum also ran a life time best 47.72 seconds for third.

—  Paul A Reid

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