Kemba Nelson wins women’s 100m on Diamond League debut
KINGSTON, Jamaica — World Championships relay medallist Kemba Nelson marked her Diamond League debut with a sparkling run to win the women’s 100m at Friday’s rescheduled meet in Doha, Qatar, running a wind-aided 10.88 seconds (2.5m/s).
Nelson, who has run 11.08 seconds three times this season, got off to a fast start and held off Italy’s World Indoor 60m champion Zaynab Dosso, who ran 11.01 seconds, with Patrizia van der Weken of Luxembourg third with 11.03 seconds.
Despite improving his personal best to 17.69m (1.7m/s), Jordan Scott finished second in the men’s triple jump.
Scott, who went into the meet with the world lead at 17.66m, led after the first round but was passed by Portugal’s Pedro Pichardo in the second round with 17.71m (0.4m/s) in his first outdoor competition of the year.
Yasser Mohammed Triki set an Algerian national record with this 17.67m (0.4m/s) which was good enough for third place.
National champion Rushell Clayton was second in the women’s 400m hurdles for the second straight Diamond League meet after she lowered her season’s best to 53.05 seconds.
In form Emma Zapletalova of Slovakia won her fourth straight Diamond League race in a new Slovakian national record of 52.30 seconds, improving her world lead and also breaking the meet record of 53.61 seconds set by American Dalilah Muhammad in 2019.
Kemi Adekoya of Bahrain was third with a season’s best 53.67 seconds.
Two-time World Indoor medallist Raymond Richards finished fourth in the men’s high jump with 2.20m.
— Paul A Reid