WORLD Athletics Championships relay medallist Kemba Nelson has admitted surprise after speeding to a wind-aided 10.88 seconds (2.5m/s) to win the women’s 100m at Friday’s rescheduled Doha Diamond League meet.

The outing was her debut in the global series.

The 26-year-old Nelson, who has run 11.08 three times this season, got off to a fast start before completing the win.

She held off Italy’s World Indoor 60m champion Zaynab Dosso who ran 11.01. Patrizia van der Weken of Luxembourg was third with 11.03.

Nelson, who has a personal best of 10.88, said she outdid her expectations.

“[I’m] shocked! I mean, I have not run this fast since 2022”, she said.

“I have been trying, I have been through some hardships, I have been through so much, so to be able to tie my personal best from 2022, it means a lot.”

But for wind, which was just beyond the legal limit, Nelson would have been the 12th Jamaican woman under 11 seconds in the 100m this season.

“Once we are Jamaican, we are always amongst the best, so I can say I am one of the best just being Jamaican. It is really deep pool, but I am a part of that deep pool, so everything works out how it works out,” she said.

Nelson was the only Jamaican winner at the meet as both Rushell Clayton, in the women’s 400m hurdles, and Jordan Scott in the men’s triple jump were both second. Raymond Richards was fourth in the men’s high jump with 2.20m.

National champion Clayton, who was taking second in back-to-back Diamond League races, said she was happy with her season’s best 53.05 but that there is room for improvement.

“It was pretty good. I wish I would have executed a little better, but I had a season’s best and it feels really good. The atmosphere was very nice, I loved it. This was my first time in Doha since the 2019 World Championships and it feels pretty amazing,” she said.

In-form Emma Zapletalova of Slovakia won her fourth straight Diamond League race in a national record 52.30, improving her world lead. She also broke the meet record 53.61 set by American Dalilah Muhammad in 2019. Kemi Adekoya of Bahrain was third with a season’s best 53.67.

Despite improving his personal best to 17.69m (1.7m/s), Jordan Scott fell short 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. Pichardo registered 17.71m (0.4m/s) in his first outdoor competition of the year.

Yasser Mohammed Triki set an Algerian record with this 17.67m (0.4m/s) which was good enough for third place.