World Champion Oblique Seville says his men’s 100m victory at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland, on Sunday, sets him up well for the remainder of the season.

The Jamaican ran a meet record 9.83 seconds (1.4m/s) during the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, effectively securing his place in the Diamond League final set for Brussells, Belgium, in two weeks.

Kenny Bednarek ran a season’s best 9.87 for second and fellow American Christian Coleman was third in 9.93. Jamaican Ackeem Blake ran 10.26 in his first-round race and failed to advance.

Seville, 25, said he is also eyeing success at the first-ever Ultimate Championships set for Budapest, Hungary, in mid-September.

“I am in pretty good shape and I feel pretty good about the win. I am in great shape for the Ultimate Championships. The victory feels nice — especially as I ran close to my personal best — and I am just having fun,” he said.

After placing second at the London Diamond League last month, he qualified for Sunday’s final after running 9.90 (1.9m/s) in the preliminaries. He then broke the meet record of 9.87 that was held jointly by three men, including compatriot Kishane Thompson.

“There are great things ahead of me,” Seville said. “Many sprinters ran under 10s, that is really special. For the rest of the season I would like to keep winning, and the next win should be in Brussels.”

Brianna Lyston was the best-placed Jamaican in the women’s 100m, placing fourth in 10.96(0.6m/s). The race was won by American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, who maintained her unbeaten run all year with a season’s best-equalling 10.78. Jefferson-Wooden defeated St Lucia’s Olympic Games champion Julien Alfred who ran a season’s best 10.83. Another American, Sha’Carri Richardson, placed third in 10.96.

Tina Clayton, who had a good start, faded to sixth place with 11.01, while her twin sister Tia was ninth with 11.24.

Megan Simmonds was second in the 100m hurdles, running 12.62 (0.2m/s) behind American Alaysha Johnson who won in 12.52. Poland’s Pia Skrzyszowska placed third with 12.64.

Ackera Nugent, who raced in Finland four days prior, was fourth with 12.64, while two-time world champion Danielle Williams was fifth in 12.70.

Nickisha Pryce

Jamaica’s Oblique Seville (centre) races to victory in the men’s 100m event, finishing ahead of Kenneth Bednarek (left) of the United States and Andre de Grasse of Canada at the Silesia Diamond League athletics meeting in Katowice, Poland, on Sunday. Photos: AFP

Nickisha Pryce ran a season’s best 49.49 for second in the women’s 400m as world champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic clocked 48.87 to win for the fifth-straight time on the Diamond League circuit.

Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain finished third with a season’s best 49.57 while Stacey Ann Williams was sixth with 49.81.

Three days after he competed at the Diamond League in Lausanne, Switzerland, Orlando Bennett was fifth in the 110m hurdles in 13.25 (-0.7m/s).

American Ja’Kobe Tharp, who had finished at the back of the race in Switzerland, rebounded to win with 13.05 in a clean sweep of the top three places for Americans. Trey Cunningham was second with 13.08, just ahead of Jamal Britt (13.09),

Rajindra Campbell was sixth in the men’s shot put with 21.61m as Italy’s world leader Leonardo Fabbri won in dramatic fashion, coming from fourth place with 22.08m in fourth round.

Early leader Jordan Geist of the United States was second with 21.96m while his country man Joe Kovacs was third with 21.86m.

Olympic Games champion Roje Stona was sixth in the men’s discus throw with 67.65m while national champion Ralford Mullings threw a season’s best 66.44m for seventh after starting with two fouled efforts.

Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania set a Diamond League and meet record 72.58m to beat Kristjan Ceh (68.93m) of Slovakia and Daniel Stahl (68.25m) of Sweden.

Alekna broke his own own Diamond League record of 71.70m set in London last year and the meet record 68.60m set by Germany’s Robert Harting in 2013.

Commonwealth Games medallist Ackelia Smith finished eighth in the women’s triple jump with 13.97m (-0.7m/s) as Saly Sarr won with a Senegalese national record 15.08m (0.2m/s). Sarr defeated the Cuban pair of Leyanis Perez Hernandez, who recorded 14.91m (-0.2m/s), and Davisleydi Velazco, who jumped 14.84m (1.2m/s).

Lamara Distin was ninth in the women’s high jump, clearing 1.89m. Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine equalled the meet record of 2.00m to win. Mahuchikh topped her compatriot Iryna Geraschenko (1.98m), with Australia’s Commonwealth Games champion Eleanor Patterson (1.98).