Commonwealth champion Rasheed Broadbell extended his winning streak to five races after he topped the 110m hurdles field at the Spitzen Leichtathletik, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event held at Stadion Allmend in Luzern, Switzerland on Tuesday, but it was Sha’Carrie Richardson’s upset of Elaine Thompson-Herah that grabbed the headlines.

Richardson, who had not competed since June when she failed to get to the final of the women’s 100m at the United States Trials, made a winning return to the track when she edged the Jamaican Olympic and Commonwealth Games sprint double champion on the line.

Richardson clocked 11.29 seconds (-2.0m/s) just ahead of Thompson-Herah who was disqualified at last weekend’s Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, while another American Celera Barnes was third in 11.40 seconds.

Natasha Morrison won the women’s B race in 11.42 seconds (-1.5m/s) while Shashalee Forbes was sixth in 11.87 seconds and was also fifth in the 200m B race in 23.91 seconds (1.7m/s).

Fresh from his second win over World Champion Grant Holloway in their meeting in Lausanne last week, Commonwealth champion Broadbell ran 13.36 seconds (-2.2m/s) to win the 110m hurdles event, his fifth win on the trot.

Olympic champion Hansle Parchment was fourth in 13.54 seconds, the same time as third placed American Jamal Britt while Eric Edwards placed seconds in 13.53 seconds.

Former World Under-20 champin Damion Thomas was third in the B race in 13.71 seconds (-2.7m/s).

Back-to-back Commonwealth Games champion Janieve Russell was second in the women’s 400m hurdles, running 55.25 seconds, beaten by American Dalilah Muhammad who clocked -54.57 seconds as Finland’s Vilvi Lehikoinen was third in 55.41 seconds.

Tajay Gayle continued his comeback from a knee injury to place second in the men’s long jump with 7.98m (-.8m/s) as Swiss athlete Simon Ehammer won was with 8.00m (-0.3m/s).

Ackeem Blake was third in the men’s 100m, running 10.22 seconds (-1.7m/s) as American Marvin Bracey won in 10.17 seconds and Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala was second in 10.18 seconds.

Nigel Ellis was third in the B race in 10.50 seconds (-0.6m/s).

NACAC champion Andrew Hudson was second in the men’s 200m in 20.47 seconds (0.3m/s) behind American Kyree King-20.40 seconds.

Christopher Taylor ran 45.82 seconds for fourth in the men’s 400m that was won by American Bryce Deadmon in 45.11 seconds while Adelle Tracey was sixth in the women’s 1,500m in 4:07.73 seconds.

Meanwhile, World Championships and Commonwealth Games finalist Rushell Clayton was the only Jamaican winner on Tuesday’s 58th staging of the Palio Citta’ Della Quercia in Italy, a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver event, winning the women’s 400m hurdles.

She rebounded from last week’s fall in the Athletissima Diamond League meeting in Lausanne while there were podium places for quarter-milers Junielle Bromfield and Rusheen McDonald.

Clayton was well-placed in her race in Lausanne when she hot the eighth hurdle and fell but rebounded on Tuesday with a good win, running 53.75 seconds just missing the meet record of 53.71 seconds set in 2003 by Barbadian Andrea Blakett while her compatriot Andrenette Knight failed to finish the race.

Viktoriya Tkachuk of Ukraine was second in 54.77 seconds and Giana Woodruff of Panama placed third in 55.12 seconds.

Bromfield, who won relay medals at the World Championships and Commonwealth Games, was second in her race in 51.86 seconds as American Kaylin Whitney ran a season’s best 51.12 seconds to win with Susanne Walli of Austria was third in 42.10 seconds.

McDonald was third in the men’s 400 in 45.63 seconds as American Michael Cherry won in 45.27 seconds and Alex Haydock-Wilson was second in 45.50 seconds.

— Paul Reid