Two-time 200m world champion Shericka Jackson produced a dominant display to win the 200m Diamond League event in Xiamen.
Jackson smashed the meeting record and narrowly missed out on the world lead by 0.01 seconds, finishing with a time of 21.87 seconds to claim the victory.
The Jamaican led from the off and showed her strength on the bend to pull away.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo (22.04) and Anavia Battle (22.29) both produced season’s bests to claim second and third respectively but neither looked like troubling Jackson.
The 2023 world 100m champion, Sha’Carri Richardson, also produced a season’s best, crossing the line in fourth with a time of 22.38 seconds.
Amy Hunt, Great Britain’s 200m world silver medallist, finished seventh in the field of nine.
Elsewhere on Saturday in Xiamen, 18-year-old Chinese athlete Yan Ziyi moved to second place in the women’s javelin record books with a stunning effort of 71.74m.
At the age of 17, Yan landed the world junior record. A day after turning 18, her throw on Saturday broke the Diamond League record, the Asian record and the world under-20 record.
The men’s 400m hurdles also served up a thriller as Brazil’s Alison dos Santos went head to head with world record holder Karsten Warholm.
The pair – who won bronze and silver in the 2024 Olympic final – pulled clear from the rest of the field as they duelled at the front but it was Dos Santos who took the win in 46.72 seconds, 0.10secs in front of the Norwegian.
