Broadbell Avenges Olympic Defeat to Win at Lausanne Diamond League

Olympic Bronze Medallist Rasheed Broadbell logged the only Jamaican victory today in Lausanne, the 11th stop in the Wanda Diamond League series in Switzerland.

Broadbell avenged his defeat to the two men who beat him at the Paris Olympic Games, by winning the 110m hurdles in 13.10 seconds with Olympic champion Grant Holloway taking second in 13.14 seconds and Hansle Parchement third in 13.23 seconds.

Broadbell says the time could have been faster.

Rasheed Broadbell.

Rushell Clayton was a second place finisher in the women’s 400m hurdles in 53-point-32 seconds, she led home Janieve Russell 54.48 seconds in third and Andrenette Knight fourth in 54.93 seconds.

Femke Bol of the Netherlands won in a new meet record 52.25 seconds.

National champion Ackera Nugent had to settle for third in the 100-metres hurdles in 12-point-38 seconds and world champion Danielle Williams fifth in 12.53 seconds. Former Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho Quinn won in 12.35 seconds.

The men’s Long Jump again provided a second place finish for Wayne Pinnock who leapt 8-point-01 metres, he lost to the Olympic and World champion Miltiadis Tentoglou who landed with 8.06 metres

Tia Clayton was fifth in the women’s 100 metres in 11.10 seconds as Britain’s Dina Asher Smith won in 10.88 seconds.

The other Jamaican in action today Natoya Goule-Toppin was 8th in the women’s 800 metres in 1-minute-59.68 seconds.