Nia Robinson gets third on Diamond League debut

KINGSTON, Jamaica — World Athletics Indoor finalist Nia Robinson finished in third place in the women’s long jump on her Wanda Diamond League debut at Sunday’s Bauhaus-Galan at Olympiastadion in Stockholm, Sweden, with a wind-aided 6.80m (2.4m/s).Robinson was the only Jamaican who managed a podium finish as Roje Stona was fourth in the men’s discus throw and Danniel Thomas-Dodd was sixth in the women’s shot put while Assinie Wilson placed seventh in the men’s 400m hurdles which was not a part of the Diamond League schedule.Robinson who also had a wind-legal 6.78m (1.3m/s) jump, her legal best outdoors this season and was coming off a third place finish at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, Finland on Wednesday, got her biggest jump in the opening round.France’s Hilary Kpatcha won with a wind-aided 6.85m (2.4m/s) with Italy’s Larissa Iapichino second with 6.84m (2.1m/s), also wind-aided.Stona threw 66.42m but was off the pace as Sweden’s former Olympic Games and World Championships gold medalist Daniel Stahl threw a season’s best 69.60m to win ahead of world leader Matthew Denny of Australia who threw 69.02m and Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia who was third with 67.67m.Thomas-Dodd who was competing for the third time in three countries in eight days, had one legal throw getting out to 18.56m.World leader Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands threw a meet record 20.89m to win ahead of American Chase Jackson - 19.91m and Canadian Sarah Mitton- 19.89m.Wilson who has also been busy, running four times in just over a week, clocked 49.13 seconds in the men’s 400m hurdles won by world leader Alison dos Santos of Brazil in 47.11 seconds.Mattheus Lima also of Brazil ran a personal best 47.37 seconds for second and Germany’s Emil Agyekum also ran a life time best 47.72 seconds for third.— Paul A Reid