Ronald Levy was the only Jamaican on the winner’s podium in Italy on Tuesday at the Palio Citta’ della Quercia Rovereto meeting. The meet is part of World Athletics Continental Tour Silver Series.

Levy, 28, the 110m hurdles bronze medalist at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in August, was fifth in Lausanne and fourth in Paris but was back among the medals when he ran 13.39 seconds to be a comfortable winner ahead of American Michael Dickson, who clocked 13.50s.

Hungary’s Valdo Szucs was farther back in 13.65s.

Levy was the only winner but some of his compatriots also performed well at the meet as well.

Julian Forte was third in the men;s 100m.

The oft-injured sprinter clocked 10.19 while finishing behind Canada’s Jerome Blake, who ran second in 10.15 and winner Marvin Bracy, who set a new meet record of 9.98m.

There was a blanket finish in the women’s 100m that was won by Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye in 11.20s.  In the race where the top five were separated by just 0.06 seconds, Americans Candace Hill and Kayla White ran 11.21s and 11.24s, respectively. Jamaica’s Natasha Morrison finished fifth in 11.26s.

Meanwhile, Deon Lendore ran 45.19s for third in the men’s 400m. The Trinidadian was in a keen battle for the lead with the USA’s Michael Cherry and Botswana’s Isaak Makwala but faded badly over the last 50m and was beaten by Makwala who ran 45.01s for second place and Cherry of the United States, who powered away down the stretch to win in 44.55s, a new meet record.

Away from the track, Dominica’s Thea LaFond was superior to the field in the women’s triple jump. She produced a winning mark of 14.33m to hold off the challenge of Israel’s Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko (14.25m) and Cuba’s Liadagmis Povea (14.01m), who were second and third, respectively.