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GBR | Jul 19, 2025

Seville beats Lyles while Jamaica’s men’s 4x100m team gets into World Champs qualifying spot

Howard Walker

Howard Walker / Our Today

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Diamond League – London – London Stadium, London, Britain – July 19, 2025 Jamaica’s Oblique Seville celebrates after winning the Men’s 100m final ahead of Noah Lyles of the U.S. (Photo: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)

Jamaica’s men’s 4x100m team jumped into a World Championship qualifying position speeding to 37.80 at the London Diamond League on Saturday.

Oblique Seville was the star of the show, running a fantastic second led as propelling the quartet of Rohan Watson, Kadrian Goldson and Kishane Thompson to victory.

Jamaica are now in the 15th spot in the World Championships qualifying, pushing The Netherlands down into 16th and Nigeria out of a qualifying spot in 17th.

Qualifying ends on August 24, so Jamaica can be bumped off if Nigeria or Netherlands can go faster than the 37.80 despite having the third fastest time in the world behind South Africa (37.61) and the United States of America (37.66).

Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson crosses the line to win the Men’s 4x100m Relay during the Wanda Diamond League Series London Athletics Meet at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London. Picture date: Saturday July 19, 2025. (Photo: PA via Reuters)

Seville would return and throw down the gauntlet winning the 100m in later returned and sped to 9.86 seconds (-0.6mps) and convincingly dismissed Olympic champion Noel Lyles, who was second in 10.00 seconds.

Seville’s Racers training partner Zharnel Hughes of Great Britain third with 10.02 seconds with Jamaica’s Ackem Blake fourth in 10.08. South Africa’s Akine Simbine was fifth in 10.11 with Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana seventh in 10.12.

“Coming off the relay, because I actually run the relay before the 100 metre, I actually gain the confidence and bring it into 100 metres and to deliver my performance against this crowd, I have to give thanks,” said Seville.

Seville who has been plagued with injuries at crucial times, said tis win was special.

“It’s something special for me because, I’m one of the elite athletes in the world and no one can take that away from me. It’s just that I haven’t delivered on the world stage and for sure one day, it will happen, said a confident Seville.

Athletics – Diamond League – London – London Stadium, London, Britain – July 19, 2025 Jamaica’s Oblique Seville celebrates after winning the Men’s 100m final ahead of Lyles Noah of the U.S. (Photo: REUTERS/Dylan Martinez)

Jamaica’s female 4x100m team of Shericka Jackson, Shericka Jackson, Jonielle Smith, Tina Clayton and Brianna Williams was second in 42.50 seconds behind Great Britain number one team, who ran a world leading 41.69.

France with 43.54 seconds was third ahead of Ireland in fourth in a National Record of 43.73. Great Britain’s number two team was sixth in 43.92.

Meanwhile, Jamaica’s Turkish-bound Wayne Pinnock won the men’s long jump with a leap of 8.20m, just ahead of Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece with 8.19m. Jamaica’s Carey McLeod was third with 8.10m

Jamaica’s national 200m champion Ashanti Moore could only manage seventh in the 22.86 as St Lucia’s Olympic champion Julain Alfred won in a national record and personal best of 21.71. it was also a meeting record.

Diamond League – London – London Stadium, London, Britain – July 19, 2025 St Lucia’s Julien Alfred in action during the Women’s 200m final (Photo: Action Images via Reuters/Peter Cziborra)

Many time national 800m champion Natoya Goule-Toppin was eighth in the 800m in 1:59.27 won by Great Britain’s Georgia Hunter with a season’s best of 1:56.74.

Andrenette Knight was third in the women’s 400 hurdles in 53.79 and fellow Jamaican Janieve Russell eighth in 1:00.55. The race was won by Femke Bol of the Netherlands in 52.16.

Jamaica’s defecting Olympic champion Roje Stona was fifth in the men’s discus with 64.39m behind winner Mykolas Alenka of Lithuania with 71.70m, a Diamond League record.

Jamaica’s Lamara Distin was seventh in the women’s high jump with a leap of 1.89m. The event was won by Morgan Lake of Great Britain with 1.96m.

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