Scott returns to winning ways in Oslo

Jordan Scott continued his good season form in the Wanda Diamond League at yesterday's sixth leg of the series, the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, when he won the men's triple jump.

Scott, the world leader in the event with 17.66 metres, equalled that mark on his third attempt, pushed by a positive wind of 2.6 metres per second. Andy Hernandez Diaz of Italy, aiming to make it three wins in a row in the event, had to settle for second with 17.59m, while Mohamed Yasser Triki of Algeria was third with 17.43m. Jamaica's Jaydon Hibbert ended fifth with a season's best 17.17m.

Double World Championships bronze medallist Rushell Clayton was the 

Next-best performer for Jamaica at the meet, once again improving on her last two third-place finishes to grab second in the 400-metre hurdles with a 53.50-second cocking. 

Emma Zapletalova of Slovakia remained unbeaten in the event this season as the world leader made it three wins in a row, stopping the clock at 53.13, while early race leader Jasmine Jones of the United States ended third in 54.09.

Ackelia Smith finished fourth in the long jump, Nickisha Pryce was fifth in the 400 metres, and Danniel Thomas-Dodd was sixth in the shot put.

National champion in the women's 400m, Pryce, the first Jamaican on the track yesterday, clocked 50.39 seconds for her third-place finish. Like she did in Rome, Henriette Jaeger of Norway won in a season's best 49.52, finishing ahead of Gloria Lurdes Manuel of the Czech Republic, second in 50.13. Natalia Bukowiecka of Poland was third in 50.34.

World Championships finalist Smith had a season's best 14.50m in the women's triple jump. Cuba's Davisleydi Velazco won with 14.85, finishing ahead of Sally Sarr of Senegal, second with a personal-best 14.71, while world champion Leyanis Perez Hernandez of Cuba was third with 14.60.

Like she did at the last meet, Thomas-Dodd had to settle for sixth in the women's shot put with a heave of 18.83 metres, as two-time world champion Chase Jackson of the United States won with a meet record 20.74. Jackson finished ahead of Diamond League leader Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands, second with 20.11.

There were several other outstanding performances at the meet, led by Olympic Games 100-metre champion Julien Alfred of St Lucia. 

Aided by a positive wind of 3.2 metres per second and despite a slight stumble at the start, she scored a convincing victory in the women s 100m, clocking 10.76 seconds to follow up on her 200m success in Rome. 

Amy Hunt of Great Britain, like she did in Stockholm, finished second in 10.99, while Zoe Hobbs of New Zealand was third in 11.03.

World 200-metre champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana scored a runaway win in the men's half-lap event, clocking a season's best 19.84 seconds.

Tebogo finished ahead of South Africa's Sinesipho Dambile, second in 20.12, and Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago, third in 20.50.

Seventeen-year-old Cooper Lutkenhaus of the United States scored another massive win in the men's 800 metres, getting the better of Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya and Olympic silver medallist Marco Arop of Canada, clocking a world-leading and personal-best 1:42.08 to win the event. Wanyonyi finished a close second in a season's best 1:42.09, with Arop third in 1:43.33.

In the closing event of the meet, Brazil's Alison dos Santos continued having good days against world record holder Karsten Warholm in the men's 400-metre hurdles, winning convincingly in 46.89 seconds, with Warholm second in 47.40 and Caleb Dean of the United States third in 48.22.