Thompson opens season with 60m win

Jamaica’s Olympic 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson made a convincing return to the track on Saturday, clocking 6.48sec to win the 60m at a meeting in Spanish Town. Thompson posted a personal best despite a headwind of 2.1m/sec at the second tier event outside of Kingston. The 23-year-old hadn’t raced competitively since the Paris Olympics, when he took silver in the 100m behind American Noah Lyles by just five thousandths of a second — the closest Olympic 100m finish in modern history. Both were given the rounded-up time of 9.79sec but the American’s name carried the all-important (.784) to Thompson’s (.789.)