Kishane Thompson withdraws from final three Diamond League events with injury
Olympic silver medalist Kishane Thompson has withdrawn from Wednesday’s Diamond League meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, citing shin discomfort.
Per the Diamond League, the 24-year-old will also not compete in the upcoming events in Brussels or Zurich, with his next appearance expected to be at September’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
This comes after the Jamaican won the 100m at Saturday’s Diamond League event in the Polish region of Silesia in a highly anticipated rematch with Olympic champion Noah Lyles.
As a result of Lyles experiencing ankle and groin issues, the pair had not met since last year’s Olympic Games in Paris, where the American took the 100m gold medal ahead of Thompson by five-thousandths in the closest men’s 100m final ever, which required a photo finish to determine the winner.
In Poland, Thompson crossed the line with a time of 9.87 seconds, a meet record, just ahead of Lyles (9.90s) and his compatriots Kenny Bednarek and Christian Coleman (both 9.96s).
Thompson is set to make his World Championships debut next month, having missed the cut for the 2023 edition of the event in Budapest.
He is enjoying a highly consistent year on track, with Silesia extending his streak of 100m victories to seven in a row.
At the Jamaican National Championships in June, Thompson ran a 9.75s personal best, the fastest time this year and the sixth-fastest wind-legal time ever, behind only Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay, Yohan Blake, Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin.