Campbell breaks meet record in Rovereto to cap best season

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Howard CampbellJournalist at Jamaica Observer

September 9, 2026

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Campbell breaks meet record in Rovereto to cap best season

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KINGSTON, Jamaica —Newly crowned Wanda Diamond League champion Rajindra Campbell ended his best season as a professional athlete by breaking the men’s shot put record at the Palio Citta’ Della Quercia in Rovereto, Italy — a World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meet — on Tuesday with 22.17m.

Campbell, who threw a Jamaican national record and world-leading 23.08m at the Diamond League final in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday, broke the three-year-old meet record of 21.88m set by Italy’s Zane Weir.

American Payton Otterdahl was second with 21.81m and Weir was third with 21.17m.

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