World championship silver medallist Mitchell Watt has secured the Diamond League title in the long jump jump despite finishing last at the Weltklasse meet in Zurich, Switzerland.

Watt had an unbeatable lead in the race for the US$40,000 series prize in the event, as long as he made a bona fide effort in Brussels. With his world championships performance hampered by injury and obviously still affecting his capabilities, Watt could only manage a best of 6.97m in his two jumps in the competition, but it was nonetheless good enough to tick the box required by the IAAF.

The lacklustre competition was taken out by Zimbabwe’s Ngonidzashe Makusha, who jumped 8.00m in still conditions.

Watt was happy with bringing to a close a long season which saw him set a new Australian record.

“I felt pretty horrible out there today. I knew going into today I had already won the Diamond League but I wanted to jump better than that though,” he said.

“I looked into my diary today and it’s my 16th competition this year so it's been a long season but a good one. I won the Diamond League and have a world silver medal.

“The highlight of the season was probably Stockholm. Everyone had been talking about possibly jumping 8.50m since theworld championships in 2009 so that was really good to do that.”