Kenyan runner clocks 8:07.04 on the Diamond League in Poland to go No.2 on the all-time rankings as Karsten Warholm, Kishane Thompson, Guduf Tsegay and Masai Russell additionally impress
With 8:07.04 on the Diamond League in Poland on Saturday (Aug 16), Religion Kipyegon got here inside lower than a second of beating Wang Junxia’s controversial and long-standing world 3000m file.
The Chinese language runner clocked 8:06.11 in Beijing in 1993 however the efficiency is without doubt one of the most doubtful within the file books amid allegations that her coaching group, which was run by coach Ma Junren, took medication.
Beatrice Chebet, the world 5000m and 10,000m record-holder from Kenya, got here near the 3000m file this summer season with 8:11.56, however the world 1500m and mile record-holder Kipyegon got here even nearer this weekend, narrowly lacking the mark by 93 hundredths of a second.
Kipyegon mentioned: “It’s all about Tokyo now. I’m so glad. I needed to run an extended distance. To be trustworthy, I didn’t see the clock on the end line as a result of I used to be so drained. However now I’m very glad with the time.”
On a day of quick occasions, which included Keely Hodgkinson’s 1:54.74 in a non-Diamond League 800m race, the ladies’s 1500m noticed Gudaf Tsegay clock the fifth quickest time in historical past of three:50.62.
The primary lap was 62 seconds however the second lap an unbelievable 57 seconds because the pacer handed via 800m in 1:59.97 with Tsegay in pursuit.
The Ethiopian was clear on the bell however had a lonely and painful trying remaining lap. Kipyegon’s world file of three:48.68 seemed at risk at one stage however Tsegay light within the latter levels to overlook the mark.
Stepping down in distance from her traditional 5000/10,000m territory, Chebet clocked 3:54.73 in second place though she by no means threatened Tsegay for the win.
In third, Georgia Hunter Bell ran 3:56.00 with American Nikki Hiltz working 3:56.10 in fourth. Such was the standard, Sarah Healy of Eire ran 3:57.95 however was solely ninth.
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A giant showdown within the males’s 100m which featured most of the possible contenders at subsequent month’s World Championships noticed Kishane Thompson of Jamaica win in 9.87 (0.3).
A quick-finishing Noah Lyles was runner-up in 9.90 with Kenny Bednarek third in 9.96, Christian Coleman fourth in 9.96 and Trayvon Bromell fifth in 9.97.
Thompson mentioned: “The hot button is to seek out the momentum within the race and to take care of it until the tip. No person is ideal, however I’m engaged on bettering my strengths and bettering on my weaknesses.
“Paris final yr was a giant studying issue. I realized it’s me towards myself. No disrespect to my rivals, however something is feasible if you execute nicely.”
Melissa Jefferson-Picket’s nice season continued because the American ran 10.66 (0.1) to win a loaded girls’s 100m. Tia Clayton of Jamaica was runner-up in a private better of 10.82 as Dina Asher-Smith was seventh in 11.07.
There was British curiosity within the girls’s 200m in addition to Amy Hunt and Daryll Neita had been fourth and fifth respectively in 22.31 and 22.44 (-0.3) as Shericka Jackson of Jamaica gained in 22.17.
Karsten Warholm was in imperious kind as he clocked 46.28 – a Diamond League file and third quickest time in historical past because the Norwegian gained by greater than a second as Ezekiel Nathaniel ran a Nigerian file of 47.31 in second place.
Femke Bol was additionally in nice kind as she improved her world lead within the girls’s 400m hurdles to 51.91.
Elsewhere, Marileidy Paulino beat Salwa Eid Naser within the girls’s 400m with 49.18 to 49.27 as Britain’s Amber Anning was fourth in 50.11.
The ladies’s dash hurdles noticed Masai Russell, the Olympic champion from america, clocking a Diamond League file of 12.19 (1.4) to win.
Russell mentioned: “My journey was so tousled, at first I didn’t wish to race. I got here two days in the past, there have been a number of obstacles, however I stayed constructive. I’m positively very assured going into Tokyo.”
After shedding out on Tokyo choice on the US Championships, Yared Nuguse continued to indicate good kind on the Diamond League circuit. Right here he posted a 1500m victory in 3:33.19 – an unusually gradual time in a global metric mile these days – and if he wins the Diamond League remaining he’ll earn a wild card slot within the World Championships.
Within the males’s pole vault, there was no world file for Mondo Duplantis however he nonetheless gained comfortably with 6.10m.
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