2022 Diamond League Diary: Athletissima sold out, Jakob the star, Lyles to figh

LAUSANNE (SUI, Aug 26): Sold-out stadium saw excellent 47th Athletissima with 3 meeting records and 1 World leading mark. With Duplantis on Thursday, actually, 4 meet records. Jakob Ingebrigtsen achieved the result in the evening with a commanding sub-3:30 win. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce could not run due to strain in the warm-up, and Elaine Thompson-Herah was disqualified for a false start in a rare situation with an expected 100 m women highlight. Noah Lyles needed to fight hard with Michael Norman in the 200 m. World champions not winning were Holloway, Barshim, Crouser, and Amusan.

Short reviews per event

Men

200m – Noah Lyles stormed off the bend to overhaul fellow world champion Mike Norman, 19.56 to 19.76. Jereem Richards also broke 20 seconds in third in 19.95.

1500m – World lead of 3:29.05 from Jakob Ingebrigtsen ahead of Kenya’s Abel Kipsang in 3:29.93. Stewart McSweyn set a big season’s best of 3:30.18 after an illness.

3000m steeplechase – Comfortable win for the world and Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali in 8:02.45 by 10 seconds from Ethiopia’s Hailemariyam Amare in 8:12.07.

110m hurdles – Rasheed Broadbell ran a storming last two hurdles to win in 12.99, his first sub-13 clocking, from Americans Trey Cunningham (13.10) and Grant Holloway (13.11).

400 m hurdles (non-DL): Khalifah Rosser clearly won this race in 47.68 and missed his PB by 0.03. Happio distant second 48.66.

Triple jump – Andy Diaz (17.67m) and Lazaro Martinez (17.50m) took a one-two for Cuba. Soon-to-be Spaniard Jordan Diaz was third with 17.44m.

High jump – Andriy Protsenko won on countback at a modest 2.24m from three athletes including Mutaz Essa Barshim.

Shot put – Joe Kovacs handed Ryan Crouser a sizeable defeat, 22.65m to 22.05m.

Javelin – Neeraj Chopra’s first throw of 89.08m was good enough to win by a comfortable distance from Jakub Vadlejch (85.88m) and Curtis Thompson (83.72m).

Women