All you need to know from the London Stadium and Chelmsford, where one-lap star Mary Yemi John stands out
LONDON ATHLETICS MEET DIAMOND LEAGUE, Olympic Park, July 23
It was by far the greatest one day meeting ever seen in Britain in front of an enthusiastic 50,000 crowd and surprisingly good weather given the earlier forecast.
It was highlighted by world leads for Femke Bol, Noah Lyles, Jackline Chepkoech (steeplechase) and the Japanese 4x100m relay team. There were European records for Bol and Sifan Hassan and other area records for Letsile Tebogo (African 200m), Alicia Monson (American 5000m) and Catriona Bisset (Oceanian 800m record) and a British 200m record for Zharnel Hughes.
There were meeting records for Marie Josee Ta Lou (100m), Jemma Reekie (800m) , Gudaf Tsegay (5000m), Crouser (shot), Chepkoech, Bol and Lyles.
The meeting also featured the greatest in-depth 1500m in history (12 men inside 3:32 for the first time), a high quality women’s 5000m (the first time five have broken 14:20 and 12 have broken 14:50 in the same race), a superb domestic 800m (six Brits inside 1:45 bettering the previous best of three).
At 5000m there was a world under-20 record for Medina Eisa and a World under-18 best for Birke Haylom.
Yared Nuguse (Mark Shearman)
Matt Stonier (pictured between Neil Gourley and Yared Neguse) ran a UK under-23 1500m record of 3:31.30. It bettered Josh Kerr’s 3:31.32 from Doha in 2019 by 0.02 and note the 21 year-old Stonier ran quicker than Steve Cram (3:31.66) and Sebastian Coe (3:32.03) ran aged 22 (but too old for under-23s) when respectively a world champion and a world record-holder.
In the disability events there were victories for T47 Kevin Santos (10.78 100m), T38 Sophie Hahn (12.51 100m), Sam Kinghorn (T53 wheelchair 800m)
For a report of Zharnel Hughes UK 200m record click https://athleticsweekly.com/event-reports/zharnel-hughes-smashes-john-regis-british-200m-record-1039969965/
For a report of the middle distance races including Max Burgin’s 800m click here
For a report of Femke Bol click here
For a field events report click here
For a general report plus focus on Reekie’s victory click here
Men:
200 (1.6): 1 N Lyles (USA) 19.47; 2 L Tebogo (BOT) 19.50; 3 Z Hughes (SB) 19.73 (UK rec); 4 K King (USA) 20.01; 5 A Ogando (DOM) 20.14; 6 E Matadi (LBR) 20.35; 7 J Ferguson (Shef/Dearn) 20.44; 8 J Efoloko (Sale) 20.56
400: 1 W Van Niekerk (RSA) 44.36; 2 B Deadmon (USA) 44.40; 3 V Norwood (USA) 44.46; 4 M Hudson-Smith (Bir) 44.72; 5 L Scotch…
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