2023-07-16 19:48:31
South African Akani Simbine also won the 100m at the Diamond League meeting in Chorzow, inflicting US sprint star Fred Kerley’s first loss of the season. Simbine, who recently triumphed in Stockholm, won in 9.97 seconds, two hundredths of a second faster than world champion Kerley.
Five weeks before the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, the top five were separated by just 0.04 seconds. The American Sha’Carri Richardson (10.76) won the women’s event ahead of 200m world champion Shericka Jackson from Jamaica (10.78).
Jakob Ingebrigtsen improved his own European record over 1,500 m with the winning time of 3:27.14 minutes. The Norwegian Olympic champion is only 1.14 seconds short of the world record.
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