2023-07-21 20:05:00
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The Kenyan keeps the audience in the principality in suspense. Armand Duplantis fails in the pole vault.
On the track
1 mile women
Faith Kipyegons Crazy season keeps going. After the world records in Florence (1,500 m) and in Paris (5,000 m) in June, the Kenyan also smashed the record over a mile at the Stade Louis II in Monaco. In the non-Olympic discipline over a little more than 4 laps, she ran 4:07.64 minutes and thus almost 5 seconds faster than Sifan Hassan (NED) at the same place in 2019.
100 m men
Ferdinand Omanya lived up to his role as favourite. However, only very narrowly: The Kenyan won the African duel against Letsile Tebogo from Botswana by a hundredth. In 9.92 seconds, Omanyala clinched his first Diamond League win of the year after claiming podium finishes in Florence and Paris (2nd) and Rabat (3rd).
The race became a demonstration of power Shericka Jackson. The world champion from Jamaica ran in 21.86 seconds as the only one under 22 seconds and won ahead of Julien Alfred (22.08) from St. Lucia and the British Dina Asher-Smith (22.23). Gabrielle Thomas (USA) performed disappointingly. This year’s fastest woman so far over half the track lap was only seventh (22.87).
The American hurdles set off fireworks. Only at the last minute could Nia Ali intercept her compatriot Kendra Harrison. And how: With good external conditions, she drummed a time of 12.30 seconds on the track – Ali has never been so fast in her career. She also improved Gail Devers’ 2002 meeting record by a whopping 12 hundredths. Alaysha Johnson and Tia Jones completed the US triumph on ranks 3 and 4.
After recovering from a knee injury, Alison Dos Santos competed in the 400m hurdles for the first time this season. The Brazilian world champion did a decent job in 47.66 seconds but didn’t stand a chance against one: Karsten Warholm. The Norwegian improved his Diamond League record from June in Oslo by one-hundredth and comfortably ran to victory in 46.51 seconds, his third overall in Monaco.
Meetings where Armand Duplantis starts and does not win, have absolute rarity value. In Monaco it was time again. For the first time since the Diamond League in Brussels last September, the Swedish world record holder had to congratulate a competitor on their victory. After 11 victories in 11 competitions this year, Duplantis tore twice at 5.92 m and set the bar at 6.02 m. Even then, the timing wasn’t right. Duplantis was only fourth with a valid 5.72 m. For the first time since Oslo 2019 he is not on the podium in the Diamond League. Christopher Nilsen (USA) won with 5.92 m.
Larissa Iapichino remains undefeated in the Diamond League this year. As in Stockholm and Florence, the only 21-year-old Italian won the long jump competition. This time even with a personal best: 6.95 meters in the last attempt made the difference to the American Tara Davis-Woodhall (6.88) and the Serbian Ivana Vuleta (6.86).
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