After a sixth-place end in Lausanne final week, 18-year-old phenom Erriyon Knighton bounced again with a win within the 200m on the Brussels Diamond League, the ultimate meet of the season earlier than the two-day ultimate in Zurich. Knighton ran 20.07, edging out second-place Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic and Canada’s Aaron Brown. The meet was the ultimate alternative for athletes to earn factors and qualify for the Diamond League ultimate. Knighton’s win secured him a spot – the complete Diamond League standings are right here.
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To proceed her exceptional retirement tour, Kara Winger threw an American and meet report 223′ 5″ (68.11m) for the win within the girls’s javelin. The 36-year-old Winger, who introduced that 2022 could be her ultimate aggressive season, gained silver at 2022 World Championships, going from fifth to second on her ultimate throw and turning into the primary American girl to win a world medal in javelin.
Winger wasn’t the one athlete of the day to notch an American report in Brussels: Grant Fisher completed second within the males’s 5000m in 12:46.96, breaking Bernard Lagat’s report of 12:53.60 from 2011. Fisher was 4th within the 10,000m at 2022 World Championships and sixth within the 5000m, the place he was in medal place within the ultimate 200m however acquired caught in visitors simply forward of the end line. Pending official ratification, that is the 25-year-old’s fourth entry within the American report books this 12 months – he owns the highest mark within the outside 3000m, the indoor and outside 5000m and the outside 10,000m. Kenya’s Jacob Krop took the win in a world-leading 12:45.71, together with his countryman Nicholas Kipkorir thirds.
2022 400m hurdles world champion Alison Dos Santos of Brazil continued his undefeated season in his signature occasion, successful in 47.54 forward of American Caliph Rosser. Within the girls’s 100m, a dominant summer season continued for Jamaican sprinters, with reigning 200m world champion Shericka Jackson take the win forward of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. Fraser-Pryce, the 2022 world champion, returned to racing after dropping out of the Lausanne meet with a hamstring situation. Marie-Josee Ta Lou (Côte d’Ivoire) was third. Aleia Hobbs was the highest American finisher in 4th, with Sha’Carri Richardson fifth in 10.93.
Full outcomes from Brussels Diamond League meet
Undoubtedly essentially the most surprising upset of the meet got here within the males’s pole vault, the place world and Olympic champion and world report holder Mondo Duplantis of Sweden completed second to Ernest John “EJ” Obiena of the Philippines. Obiena has worldwide credentials after taking bronze at 2022 World Championships however Duplantis had been undefeated for over a 12 months (his final loss was a fourth-place end on the Lausanne Diamond League meet on August 26, 2021, shortly after his win on the Tokyo Olympics ).
Within the 100m hurdles, Tokyo Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (Puerto Rico) took care of enterprise with a win in 12.27, a meet report. Individuals Tia Jones and Keni Harrison have been second and third throughout the road. And within the ultimate race of the meet, world 1500m champion Jake Wightman of Nice Britain took the win within the males’s 800m over 2022 world silver medalist Djamel Sedjati (Algeria) and reigning world and Olympic champion Emmanuel Korir (Kenyan). Wightman has taken benefit of the packed monitor calendar this summer season to seek out success at a number of distance: along with the world title at 1500m, he was third on the distance on the Commonwealth Video games, and 2nd within the 800m at European Championships in August.
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How does the Diamond League Ultimate Work?
Now that the Brussels Diamond League meet has concluded, the following and final occasion on the DL calendar is the ultimate in Zurich, scheduled for September seventh and eighth on Peacock and CNBC. All through the season, athletes have earned factors on the Diamond League meets primarily based on their end, with eight factors awarded for a win, seven for second and on down to at least one level for an eighth-place end. On the ultimate, athletes will compete for the title of Diamond League champion, which comes with a bye to the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Full guidelines may be discovered right here.
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