- Wednesday’s Diamond League meeting in Monaco had excellent results. High temperature (close to 30 degrees Celsius) was especially favorable for sprinters. Great results – in the top ten best times in the history of their competition – were achieved by Jamaica Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (100 m) and the American Noah Lyles (200 m)
- The Kenyan world champion Eugene Faith Kipyegon had even more valuable time – she won with the second result in the history of the 1500 meter race, not much worse than the world record!
- The Poles are already getting ready for the European Championships in Munich (August 15–21), but Damian Czykier, the fourth player of the World Championships in the 110-meter hurdles, started in Monaco. However, he did not cope with the great Grant Holloway
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Just four days after the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Chorzów, which was also held for the first time under the name of the Diamond League, the elite of world athletics competed in Monaco in the 10th meeting of this year’s series. The event of the first part of the competition was to be the performance of Sydney McLaughlin, who at the July World Championships in Eugene achieved her best achievement in the history of 400 meters hurdles (50.68).
Quite unexpectedly, however, the 23-year-old American resigned from the performance at the Ludwik II stadium, although she flew to Europe, and on Monday in Hungary she scored 51.68. In her absence, Jamaica Rushell Clayton, the 2019 World Cup bronze medalist and the sixth player in the last World Cup in Eugene, won with a life record of 53.33.
The 35-year-old Jamaica, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, showed another great performance at 100 meters. Four days after establishing the best this year’s result on the world list (10.66 in Chorzów) and two days after the next great start in Szekesfehervar (10.67), 35-year-old Jamaica ran even faster! With a minimal backwind (+0.4 m / s), she won with a time of 10.62, only two hundredths of a second below her personal best from last year. This is the sixth result in the history of this competition and the second in Shelly-Ann’s career!
The best time in her career for a hundred (10.71) was achieved by compatriot Shelly-Ann, world champion in the 200-meter race Shericka Jackson (in Eugene she was second in the history of this specialty – 21.45), and third place with the African record (10.72) was Marie-Josee Ta Lou from the Ivory Coast.
Not as fast as in the World Cup final, but still a great gold medalist in the 200 meters race with Eugene Noah Lyles. The 25-year-old American won with a time of 19.46 (+0.8 m / s) – this is the second result in his career (a personal best from three weeks ago – 19.31) and the ninth time in the history of this competition. Lyles’ compatriots – bronze medalist of the World Championships Erriyon Knighton (19.84) and Michael Norman (19.95), the current world champion in the full lap race, also broke 20 seconds on Wednesday evening.
In the 110-meter hurdles competition (+0.6 m / s), this year’s Polish record holder (13.25) and the fourth rider of the July World Championships, Damian Czykier, were not very successful. Our competitor finished seventh with a time of 13.46. American Grant Holloway (12.98) won his best achievement this season, defending the world title from Doha in July in Eugene. Just like at Hayward Field, his compatriot Trey Cunningham (13.03) was second. Jamaican Olympic champion from Tokyo Hansle Parchment (13.08) finished third, who, like Holloway, ran the fastest this season.
One hundredth of a second was Candice McLeod (49.87) missing from the Saturday performance of Natalia Kaczmarek (49.86) from Chorzów, which gave Poland the fifth place on this year’s list of 400 meters. The Jamaican medalist of the Olympic Games and World Championships in the relay did not win in Monaco, because the world champion from Eugene and the two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo (personal record 48.36), who competed at the Silesian Stadium quite successfully at 200 meters, returned to her crown competition in a great style. . This time the competitor from the Bahamas won with the result of 49.28, and the third was the bronze medalist of the July World Cup, Sada Williams from Barbados (50.10).
The Wednesday high jump competition was not as high as the final of the last World Cup. Only the gold and silver medalist from Eugene – Qatar Mutaz Essa Barshim and the Korean Sanghyeok Woo scored 2.30 m. Then they both knocked the bar suspended at 2.32 three times and competed in extra time with the victory. First, they failed 2.32 for the fourth time, and then Barshim was the only one to reach 2.30, winning the competition.
The best results in the world lists this year were in the women’s 1,500-meter race, as well as the men’s competition at twice the distance (without obstacles).
The women from Eugene, Kenyan Faith Kipyegon, confirmed their great shape. She won in 3: 50.37 – this is the second result in history, only 30 hundredths of a second worse than the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaby world record from 2015, achieved at the same Ludwig II stadium in Monaco! The Americans Heather MacLean (3: 58.89) and Elise Cranny (3: 59.06) finished second and third with personal bests.
Thierry Ndikumwenayo won among the men in 3000 meters. The representative of Burundi achieved the time of 7: 25.93, which is not only the best on this year’s list of this competition (not played in the World Cup), but also the record of his country and Diamond League meetings. Second at the finish line, Berihu Aregawi from Ethiopia, achieved a personal record (7: 26.81), and the third – American Grant Fisher (7: 28.48) – even broke the continent’s record.
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