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Diamond League: The famous Jamaica is even faster than in Poland. Cosmic time!

  • 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.

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