World record holder in pole vault Armand Duplantis ended the season undefeated.
Ibraheem Al Omari, Reuters
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He also succeeded in the city where he last lost. He finished second at the World Championships in Doha last October. Today’s meeting took place in another stadium and Duplantis was sovereign. He had a clear record of up to 582 inches as his rivals corrected.
World champion Sam Kendricks from the USA and Olympic champion from London 2012 Renaud Lavillenie jumped 582 until the third attempt. Nobody succeeded ten centimeters higher and Duplantis had himself raised to six meters for the last attempt in the decided competition. But this time they resisted him.
Congratulations, you have a bright future ahead of you! Bubka smirked in front of his successor
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Faith Kipyegon, the Olympic winner of the 1,500 meters, showed the fastest eight of this season, winning in 1: 57.68. The Kenyan militia improved her personal record from 2015 by 34 hundredths, when she last ran the eight-year-old. On the other hand, the world champion in the 1500 meters Timothy Cheruiyot did not make it to the eighth place, he took the eighth place in the time of 1: 46.78. Another Kenyan Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich won (1: 44.16).
Two-time Olympic champion from Rio, Elaine Thompson-Herah, as in Rome, won a hundred and with a time of 10.87, she was only two hundredths behind her own best world performance of the season from the Italian capital.
The distance winners completed the competition in a criticized format, where the order in the first three places was decided only on the final attempt of the three best jumpers. This time, the acting vice-champion of the world, Maryna Bechová-Romančuková from Ukraine, shone, jumping 691 centimeters, which was the best absolute performance.
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World record holder in pole vault Armand Duplantis ended the season undefeated. The phenomenal Swede, who moved Sergei Bubka’s outdoor maximum to 615 centimeters in Rome last week, had to cross 582 centimeters for the first time at a meeting of the athletic Diamond League in Doha.
Ibraheem Al Omari, Reuters
The third best time of the season at 110 meters hurdles was the American Aaron Mallet, who set a personal record of 13.15 for Saturday’s 26th birthday. Only five competitors completed the short hurdles. The American Freddie Crittenden did not show up for the start at all and the Italian Paolo Dal Molin and the Frenchman Wilhem Belocian were gradually disqualified due to bad starts.
The Doha meeting was the last part of this year’s Diamond League, which was marked by the coronavirus pandemic. The elite athletic series began late and was just a set of one-off meetings without collecting points and fighting for the diamond trophy.
| Athletic Diamond League Meeting in Doha: |
| Men: |
| 200 m (wind +0.9 m / s): |
| 1. Cissé (Côte d’Ivoire) 20.23 |
| 2. Strong (Jam.) 20.39 |
| 3. Lemaitre (Fr.) 20.68. |
| 400 m: |
| 1. Montgomery (USA) 45,55 |
| 2. Karam (Kuwait) 45.72 |
| 3. Abbas (Katar) 45,96. |
| 800 m: |
| 1. Rotich (Kenya) 1: 44.16 |
| 2. Giles (Brit.) 1:44,56 |
| 3. Kinyamal (Kenya) 1: 45.68. |
| 1500 m: |
| 1. McSweyn (Austr.) 3:30,51 |
| 2. Barega (Et.) 3: 32.97 |
| 3. El Bakkali (Mar.) 3: 33,45. |
| 110 m př. (+0,3 m/s): |
| 1. Mallet (USA) 13,15 |
| 2. Joseph (Switzerland) 13.40 |
| 3. King (Brit.) 13,54 |
| Rod: |
| 1. Duplantis (SWE) |
| 2. Kendricks (USA) |
| 3. Lavillenie (Fr.) all 582 |
| Women: |
| 100 m (0,0 m/s): |
| 1. Thompson-Herah (JAM) 10.87 |
| 2. Ta Laou (Ivory Coast) 11.21 |
| 3. Whiteová (USA) 11,25 |
| 800 m: |
| 1. Kipyegon (Kenya) 1: 57.68 |
| 2. Guerrer (Sp.) 1: 59.22 |
| 3. Traceyová (Brit.) 1:59,87 |
| 3000 m: |
| 1. Obiriova 8: 22.54 |
| 2. Tiropic (Kenya) 8: 22.92 |
| 3. Chepkoech (Kenya) 8: 22.92. |
| 100 m př. (+1,1 m/s): |
| 1. Chadwicková (USA) 12.78 |
| 2. Brooksová (USA) 12,86 |
| 3. Ofiliová (Brit.) 13.02. |
| Columns: |
| 1. Bechová-Romančuková (UKR) 691 |
| 2. Brume (NGA) 671 |
| 3. Sagnia (SWE) 685 |
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