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Jakob Ingebrigtsen wins the 1500m in Silesia

Shericka Jackson, the 200m winner in Rabat

Jakob Ingebrigtsen leads the 1500m in Rabat

Australia&rsquo;s two-time world indoor champion Nicola Olyslagers improved her own Oceanian record to 2.04m to win a thrilling high jump duel on the first day of the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich on Wednesday (27).
The record-breaking action took place on the Sechsel&auml;utenplatz as part of the two-day Weltklasse Z&uuml;rich, where Diamond Trophies, prize money and wild card entries to the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 are up for grabs.
Ukraine&rsquo;s world record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh had won the past three Diamond League women&rsquo;s high jump titles and started as the world leader. While she still managed to match her previous world-leading mark, that 2.02m clearance wasn&rsquo;t enough for the Olympic and world champion to clinch another crown this time and she settled for second place, while Great Britain&rsquo;s Morgan Lake and Ukraine&rsquo;s Yuliia Levchenko both cleared 2.00m &ndash; a national record for Lake, who placed third on countback.
Olyslagers entered the contest at 1.91m and cleared each height up to her winning mark on her first attempts. Mahuchikh needed two tries at 2.02m and after watching her rival soar clear at 2.04m, she decided to skip straight to 2.06m. Olyslagers was confirmed the champion when Mahuchikh&rsquo;s three attempts were unsuccessful.
"2.04m &ndash; I have been trying to get that height for a few years now, and today I got the Diamond Trophy on top. What a day," said&nbsp;Olyslagers. "Today I had this peace inside of my heart, that something is going to change."
There was also a brilliant battle in the men&rsquo;s pole vault and while Mondo Duplantis and Emmanouil Karalis may not have hit the heights they might have hoped for, they captivated the crowd with their rivalry up to attempting 6.10m.
Sweden&rsquo;s Duplantis, who raised his world record to 6.29m in Budapest two weeks ago, opened his campaign at 5.50m and managed that, 5.80m, 5.90m and 6.00m on his first attempts. After clearing 5.65m and 5.90m first time, Olympic bronze medallist Karalis needed all three tries at 6.00m. He rattled the bar on his third attempt but it stayed up, keeping the contest alive.
Karalis was first to try 6.10m &ndash; a mark that would have added two centimetres to the Greek record he set at the start of the month &ndash; but he knocked off the bar, as did Duplantis, who clinched his fifth consecutive Diamond League crown on countback when they both failed their next two tries. USA&rsquo;s Sam Kendricks finished third on 5.80m.
Just two centimetres separated the top two in the men&rsquo;s long jump and Simon Ehammer delighted the home crowd by soaring to the title.
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Simon Ehammer in action in Zurich (&copy; Chiara Montesano / Diamond League AG)
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The 2024 world indoor heptathlon champion regained the crown following his first Diamond League Final victory in 2023, leaping 8.32m in the third round. Italy&rsquo;s world indoor champion Mattia Furlani responded with 8.30m in the fifth round but he was unable to go any farther with his final attempt. Australia&rsquo;s Liam Adcock was just six centimetres behind that mark with 8.24m in the final round and finished third.
USA&rsquo;s two-time world champion Joe Kovacs rebounded after missing out on a place for the World Championships in Tokyo by winning his fourth Diamond League shot put title.
He led the contest with 22.10m from the second round and then improved to 22.46m from his fourth throw &ndash; just two centimetres off his season&rsquo;s best &ndash; to beat his compatriot Payton Otterdahl, who threw 22.07m, and Jamaica&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell, who managed 21.87m.
Jessica Schilder secured her first Diamond Trophy in the women's event, prevailing in a clash with Chase Jackson and Sarah Mitton.
Canada&rsquo;s two-time world indoor champion Mitton was initially declared the winner, following a 20.67m throw &ndash; the third-best mark of her career &ndash; from the second round. But it was later judged to be a foul and Schilder moved up into top spot thanks to the 20.26m the Dutch 2022 world bronze medallist managed in the fourth round.
USA&rsquo;s two-time world champion Jackson threw 20.08m from one of her two valid marks to place second, while Mitton was third with 19.99m in the final round.
USA&rsquo;s Katie Moon kicked off the first day of finals by regaining a Diamond League pole vault title she first won in 2023. The two-time world champion cleared 4.82m on her first attempt and secured victory when her compatriot Sandi Morris was unable to make it over either 4.82m or 4.89m &ndash; Morris skipping straight to the higher bar after a single failure at 4.82m.
Moon also tried 4.89m once and then passed to 4.90m. Her competition came to an end when she knocked off the bar on both her attempts. It was a US top three, as Emily Grove equalled her PB to finish third on countback on 4.75m.
The competition continues on Thursday (28), when a further 26 Diamond League titles will be decided in the Swiss city&rsquo;s Letzigrund stadium.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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Australia’s two-time world indoor champion Nicola Olyslagers improved her own Oceanian record to 2.04m to win a thrilling high jump duel on the first day of the Wanda Diamond League Final 

Olyslagers soars Oceanian record to clinch Diamond League crown on day one in Zurich

Global gold medallists and world record-holders will descend on Zurich&rsquo;s Letzigrund stadium in the fight for further honours during an action-packed second day of Wanda Diamond League Final competition on Thursday (28).
The first six Diamond League champions will be crowned at a street event on the Swiss city&rsquo;s Sechsel&auml;utenplatz on day one of the Weltklasse Z&uuml;rich, while a busy stadium session on Thursday (28) will see another 26 titles decided. As well as prize money ranging between US$30,000 and US$50,000, there are wild card entries to the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 up for grabs for winners.
Hurdles stars Femke Bol and Karsten Warholm are among the 15 reigning individual world champions who will compete in Zurich before they head to Japan to defend their global titles at the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25, while the stacked fields also star 13 individual Olympic champions from Paris.
Many events offer a clash of global gold medallists, including the men&rsquo;s 200m where two of those Olympic champions will renew their rivalry. Headlining the final event on the programme, Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo and Olympic 100m champion Noah Lyles will go head-to-head in the half lap event &ndash; Tebogo on the hunt for his first Diamond League title and Lyles seeking his sixth.
Lyles &ndash; the world 100m and 200m champion &ndash; starts as the world leader thanks to the 19.63 he ran to win the US title, while Botswana&rsquo;s Tebogo has a season&rsquo;s best of 19.76. Both performances were achieved in Eugene &ndash; Tebogo&rsquo;s when winning during the Diamond League meeting &ndash; and in their single 200m clash so far this year, Lyles pipped Tebogo to triumph in Monaco. Alexander Ogando was fourth on that occasion and he lines up alongside them again in Zurich, as does Joseph Fahnbulleh.
Olympic bronze medallist Brittany Brown defends her Diamond League title in the women&rsquo;s event, up against her compatriots Anavia Battle and McKenzie Long plus Cote d&rsquo;Ivoire&rsquo;s Marie Josee Ta Lou-Smith and Great Britain&rsquo;s Dina Asher-Smith, who will both double up in the 100m.
Their rivals in the shorter discipline will include Olympic champion Julien Alfred, who has only lost one race all year and who competes for the first time since her 200m win at the London Diamond League, plus Jamaica&rsquo;s Tia Clayton.
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Julien Alfred wins the 200m in London (&copy; Getty Images)
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South Africa&rsquo;s Akani Simbine had a superb start to his season, winning the first three Diamond League 100m clashes, but in this final the Olympic fourth-place finisher will be pushed by Trayvon Bromell, Christian Coleman and defending Diamond League champion Ackeem Blake, who have all dipped under 9.90 this year.
Dominican Republic's world and Olympic champion Marileidy Paulino defends her 400m Diamond Trophy against the athletes she beat to the Olympic title last year, Salwa Eid Naser and Natalia Bukowiecka.
Six different men have won the seven 400m races on the Diamond League circuit this year. USA&rsquo;s world indoor bronze medallist Jacory Patterson is the double winner and he takes on world indoor champion Christopher Bailey and Bayapo Ndori, winners in Shaoxing/Keqiao and Xiamen, respectively.
<h2>Two-lap showdown</h2>
The world champion and the Olympic champion reignite their rivalry in a field that closely resembles the men&rsquo;s Olympic 800m final. Kenya&rsquo;s world leader Emmanuel Wanyonyi, the Olympic champion who ran 1:41.44 in Monaco last month, goes up against Canada&rsquo;s Marco Arop, the world champion who has run 1:42.22 this year. They respectively sit third and fourth on the world all-time list and face four other runners in history&rsquo;s top 12: Djamel Sedjati, Bryce Hoppel, world indoor champion Josh Hoey and Mohamed Attaoui.
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Emmanuel Wanyonyi, Djamel Sedjati and Marco Arop in the 800m (&copy; Diamond League <img style="width: 16px; vertical-align: middle; display: inline;" src="data:image/svg+xml;base64,CiAgICA8c3ZnIHhtbG5zPSJodHRwOi8vd3d3LnczLm9yZy8yMDAwL3N2ZyIgd2lkdGg9IjE2IiBoZWlnaHQ9IjE2IiB2aWV3Qm94PSIwIDAgNDgwIDM2MCI+CiAgICAgIDxnIHRyYW5zZm9ybT0idHJhbnNsYXRlKDAsMzYwKSBzY2FsZSgwLjEsLTAuMSkiIGZpbGw9IiNCMkIyQjIiPgogICAgICAgIDxwYXRoIGQ9Ik0xOTA1IDMxODIgYy0xMjYgLTQ0IC0xODcgLTEwMCAtMjUzIC0yMzMgbC00NyAtOTQgLTM1MCAtNSBjLTMyNiAtNQogICAgICAgIC0zNTQgLTYgLTQwMSAtMjYgLTE0NyAtNjAgLTI0NiAtMTgwIC0yNzQgLTMzMSAtMTQgLTc2IC0xNCAtMTY1OSAwIC0xNzM0IDMxCiAgICAgICAgLTE2NyAxNzMgLTMxMyAzMzggLTM0OCAzNyAtOCA0NzYgLTExIDE0OTAgLTExIDE1NDMgMCAxNDgwIC0yIDE1ODggNTAgMTA0IDUxCiAgICAgICAgMjAwIDE4MSAyMjQgMzA1IDggNDMgMTAgMzAwIDggOTEwIGwtMyA4NTAgLTIzIDU2IGMtNDcgMTEyIC0xNDEgMjA2IC0yNTIgMjUyCiAgICAgICAgLTUyIDIxIC03MiAyMiAtNDA1IDI3IGwtMzUwIDUgLTQ2IDk1IGMtNTQgMTEyIC0xMDYgMTY2IC0yMDcgMjEzIGwtNjcgMzIKICAgICAgICAtNDYwIDIgYy00MTYgMyAtNDY1IDEgLTUxMCAtMTV6IG05NzIgLTIzNyBjMTggLTEzIDUyIC02OCA5MyAtMTUwIDQyIC04MyA3NQogICAgICAgIC0xMzcgOTMgLTE1MCAyNyAtMTkgNDcgLTIwIDQxNSAtMjUgNDM4IC02IDQyNyAtNCA0ODcgLTg5IGwzMCAtNDMgMyAtODM2IGMyCiAgICAgICAgLTYxMCAwIC04NDggLTggLTg3NiAtMTcgLTU2IC01NCAtMTAyIC0xMDQgLTEyNSAtNDIgLTIxIC01MSAtMjEgLTE0ODggLTIxCiAgICAgICAgbC0xNDQ1IDAgLTQ0IDIzIGMtMjkgMTYgLTU0IDQwIC03NCA3MiBsLTMwIDQ4IDAgODUxIGMwIDg0NCAwIDg1MSAyMSA4OTEgMTEKICAgICAgICAyMiA0MCA1NCA2MyA3MCBsNDMgMzAgMzg4IDUgYzM2OSA1IDM5MCA2IDQxNyAyNSAxOCAxMyA1MCA2NCA4OCAxNDEgMzMgNjcgNjcKICAgICAgICAxMjkgNzUgMTM5IDM2IDQzIDUzIDQ1IDUxMiA0MiA0MjIgLTIgNDM4IC0zIDQ2NSAtMjJ6Ii8+CiAgICAgICAgPHBhdGggZD0iTTIzMDAgMjQ1MSBjLTM4MiAtNTQgLTY3MSAtMzYzIC02OTcgLTc0NiAtMjEgLTMxOCAxNjEgLTYyNyA0NTIKICAgICAgICAtNzY2IDEyNiAtNjAgMTg5IC03NCAzNTAgLTc0IDExOSAwIDE1MSA0IDIxNSAyMyAyNzYgODcgNDgwIDI5NiA1NTYgNTcyIDI1CiAgICAgICAgOTAgMjYgMjk5IDEgMzkwIC03OCAyODggLTMwMCA1MDkgLTU4OSA1ODQgLTcxIDE4IC0yMTYgMjcgLTI4OCAxN3ogbTI3MCAtMjQ5CiAgICAgICAgYzE5NyAtNjggMzM0IC0yMTQgMzg1IC00MDcgNzQgLTI4NyAtMTA0IC01OTkgLTM5MCAtNjg0IC0xMDEgLTMwIC0yNjcgLTI3CiAgICAgICAgLTM2MCA3IC0xNzQgNjQgLTMyNyAyNDAgLTM2NCA0MjAgLTYyIDMwNSAxMzUgNjA4IDQzOSA2NzcgODIgMTkgMjE1IDEyIDI5MAogICAgICAgIC0xM3oiLz4KICAgICAgPC9nPgogICAgPC9zdmc+CiAgICA=" alt="photographer icon" /> Matthew Quine)
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Switzerland&rsquo;s 2022 world U20 silver medallist Audrey Werro will want to use the home advantage in the women&rsquo;s event as she takes on Great Britain&rsquo;s Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell and South Africa's world indoor champion Prudence Sekgodiso.
A new Diamond League women&rsquo;s 1500m champion will be crowned for the first time since 2021, with Faith Kipyegon opting not to defend her title. It could stay with Kenya through Nelly Chepchirchir, but she will have some very strong opposition from Australia&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull, who has run 3:52.67 this year, as well as Sarah Healy and Birke Haylom.
Similarly, after three consecutive Diamond Trophy wins for Jakob Ingebrigtsen, there will be a new champion in the men&rsquo;s 1500m. Azeddine Habz is the world leader but he meets a loaded field including Phanuel Koech, Timothy Cheruiyot and Niels Laros, plus Yared Nuguse, who has the additional motivation of targeting a wild card place for Tokyo having missed out on automatic selection at the US Championships.
Sweden&rsquo;s Andreas Almgren, who ran a European 5000m record to win in Stockholm, is also in the 3000m form of his life and, fresh from running a national record of 7:31.42 in Sollentuna, he contests the shorter distance against Ethiopia&rsquo;s Kuma Girma, Biniam Mehary and Samuel Tefera, plus USA&rsquo;s Grant Fisher.
The women&rsquo;s 3000m field pits Ethiopia&rsquo;s Hirut Meshesha and Likina Amebaw against Caroline Nyaga and Georgia Griffith, while Kenya&rsquo;s Olympic and world bronze medallist Faith Cherotich leads the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase field. In the men&rsquo;s event, Germany&rsquo;s Frederik Ruppert &ndash; who broke through with an 8:01.49 runner-up finish in Rabat &ndash; faces Abrham Sime and world U20 champion Edmund Serem, whose brother Amos won last year's Diamond League title.
<h2>Bol and Warholm back for more</h2>
Bol and Warholm will want to maintain their fantastic 400m hurdles form to head to Tokyo on a high.
Bol has never lost a Diamond League 400m hurdles race since making her debut on the circuit in 2020, racking up 29 wins. The world champion will be determined to take that tally to 30 as she goes in pursuit of a fifth consecutive Diamond Trophy and she competes fresh from taking her world lead to 51.91 in Silesia 11 days ago.
Only Bol and three other athletes have ever gone faster than that in the history of the sport and Bol won&rsquo;t face those rivals in Zurich. This time she will be joined by Andrenette Knight, who won in Rome, and Emma Zapletalova, who secured second place in Silesia and Oslo.
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Femke Bol in Silesia (&copy; Marta Gorczynska / Diamond League AG)
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World record-holder Warholm also made a statement in Silesia, clocking 46.28 for the third-fastest time in history. Now targeting his third Diamond Trophy, he will take on Qatar&rsquo;s 2019 world bronze medallist Abderrahman Samba and NCAA champion Ezekiel Nathaniel, who set a Nigerian record to finish second to Warholm in Silesia.
The 100m hurdles features eight of the leading 14 athletes on this season's top list, including&nbsp;Grace Stark, who ran&nbsp;12.21 in Paris, plus world champion Danielle Williams, Nadine Visser, Ackera Nugent and home star&nbsp;Ditaji Kambundji.
The two fastest 110m hurdlers in the world this year clash as USA&rsquo;s world leader Cordell Tinch, who ran 12.87 in May, races Rachid Muratake, who set a Japanese record of 12.92 earlier this month. They are joined by 2022 world silver medallist Trey Cunningham and home favourite Jason Joseph.
<h2>Clash of titans</h2>
The Weltklasse Z&uuml;rich opens with six field events on Wednesday and the action resumes with the discus clashes on Thursday.
Valarie Allman and Matthew Denny both defend their Diamond League titles &ndash; Olympic champion Allman aiming for her fifth consecutive Diamond Trophy and Australia&rsquo;s Olympic bronze medallist Denny seeking his third. They renew their rivalry with the world champions &ndash; USA&rsquo;s Laulauga Tausaga and Sweden&rsquo;s Daniel Stahl &ndash; and the stacked fields also feature world record-holder Mykolas Alekna, Olympic champion Roje Stona, 2022 world champion Kristjan Ceh, 2019 world champion Yaime Perez and two-time Olympic and world gold medallist Sandra Elkasevic, who secured six successive Diamond League titles between 2012 and 2017.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/6893ca0a5659554491e5aeed.jpg" alt="Valarie Allman in action in Zurich" />
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Valarie Allman in action in Zurich (&copy; Matthew Quine for Diamond League AG)
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Both world champions and defending Diamond League champions are also in action in the javelin. India&rsquo;s Neeraj Chopra and Grenada&rsquo;s Anderson Peters take on world leader Julian Weber, who beat Chopra at the Diamond League meeting in Doha where both athletes surpassed 90 metres, while Japan&rsquo;s Haruka Kitaguchi faces Olympic silver medallist Jo-Ane du Plessis, Adriana Vilagos and Elina Tzengko.
There are also returning champions in the triple jump &ndash; last year&rsquo;s Diamond League Final winners Leyanis Perez of Cuba and Pedro Pichardo of Portugal line up alongside Olympic champion Thea LaFond, Liadagmis Povea, Jordan Scott and world leader Andy Diaz.
The long jump stars three women who have surpassed seven metres in 2025 &ndash; defending champion Larissa Iapichino, Hilary Kpatcha and two-time world champion Malaika Mihambo &ndash; as well as world indoor champion Claire Bryant.
In the high jump, New Zealand&rsquo;s Olympic champion Hamish Kerr again goes head-to-head with USA&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Shelby McEwen, plus Oleh Doroshchuk and JuVaughn Harrison.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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Global gold medallists and world record-holders will descend on Zurich’s Letzigrund stadium in the fight for further honours during an action-packed second day of Wanda Diamond League Final competition on Thursday

Global champions collide in Diamond League title hunt on day two in Zurich

World record-holders Mondo Duplantis and Yaroslava Mahuchikh will be among the stars looking to light up the Sechsel&auml;utenplatz on day one of the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich on Wednesday (27).
The winners of six of the 32 Diamond disciplines will be decided on the first day of Weltklasse Z&uuml;rich action, while the rest will be contested on Thursday (28) in the Swiss city&rsquo;s Letzigrund stadium.
There is plenty to fight for, with prize money ranging between US$30,000 and US$50,000 plus wild card entries to the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 up for grabs for winners.
Duplantis&rsquo;s place in Tokyo is already secured but Zurich offers the Swedish pole vault star the chance to head there on a high. The Olympic and world champion is on the hunt for his fifth consecutive Diamond Trophy, in a year in which he has improved the world record three times &ndash; most recently to 6.29m at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Budapest. That followed his 6.28m clearance on home soil at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm.
Emmanouil Karalis is also in the form of his life and will want to make a statement as he prepares to fight for another global medal in Tokyo. He improved his national record to 6.08m at the Greek Championships. The whole Paris Olympic podium is reunited as Sam Kendricks is also in action, as is world bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall.
The women's pole vault will kick off the session, as it has been moved from Thursday's programme due to the forecast for stormy weather. USA&rsquo;s two-time world champion Katie Moon has the chance to regain a Diamond League title she won in 2023 but she will challenged by home favourite Angelica Moser and Sandi Morris.
Ukraine&rsquo;s Mahuchikh has won the past three women&rsquo;s high jump Diamond League titles, but she will face some strong opposition as she strives for a fourth.
The Olympic and world champion improved the world record to 2.10m last year and she leads this season&rsquo;s top list with the 2.02m clearance she achieved in Doha in May. That&rsquo;s a single centimetre higher than Australia&rsquo;s two-time world indoor champion Nicola Olyslagers, who achieved her season&rsquo;s best in Perth in April and matched the mark in Stockholm.
The pair do not shy away from competition &ndash; Zurich will be their eighth clash this year and they are closely matched in their head-to-head record, which stands at 4-3 in Olyslagers&rsquo; favour.
But it won&rsquo;t just be a two-way battle. Australia&rsquo;s Eleanor Patterson, who joined Olyslagers and Mahuchikh on the podium at the Paris Olympic and Budapest World Championships podiums, and who beat Mahuchikh to the 2022 world title, will also be in action, along with Mahuchikh&rsquo;s compatriot Yuliia Levchenko.
Chase Jackson heads into the final with the four farthest winning shot put marks of the season to her name, topped by the US record of 20.95m she set in Idaho in June. She has won three Diamond League clashes this year but will be up against the athlete who beat her in two other meetings, Jessica Schilder, who sits second on this season&rsquo;s top list on 20.69m.
Adding further strength to the field is two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton and 2021 Diamond League champion Maggie Ewen.
The men&rsquo;s shot put will star a clash between four of the top five at last year&rsquo;s Olympics, plus another multiple global medallist in Tom Walsh.
Having missed out on a place for the World Championships, Joe Kovacs will be looking to rebound by winning a fourth Diamond League title. The two-time world champion threw a then world lead of 22.48m to win in Eugene and that remains the second-best mark of the season, behind the 22.82m achieved by Italy&rsquo;s defending Diamond League champion Leonardo Fabbri when winning his national title.
Kovacs, Walsh and Fabbri will take on Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell and fourth-place finisher Payton Otterdahl, who won in Rabat and Silesia.
Greek two-time Olympic long jump champion Miltiadis Tentoglou will want to regain a Diamond League title he claimed in 2022. The world leader will face another former winner in home favourite Simon Ehammer, the 2024 world indoor heptathlon champion who clinched the Diamond League long jump crown in 2023, plus Italy&rsquo;s world indoor champion Mattia Furlani. Liam Adcock, Wayne Pinnock and Carey McLeod add further quality.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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World record-holders Mondo Duplantis and Yaroslava Mahuchikh will be among the stars looking to light up the Sechseläutenplatz on day one of the Wanda Diamond League Final

First six Diamond League champions to be crowned on day one in Zurich

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden blazed to a dominant win in the 100m and Chase Jackson broke the meeting record in the shot put as they issued further warnings to their rivals at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme, this season&rsquo;s penultimate Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Brussels on Friday (22).
Competition was fierce in many events, with just three weeks to go to the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25 and with the Brussels meeting being the last opportunity for athletes to bank points in the Diamond League ahead of the series finale in Zurich next week.
But Jefferson-Wooden and Jackson were both dominant winners and they will start in Zurich and Tokyo as the athletes to beat.
Jefferson-Wooden, who claimed Olympic bronze in Paris last year, remains undefeated in the 100m this year. While her winning time of 10.76 (-0.2m/s) in Brussels was the fifth-fastest of her career &ndash; all achieved this season &ndash; it was her winning margin that turned heads as she finished 0.32 clear of world champion Sha'Carri Richardson, runner-up in 11.08, while Daryll Neita was third in 11.15 and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce fourth in 11.17.
&ldquo;I know that I&rsquo;m in great shape and that it&rsquo;s all about putting together the perfect race at the perfect time, when it matters the most, and that is at the World Championships in Tokyo,&rdquo; said Jefferson-Wooden, who set her PB and world lead of 10.65 at the US Championships to move to joint fifth on the world all-time list.
&ldquo;The plan is definitely to go out there and take gold. I feel like I put myself in a really good spot to be a contender for that and now it&rsquo;s time to have trust.&rdquo;
Her US compatriot Jackson will have the same ambition, as she looks to claim a third consecutive world title in the shot put.
She made another big statement in Brussels, throwing a meeting record of 20.90m in the third round &ndash; the third-farthest throw of her career that saw her win by more than a metre. Only Jackson &ndash; who set a US record of 20.95m in June &ndash; has thrown farther this year. The previous meeting record had stood since 2014, when Valerie Adams threw 20.59m.
In a stacked clash, two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton threw 19.89m for the runner-up spot and Jessica Schilder was third with 19.58m.
There was another strong line-up in the men&rsquo;s discus and it was Jamaica&rsquo;s NCAA champion Ralford Mullings who took top spot. Missing the meeting record by just 30cm, he threw 69.66m in the final round after 69.41m in the fourth to win ahead of world record-holder Mykolas Alekna (68.82m) and 2022 world champion Kristjan Ceh (67.13m).
World leader Julian Weber also impressed in the javelin, throwing 89.65m to win by more than three metres, while world champion Katie Moon cleared a season&rsquo;s best of 4.85m to win the pole vault ahead of 2024 world indoor champion Molly Caudery (4.80m).
Like Jefferson-Wooden in the 100m, world indoor bronze medallist Jacory Patterson scotched to a clear win in the 400m. Blasting away off the final bend, he was untroubled as he reached the finish line in 44.05 as Vernon Norwood was second in 44.62.
The men&rsquo;s 200m was won by Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Olympic fifth-place finisher Alexander Ogando in 20.16 (-0.3m/s) as he pipped Robert Gregory by 0.03.
<h2>Laros and Hiltz kick to victory</h2>
Niels Laros and Nikki Hiltz timed their kicks to perfection to win the 1500m races.
Dutch 20-year-old Laros kicked past 18-year-old Phanuel Koech to win with a powerful final surge that saw him cross the finish line in 3:30.58 to Koech&rsquo;s 3:31.41. Yared Nuguse was third in 3:31.51.
US champion Hiltz chased down longtime leader Linden Hall and passed her down the home straight to triumph in a season&rsquo;s best of 3:55.94. Hall held on for a PB of 3:56.33, while Nelly Chepchirchir was third in 3:57.35 as the top seven dipped under four minutes. That group did not include two-time world indoor champion Freweyni Hailu as she suffered a fall mid race and did not finish.
Luxembourg&rsquo;s Ruben Querinjean had the race of his life in the 3000m steeplechase. Running a national record of 8:09.47 to improve his previous best by almost five seconds, he became the first man from his nation to win at a Diamond League. Getnet Wale was second in 8:09.62.
Bahrain&rsquo;s Olympic and world 3000m steeplechase champion Winfred Yavi also wanted to make history at the Brussels meeting, as she contested the mile steeplechase. The discipline had never been contested at such a level before, and she solo ran her way to a 4:40.13 victory, winning by more than six seconds.
Kenya&rsquo;s Agnes Ngetich attacked the world record during the first couple of kilometres of the women&rsquo;s 5000m and while she drifted off the pace, she held on for a clear win in 14:24.99.
The women-only world 10km record-holder moved to third on the world 5000m all-time list with her runner-up 14:01.29 finish behind her compatriot Beatrice Chebet&rsquo;s 13:58.06 world record run in Eugene last month. She was initially on track to beat that mark, following the lead pacemaker who reached 1000m in 2:46.91 and then moving past the second pacemaker to hit 2000m in 5:35.74.
But she couldn&rsquo;t maintain that pace and eventually won by six seconds ahead of Likina Amebaw (14:31.51). Aleshign Baweke was third in 14:31.88, while Josetter Andrews was fourth and Marta Garcia fifth in a Spanish record.
USA&rsquo;s Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell clinched victory in the 400m hurdles, holding off Gianna Woodruff &ndash; 53.66 to 53.89. Naomi Van den Broeck delighted the home crowd, improving the Belgian to 54.12 to finish third.
World indoor champion and world leader Leyanis Perez Hernandez topped the triple jump, leaping 14.78m to win by just six centimetres ahead of her Cuban compatriot Davisleydi Velazco, who jumped a PB for the runner-up spot.
Ukraine&rsquo;s Oleh Doroshchuk won the high jump on countback ahead of home favourite Thomas Carmoy as they both cleared 2.25m before their attempts at 2.28m and 2.30m.
The mixed 4x100m, run in the formation of man-woman-man-woman, was won by a Dutch quartet in 40.96.
Belgium&rsquo;s Eliott Crestan won the non-Diamond League 800m in 1:43.91, while South Africa&rsquo;s Gift Leotlela won the pre-programme 100m in 10.13 (-0.6m/s) ahead of his compatriot Bayanda Walaza (10.18). Dutch Paralympic champion Fleur Jong won the invitational long jump with 6.77m, as Belgium&rsquo;s Olympic heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam leapt a best of 6.40m.
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Melissa Jefferson-Wooden blazed to a dominant win in the 100m and Chase Jackson broke the meeting record in the shot put as they issued further warnings to their rivals at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme

Jefferson-Wooden and Jackson blaze a trail in Brussels

Heavy rain may have hampered many of the events at Athletissima on Wednesday (20), but it also made for some thrilling and surprising finishes at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.
Four days ago in Silesia, in what was her first race since winning Olympic gold last year, Keely Hodgkinson won by two seconds in a world-leading 1:54.74, showing that she&rsquo;s still capable of dominating the women&rsquo;s 800m.
But could she do it on a cold, rainy night in Lausanne?
The 23-year-old let her feet respond to that question; the answer was an emphatic &lsquo;yes&rsquo; in the form of a 1:55.69 victory, once again winning by two seconds.
She tracked the pacemaker through the first lap, which was covered in 56.04. She then led the pack down the back straight and went through 600m in 1:25.58 before kicking away to a convincing win in 1:55.69, smashing a meeting record that had stood since 2002.
Switzerland&rsquo;s Audrey Werro came through to take second place in 1:57.34, overtaking Georgia Hunter Bell (1:57.55).
While the women&rsquo;s 800m went to the form book, there was a surprise outcome in the men&rsquo;s 800m &ndash; and, indeed, many other events &ndash; due in no small part to the heavy rain that fell throughout the evening.
Emmanuel Wanyonyi, returning to the track where he set his lifetime best last year, was this time relegated to runner-up as world indoor champion Josh Hoey burst from the pack down the home straight to charged ahead and win in 1:42.82.
Wanyonyi finished second in 1:43.29 ahead of Mohamed Attaoui (1:43.38) and Max Burgin (1:43.44).
Hoey finished fourth at the US Trials, missing out on making the team for the World Championships. But if he wins at next week&rsquo;s Diamond League Final, he&rsquo;d earn a wildcard entry for Tokyo.
Jamaica's Oblique Seville seemed unaffected by the rain during the men's 100m. He blasted out of the blocks and could not be caught, charging through the line in 9.87 (-0.3m/s) in a race where no other man finished inside 10 seconds.
World and Olympic champion Noah Lyles came through for second place in 10.02, just ahead of Ackeem Blake (10.02) and Akani Simbine (10.05).
In the men&rsquo;s 110m hurdles, which was held earlier in the evening when the rainfall wasn&rsquo;t so heavy, world leader Cordell Tinch produced a near flawless run to win comfortably in 12.98 (0.3m/s). He led a US 1-2-3 from Jamal Britt (13.13) and Trey Cunningham (13.19).
The women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles was generally more affected by the rain, though it didn&rsquo;t seem to hamper Nadine Visser, who came through to win in 12.45, beating Olympic champion Masai Russell (12.53) and European indoor champion Ditaji Kambundji (12.54).
<h2>Karalis over six metres again</h2>
The field events were hit hardest by the rain, not least the women&rsquo;s pole vault, which had to be cancelled after just the second height.
Fortunately for the athletes in the men&rsquo;s pole vault, their event was held in Lausanne&rsquo;s city centre on Tuesday evening, the night before the main competition. Competing in much kinder conditions, Olympic bronze medallist Emmanouil Karalis notched up his 10th six-metre clearance of the season to win with 6.02m.
French duo Renaud Lavillenie and Thibaut Collet tied for second place with 5.82m, the latter securing his place at the World Championships in the process.
Two-time world champion Joe Kovacs stole victory from Leonardo Fabbri in the men&rsquo;s shot put, producing a fifth-round effort of 22.04m to overtake the Italian&rsquo;s earlier effort of 21.77m. Adrian Piperi was third with 21.49m.
Brittany Brown, another athlete to miss out on making the US team for Tokyo, gained redemption here by winning the women&rsquo;s 200m. She crossed the line in 22.23 to hold off Nigeria&rsquo;s Favour Ofili (22.31) and Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith (22.37).
The winning margin was the same in the women&rsquo;s 400m as Norway&rsquo;s Henriette Jaeger came through in the closing stages to overtake Lieke Klaver, winning in 50.09 to the Dutch runner&rsquo;s 50.17.
The two longest races on the programme &ndash; the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase and the men&rsquo;s 5000m &ndash; soon became tactical affairs as no one was willing to chase fast times in such conditions.
NCAA champion Doris Lemngole, making her Diamond League debut, produced an impressive victory in the steeplechase, winning by four seconds in 9:16.36 ahead of Ethiopia&rsquo;s Sembo Almayew (9:20.39).
The men&rsquo;s 5000m was even more unpredictable. Leading positions and pace changed frequently throughout. On the last lap, just when it looked as though Hagos Gebrhiwet would challenge for victory, the pack responded and Isaac Kimlei emerged as the leader, kicking to a clear victory in 13:07.67. Olympic bronze medallist Grant Fisher was second (13:08.51) and Mexico&rsquo;s Eduardo Herrera third (13:09.50).
Elsewhere, in events heavily affected by the rain, Adriana Vilagos won the women&rsquo;s javelin by four metres with 63.02m. Jo-Ane du Plessis was second with 58.89m while world and Olympic champion Haruka Kitaguchi struggled in the conditions, placing 10th with 50.93m.
There was a three-way tie in the women&rsquo;s high jump between Nicola Olyslagers, Maria Zodzik and Christina Honsel, all of whom cleared 1.91m on their first attempts. Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh retired from the competition after her first two jumps.
Anvar Anvarov was perhaps the biggest surprise winner of the night, taking the men&rsquo;s long jump with 7.84m and becoming the first Uzbek man to win at a Diamond League meeting.
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Athletissima Lausanne

Heavy rain may have hampered many of the events at Athletissima on Wednesday (20), but it also made for some thrilling and surprising finishes at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.

Hodgkinson and Hoey highlight soaking and surprising night in Lausanne

Many of the world&rsquo;s best athletes will be out in force at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on Friday (22) for what will be the last opportunity to bank points in the Wanda Diamond League ahead of the series finale next week.
While some have already secured their place in Zurich, several athletes are relying on a good showing in Brussels to guarantee a spot in the final, where athletes will compete for bonuses ranging between US$30,000 and US$50,000, as well as a wild card entry to the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.
Olympic 100m bronze medallist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden is looking to maintain her current momentum through Brussels, Zurich and all the way to Tokyo. The US sprinter is undefeated at 100m this year and has produced the four fastest times of her career in her last four finals. The &lsquo;slowest&rsquo; of those was a 10.75 clocking, but that was into a -1.5m/s headwind. Her fastest time was her world-leading 10.65 from the US Championships, which she came close to in Silesia last week with 10.66.
Her form suggests that she could challenge the meeting record of 10.72, shared by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Elaine Thompson. Fraser-Pryce is also in the field, as is world champion Sha&rsquo;Carri Richardson. It will be the first time that Jefferson-Wooden, Fraser-Pryce and Richardson have been in the same 100m race.
Two other athletes are heading to Brussels with records on their minds.
Seven weeks after running the third-fastest 5000m time in history, Agnes Jebet Ngetich is aiming to go a few seconds faster than her 14:01.29 PB and challenge the world record set last month by double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet. Others in the field &ndash; including USA&rsquo;s Josette Andrews and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Hirut Meshesha and Likina Amebaw &ndash; will be aiming to secure more Diamond League points ahead of the final.
Towards the end of the evening, world and Olympic champion Winfred Yavi will contest the mile steeplechase. The discipline has never been contested at this level before, and it&rsquo;s not an official world record event, but the Bahraini athlete is in form to lay down a strong marker, given her recent results in the 3000m steeplechase.
<h2>Olympic champions star on the field</h2>
Gold medallists from the Paris 2024 Olympics will be present in five field events in Brussels.
In fact, the women&rsquo;s shot put brings together three global champions in the form of Olympic gold medallist Yemisi Ogunleye, two-time world champion Chase Jackson and two-time world indoor champion Sarah Mitton. European champion Jessica Schilder will also be a big threat.
The men&rsquo;s discus is similarly loaded. World record-holder Mykolas Alekna, world champion Daniel Stahl, Olympic champion Roje Stona, 2022 world champion Kristjan Ceh, Olympic bronze medallist Matt Denny and NCAA champion Ralford Mullings are all set to clash in what looks set to be a dress rehearsal of the World Championships.
In the women&rsquo;s triple jump, Olympic champion Thea LaFond takes on the top five women from this year&rsquo;s outdoor list: world indoor champion Leyanis Perez Hernandez, world indoor silver medallist Liadagmis Povea, Olympic silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts and Olympic bronze medallist Jasmine Moore.
Elsewhere on the field, Olympic champion Hamish Kerr takes on Olympic silver medallist Shelby McEwen and European indoor champion Oleh Doroshchuk in the men&rsquo;s high jump, while two-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam is part of a non-scoring long jump contest.
The women&rsquo;s pole vault and men&rsquo;s javelin both feature multiple winners of global titles.
World champion Katie Moon, US champion Sandi Morris, 2024 world indoor champion Molly Caudery, world indoor champion Marie-Julie Bonnin and US twins Amanda Moll and Hana Moll feature in the women&rsquo;s pole vault.
The men&rsquo;s javelin, meanwhile, includes the likes of world leader Julian Weber, two-time world champion Anderson Peters, 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott and 2015 world champion Julius Yego.
<h2>Global medallists clash on the track</h2>
The men&rsquo;s 400m has been a highly competitive discipline on the international circuit this year, so another close battle is expected when Olympic bronze medallist Muzala Samukonga takes on Diamond League champion Charlie Dobson, US champion Jacory Patterson, Xiamen Diamond League winner Bayapo Ndori and 2024 world indoor champion Alexander Doom.
In other sprinting events, Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell takes on Jamaica&rsquo;s Andrenette Knight and Panama&rsquo;s Gianna Woodruff in the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. The men&rsquo;s 200m, meanwhile, features 19.80 performer Robert Gregory and Olympic finalists Alexander Ogando and Makanakaishe Charamba.
Kenya&rsquo;s Nelly Chepchirchir, who has won all of her races so far this year, will contest the 1500m in which she&rsquo;ll face world silver medallist Diribe Welteji, 2024 world indoor champion Freweyni Hailu and US champion Nikki Hiltz.
Kenyan teenager Phanuel Koech, who has broken 3:30 in his past three races, will line up for the men&rsquo;s 1500m, which also includes Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse, 2022 world champion Jake Wightman, Bowerman Mile winner Niels Laros, Portugal&rsquo;s Isaac Nader and Kenya&rsquo;s Abel Kipsang.
And in the men&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase, leading Kenyan duo Abraham Kibiwot and Simon Koech will take on Ethiopia&rsquo;s Getnet Wale.

Memorial van Damme

Many of the world’s best athletes will be out in force at the Allianz Memorial Van Damme in Brussels on Friday (22) for what will be the last opportunity to bank points in the Wanda Diamond League ahead of the series finale next week.

Fierce battles expected in Brussels as Diamond League Final draws near

Middle-distance maestros Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Keely Hodgkinson headline the 800m fields at Athletissima and are among seven Olympic champions set to compete at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on Wednesday (20).
The two world 800m leaders head to Lausanne off the back of very different seasons. Wanyonyi has raced every month this year since February and has won his past four Diamond League races, racking up victories in Oslo, Stockholm, Monaco and London.
The 21-year-old Kenyan ran a world-leading 1:41.44 in Monaco last month and returns to Lausanne with fond memories, as it&rsquo;s where he set his lifetime best of 1:41.11 last year &ndash; a performance that consolidated his third-place position on the world all-time list.
The three men who followed Wanyonyi across the line in Lausanne last year are all returning, meaning the Olympic champion will take on world champion Marco Arop, European champion Gabriel Tual and 2024 world indoor champion Bryce Hoppel.
They&rsquo;re joined by world indoor champion Josh Hoey and Olympic finalists Max Burgin, Mohamed Attaoui and Tshepiso Masalela.
In contrast to Wanyonyi, Hodgkinson heads to Lausanne off the back of just one race this year. But the Briton, who delayed the start to her season due to injury, made that one race count; she won in Silesia recently in a world-leading 1:54.74, just 0.13 shy of her lifetime best.
She won that race by two seconds, but Wednesday&rsquo;s outing will be another test ahead of next month&rsquo;s World Championships as she takes on world indoor champion Prudence Sekgodiso, European U23 champion Audrey Werro, Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell and Botswana&rsquo;s Oratile Nowe.
Like Hodgkinson, USA&rsquo;s Masai Russell heads to Lausanne off the back of a victory in Silesia. The Olympic champion won the 100m hurdles there in 12.19, equalling the third-fastest time in history, and she&rsquo;ll once again take on the existing and former world record-holders: Tobi Amusan and Kendra Harrison. Jamaica&rsquo;s Ackera Nugent and the in-form Nadine Visser add further quality to the field.
World and Olympic champion Noah Lyles headlines the men's 100m. Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson, who recently beat Lyles in Silesia, is a late withdrawal, but the field still includes the likes of Jamaica&rsquo;s Oblique Seville, world bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes and world indoor bronze medallist Akani Simbine.
Three world and Olympic champions will be in action in the field events.
World high jump record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh takes on Australian rivals Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson in the women&rsquo;s high jump. Two-time Olympic heptathlon champion Nafi Thiam is also part of the line-up.
Multiple global champion Miltiadis Tentoglou headlines a men&rsquo;s long jump field that includes Jamaican trio Wayne Pinnock, Tajay Gayle, Carey McLeod, as well as world indoor champion Mattia Furlani, Australia&rsquo;s Liam Adcock and Swiss decathlete Simon Ehammer.
The top six women in the world rankings will compete in the javelin, led by world and Olympic champion Haruka Kitaguchi. The Japanese star takes on Serbia&rsquo;s Adriana Vilagos.
The men&rsquo;s shot put is also of an exceedingly high quality as it features the top nine athletes on this year&rsquo;s world list. World leader Leonardo Fabbri takes on, among others, two-time world champion Joe Kovacs and US champion Josh Awotunde.
Fresh from a season&rsquo;s best of 22.17 to win in Silesia, two-time world 200m champion Shericka Jackson hopes to build on that momentum in Lausanne. Brittany Brown and Favour Ofili, who finished close behind Jackson in Silesia, will also be in action, as will 2019 world champion Dina Asher-Smith and Marie Josee Ta Lou Smith.
US sprint hurdler Cordell Tinch is another recent Silesia winner hoping to pick up another victory in Lausanne. The world leader faces French champion Just Kwao-Mathey, USA&rsquo;s Trey Cunningham and Dylan Beard.
The past four Diamond League races in the men&rsquo;s 5000m have all been won with times faster than 12:50, so a similarly swift time could be in store in Lausanne, especially with the likes of Hagos Gebrhiwet, Birhanu Balew, Grant Fisher and Jacob Krop in the field.
Elsewhere on the track, 2022 world champion Norah Jeruto faces Ethiopia&rsquo;s Sembo Almayew and NCAA champion Doris Lemngole in the women&rsquo;s 3000m steeplechase. 2019 world champion Salwa Eid Naser contests the women&rsquo;s 400m alongside Natalia Bukowiecka, Isabella Whittaker and Henriette Jaeger.
The men&rsquo;s pole vault, which will be held in the city centre on Tuesday (19), features Olympic bronze medallist Emmanouil Karalis, two-time world champion Sam Kendricks and world bronze medallist Kurtis Marschall.

Middle-distance maestros Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Keely Hodgkinson headline the 800m fields at Athletissima

Wanyonyi and Hodgkinson look to continue momentum in Lausanne

Faith Kipyegon came within one second of the long-standing world 3000m record, clocking 8:07.04 for the second-fastest time in history at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial, a Wanda Diamond League meeting, in Silesia, Poland, on Saturday (16).
That was one of three individual Diamond League records set on a hot and sunny afternoon in the Silesian Stadium, where Karsten Warholm and Masai Russell also produced two of the fastest performances of all time.
Kenya's Kipyegon is already the world record-holder for the 1500m and the mile and she came incredibly close to adding the 3000m mark to her CV in only her third ever race over the distance.
The three-time Olympic and four-time world gold medallist was paced by Sage Hurta-Klecker and Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull, and she tracked them closely as they hit 1000m in 2:42.07. Hull then reached 2000m in 5:25.18, a few strides ahead of Kipyegon.
After running solo for the final two laps, Kipyegon stormed across the finish line in 8:07.04 for an African record and Diamond League record, just missing the world record of 8:06.11 set by Wang Junxia in 1993.
She won the race by almost half a minute, Likina Amebaw securing second place in 8:34.53.
The performance marked a phenomenal return to Poland for Kipyegon, who was racing in the country for the first time since 2013, when she won her second world U20 cross country title in Bydgoszcz. She also made her global championship debut in Poland when she raced at the 2010 World Cross Country Championships.
"I am so happy," she said. "I saw the world record line during the race but today it was very hot. I want to come back here next year. All those records, this is what I love doing. I want to be an inspiration for young people and I love to challenge myself."
Looking ahead to next month's World Championships, she added: "It is all about Tokyo now."
Norway&rsquo;s Warholm issued a warning to his rivals in the 400m hurdles, blazing to the third-fastest time in history &ndash; a Diamond League record and world lead of 46.28.
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Karsten Warholm celebrates his 400m hurdles performance in Silesia (&copy; Marta Gorczynska / Diamond League AG)
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Only Warholm, with his world record of 45.94 from the Tokyo Olympics, and Paris Olympic champion Rai Benjamin, who ran 46.17 in that Tokyo Olympic final, have ever gone faster. Ezekiel Nathaniel ran a Nigerian record of 47.31 for second place.
Femke Bol took four tenths of a second off her own world lead to win the women&rsquo;s event, running a dominant 51.91 to improve her own meeting record.
The world champion maintained a remarkable five-year Diamond League 400m hurdles win streak, clinching this latest victory by more than a second and a half ahead of Slovak Republic&rsquo;s Emma Zapletalova, who ran a national record of 53.58.
USA&rsquo;s Olympic champion Russell lined up in Silesia on the hunt for her first Diamond League win and she secured it in sensational style, breaking the Diamond League record with 12.19 (1.4m/s) &ndash; the joint-third fastest time in history &ndash; in a race of record depth.
Only world record-holder Tobi Amusan (12.12) and Russell herself (12.17) have ever run quicker.
Demonstrating the incredible current depth in the event, the meeting record had been broken earlier in the afternoon, as Nadine Visser improved her own Dutch record to 12.28 (1.1m/s) in the heats. It was Tonea Marshall who got closest to Russell in the final, running a PB of 12.24 for the runner-up spot, as Amusan finished third in 12.25, world champion Danielle Williams finished fourth in&nbsp;12.31 and Alia Armstrong finished fifth in 12.32 &ndash; the fastest times ever recorded for third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishes.
<h2>Hodgkinson and Thompson make their mark</h2>
Great Britain&rsquo;s Keely Hodgkinson made a big statement in her first race since becoming the Olympic 800m champion in Paris, running a world-leading meeting record of 1:54.74.
In her comeback after injury, the two-time world silver medallist stormed to the ninth-fastest time in history and the second-fastest time of her career so far, behind her own British record of 1:54.61. Kenya&rsquo;s Lilian Odira was second in a PB of 1:56.52 and the top nine all dipped under two minutes, including Australia&rsquo;s Claudia Hollingsworth with an Oceanian record of 1:57.67.
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Keely Hodgkinson wins the 800m on her comeback in Silesia (&copy; Marta Gorczynska / Diamond League AG)
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Another meeting record fell in the women&rsquo;s 1500m, Ethiopia&rsquo;s world 10,000m champion Gudaf Tsegay dominating the race to win in 3:50.62 &ndash; the eighth-fastest performance of all time. She started out on world record pace, following closely as the pacemaker reached 800m in 1:59.97, and although her pace dropped over the final lap, she remained well clear to win by more than four seconds.
Kenya&rsquo;s Olympic 5000m and 10,000m champion Beatrice Chebet, making her international 1500m debut, finished second in 3:54.73 and Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell was third in 3:56.00 as the top seven went sub-3:57.
The women&rsquo;s 100m closed the programme and USA&rsquo;s Melissa Jefferson-Wooden ensured it ended in style. Equalling the meeting record with 10.66 (0.1m/s), she was just 0.01 off her PB and world lead as she continued her win streak this season. Tia Clayton was second in a PB of 10.82.
The men&rsquo;s Olympic 100m rematch ended in victory for Jamaica&rsquo;s silver medallist Kishane Thompson as he turned the tables on USA&rsquo;s Olympic champion Noah Lyles in their first 100m clash since that Olympic final in Paris.
After getting a strong start, Thompson held off Lyles&rsquo; strong finish and dipped over the line in a meeting record-equalling 9.87 (0.3m/s). Lyles was just 0.03 behind him.
Jamaica&rsquo;s two-time world champion Shericka Jackson won the 200m, pipping Brittany Brown &ndash; 22.17 to 22.21 (-0.3m/s).
USA&rsquo;s Cordell Tinch and Grant Holloway were locked in battle in the 110m hurdles, but it was world leader Tinch who edged ahead in the closing stages to beat the three-time world champion, equalling the meeting record with 13.03 (-0.5m/s) to Holloway&rsquo;s 13.15.
Dominican Republic&rsquo;s Olympic and world champion Marileidy Paulino won the 400m with a superb home straight surge that saw her overpower Salwa Eid Naser and dip for victory in 49.18. Naser held on for the runner-up spot in 49.27.
The men&rsquo;s 1500m was won by Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse in 3:33.19, as he works towards the Diamond League Final on the hunt for a wild card entry for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25. Timothy Cheruiyot moved through the field for second place in 3:33.35.
<h2>Duplantis and Mahuchikh soar to victory</h2>
Back at the scene of his 6.26m then world record from last year, Mondo Duplantis soared 6.10m to win the pole vault this time. Just four days after raising the record to 6.29m in Budapest, he again faced strong competition from Emmanouil Karalis, who cleared 6.00m to finish second, two weeks on from clearing a national record of 6.08m at the Greek Championships.
Duplantis needed two attempts at his opening height of 5.60m and also had two tries at 6.10m, while Karalis cleared all his heights first time before three unsuccessful attempts at 6.10m. Duplantis went on to try 6.20m, with a close third attempt.
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Mondo Duplantis celebrates in Silesia (&copy; Marta Gorczynska / Diamond League AG)
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Fresh from his world-leading 83.18m to win in Budapest on Tuesday, Hungary&rsquo;s world and Olympic hammer medallist Bence Halasz continued his fine form to win in Silesia with 81.77m. Four of his five valid throws were beyond 80 metres. Olympic and world champion Ethan Katzberg threw 79.30 for the runner-up spot.
The women's Olympic and world champion Camryn Rogers surpassed 75 metres with two of her throws and clinched victory with a best of 75.39m. She backed it up with throws of 75.25m and 73.64m and won ahead of Krista Tervo with 72.74m.
USA&rsquo;s Payton Otterdahl beat Italy&rsquo;s world leader Leonardo Fabbri in the shot put, throwing 22.28m in the fifth round to improve on Fabbri&rsquo;s 22.10m from the fourth round.
New Zealand&rsquo;s Olympic champion Hamish Kerr soared a season&rsquo;s best of 2.33m to win the high jump, while USA&rsquo;s double Olympic bronze medallist Jasmine Moore set a meeting record of 6.85m to win a close long jump contest by two centimetres ahead of Hilary Kpatcha and world indoor champion Claire Bryant.
Kenya&rsquo;s 2015 world gold medallist Julius Yego won the javelin with a throw of 83.60m.
The action kicked off with meeting records in the women&rsquo;s high jump and pole vault, held as street events the day before the main programme. Ukraine&rsquo;s world record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh cleared 2.00m to win the high jump ahead of Australia&rsquo;s Nicola Olyslagers (1.97m), while world indoor champion Marie-Julie Bonnin cleared 4.70m to win the pole vault before attempting a French record height of 4.77m.
Dutch thrower Jessica Schilder topped the shot put, throwing 19.66m. It was close for second place, Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye pipping Maggie Ewen by one centimetre &ndash; 19.50m to 19.49m.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial

Faith Kipyegon came within one second of the long-standing world 3000m record, clocking 8:07.04 at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial

Kipyegon, Warholm and Russell shine as records fall in Silesia

Records will be under threat and rivalries will be renewed across a star-studded schedule when the Wanda Diamond League season resumes with the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in Silesia, Poland, on Saturday (16).
Mondo Duplantis and Faith Kipyegon are among the 13 world record-holders who will want to make a statement when they stop in Silesia on the road to Tokyo, where they will defend their titles at the World Championships in September.
Swedish pole vault superstar Duplantis returns to the scene of his 10th world record, just four days after setting his 13th. The 25-year-old cleared 6.26m in Silesia last year, three weeks after claiming his second Olympic title and setting another of his world records in Paris. He improved the world record to 6.29m in Budapest on Tuesday, managing that mark on his second attempt.
The whole Paris Olympic podium is reunited as Sam Kendricks and Emmanouil Karalis also compete, the latter fresh from a runner-up finish to Duplantis in Budapest &ndash; a performance that followed his national record of 6.08m at the Greek Championships.
Adding further strength to the field are Ernest John Obiena and Kurtis Marschall, who joined winner Duplantis on the podium at the 2023 World Championships, plus former world record-holder Renaud Lavillenie.
Kenya&rsquo;s Kipyegon contests the 3000m, six weeks on from improving her own world 1500m record in Eugene. The three-time Olympic and four-time world gold medallist also holds the mile world record and is a former world record-holder in the 5000m. She has only raced the 3000m twice before and her PB of 8:23.55 was set in 2014, but anything is possible when Kipyegon steps on the track.
&ldquo;I'm just going there to lower my personal best. That world record is tough,&rdquo; she said recently, referencing the 8:06.11 set by Wang Junxia in 1993.
&ldquo;We are here to try. I say, &lsquo;dare to try&rsquo;. It's always good to dare to try than not to try, so I'm going to Silesia to just lower my personal best and see if I will dare to try and if the world record is possible.&rdquo;
She will be paced by another world record-holder &ndash; Australia&rsquo;s Jessica Hull, the Olympic silver medallist who ran 5:19.70 for 2000m in Monaco last year. Two other world record-breakers &ndash; double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet (5000m and 10,000m) and Gudaf Tsegay (1500m short track) &ndash; will meet in the 1500m, Chebet making her international 1500m debut. They will be joined by Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell, Birke Haylom and Nikki Hiltz.
Keely Hodgkinson is set to race for the first time since winning the Olympic 800m title in Paris as she continues her comeback after injury. The men&rsquo;s 1500m features six men who have dipped under 3:30 this season, including Timothy Cheruiyot, world indoor champion Josh Hoey and Cameron Myers. They take on Olympic bronze medallist Yared Nuguse and Hobbs Kessler.
<h2>Sprint showdowns</h2>
The meeting concludes with the women&rsquo;s 100m, starring world leader Melissa Jefferson-Wooden who ran 10.65 to win one of her two US titles at the start of this month. The Olympic and world relay champion is unbeaten in the 100m this year and will want to maintain that momentum when she races the likes of world champion Sha'Carri Richardson, Tina and Tia Clayton, Marie Josee Ta Lou-Smith and home star Ewa Swoboda.
Olympic gold and silver medallists Noah Lyles and Kishane Thompson reignite their rivalry in the men&rsquo;s 100m, as part of a field that features eight sub-9.90 sprinters. Among them are Diamond League leader Akani Simbine, Kenny Bednarek, Trayvon Bromell and Christian Coleman.
The women&rsquo;s 200m includes Jamaica&rsquo;s two-time world champion Shericka Jackson against Rome and Paris Diamond League runner-up Amy Hunt, Brittany Brown and Favour Ofili. The women's 400m features all the medallists from both the Paris Olympics and Budapest World Championships in Marileidy Paulino, home favourite Natalia Bukowiecka, Sada Williams and Salwa Eid Naser.
Another stacked field will take on the 100m hurdles, in a programme that has heats before the final. USA&rsquo;s Olympic champion Masai Russell&nbsp;faces Jamaica&rsquo;s world champion Danielle Williams, world record-holders Tobi Amusan and Devynne Charlton, and home star Pia Skrzyszowska.
The fastest 110m hurdler in the world this year &ndash; Cordell Tinch &ndash; stars in a clash with three-time world champion Grant Holloway and Poland&rsquo;s Jakub Szymanski.
The world champions also feature in both the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles. Norway&rsquo;s world record-holder Karsten Warholm takes on Abderrahman Samba in the men&rsquo;s event and Dutch star Femke Bol headlines the women&rsquo;s event, looking to extend her six-race win streak in the event this year.
<h2>Global medallists collide</h2>
The action kicks off on Friday, when the women&rsquo;s high jump, pole vault and shot put will take place in Katowice Market Square.
The women&rsquo;s high jump features a clash between perennial global medallists Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson. Mahuchikh set a world record of 2.10m last year and has cleared a world-leading 2.02m this season &ndash; one centimetre higher than Olyslagers so far in 2025.
The pole vault features world leader Amanda Moll and world indoor champion Marie-Julie Bonnin, while the shot put stars Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye and Jessica Schilder, who has thrown 20.47m this year.
Fresh from his world-leading 83.18m to win in Budapest, world and Olympic medallist Bence Halasz renews his rivalry with Olympic and world champion Ethan Katzberg in the hammer on Saturday. The Olympic and world champion stars in the women&rsquo;s event, too, as Camryn Rogers goes up against 2022 world champion and world leader Brooke Andersen.
In the men&rsquo;s shot put, world leader Leonardo Fabbri faces Joe Kovacs, Payton Otterdahl and Tom Walsh.
Olympic champion Hamish Kerr takes on Shelby McEwen, Oleh Doroshchuk and world champion Gianmarco Tamberi in the high jump, while the long jump features multiple global medallists Malaika Mihambo and Jasmine Moore against world indoor champion Claire Bryant and Larissa Iapichino.
Two-time world champion Anderson Peters, 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott and 2015 world gold medallist Julius Yego will clash in the javelin.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics
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Records will be under threat and rivalries will be renewed across a star-studded schedule when the Wanda Diamond League season resumes with the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial

World record-holders Kipyegon and Duplantis among stars in Silesia

Global gold medallists Mondo Duplantis, Femke Bol, Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Valarie Allman are among the stars confirmed to defend their Wanda Diamond League titles at the series final in Zurich on 27-28 August.
World pole vault record-holder Duplantis will compete during the Weltklasse Zurich street event in front of Zurich&rsquo;s opera house on the first day of the final, targeting a fifth Diamond Trophy.
His fellow world record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh is also due to compete in the street competition as she seeks a fourth successive series high jump win.
On the track, Dutch 400m hurdles star Bol will also be on the hunt for a fifth successive Diamond League title, while Olympic champion Wanyonyi could make it three Diamond League Final wins in a row in the 800m.
Two-time Olympic gold medallist Allman has claimed the past four Diamond League discus titles and she&rsquo;ll go up against multiple global gold medallist Sandra Elkasevic and world champion Laulauga Tausaga as she targets trophy No.5.
Daniel Stahl and Kristjan Ceh &ndash; the past two men&rsquo;s discus world champions &ndash; will clash, while two-time world champion Katie Moon will be in pole vault action against world indoor bronze medallist Angelica Moser.
Olympic champion Thea LaFond, world gold medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango and his predecessor as world champion, Pedro Pichardo, have been announced for the triple jump.
The first day of the Diamond League Final takes place on the city's Sechsel&auml;utenplatz, while day two is held in the Letzigrund Stadium.
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Global gold medallists Mondo Duplantis, Femke Bol, Emmanuel Wanyonyi and Valarie Allman are among the stars confirmed to defend their Wanda Diamond League titles at the series final in Zurich

Allman, Duplantis, Bol and Wanyonyi confirmed to defend Diamond League titles in Zurich

Further global medallists have been announced for the Athletissima Wanda Diamond League meeting in Lausanne on 20 August.
Multiple world and Olympic champion Noah Lyles will renew his rivalry with Olympic 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson, Oblique Seville and Courtney Lindsey as they join the previously announced Marcell Jacobs in the men&rsquo;s 100m.
The women&rsquo;s 200m will see the already announced Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred go up against 2019 world champion Dina Asher-Smith and two-time world 200m gold medallist Shericka Jackson.
In the 110m hurdles, world leader Cordell Tinch &ndash; who clocked 12.87 in May &ndash; will take on 2022 world silver medallist Trey Cunningham, Enrique Llopis, Jason Joseph and Just Kwaou-Mathey, who recently dipped under 13 seconds at the French Championships.
The women&rsquo;s high jump will bring together all three medallists from the Olympic Games: Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson. They will be joined by world U20 champion Angelina Topic.
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Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Shericka Jackson and Noah Lyles have been added to the list of entries

Top sprint clashes and high jump rematch set for Lausanne

A Wanda Diamond League record from discus world record-holder Mykolas Alekna, an Ethiopian mile record from Gudaf Tsegay and a world-leading 200m run from Julien Alfred were among the many highlights at the London Athletics Meet on Saturday (19).
All three athletes not only broke meeting records, but also improved on the UK all-comers&rsquo; marks in their respective disciplines.
Alekna took an early lead with 66.97m, but 2022 world champion Kristjan Ceh bettered it in round two with 68.37m. Alekna responded with one of the best throws of his life &ndash; and the best throw ever produced at a Wanda Diamond League meeting &ndash; and sent his discus out to 71.70m.
Ceh, who had won nine consecutive competitions prior to this meeting, improved to 68.83m in the final round but had to settle for second place. British record-holder Lawrence Okoye was third with 67.24m.
World 10,000m champion Gudaf Tsegay achieved her first Diamond League win of the season, producing a dominant run to win the women&rsquo;s mile with the second-fastest time in history.
After a swift opening lap of 59.93, Tsegay settled into a steadier pace and went through 800m in 2:03.45. At the bell, Australia&rsquo;s Jessica Hull had closed the gap on the Ethiopian, but Tsegay had saved something for the end and kicked to victory in a national record of 4:11.88. Hull was second in 4:13.68, an Oceanian record.
Olympic 100m champion Julien Alfred smashed her own national record and world lead to win the 200m in convincing fashion. The St Lucian was in the lead as she came off the bend, then continued to open up a significant leading margin, crossing the line in a meeting record of 21.71.
<div><img style="max-width: 900px; width: 100%; display: block;" src="https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/687bbbfb6f54a9b3785369b3.jpg" alt="Julien Alfred wins the 200m in London" />
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Julien Alfred wins the 200m in London (&copy; Getty Images)
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Alfred&rsquo;s training partner, 2019 world champion Dina Asher-Smith, finished strongly to take second in a season&rsquo;s best of 22.25, just ahead of compatriot Amy Hunt, who set a PB of 22.31 in third.
Earlier in the afternoon, Asher-Smith and Hunt had teamed up to win the women&rsquo;s 4x100m in a world-leading 41.69.
There were also meeting records from Kenyan middle-distance runners Phanuel Koech and Emmanuel Wanyonyi.
Eighteen-year-old Koech, who has burst on to the international scene this year, ran like a seasoned professional in the men&rsquo;s 1500m, making his way into the lead on the last lap to win in a UK all-comers&rsquo; record of 3:28.82. World champion Josh Kerr was second in a season&rsquo;s best of 3:29.37.
For a brief moment it looked as though Olympic champion Wanyonyi would be beaten in the men&rsquo;s 800m. He had led for most of the way, but world champion Marco Arop took command on the final bend. The Canadian then faded slightly while Wanyonyi responded with a final burst to take the win in a meeting record of 1:42.00. Arop was second with a season&rsquo;s best of 1:42.22 while Max Burgin was third in a PB of 1:42.37, elevating him to third on the British all-time list.
<h2>Bol wins again</h2>
World champion Femke Bol made it three wins in a row in London. The soaking wet track ruled out any chance of an improvement on the Diamond League record she set last year, but the manner of her victory was still highly impressive.
She won by more than a second in 52.10 from USA&rsquo;s Jasmine Jones (53.18) and Jamaica&rsquo;s Andrenette Knight (53.79).
While the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles and 200m went to the form book, there were surprise victories in the men&rsquo;s sprint events.
Oblique Seville exploded into an early lead in the men&rsquo;s 100m and maintained it to the end, winning comfortably in 9.86. Olympic champion Noah Lyles, contesting his first 100m of the year, was second in 10.00 ahead of world bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes (10.02).
In the men&rsquo;s 400m, Olympic silver medallist Matt Hudson-Smith and world leader Zakithi Nene were locked in battle down the home straight, but Diamond League champion Charlie Dobson came striding through in the closing stages to win in a PB of 44.14. Hudson-Smith held on for second (44.27), just ahead of Nene (44.29).
Ethiopia&rsquo;s Medina Eisa won the women&rsquo;s 5000m in what was one of the deepest races of all time at the distance. She clocked 14:30.57 to finish ahead of compatriot Fantaye Belayneh (14:30.90) with Australia&rsquo;s Rose Davies setting an Oceanian record of 14:31.45 in third. A record number of 13 women finished inside 14:40, including Britain&rsquo;s Innes Fitzgerald, who set a European U20 record of 14:39.56 in 12th.
Elsewhere on the track, Olympic bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell came through in the closing stages to win the women&rsquo;s 800m in a season&rsquo;s best of 1:56.74. USA&rsquo;s Addison Wiley was second in 1:57.43.
<h2>Olympic champions beaten in the jumps</h2>
There were several close contests in the jumping events, many of which resulted in surprise victories.
New Zealand&rsquo;s Olivia McTaggart won the women&rsquo;s pole vault on countback, beating world champion Katie Moon, European champion Angelica Moser and USA&rsquo;s Emily Grove, all four clearing 4.73m.
Morgan Lake was the only woman to get over 1.96m in the high jump, earning a shock win over Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who finished fourth with 1.93m.
Both long jump contests were won by just one centimetre. Two-time world champion Malaika Mihambo uncorked a leap of 6.93m in the fifth round to take the lead. Larissa Iapichino responded with 6.92m in the final round but it wasn&rsquo;t quite enough to reclaim the lead.
In the men&rsquo;s event, Jamaica&rsquo;s Wayne Pinnock beat Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, 8.20m to 8.19m.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

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