Jamaica’s Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce further underlined her supremacy, powering to victory in the women’s 100m at the Stockholm Diamond League in a time of 10.93s.
It was a race that Fraser-Pryce came in as favourite, and it was never in doubt who would win after she paced past her opponents. Tori Bowie who had the quickest reaction in the race finished 2nd clocking 11.05s with Natasha Morrison 3rd in 11.22s.
The World and Olympic champion might not have run a Meeting Record (MR) in Stockholm, but she will be delighted with the victory on the night which earned her all four points. Fraser-Pryce leads the Diamond Race standings with 12 points, followed by Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor who has 8 points. Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahouré is 3rd on the log with 7points.
In the men’s 200m, South Africa’s Anaso Jobodwana couldn’t stop Panama’s Alonso Edward from making it a second Diamond Race victory for the season, running 20.04s to take the win. Jobodwana placed 2nd in 20.18s with Turkey’s Ramil Guliyev 3rd in 20.37s.
There was no Kirani James nor Wayde Van Niekerk in the 400m, but the day belonged to Machel Cedenio after he gathered momentum to chase down others despite being in a losing position, and ended up winning the race in 44.97s. Luguelín Santos came 2nd in 45.21s while Martyn Rooney finished 3rd in 45.41s.
Just a day after confirming that he will now be competing for Spain, former Cuba athlete Orlando Ortega came through the barriers in 13.18s to win the men’s 110m hurdles. He defeated Sergey Shubenkov who came in 2nd at 13.22s with Diamond Race leader, David Oliver 3rd in the race in 13.24s.
Czech Republic’s Zuzana Hejnova did just enough to secure another victory, winning the women’s 400m hurdles in 54.37s with Sara Petersen nearly slipping in, but finished 2nd in 54.42s and Cassandra Tate 3rd in 54.88s.
Djibouti’s Ayanleh Souleiman hard a comfortable win in the men’s 1500m race, powering to a win in 3:33:33. Jakub Holusa finished 2nd in 3:34.26 while Tanui Ozbilen is 3rd after clocking 3:24.40.
In the women’s 3000m, Katie Mackey set a new Personal Best of 8:52.99 to win the race as Renata Plis finished 2nd in 8:53.58 and Betlhem Desalegn 3rd with a new UAE National Record of 8:53.75. Hicham Sigueni dipped in first to win the men’s 3000m Steeplechase in 8:16.54, closely followed by Brahim Taleb in 2nd clocking 8:16.54. Kipsang Hillary Yego placed 3rd in 8:19.14.
Great Britain’s Lynsey Sharp gave up her lead in the home stretch as Renell Lamote came through to take the women’s 800m win in 1:59.91. Sharp finished 2nd in 2:00.029 and Brendan Martinez 3rd in 2:00.54.
Qatar’s Abdulrahman Balla takes the 800m victory in 1:45.33, with Andreas Bube 2nd in 1:45.78 and Michael Rimmer 3rd in 1:45.97.
Field Events
Piotr Malachowski got back to winning ways in the men’s Discus, shrugging off his defeat in London to record a Season’s Best of 65.95. Malachowski is going head to head with Robert Urbanek who finished 3rd with 63.25m, while Philip Milanov finished 2nd 64.97m.
Greg Rutherford leapt to victory, recording 8.34m in his second attempt which no other athlete on the field matched. Marquis Dendy who had to withdraw early with a groin injury still finished 2nd with 8.09m despite only three attempts, while Godfrey Khotso Mokoena’s 7.87m earned him 3rd place.
Meanwhile in the women’s Triple Jump, Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen appears destined to clinch this season’s Diamond Race contest, recording yet another victory with her best attempt of 14.69m. Russia’s Olga Rypakova was 2nd with 14.30 and Kimberly Williams 3rd after her 14.22m distance.
In the men’s High Jump, there was no respite for Mutaz Barshim losing on the night to America’s Jacorian Duffield who won after scaling 2.32m. Barshim’s 2.29m was enough to secure 2nd place and Gianmarco Tamberi 3rd, also with 2.29m.
Yarisley Silva was the surprise winner in the Pole Vault scaling 4.81m with Nikoleta Kiriakopoulou finishing 2nd after going through 4.76m. Fabiana Murer placed 3rd with 4.71m.
Barbora Špotakova won the women’s Javelin with a 65.66m throw, and Sunette Viljoen 2nd recording a 64.03m achievement, while Linda Stahl placed 3rd throwing 64.02m.
Christina Schwanitz on Wednesday won the women’s Shot Put, throwing 20.13m while Michelle was 2nd with 19.24m and Anita Marton 3rd with 18.74.
The Diamond League will go on a break and return in September for the finals in Zurich and Brussels. Some athletes are on course to win the Diamond Trophy with their displays in the last 12 meets, however the last two will go a long way in deciding the fate of others.
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