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Impressive victories at the WDL Shanghai/Keqiao
World record holders Mondo Duplantis, Karsten Warholm and Yaroslava Mahuchikh all sealed impressive victories at the Shanghai/Keqiao Diamond League on Saturday (3), while US athlete Cordell Tinch produced a spectacular performance in the 110m hurdles, clocking a world lead, meeting record and personal best of 12.87 (0.6m/s). That moved Tinch joint-fourth on the world all-time … <a href="https://shanghai.diamondleague.com/world-record-holder-mondo-duplantis-returns-to-keqiao-for-shanghai-diamond-league/">Continued</a>
Stars speak at pre-meeting press conference
A star-studded cast of athletes spoke to the media on Friday afternoon ahead of the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Shanghai/Keqiao, with world record holders Karsten Warholm and Mondo Duplantis igniting hopes for big performances at the China Textile City Sports Center.
Men’s heavy hitters ready to line up in Keqiao!
Armand Duplantis returns to China to defend his Shanghai DL title
Two groups of athletes to pay a visit to local schools in the Shaoxing/Keqiao area.
Christopher Bailey, Jeremiah Azu, Halimah Nakaayi and Liam Adcock visited the Shaoxing Sports School.
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3000m steeplechase Women: Hyvin Kiyeng sets a new meeting record
World champion Hyvin Kiyeng made up a 20m deficit over the last lap as she produced the sixth fastest time in history to defeat former world junior champion Ruth Jebet. The Bahraini strode clear of the field after half way to establish a seemingly unbeatable lead only for the world champion to pass her down the back straight and sweep home for a world leading meeting record of 9:07.42. The exhausted Jebet fell to her knees in the home straight but had tiime to pick herself up to claim second in an Asian record of 9:15.98. Ethiopia’s Olympic silver medallist Sofia Assefa was third ahead of last year’s Diamond Race winner, Virginia Nyambura.
800m Men: Rudisha beaten as Rotich rolls through for shock win
World and Olympic champion David Rudisha was left treading water in the home straight as Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich slipped past the field on the inside lane to snatch a shock victory in 1:45.68. Rudisha had targeted 1:43.50 but such a time was all but impossible after confusion at the start led to half the field pulling up expecting a re-call when high jumpers and javelin throwers strayed into their lanes. Rudisha made up the ground and held the lead with 200m to go, but the world record holder’s customary finishing kick was nowhere to be seen as Dutchman Thijmen Kupers attacked off the bend. The Kenyan faded to fifth in 1:46.24, his slowest time for five years, as Robert Biwott and Alfred Kipketer took second and third ahead of Kupers.
400m Women: World leading Miller leaves the rest adrift
World silver medallist Shaunae Miller lived up to her billing as the world number one led from gun to tape to beat the fast-finishing Jamaican Stephanie Ann McPherson and USA’s Natasha Hastings in 50.45. Miller was out quickest in lane six with Hastings chasing hard two lanes inside before McPherson responded around the final bend to chase the Bahaman home in 50.98, her best of the year. Hastings was clear in third in 51.10 with two-time Shanghai winner Novlene Williams-Mills some way back in fourth.
100m Men: Sub-10 for battling Gatlin
A fast start and a battling second half gave last year’s Diamond League winner Justin Gatlin a sub-10 clocking and his first win of the 2016 campaign. The US world silver medallist, who dominated last year’s Race, was in front from the start and opened daylight between himself and Qatar’s world leader Femi Ogunode to cross the line in a wind-legal season’s best of 9.94. Ogunode was the best of the rest in 10.07 as Gatlin’s US compatriot and world finalist Mike Rodgers took third three hundredths back ahead of former world champion Kim Collins.
1500m Women: Kenyan record for conquering Kipyegon
World silver medallist Faith Kipyegon lived up to expectations in style as she eclipsed her own Kenyan record with a storming piece of middle distance running that left compatriot Hellen Obiri and a trio of young Ethiopians in her wake. The long-striding Kipyegon led from five at the bell and streaked through the final 200m to win in 3:56.82, consigning Genzebe Dibaba’s 2012 meeting record to the dustbin and lowering her own best by 0.16 to move to the top of the world list. Obiri was way back but still clocked 3:59.34 for second as 19-year-old world indoor medallist Dawit Seyaum took third in 3:59.87. Her teammates, Besu Sado and Gudaf Tsegay, ran personal bests in fourth and fifth respectively.
400m Hurdles Men: Tinsley times it right to take the points
A finely timed second half and a thrusting run to the line gave US Olympic champion Michael Tinsley victory in a season’s best over Poland’s surprise second-placer Patryk Dobek as Kenya’s world champion Nicholas Bett was sixth. Eight men finished within sixth tenths as Tinsley overhauled the fast starting Puerto Rican Javier Culson to win in 48.90, moving to third on this year’s world list. Dobek came through in lane one for second in 49.01, a tenth ahead of Bahamas Pan Am Games champion Jeffrey Gibson, while Bett was never in it, clocking 49.31. Culson faded to eighth, one place behind two times world champion Kerron Clement.
Discus Women: Revenge is sweet for record-breaking Perkovics
Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic extended her world lead as she exacted revenge on Cuba’s Beijing world champion Denia Caballero and sealed her third straight Shanghai Diamond League win. The Croatian led at half way with 67.73 before unleashing a fourth round throw of 70.88 to eclipse her own Diamond League and Shanghai meeting record from two years ago. Caballero had led after round two with 66.14, but that was to prove her best as Australia’s 2009 world champion Dani Samuels snatched the second place points with a sixth round throw of 67.77. Su Xinyue delighted the home crowd by making the last four, the two-times Asian champion producing her best of the year to finish behind Caballero with 64.45.
Shot Put Men: Roberts shocks world champions with last round winner
A sixth round put of 21.40 gave the unfancied American Kurt Roberts a shock victory over the world indoor and outdoor champions. Roberts’ winning effort landed just 7cm short of his best ever, pushing Beijing world champion and US compatriot Joe Kovacs down to third as New Zealand’s Portland hero Tom Walsh moved to second. Kovacs had looked all set to clinch a narrow win over Walsh when Roberts unleashed a last round throw to leap from fourth to first. Walsh responded with 21.20 leaving the world leader adrift with a best of 20.82. Poland's double Olympic champion Tomasz Majewski was fourth
High Jump Women: Spencer bounces back to win three-way battle
St Lucia’s Pan American Games champion Lavern Spencer moved from third to first with a sailing clearance at 1.94 to win a three-way tussle for the 10 Diamond League points with Uzbekistan’s former Asian champion Nadezhda Dusanova and European bronze medallist Ana Simic. Croatian Simic took the lead with a season’s best at 1.92, but Spencer bounced back with a first time effort at 1.94 where Dusanova needed three. A world lead of 1.96 was beyond Dusanova and Spencer bowed out, happy to take the win on countback.
McLeod shrugs off pressure ahead of Shanghai showdown
Omar McLeod may be the new kid on the block in the tight community of world athletics known as sprint hurdling, but the Jamaican world leader is adamant he’s feeling no pressure ahead of his Shanghai showdown with global champions and world record breakers on Saturday.