by Kishane Thompson overshadowed the 100m Olympic champion, Noah Lyles at the Silesia Diamond League on Saturday and Keely Hodgkinson made an impressive return on 800m per year since he won gold at the Paris Games.
A crowd of world and Olympic champions pulled by Karsten Warholm – with incredible performance in the hedges of the 400m – Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, Faith Kipyegon and Femke Bol Shone in hot and humid conditions in front of more than 40,000 fans in the Polish city of Chorzow.
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During their first meeting since Lyles won Olympic gold by only five thousandths of a second in Paris last year, Thompson made an electrical start and led the pistol to the band for the victory in 9.87 seconds.
“My job is to do the work,” said Thompson.
“I appreciated competition against Noah today … No one is perfect, but I work to improve my strengths and improve my weaknesses.
“Paris last year was a big learning factor. I learned that it was me against myself.”
Lyles had to be satisfied with second place in 9.90 seconds while the athletes refine the preparations for the world championships from September 13 to 21 in Tokyo.
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“It makes me really excited not only for today, but also for next week and Tokyo,” said the American.
“The more I run, the better I become. I am more excited every day and it works. I must continue to compete.”
There was a timely return to Hodgkinson, because the 23-year-old Briton has shown no sign of the problems of the persistent hamstrings who had put her away for months when she had timed for 1 min 54.74 seconds, the fastest in the world this year.
“I was just happy to walk on the track after more than a year,” said Hodgkinson.
“I had planned to run a quick period because I no longer have five races before Tokyo, I have only today and the meeting in Lausanne next week. So it had to be fast and I am happy that it worked.”
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The Kenya World Record Briseur, Kipyegon, failed the longtime world record in the 3000m female.
Six weeks after the improvement of his own world record of 1,500 m in Eugene, Kipyegon took a turn of 8: 07.04 over the non -Olympic distance, falling just below the world record of 8: 06.11 established by Wang Junxia in China in 1993.
“I am so happy. I wanted to travel a longer distance,” said Kipyegon. “This is Tokyo now, but Tokyo is a championship race, so anything can happen!”
– Bourse Warholm –
Warholm looked in an amazing form in the hedges of the 400m after a two -month training block at home in Norway, pulling a world duration of 46.28 seconds.
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It was the third best day of day on the distance, only surmounted by the Norwegian world record of 45.94 seconds and 46.19 seconds American from Rai Benjamin.
“This race was great! I had a big rhythm and a speed throughout,” said Warholm.
The Dutch star, Femke Bol, comfortably extended his sequence of victories of six races in the female hedges of the 400m this year with victory in 51.91 seconds – another peak period.
Duplantis, fresh out of his 13th world record for pole with 6.29 m in Budapest on Tuesday, failed to reach these heights but won the victory in 6.10 m, after having failed at 6.20.
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The world leader Melissa Jefferson-Wooden equaled the record for the Shelly-Ann-Pryce competition when she succeeded 10.66 seconds for an impressive victory in the 100m female.
The world champion Sha’Carri Richardson was unable to finish sixth after a few weeks troubled after her arrest for a violent altercation with her partner.
The double world champion of Jamaica, Shericka Jackson, won the honors in 200m in 22.17 seconds when she returns to the form.
Cordell Tinch left him late, but the American in good shape propelled the triple world champion Grant Holloway for a third victory this season in 110m hurdles in 13.03 seconds.
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Olympic champion Masai Russell came out at the top of a pounded ground at 100m hurdles in a 12.19 seconds Diamond League record in front of his American teammate Tonea Marshall.
“This victory is very important to me because they are the women I will run around with the world champions,” said Russell.
Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic preceded Salwa Eid Naser for the victory of Bahrain in 49.18 seconds in the female 400m and the Gudaf Tsegay of Ethiopia exceeded Beatrice Chebet of Kenya for the victory in the 1500m female in 3: 50.62.
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