Diamond League Final: Coleman, Jackson shine as Lyles, Richardson denied
1 year, 3 months ago

Diamond League Final: Coleman, Jackson shine as Lyles, Richardson denied

The Hindu  

American Christian Coleman and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson won the men’s and women’s 100m at the Diamond League finals on Saturday as Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson were denied. Lyles and Richardson weren’t the only gold medallists from last month’s World Championships in Budapest to be disappointed in Eugene, Oregon, where American Rai Benjamin stunned world and Olympic champion Karsten Warholm in the 400m hurdles. Christian Coleman of the U.S. celebrates after winning the men’s 100m final | Photo Credit: REUTERS/Aly Song Coleman, the world champion in 2019 who finished a disappointing fifth in Budapest, matched the season’s best time of 9.83sec for the second time in two weeks as he followed up his Xiamen Diamond League win. The 29-year-old Jamaican is due back on the Hayward Field track on Sunday when she’ll try one more time for the 200m world record set by Florence Griffith-Joyner in 1988.

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Diamond League: Dina Asher-Smith continues strong form as Jakob Ingebrigtsen suffers another shock 1500m defeat
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Diamond League: Dina Asher-Smith continues strong form as Jakob Ingebrigtsen suffers another shock 1500m defeat

The Independent  

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Diamond League: Yared Nuguse wins stacked 1,500 metres; Beatrice Chebet misses world record
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Diamond League: Yared Nuguse wins stacked 1,500 metres; Beatrice Chebet misses world record

The Hindu  

American Yared Nuguse fought off a high-calibre field to win the 1,500 metres at the Weltklasse Diamond League in Zurich on Thursday, on a night when the weather dampened world record expectations at the Letzigrund Stadium. Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet came to Zurich with the women’s 5000m world record in her sights, but the Kenyan had to go it alone …

Oslo Diamond League: Ingebrigtsen dives to win 1500m thriller; Dos Santos beats Warholm in 400m hurdles
6 months, 3 weeks ago

Oslo Diamond League: Ingebrigtsen dives to win 1500m thriller; Dos Santos beats Warholm in 400m hurdles

The Hindu  

Jakob Ingebrigtsen ensured a raucous end to a thrilling Diamond League meeting in front of his home fans in Oslo by hurling himself over the line to snatch victory in the men’s 1500m. I think yes.” READ | Sports Ministry approves Neeraj Chopra’s two-month training stint in Europe with coach, physio While Ingebrigtsen’s dive for the line, bounce back to …

Diamond League: Pole vaulter Duplantis sails to victory in Suzhou, Simbine beats Coleman in 100m
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Diamond League: Pole vaulter Duplantis sails to victory in Suzhou, Simbine beats Coleman in 100m

The Hindu  

Sweden’s Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis dominated the men’s pole vault at the Suzhou Diamond League meeting on Saturday, going close to bettering his own world record set last week. World 100m champion Sha’Carri Richardson suffered another upset in the women’s 200m, with the American coming in third at 23.11 seconds behind Briton Daryll Neita’s winning 22.62 and compatriot Anavia Battle’s 22.99. …

Duplantis betters own pole vault World Record again at Xiamen Diamond League
8 months ago

Duplantis betters own pole vault World Record again at Xiamen Diamond League

The Hindu  

Armand Duplantis put down a marker ahead of this year’s Paris Olympics as the Swede broke his own pole vault world record with a 6.24 metres effort in the first Diamond League meeting of the 2024 season on Saturday. Duplantis bettered his previous mark of 6.23 metres set at the Eugene Diamond League finale in September, clearing the bar with …

Duplantis, Tsegay topple records at Eugene Diamond League
1 year, 3 months ago

Duplantis, Tsegay topple records at Eugene Diamond League

The Hindu  

Gudaf Tsegay smashed the women’s 5,000-metre world record and Armand Duplantis raised the bar again for the men’s pole vault on Sunday, as the season-ending Eugene Diamond League meet concluded on a high. “Next year’s next year.” Shericka Jackson came off the turn with a massive lead to retain her women’s 200 metres Diamond League championship title in 21.57, but …

Coleman edges world champion Lyles in the 100M at the Prefontaine Classic
1 year, 3 months ago

Coleman edges world champion Lyles in the 100M at the Prefontaine Classic

Associated Press  

EUGENE, Ore. — American Christian Coleman edged world champion and fellow countryman Noah Lyles in the 100 meters at the season-ending Prefontaine Classic on Saturday. Coleman won in 9.83 seconds, matching Lyles’ world best this season, with Lyles finishing in 9.85. Joining Coleman and Lyles in the star-studded event was sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson, who won golds in the 100 meters …

Diamond League final: Lyles, Duplantis aim to end 2023 on high note
1 year, 3 months ago

Diamond League final: Lyles, Duplantis aim to end 2023 on high note

The Hindu  

Noah Lyles and Armand Duplantis are among the world champions aiming to end 2023 on a high note as the World Athletics Diamond League concludes in Eugene, Oregon, this weekend. He was considering opting out of the season finale but said Friday he decided “I think I’ve got one more in me.” Lyles will race the 100m for the first …

Neeraj Chopra, Avinash Sable and M. Sreeshankar: How three Indian athletes qualified for Diamond League Final 2023
1 year, 3 months ago

Neeraj Chopra, Avinash Sable and M. Sreeshankar: How three Indian athletes qualified for Diamond League Final 2023

The Hindu  

Neeraj Chopra, Avinash Sable and M. Sreeshankar have qualified for the Diamond League Final to be held in Eugene, USA, on September 16-17. In case of a tie, the athlete with the best legal performance of the season is ranked higher.” How Neeraj Chopra qualified for Diamond League Final Chopra is the reigning Olympic, world and Diamond League champion in …

Coleman roars to Xiamen 100m title as Diamond League returns to China
1 year, 3 months ago

Coleman roars to Xiamen 100m title as Diamond League returns to China

The Hindu  

American Christian Coleman powered to victory in the men’s 100 metres race at the Xiamen Diamond League as the premier one-day series returned to China for the first time in four years on Saturday after COVID disruptions. “I’m looking forward to the rest of the season.” Jamaican Hansle Parchment produced a superb performance to stun world champion Grant Holloway in …

Avinash Sable qualifies for Diamond League Final after fifth-place finish in Xiamen
1 year, 3 months ago

Avinash Sable qualifies for Diamond League Final after fifth-place finish in Xiamen

The Hindu  

Avinash Sable finished fifth in the men’s 3000m steeplechase at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China, on Saturday. The Indian clocked 8:16.27s, five seconds slower than his national record, to finish just behind Kenya’s Abraham Kibiwot, Commonwealth Games gold medallist, who took the fourth spot with 8:15.87s. READ - Neeraj Chopra listens to his mind and body as he …

Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson triumph at Diamond League meet in Zurich... in USA sprint stars' first action since world championship glory
1 year, 3 months ago

Noah Lyles and Sha'Carri Richardson triumph at Diamond League meet in Zurich... in USA sprint stars' first action since world championship glory

Daily Mail  

Sha'Carri Richardson easily won the the women's 100 in 10.88 on Thursday Noah Lyles won the 200m in 19.80 seconds at Diamond League meet in Zurich Another race, another win for triple world champion Noah Lyles. Lyles won the 200 meters in 19.80 seconds at the Diamond League meet in Zurich on Thursday in his first race since the world …

Noah Lyles wins again in Zurich in his first race since world championships triple
1 year, 3 months ago

Noah Lyles wins again in Zurich in his first race since world championships triple

Associated Press  

ZURICH, Switzerland — Another race, another win for triple world champion Noah Lyles. Lyles won the 200 meters in 19.80 seconds at the Diamond League meet in Zurich on Thursday in his first race since the world championships in Budapest, Hungary, where he picked up gold medals in the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay. He was one of nine recently …

Diamond League: Neeraj Chopra finishes second in men's javelin throw; Sreeshankar fifth in long jump
1 year, 3 months ago

Diamond League: Neeraj Chopra finishes second in men's javelin throw; Sreeshankar fifth in long jump

Firstpost  

Neeraj finished behind Jakub Vadlejch of Czech Republic, who had won a bronze in the World Championships. Zurich: Coming fresh off his victory at the World Athletics Championship, Neeraj Chopra was not at his best but still finished second with a final round throw of 85.71m in the men’s javelin event of the Diamond League Meeting here on Thursday. He …

Lyles, Richardson back up world titles at Zurich Diamond League
1 year, 3 months ago

Lyles, Richardson back up world titles at Zurich Diamond League

The Hindu  

Americans Noah Lyles and Sha’Carri Richardson cemented their status as fastest in the world this year with victories at the Weltklasse Diamond League meeting on Thursday. “Everybody wants to beat me and everybody wants the cake and the crown, but I am not giving it to them.” Thursday’s Diamond League was the first major meet since the world championships ended …

Newly-crowned world champion Neeraj Chopra looks to maintain Diamond League unbeaten streak in Zurich
1 year, 3 months ago

Newly-crowned world champion Neeraj Chopra looks to maintain Diamond League unbeaten streak in Zurich

The Hindu  

Newly-crowned world champion Neeraj Chopra will look to maintain his unbeaten streak in the prestigious Diamond League meet when he competes in a star-studded men’s javelin throw field here on Thursday. The 25-year-old Chopra has been unbeaten this season, having won two Diamond League meetings in Doha and Lausanne before his World Championships triumph. In Zurich, where he is competing …

World Athletics Championships: Sha'Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, Armand Duplantis All Make Finals
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships: Sha'Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, Armand Duplantis All Make Finals

News 18  

Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles went through the motions as they began their 200m campaigns bidding to add to the 100m golds they won earlier in the week at the World Athletics Championships on Wednesday. “Noah Lyles will attack the world record, and maybe, if I push him hard, he could set it.” Duplantis, 23, is bidding to claim a …

World Athletics Championships 2023: Kerley, Lyles dismiss Jacobs threat in 100m
1 year, 4 months ago

World Athletics Championships 2023: Kerley, Lyles dismiss Jacobs threat in 100m

The Hindu  

Fred Kerley will bid to retain his world 100m crown in Budapest on Sunday, but the blue riband event of track and field is arguably as open as it has been in 20 years. Another question on the Italian sprinter saw Lyles retort to Kerley, “Damn, Fred, this man is popular, how did this man get so popular?” Kerley replied, …

London Diamond League: Ta Lou scorches 100m track, Noah Lyles, Femke Bol shine
1 year, 5 months ago

London Diamond League: Ta Lou scorches 100m track, Noah Lyles, Femke Bol shine

The Hindu  

Marie-Josee Ta Lou showed that she will be a force to be reckoned with at the age of 34 at next month’s world championships as she claimed another Diamond League 100 metres win in a scorching 10.75 seconds in London on Sunday. Fraser-Pryce shines with Madrid 100m win World champion Noah Lyles won a sparkling 200 metres as the American’s …

Richardson outsprints Jackson in Silesia Diamond League
1 year, 5 months ago

Richardson outsprints Jackson in Silesia Diamond League

The Hindu  

US sprint star Sha’Carri Richardson reeled in Jamaican Shericka Jackson to claim a morale-boosting victory in the women’s 100m at the Silesia Diamond League on Sunday. I executed correctly.” Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen earlier set a sensational European record of 3:27.14 in the men’s 1500m, edging ever closer to Hicham El Guerrouj’s world record of 3:26.00. I am very satisfied with …

Shericka Jackson sets fastest 200m time of 2023 at 21.71 seconds
1 year, 5 months ago

Shericka Jackson sets fastest 200m time of 2023 at 21.71 seconds

The Hindu  

World-leading performances from world champion Shericka Jackson and Commonwealth Games record-holder Rasheed Broadbell highlighted Jamaica’s strength on the track in Sunday’s final day of the national championships. Jackson, the reigning 200m world champion, completed a superb sprint double after she ran a season’s best 21.71 seconds to win the 200, her second world lead of the weekend after she ran …

Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100 meters at US championships in 10.82
1 year, 5 months ago

Sha’Carri Richardson wins 100 meters at US championships in 10.82

Associated Press  

EUGENE, Ore. — Moments after she was introduced on the starting line, Sha’Carri Richardson reached to her head, pulled her trademark orange wig off and flung it onto the ground behind her. “I’m here to say, ‘I’m not back, I’m better..’” She’ll have a chance to put a stamp on that next month at world championships, which will mark her …

Diamond League: Duplantis dominates Stockholm pole vault as hurdlers dodge protesters
1 year, 5 months ago

Diamond League: Duplantis dominates Stockholm pole vault as hurdlers dodge protesters

The Hindu  

Pole vault star Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis, watched by his mother, attempted a world record, and climate protesters added “an 11th hurdle” in the rain-hit Diamond League event in Stockholm on Sunday. The pole vault was delayed for two hours by the wet weather, as the sound system in Stockholm’s venerable Olympic Stadium, played “Let the Sunshine In” from the musical …

Diamond League: Warholm and Ingebrigtsen on fire in Oslo
1 year, 6 months ago

Diamond League: Warholm and Ingebrigtsen on fire in Oslo

The Hindu  

Norwegians Karsten Warholm and Jakob Ingebrigtsen delivered stunning performances in front of their adoring fans at the Oslo Diamond League meeting on Thursday, winning the 400 metres hurdles and 1,500 metres in spectacular times. At the other end of the distance scale, Marie-Josee Ta Lou continued to fly the flag for the “older” sprinters as the 34-year-old Ivorian scorched to …

Paris Diamond League: Lyles wins 100m dash; Kipyegon sets 5,000 WR
1 year, 6 months ago

Paris Diamond League: Lyles wins 100m dash; Kipyegon sets 5,000 WR

The Hindu  

World 200m champion Noah Lyles scorched to victory in the 100m at the Diamond League meeting in Paris on Friday, but Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs could only finish seventh. Girma sets new men’s 3,000m steeplechase world record Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma smashed a 19-year-old world record in the men’s 3,000m steeplechase at the Diamond League meeting in Paris on Friday. Kipyegon …

Diamond League: Doha winner Kerley to go for sprint double at worlds
1 year, 7 months ago

Diamond League: Doha winner Kerley to go for sprint double at worlds

The Hindu  

Sprint golden boy Fred Kerley said Friday he will aim for a 100-200m double at this year’s world championships as he opened the Diamond League season by overshadowing the return of Olympic 200m champion Andre de Grasse. Sha’Carri Jackson scored an emotional victory in the women’s 100 metres, beating the meeting record set by Tori Bowie, the Olympic and world …

Sha’Carri Richardson storms to 100m win in Diamond League ahead of Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith
1 year, 7 months ago

Sha’Carri Richardson storms to 100m win in Diamond League ahead of Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith

The Independent  

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Gold and World lead for Neeraj Chopra in Doha Diamond League
1 year, 7 months ago

Gold and World lead for Neeraj Chopra in Doha Diamond League

The Hindu  

Once again, his first throw turned out to be his best. Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra defeated Grenada’s World champion Anderson Peters to win the Diamond League season-opener in Doha with an impressive World-leading 88.67m on Friday. Peters had won the Diamond League gold in Doha last year with a personal-best 93.07m but he has had a string of …

Lausanne Diamond League: Noah Lyles wins 200m; Fraser-Pryce misses with injury
2 years, 3 months ago

Lausanne Diamond League: Noah Lyles wins 200m; Fraser-Pryce misses with injury

The Hindu  

World champion Noah Lyles notched up another victory in his rivalry with fellow American Michael Norman in the 200m at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne on Friday. Lyles clocked 19.56 seconds, with world 400m champion Norman finishing second in a season’s best of 19.76sec. Lyles’ teammate Aleia Hobbs made up for the absence of Jamaican duo Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and …

Marcell Jacobs and Karsten Warholm Denied Diamond League Finals Wild Cards
2 years, 3 months ago

Marcell Jacobs and Karsten Warholm Denied Diamond League Finals Wild Cards

News 18  

Olympic champions Marcell Jacobs and Karsten Warholm have had the door closed on their hopes of a wild card entry for next month’s Diamond League finals in Zurich. Zurich’s co-meeting director Andreas Hediger told AFP there was no way around the rules to allow either Jacobs or Norwegian 400m hurdles world record holder Karsten Warholm to compete in the climax …

Diamond League: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Equals World-Leading Time to Win 100 in Paris
2 years, 6 months ago

Diamond League: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Equals World-Leading Time to Win 100 in Paris

News 18  

Three-time Olympic gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce equalled her world-leading time of the year in winning the 100 meters in 10.67 seconds at the Diamond League meet in Paris on Saturday. She also beat Jamaican countrywoman and two-time reigning Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah’s meet record of 10.72, set last year. Olympic bronze medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh also set a world-leading mark for …

Diamond League: Karsten Warholm injured on Rabat return, Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 100m
2 years, 6 months ago

Diamond League: Karsten Warholm injured on Rabat return, Elaine Thompson-Herah wins 100m

Firstpost  

After a blistering start out of the blocks, Warholm abruptly stopped after clipping the first hurdle, clutching the back of his right thigh. Karsten Warholm, the Olympic champion and world-record holder in the 400m hurdles, pulled up injured on his return to competition at the Diamond League meet in Rabat on Sunday, just weeks before the Norwegian star defends his …

Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs pulls out of Rome, Oslo Diamond League meets
2 years, 6 months ago

Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs pulls out of Rome, Oslo Diamond League meets

The Hindu  

Olympic sprint champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs has withdrawn from this month's Diamond League meetings in Rome and Oslo after failing to recover from a muscle injury, Italy's athletics federation said. The 27-year-old, who became the first Italian to win Olympic 100 metres gold in Tokyo last year, picked up the injury during his victory in the 100m in Savona, Italy …

Trayvon Bromell, Elaine Thompson-Herah bag 100m wins at Diamond League in Eugene
2 years, 6 months ago

Trayvon Bromell, Elaine Thompson-Herah bag 100m wins at Diamond League in Eugene

Firstpost  

Jamaica’s Thompson-Herah, who won back-to-back Olympic 100m-200m doubles in 2016 and last year, captured the women’s 100m in 10.79. “It shows I’m on a great path,” added the Jamaican star, who pulled out of the Birmingham Diamond League meeting with a shoulder injury, testing herself in a lower-level meeting in Kingston last Saturday instead. “I’m pretty sure I’m already getting …

Diamond League: Brown, Asher-Smith seal 100m wins; Lovett beats Tamberi in men's high jump in Birmingham
2 years, 7 months ago

Diamond League: Brown, Asher-Smith seal 100m wins; Lovett beats Tamberi in men's high jump in Birmingham

The Hindu  

Canada's Aaron Brown won the first men's 100 metre race of the Diamond League season with an underwhelming show in Birmingham on Saturday, after two false starts saw top contender Trayvon Bromell and local hope Zharnel Hughes disqualified. Britain's 200m world champion Dina Asher-Smith finished strongly to seal a tight women's 100m race at 11.11 seconds, edging out Jamaica's Shericka …

Australians Peter Bol and Jess Hull fly at Diamond League international athletics meet in Qatar
2 years, 7 months ago

Australians Peter Bol and Jess Hull fly at Diamond League international athletics meet in Qatar

ABC  

Peter Bol and Jess Hull are smiling but Stewart McSweyn can only grimace following Australia's middle-distance luminaries suffering dramatically contrasting fortunes in Doha's season-opening Diamond League meet. Key points: Peter Bol finished only half a second behind winner Noah Kibet in the 800m event National record-holder Jessica Hull finished third in the 3,000m event for the first time Stewart McSweyn …

Diamond League: Thompson-Herah, Duplantis set meet records in final
3 years, 3 months ago

Diamond League: Thompson-Herah, Duplantis set meet records in final

The Hindu  

Jamaican sprint queen Elaine Thompson-Herah led a host of Olympic champions to glory in an action-packed Diamond League final in Zurich on Thursday, just a month after the end of the Tokyo Games. Thompson-Herah crowned what she called an "amazing" season by scorching to victory in the 100m in a meet record of 10.65sec, finishing ahead of Britain's Dina Asher-Smith …

Elaine Thompson-Herah 'on a mission' at golden Lausanne Diamond League
3 years, 3 months ago

Elaine Thompson-Herah 'on a mission' at golden Lausanne Diamond League

Firstpost  

19 Olympic gold medallists had signed up for the ‘Athletissima’ meeting in Lausanne, the ninth leg of the Diamond League, the most eye-catching is sprinter Elaine Thompson-Herah, who says she is on “a mission”. A golden array of Olympic champions has allowed the organisers to boast that the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne offered ‘Best of Tokyo in 2 Hours’ …

Stockholm Diamond League: Ronnie Baker wins 100m, Armand Duplantis delights home crowd
3 years, 5 months ago

Stockholm Diamond League: Ronnie Baker wins 100m, Armand Duplantis delights home crowd

The Hindu  

American Ronnie Baker won a tight 100 metres race at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting on Sunday and heads to his first Olympics in Tokyo as a leading medal contender. With the Tokyo Olympics due to begin in a little over three weeks, world long jump champion Tajay Gayle of Jamaica produced a season's best leap of 8.55 metres to …

Diamond League: Norway's Karsten Warholm clocks 46.70 seconds in 400m hurdles to break Kevin Young's 29-year record
3 years, 5 months ago

Diamond League: Norway's Karsten Warholm clocks 46.70 seconds in 400m hurdles to break Kevin Young's 29-year record

Firstpost  

Warholm, the world and European champion, clocked 46.70 seconds in his first hurdles race of the season to beat the previous best of 46.78sec set by American Kevin Young back in 1992. Oslo: Norway’s Karsten Warholm fired out a shot at potential Tokyo Olympic rivals when he shattered the long-standing 400m hurdles world record at Thursday’s Diamond League meet in …

Armand Duplantis, Sha'Carri Richardson head top-class field as Diamond League launches
3 years, 7 months ago

Armand Duplantis, Sha'Carri Richardson head top-class field as Diamond League launches

Firstpost  

After a 2020 season turned on its head because of the coronavirus pandemic, there is no shortage of athletes in search of competition just 61 days before the Tokyo Olympics. A raft of top-class track and field stars including pole vaulter Armand Duplantis and US sprint sensation Sha’Carri Richardson will be in action at Sunday’s opening Diamond League meet in …

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