{"id":2023,"date":"2019-07-12T21:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-hassan-breaks-womens-mile-world-record-with-412-33\/"},"modified":"2019-07-12T21:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:32:46","slug":"monaco-hassan-breaks-womens-mile-world-record-with-412-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-hassan-breaks-womens-mile-world-record-with-412-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco: Hassan Breaks Women’s Mile WORLD RECORD With 4:12.33"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hassan had said on the day before the race that she intended to run \u201cthree or four seconds\u201d faster than her best of 4:14.71, set in London in 2017.<\/p>\n

As things turned out, she failed in that ambition; not that she looked too put out about it after the race as she lay on her back with a radiant smile on her face.<\/p><\/div>\n

After the field had been paced through 800m in 2:08.20, Hassan moved into the lead with 600 metres remaining, with Ethiopia\u2019s Gudaf Tsegay the only runner in touch at that stage.<\/div>\n
Hassan, who had broken the 5km road race world record in the Principality in February, simply cut loose over the final lap and was suitably rewarded for her enterprise by the digital clock.<\/div>\n
In her wake the effort of chasing told on Tsegay, who faded to fourth in a season\u2019s best of 4:18.31 as Britain\u2019s Laura Weightman came through to finish second in a personal best of 4:17.60 and Gabriela Debues-Stafford of Canada took third place with a national record of 4:17.87.<\/div>\n
\u201cI knew I could run fast but the first 800 was a bit slow, so after that I wasn\u2019t thinking it would be a world record,\u201d Hassan, the European 5000m champion, said. \u201cWhen I crossed the line I was so surprised.<\/div>\n
\u201cAfter you run a last 400 like that, and set a world record, it gives me so much confidence over 5000m. I want to double over 1500 and 5000m in Doha and the way I finished the last 400 there, it\u2019s amazing!\u201d<\/div>\n
Hassan said she had been lifted by the crowd in the closing stages of the race. \u201cThat made me extra happy,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was a beautiful last lap with the crowd supporting me.\u201d<\/div>\n
Her next race, she said, would be a 5000m. \u201cI don\u2019t know where yet. The one world record I would love would be the 5000m.\u201d<\/div>\n
Before the start of the women\u2019s mile, re-named the Brave Like Gabe Mile, a short film clip was shown featuring the US runner Gabe Grunewald who fought cancer for so long before succumbing earlier this year, and the crowd showed their respect and appreciation.<\/div>\n
Two other Monaco world record breakers – Ethiopia\u2019s Genzebe Dibaba, who set the current 1500m world record of 3:50.07 on this track four years ago, and Kenya\u2019s Beatrice Chepkoech, who set a new world 3000m steeplechase mark here last year \u2013 had been due to race but had pulled out.<\/div>\n
Whether their presence would have also have produced a world record race remains an open and, now, irrelevant question.<\/div>\n
AMOS BLAZES SUB-1:42<\/b><\/div>\n
Nijel Amos produced the fastest 800m since the London 2012 Olympic final \u2013 where David Rudisha set the current world record of 1:40.91 and he himself won bronze in a personal best of 1:41.73.<\/div>\n
That meant that his winning time here of 1:41.89 was not even a personal best, despite being the sixth fastest time ever.<\/div>\n
It was an electric effort from the runner from Botswana, who, incredibly, is still only 25. He drove on as the second of the two pacemakers moved aside after taking the field through 400m in 48.70.<\/div>\n
As he neared the line he was chased home by the taller figure of Kenya\u2019s Ferguson Rotich, who was rewarded for his persistence with a personal best of 1:42.54.<\/div>\n
Amek Tuka of Bosnia and Hercegovina was third in a season\u2019s best of 1:43.62.<\/div>\n
\u201cI did an impossible session on Tuesday and after that I knew I could run 1:41,\u201d Amos said. \u201cThe world record is not in my mind but if I\u2019m patient it will come.\u201d<\/div>\n
MILLER-UIBO TAKES TITANIC 200M SHOWDOWN<\/b><\/div>\n
Shaunae Miller-Uibo, her silvered locks newly dyed to pink, produced a mighty performance to win the women\u2019s 200m against a mightily talented field, coming home in a season\u2019s best of 22.09.<\/div>\n
Trailing in her wake were runners of the highest quality. Jamaica\u2019s Rio 2016 100 and 200m champion Elaine Thompson was second in 22.44, with two-time world 200m champion Dafne Schippers of The Netherlands third in 22.45.<\/div>\n
\u201cThe quicker I get at 200 the quicker I\u2019ll be at 400, and I\u2019m very happy with where I\u2019m at right now. If they can change the timetable for the Olympics, I\u2018d be more than happy to double.\u201d<\/div>\n
Sydney McLaughlin, with a poise that belied her 19 years, won an overwhelming victory in the women\u2019s 400m hurdles, leading from the first set of barriers and coming home imperiously in a 2019 world best time of 53.32.<\/div>\n
Five yards behind her a wave of world class runners came home in a separate race, with Rio 2016 bronze medallist Ashley Spencer taking second place in 54.46, followed by the 2013 and 2015 world champion from the Czech Republic, Zuzana Hejnova, who clocked 54.55.<\/div>\n
Switzerland\u2019s European champion Lea Sprunger was sixth in 55.60; current world champion Kori Carter of the United States was seventh in 55.63.<\/div>\n
CHERUIYOT IMPRESSES AGAIN<\/b><\/div>\n
As expected, Timothy Cheruiyot won the men\u2019s 1500m, which was not a scoring race in the Diamond League, but was a phenomenal race in anybody\u2019s estimation.<\/div>\n
After the pacers had dropped away, Kenya\u2019s world silver medallist, who had won the previous week\u2019s race in Lausanne in a 2019-leading 3:28.77, led the field through 800 metres in 1:51.3 \u2013 a couple of seconds slower than the split in Switzerland \u2013 and pushed on.<\/div>\n
But as the field came to the bell it was Norway\u2019s 18-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen who threw down the gauntlet and led through. Halfway down the backstraight, however, the lean and hungry Kenyan pushed back into the lead and while the young Norwegian never slackened in his challenge he had to give best on this occasion.<\/div>\n
On a track where he set his personal best of 3:28.41 last season, Cheruyiot won in 3:29.97, with Ingebrigtsen second in 3:30.47 and Uganda\u2019s Ronald Musagala third in a national record of 3:30.58.<\/div>\n
Britain\u2019s Charlie Grice also had a night to remember as he clocked a personal best of 3:30.62, a reward for his own bold challenge over the final lap, while back in sixth place Kenya\u2019s 18-year-old George Manongoi, younger brother of world champion Elijah, set a personal best of 3:31.49 \u2013 earning a hug from the winner, with whom he and his brother train.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
Mike Rowbottom for the IAAF and the IAAF Diamond League<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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