Double Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the \u2018Pocket Rocket\u2019, went into orbit once again here at the Stade Charlety on Saturday (18) as she won the concluding event of a sweltering Meeting de Paris in 10.67, equalling her own world-leading mark.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old Jamaican\u2019s first clocking of that time this season \u2013 just 0.07 off her PB, which is the third best mark ever \u2013 came in the altitude of Nairobi on 7 May.<\/p>\n
This meeting record was at sea level, albeit in temperatures still about 32C, having fallen from 38C at the start of this latest Wanda Diamond League<\/strong> meeting.<\/p>\n Behind her, Britain\u2019s Daryll Neita clocked 10.99 and the Ivory Coast\u2019s Marie-Josee Ta Lou was third in 11.01, with Poland\u2019s Ewa Swoboda clocking a personal best of 11.05 in fourth place.<\/p>\n \u201cI came here feeling really good, and I like to run in the heat,\u201d said Shelly-Pryce, who was jumping for joy in the aftermath of a performance that boosts her prospects of a successful world title defence at the World Athletics Championships Oregon22.<\/p>\n \u201cI am still training hard so I am now looking forward to the national championships and then afterwards,\u201d she added. \u201cThe plan and the aim is to make sure that I am able to run 10.60 sustainably.\u201d The heat also suited Nigeria\u2019s Tobi Amusan, who danced in triumph after finishing strongly to win the women\u2019s 100m hurdles in an African record of 12.41, 0.02 better than her previous best.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old Commonwealth champion, fourth at last year\u2019s Olympics and at the 2019 World Championships, looks very capable of claiming a first global medal in Eugene this summer.<\/p>\n Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas was second in 12.63, ahead of Britain\u2019s Cindy Sember on 12.73 and France\u2019s 21-year-old world indoor champion Cyrena Samba-Mayela in a season\u2019s best of 12.76.<\/p>\n Ethiopia\u2019s Olympic 10,000m champion Selemon Barega finished half a straight clear in the men\u2019s 5000m after a long, long run for home, winning in 12:56.19 \u2013 very close to his season\u2019s best of 12:54.87 set in winning at the Rome Diamond League meeting.<\/p>\n Burundi\u2019s Thierry Ndikumwenayo was second in 13:05.24, with two-time world champion Muktar Edris of Ethiopia third in 13:06.54. Home athlete Jimmy Gressier was fourth in 13:08.75 \u2013 just inside the World Championships qualifying mark of 13:09.<\/p>\n Bahrain\u2019s Winfred Yavi ran a solo race in the women\u2019s 3000m steeplechase to win in a world-leading PB of 8:56.55 that might have been even faster had she not almost fallen at the final hurdle.<\/p>\n The 22-year-old world and Olympic finalist finished alone, with Ethiopia\u2019s Sembo Alemayehu a distant second in a personal best of 9:09.19, just ahead of compatriot Mekides Abebe (9:11.09). Elizabeth Bird set a British record of 9:19.46 in fourth.<\/p>\n Ukrainian athletes dominated a high-quality women\u2019s high jump \u2013 and 20-year-old Olympic bronze medallist Yaroslava Mahuchikh dominated the Ukrainians as she won in a world-leading 2.01m.<\/p>\n That finally saw off the challenge of her compatriot Iryna Gerashchenko, who missed an Olympic medal by one place last summer and who achieved a season\u2019s best of 1.98m on this occasion.<\/p>\n Third place went to Ukraine\u2019s 2017 world silver medallist Yuliya Levchenko, who was one of four jumpers to clear 1.95m.<\/p>\n Meanwhile Belgium\u2019s double Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam set a season\u2019s best of 1.92m.<\/p>\n Cuba\u2019s 21-year-old Jordan Diaz Fortun marked his first Diamond League meeting by winning the men\u2019s triple jump with a best of 17.66m, 10cm below the mark with which he leads this season\u2019s world list. Fellow Cuban Andy Diaz, currently second on that list, improved his PB to 17.65m in second place.<\/p>\n Portugal\u2019s Olympic champion Pedro Pablo Pichardo thought he had trumped his younger opponents with the last effort of the competition, dancing away from the pit before flinging down his headband in disgust when it was registered as a foul, leaving him with a best of 17.49m.<\/p>\n Burkino Faso\u2019s France-based Olympic bronze medallist Hugues Fabrice Zango was fourth in 17.25m, with double Olympic champion Christian Taylor of the United States, recovering from last year\u2019s serious achilles tendon injury, improving his season\u2019s best to 16.54m in seventh place.<\/p>\n Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman, beaten by Croatia\u2019s two-time Olympic gold medallist Sandra Perkovic in Oslo on Thursday night, responded to heat that she had said the day before would be just like summer where she now lives in Texas to get back to winning ways.<\/p>\n After Perkovic had taken a second-round lead with 66.00m, Allman \u2013 who earlier this year raised her own North American record to 71.46m \u2013 went out to a meeting record of 68.68m in the fourth round which proved to be the winning throw.<\/p>\n That said, Perkovic, ever competive, improved to a season\u2019s best of 68.19m in the sixth round.<\/p>\n The men\u2019s hammer, which was not part of the Diamond League programme, produced a suitably hot competition in early evening temperatures about 38C, with Poland\u2019s Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki earning victory after producing four efforts beyond 80 metres, the best of them 81.25m, just 33cm shy of his mark which tops this season\u2019s world list.<\/p>\n His fellow Pole, four-time world champion Pawel Fajdek, was second with 80.11m.<\/p>\n In the women\u2019s event, which lacked Poland\u2019s triple Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk, who is out for the season with a thigh injury incurred while chasing someone attempting to steal her car, was won by her compatriot, Olympic bronze medallist Malwina Kopron, with 71.33m.<\/p>\n Japan\u2019s Haruka Kitaguchi won the women\u2019s javelin with a best of 63.13m from Latvia\u2019s Lina Muze on 62.56m and Lithuania\u2019s Liveta Jasiunaite, who threw a season\u2019s best of 62.09m.<\/p>\n South Africa\u2019s Italy-based Luxolo Adams produced the shock result of the night as clocked a huge personal best of 19.82 to finish well clear of a men\u2019s 200m field including Canada\u2019s Olympic champion Andre De Grasse, running his first big race of the season at this distance.<\/p>\n The 25-year-old from Burgersdorp, whose previous best was 20.01, earned bronze at the 2018 African Championships in Asaba but hadn\u2019t competed at any major championships since then.<\/p>\n He was followed home by Alexander Ogando in a Dominican Republic record of 20.03 and home sprinter Mouhamadou Fall, who ran a personal best of 20.26 ahead of De Grasse, who clocked 20.38.<\/p>\n Devon Allen of the United States, NFL wide receiver-in-waiting, maintained his winning run this season over 110m hurdles as he finished in 13.16 ahead of Brazil\u2019s Rafael Pereira, who equalled the personal best of 13.25 he had set in following the American home in the heats.<\/p>\n In those heats, France\u2019s 19-year-old world U20 champion Sasha Zhoya lowered his personal best to 13.40 (-1.7m\/s) but did not appear in the final.<\/p>\n \u201cMy start was the best I have had this year,\u201d said Allen. \u201cIt was something we were really working on because it used to be the weakest part of my race. If we put it all together \u2013 maybe 12.65 in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Double Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo duly earned victory in her second major race over that distance this season.<\/p>\n But after pulling well clear of the field around the top bend the 28-year-old Bahamian slowed in the final 50 metres, looking around her almost as if she were running for qualification in a heat before virtually jogging over the line in 50.10.<\/p>\n However, she was full of enthusiasm for her win afterwards. \u201cI had a great race tonight, really great,\u201d she said. \u201cI did a strong start, I pushed a lot on the first 300 metres. Then I managed to stay in the lead. I still had some gas in the tank to finish strong. I’m exactly in the shape I wanted to be at this time of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n Poland\u2019s Natalia Kaczmarek, who ran a huge personal best of 50.16 in Ostrava and stands sixth in this year’s world list, was second in 50.24 ahead of compatriot Anna Kilebasinska, who clocked 50.28.<\/p>\n Later in the evening The Bahamas\u2019 other Olympic 400m champion, Steven Gardiner, marked a rare Diamond League appearance with a smooth and dominant victory in a season\u2019s best of 44.21 from Lidio Andres Feliz of the Dominican Republic, who clocked 44.92.<\/p>\n Home runner Benjamin Robert won the men\u2019s 800m in a personal best of 1:43.75 after a scrappy charge in the final 50 metres. About half an hour after the race, Robert heard news that he had been disqualified, but that ruling was later reversed and the original results stood.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old from Toulouse, back in the pack halfway down the home straight, accelerated steadily through the field and had to virtually run sideways at the end to get past Tony van Diepen, who seemed to lose momentum and fell back to third, albeit in a personal best of 1:44.14.<\/p>\n The second-placed finisher, Peter Bol of Australia, set an Oceanian record of 1:44.00. There were also personal bests for France\u2019s Gabriel Tual and Mohamed Gouaned of Algeria, fourth and fifth respectively in 1:44.23 and 1:44.43.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the last 200m I was burnt,\u201d said Robert. \u201cI said to myself, \u2018It\u2019s going to be hard to finish.\u2019 Then something happened in the last 50 metres \u2013 the second wind. It\u2019s my first victory in the Diamond League. And it happened in Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n France\u2019s former world pole vault record-holder Renaud Lavillenie boosted his hopes of adding another global medal to his collection next month as he took second place on countback after clearing 5.80m, a centimetre below his season\u2019s best.<\/p>\n The win went to Belgium\u2019s Ben Broeders, with another home vaulter, Thibaut Collet, third on 5.75m.<\/p>\n Meanwhile France\u2019s world decathlon record holder and double Olympic silver medallist Kevin Mayer, troubled since the indoor season with an achilles injury that prevented him running properly, was engaged on his third \u2018triathlon\u2019 at this meeting following previous opportunities at the 2017 and 2019 editions.<\/p>\n After winning the shot put with 15.61m, the 2017 world champion took part in the long jump, registering red flags with two healthy-looking efforts before earning second place with his final effort of 7.38m behind compatriot Teo Bastien, who recorded 7.44m.<\/p>\n All was not well, however, and Mayer was a disconsolate spectator by the time the field line up for the concluding 110m hurdles, which he had said the day before would be his first hurdle session of the season. That will now have to wait\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cI did not want to do the hurdles today,\u201d said Mayer. \u201cThere was no point doing it. It’s too risky. I haven’t done hurdles on competition since last winter. Instead, I did a 150m on the warming up track at a 400m pace, to simulate a last event of the first day of decathlon.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m quite satisfied with my results on shot put and long jump. Three weeks ago, I could not do sprint and jump at training. 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<\/p>\nWorld leads for Yavi and Mahuchikh<\/h3>\n
Allman avenges Oslo defeat with meeting record<\/h3>\n
Adams makes surprise breakthrough<\/h3>\n
Mixed fortunes for French stars<\/h3>\n