Photos: \u00a9 Anders & Hasse Sj\u00f6gren<\/p>\n
At the bell, Ethiopia\u2019s world indoor record holder Genzebe Dibaba had a 10 metres lead over the field, with The Netherlands\u2019s new European champion Sifan Hassan leading the chase.<\/p>\n
As Dibaba reached the final bend, Hassan was ready to strike, but Simpson was also moving up as home hope Abeba Aregawi, the world champion, was falling back.<\/p>\n
Hassan waited until the home straight to make her challenge on the outside, but as she did so Simpson moved outside her at even greater speed.<\/p>\n
Dibaba had no final answer, although she withstood the Dutch woman\u2019s sprint to take second place in 4:01.00, as Simpson won in 4:00.38.<\/p>\n
Hassan, who leads this year\u2019s world lists with 3:57.00, virtually tottered home in 4:01.62. All three looked like they were wading through ankle deep mud by the close.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a crazy race,\u201d said Hassan. \u201cThey went off far too fast and then everyone got so tired \u2013 I just lost myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simpson commented: \u201cI am so pleased with my race. When the wind was blowing and the weather was coming down on us I kept telling myself that the most relaxed person will win tonight. Over the last 400 I had a little bit of doubt in my mind, but I saw that they were struggling and I told myself \u2018just keep going, keep going\u2019 and I ran harder than I have ever run in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ethiopia\u2019s Muktar Edris won the men\u2019s 5000m in a world season\u2019s best of 12:54.83, holding off the challenge of two Kenyans, Thomas Longosiwa and Caleb Ndiku. The trio had broken clear of the USA\u2019s flagging Galen Rupp as the race approached the bell.<\/p>\n
Longosiwa, who pushed Edris all the way to the line, finished with a season\u2019s best of 12:56.16, and the taller figure of Ndiku was rewarded with a personal best of 12:59.17, with Rupp finishing a distant fourth in the blustery conditions in 13:05.97.<\/p>\n
Having led for three laps after the last pacer dropped away, Rupp was left to solve a tactical problem as the leading men settled in behind him. With two laps to go he appeared to slow deliberately and offer the lead to Ndiku, but as the Kenyan led the race out the US runner began to lose touch with the leading trio.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a personal best for me and the world\u2019s best time this year so of course this is a great night for me,\u201d said Edris. \u201cIt is all good \u2013 good race, good day, good time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kszczot’s kick a winner<\/strong><\/p>\n Adam Kszczot, Poland\u2019s new European 800m champion, had come to the Swedish capital looking to run a time below 1.44 time but, given the conditions, he had to settle for something slower, 1:45.25.<\/p>\n He judged the race with his customary precision, making his drive for home decisively around the final bend to finish clear of a hugely talented field.<\/p>\n Ayanleh Souleiman, Djibouti\u2019s world indoor 1500m champion, followed the winner home in 1:45.49 ahead of the taller Pole, Marcin Lewandowski, who was third in 1:45.76 ahead of France\u2019s record holder Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, fourth in 1:45.95, and Olympic silver medallist Nijel Amos of Botswana, who clocked 1:46.04.<\/p>\n The final barrier of the women\u2019s 3000m steeplechase offered further evidence of just how hard racing was on the night.<\/p>\n Tunisia\u2019s Habiba Ghribi, two strides behind the Ethiopian leader Hiwot Ayalew, came to a momentary standstill as she landed before recovering her momentum to push on for a season\u2019s best of 9:18.39 as Ayalew won in 9:17.04.<\/p>\n Allyson Felix got back to winning ways over 200m, finally overcoming the challenge of fellow American Tori Bowie after the two had led side-by-side in lanes five and six for the bulk of the finishing straight.<\/p>\n The 2012 Olympic champion, who feels she is still making her way back to top form after the hamstring injury she suffered in last summer\u2019s IAAF World Championships final, took maximum points in 22.85, with Bowie \u2013 taking a break from long jumping this year \u2013 was second in 22.91.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a championship runner and this has been a tricky season,\u201d said Felix. \u201cThe conditions were pretty rough tonight but you have to deal with that.\u201d<\/p>\n Novlene Williams-Mills, runaway leader in the women\u2019s 400m Diamond Race, maintained her pre-eminence as the Jamaican resisted the pressure of the London 2012 Olympic Games champion, Sanya Richards-Ross, over the final 50 metres to win in 50.09, with the American second in 50.27 ahead of fellow US runner Francena McCorory, who clocked 50.65.<\/p>\n Javier Culson arrived at the final barrier in the men\u2019s 400m hurdles with a marginal lead, but he had to settle for second as the USA\u2019s Michael Tinsley, last year\u2019s World Championships silver medallist, finished strongest to win in 49.60, with the Puerto Rican clocking 49.84 ahead of Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s 2013 world champion Jehue Gordon, who clocked 50.13.<\/p>\n Mike Rowbottom for the IAAF and the IAAF Diamond League<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" USA\u2019s 2011 world champion Jennifer Simpson produced one of the performances of the night to...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}