Femke Bol versus Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone over 400m hurdles is predicted to be one of many tastiest clashes of the Paris Olympics. The Dutch athlete was unbeaten within the occasion in 2023 whereas the American world record-holder and Olympic champion centered on flat 400m final yr. This weekend they despatched out early warning photographs to one another, too.
Competing in her first 400m hurdles in 22 months, McLaughline-Levrone ran a smooth-looking 52.70 at The Edwin Moses Legends Meet in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday (Could 31). Then, on the Diamond League in Stockholm on Sunday (June 2), Bol ran her first 400m hurdles of the yr with victory in 53.07.
First blood to McLaughlin-Levrone? Effectively, it was slightly blustery in Stockholm. For the primary 300m Bol was additionally challenged strongly by Jamaicans Andrenette Knight (on her inside) and Rushell Clayton (on her outdoors) however Bol drew away within the closing 100m to win by virtually three quarters of a second from Clayton’s 53.78 with Knight fading to 54.62.
Competing hundreds of miles away from one another, little doubt McLaughlin-Levrone and Bol might be conserving a detailed eye on their rival’s outcomes. Earlier than Paris, although, is the European Championships in Rome in just a few days’ time the place Bol defends her 400m hurdles crown.
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Laura Muir has a wonderful document in Stockholm and as soon as once more loved victory as she took the ladies’s 1500m in 3:57.99. Kicking previous Birke Haylom of Ethiopia with 150m to go, Muir ran out the simple winner as Ednah Jebitok of Kenya was second in 3:58.88.
Muir stated: “It was fairly blustery so I simply wished to tuck in and I knew my power could be my ending pace so after I felt the sector on my shoulder I believed ‘now the time’s to go’.”
Three days after her massive 3000m win in Oslo, Georgia Griffith of Australia was third in 3:59.17 with Haylom hanging on for fourth in 3:59.84.
In sixth, Revee Walcott-Nolan ran a PB of 4:00.77, which was partly because of good pacemaking by fellow Brit Sarah McDonald.
Jemma Reekie’s wonderful type continued with victory within the ladies’s 800m in Stockholm in 1:57.79 from Vivian Kiprotich of Kenya, who completed virtually a second behind. The Brit steps as much as 1500m on the European Championships in just a few days’ time.
“It was good to run a 1:57 from the entrance and know that I had one other one in me,” stated Reekie. “It most likely felt too snug so my coach could watch it again and inform me I ought to have pushed it extra. However it’s a lengthy season so there’s a lot time for extra.”
Jemma Reekie (Getty)
There was no such luck for Brits within the males’s 800m, although, as Ben Pattison (fourth in 1:44.44), Elliot Giles (sixth in 1:45.10) and Jake Wightman (eighth in 1:45.35) had been blown away within the closing 100m by Djamel Sedjati – the Algerian within the type of his life as he ran a world lead of 1:43.23 to beat Bryce Hoppel by greater than a second.
Three days after working 46.63 to beat Karsten Warholm on the Bislett Video games in Oslo, Alison dos Santos of Brazil loved higher climate situations in Stockholm as he breezed to an emphatic victory in a swift 47.01 as runner-up, Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Isles, was simply over a second behind.
On a weekend that noticed very fast 100m instances in Jamaica from Indirect Seville of Jamaica with a 9.82 (0.9) win over Noah Lyles and Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia with 10.78 (1.3) within the ladies’s race, the dash instances weren’t fairly as swift in Stockholm.
The ladies’s 100m was gained by Gina Mariam Bass Bittaye of the Gambia in 11.15 (-0.8) with Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast one hundredth of a second behind.
The slight headwind on Sunday afternoon didn’t assist as Emmanuel Eseme of Cameroon gained the lads’s 100m in 10.16 (-1.0). It was even worse for the ladies’s 200m with -2.0m/sec as Shericka Jackson, the world champion from Jamaica, bought again to profitable methods with 22.69 from Julia Henriksson of Sweden (22.89) as Britain’s Amy Hunt was third in 22.92 from lane one.
Again with a bang 🔥
Shericka Jackson wins the 200m on the Stockholm Diamond League in 22.69 (-2.0) 🇯🇲
The double world champion takes the victory in lower than superb wind situations for sprinters 💥 pic.twitter.com/CVSM1cbfFD
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) June 2, 2024
Maybe the blustery situations had been the distinction between a world document or not for Mondo Duplantis because the Swedish athlete got here shut to six.25m on residence soil after profitable the competitors with 6.00m from Sam Kendricks of the USA.
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Such is the usual of 1500m working these days, Britain’s Adam Fogg ran a PB of three:35.50 however was solely eleventh in a race gained by Robert Farkan of Germany in 3:33.53 from Eire’s Luke McCann, who clocked 3:33.66.
The boys’s 3000m was equally sturdy with runners of the calibre of Stewart McSweyn and Adel Mechaal winding up seventh and eighth in a race gained by Narve Gilje Nordas of Norway in 7:33.49 as he out-paced Dominic Lobalu of Switzerland and Luis Grijalva of Guatemala within the residence straight.
There have been additionally nationwide data from Andreas Almgren of Sweden with 7:34.28, Mohamed Ismail of Djibouti in 7:36.29 and Adriaan Wildschutt of South Africa with 7:36.77.
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Lamecha Girma, the world 3000m steeplechase record-holder from Ethiopia, gained his occasion comfortably in a world lead of 8:01.63 however he was two seconds outdoors the assembly document.
Within the ladies’s shot, Chase Jackson of the USA beat Sarah Mitton of Canada by simply two centimetres. Her profitable throw of 20.00m was simply shy of her 20.03m season’s greatest too.
Within the excessive leap, Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine cleared 2.00m to point out she’s in nice type going into the defence of her European title in Rome.
Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania was in profitable type once more within the discus as he threw 68.64m to beat Matt Denny of Australia by virtually two metres as Swedish star Daniel Stahl was third.
Outcomes right here.
