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Brussels Overview
The 47th Allianz Memorial van Damme passed off on Friday, 11 September in Brussels’ iconic King Baudouin Stadium (previously Hysel), in-built 1930 and used for worldwide soccer/soccer video games. The meet identify remembers Ivo van Damme, a Belgian middle-distance runner who received two medals within the 1976 Olympics earlier than tragically dying in a street accident the next 12 months. The 2-hour Diamond League was proceeded by a two-and-a-half-hour pre-program of youth and nationwide occasions.
There was a plethora of superstars: Mondo, Shericka, Elaine, Femke, Jakob… We anticipated a lot and weren’t disillusioned. There was a world document for Jakob within the 2000 meters to observe his world document in Paris within the 2 miles. I hear that he might be trying the World document on the 2023 meters subsequent. Jakob is an excellent athlete, however to maintain claiming world data for not often run, non-championship distances? Come on! You’ll not be shocked to know that the official outcomes report a season’s greatest for each finisher and nationwide and space data galore!
There was hypothesis that Shericka Jackson would get near the world 200m document of 21.34. She did, however not fairly shut sufficient, having to accept a gathering document of 21.48. Shericka is so laid again that getting any response from her is tough. She instructed me that she didn’t really feel any strain from individuals’s expectations of a world document.
Newly topped world champion Femke Bol received the 400 as anticipated in a gathering document of 52.11, commenting: “It was my first Brussels Diamond League assembly, and I beloved it a lot. The gang was wonderful. So loud. It was like being at dwelling”. Mondo received the pole vault with 6.10, and Yaroslava Mahuchikh took the excessive leap with one other 2-meter leap. Ukrainian victories are all the time standard, the extra in order Yaroslava now lives in Belgium. Cynthia Bolingo’s win within the 400 in 50.09 additionally gave the house crowd one thing else to cheer.Â
Zharnel Hughes ran 19.82 whereas affected by flu. What would he run if he was wholesome?
The ladies’s 1500 was arguably the race of the evening, with Ciara Mageean working an Irish document however nonetheless ending second to Laura Muir, who received in 3:55.34 to observe her 800m victory in Zurich final week.
Haruka Kitaguchi, who received the world javelin title final month by taking the lead together with her sixth throw, produced the same flourish right here as her last effort went out to a world-leading Japanese document of 67.38m.
Unusually at a Diamond League, there was a 5K and a 10K, which resulted in two Kenyan winners, with Daniel Ebenyo taking the boys’s 10K in a PR of 26:57.80 and Lilian Rengeruk of Kenya profitable the ladies’s 5K in 14:26.46.
