The much-anticipated 800m head-to-head between Keely Hodgkinson and Mary Moraa noticed the Kenyan win decisively in 1:57.43 on the Athletissima assembly in Lausanne on Friday (June 30).
“I had a superb view of the race,” Hodgkinson mentioned, “however simply from behind, which was not the plan. It was not my greatest put-together race and he or she (Moraa) had greater than me. I’m upset as a result of I feel I’m higher than that. However she got here out on high in the present day.”
In a repeat of the consequence from the Commonwealth Video games closing conflict final summer time, Moraa led Hodgkinson by way of the bell in 57.4 after which managed the tempo from the entrance, clocking 30.03 from 400m to 600m, earlier than then making Hodgkinson run extensive across the closing bend till she unleashed a robust kick coming into the house straight.
Regardless of having clocked a British report of 1:55.77 in her final 800m race, Hodgkinson was surprisingly left for tempo as Moraa drew away and the world and Olympic silver medallist completed nearly a second behind in 1:58.37 as fellow Brit Jemma Reekie ran 1:59.32 in fifth.
Moraa mentioned: “It was a really difficult race and I felt fully empty on the finish of it. The climate (comparatively cool) was significantly troublesome for me.”
“I simply didn’t have it in my legs in the present day and I’ve obtained to determine why.” @keelyhodgkinson is reflective after ending second to Mary Moraa at @athletissima 💬
A repeat of the Commonwealth 800m closing and the pair clocked 1:57.43 and 1:58.37 respectively đź’Ą
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Two weeks after Yomif Kejelcha and Jacob Kiplimo each ran 12:41.73 in an enthralling 5000m in Oslo, the identical occasion in Lausanne produced one other traditional encounter, this time between world record-holder Joshua Cheptegei of Uganda and Berihu Aregawi of Ethiopia.
Taking the lead midway by way of the race, the front-running Aregawi handed 3000m in 7:41.5 after which reeled off a collection of laps simply outdoors 60 seconds as he closed with a 3:57.9 mile and final 400m in 55.7 to clock 12:40.45.
It elevates Aregawi to No.5 on the world all-time rankings behind solely Cheptegei, Kenenisa Bekele, Haile Gebrselassie and Daniel Komen. I’m delighted to be right here and to win in opposition to Joshua,” mentioned Aregawi. “It was a fantastic ambiance. Thanks, Lausanne!”
Berihu Aregawi (Getty)
Cheptegei holds the world report of 12:35.36 but it surely might be on borrowed time given current outcomes.
Behind Aregawi in Lausanne, Cheptegei was inside placing distance coming into the house straight however couldn’t match Aregawi’s end as he ran 12:41.61. In third, Hagos Gebrhiwet ran 12:49.80 with Telahun Haile Bekele clocking 12:49.81.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen was in superlative kind once more as he coasted to victory within the 1500m in 3:28.72. Two weeks after his 3:27.95 European report in Oslo, the Norwegian had Josh Kerr and world 3000m steeplechase record-holder Lamecha Girma on his shoulder with 120m to go, however he kicked clear to win as Girma ran an Ethiopian report of three:29.51 in second with Kerr clocking a superb season’s greatest of three:29.64 – his second greatest time behind his Olympic bronze medal-winning efficiency.
With the UK Championships in eight days’ time, one other Brit, Elliot Giles, ran a PB of three:31.56 in fourth – to go No.10 on the UK all-time rankings – as team-mate Neil Gourley ran 3:32.63 in sixth.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Getty)
Elsewhere, Ryan Crouser of the USA took the lads’s shot put victory with 22.29m from New Zealander Tom Walsh’s 21.99m.
Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast continued her positive dash kind by profitable the ladies’s 100m in 10.88 (-0.8) as Britain’s Daryll Neita was runner-up in 11.07, whereas Mujinga Kambundji, the world indoor champion, struggled house in 11.41 in entrance of her house Swiss crowd following damage.
Femke Bol intentionally went out exhausting within the early levels of the ladies’s 400m hurdles and held on to her kind as she cruised house in 52.76. Britain’s Jessie Knight (fifth in 55.13) and Lina Nielsen (seventh in 56.62) had been amongst these chasing the Dutch star.
The ladies’s dash hurdles was nearer as Jasmine Camacho-Quinn clocked 12.40 (1.4) forward of world record-holder Tobi Amusan to win by seven hundredths of a second.
There was an thrilling race over boundaries within the longer 3000m occasion, too, with Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya operating 9:05.98 to beat the rising Ethiopian star Semba Almayew. In tenth, Britain’s Aimee Pratt ran 9:28.00
Katie Moon of the USA gained a high-quality ladies’s pole vault with a world lead of 4.82m as Wilma Murto of Finland was second with 4.77m, Eliza McCartney of New Zealand third with 4.71m and Olympic bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw making an encouraging return from damage with 4.51m in fifth.
“I’ve not really competed since British Champs final 12 months,” mentioned Bradshaw. “I solely did my first coaching session from Doha on Monday so I’m utilizing the competitions to construct by way of my runs and get factors and heights to qualify myself. So to leap 4.51m, end fifth and get a load of factors is an enormous tick for me. I simply wished to return right here and clear a bar, so I couldn’t have requested for far more.”
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