Four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won in a season-best 49.33, with Aaliyah Butler second at 49.86 and Isabella Whittaker third (50.81).
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In the women’s 1,5oom, Sarah Healy finished seventh, her time of 3:57.20 coming on the back of a 3:57.15 PB set in Paris on 2o June.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon smashed her own world record to win in a stunning 3:48.68, beating her previous best of 3:49.04 set at the Diamond League meeting in Paris on 7 July, 2024.
The Kenyan, also a treble world champion in the event, was running her first 1,500m of the season, having come up short in a bid to become the first woman to break four minutes in the mile in a special event in Paris on 26 June.
Earlier on Saturday, Orla Comerford won the mixed class 100m para final.
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The Raheny athlete took first place to defend her title in a time of 12.14, with America’s Brittni Mason second at 12.40.
Shauna Bocquet finished fifth in the women’s 800m T54, at 1:55.76. The event was won by America’s Tatjana McFadden (1:46.89).
In one of the day’s headline events, Kenya’s double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet crushed the women’s 5,000m world record, powering to victory in 13min 58.06sec.
Chebet, Olympic gold medallist at 5,000 and 10,000m in Paris last year, delivered a devastating finish to become the first woman to break the 14-minute barrier in the event, beating the previous world record of 14:00.21 set by Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay on the same Hayward Field track in September 2023.
Chebet, 25, had already broken the 10,000m world record at Hayward Field in May of 2024.
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Adeleke fourth in stacked 400m final at Eugene Diamond League
RHASIDAT ADELEKE FINISHED fourth in the women’s 400m final at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene Oregon.
Adeleke ran 51.33, finishing behind an all-American top three.
Four-time Olympic gold medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won in a season-best 49.33, with Aaliyah Butler second at 49.86 and Isabella Whittaker third (50.81).
In the women’s 1,5oom, Sarah Healy finished seventh, her time of 3:57.20 coming on the back of a 3:57.15 PB set in Paris on 2o June.
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon smashed her own world record to win in a stunning 3:48.68, beating her previous best of 3:49.04 set at the Diamond League meeting in Paris on 7 July, 2024.
The Kenyan, also a treble world champion in the event, was running her first 1,500m of the season, having come up short in a bid to become the first woman to break four minutes in the mile in a special event in Paris on 26 June.
Earlier on Saturday, Orla Comerford won the mixed class 100m para final.
The Raheny athlete took first place to defend her title in a time of 12.14, with America’s Brittni Mason second at 12.40.
Shauna Bocquet finished fifth in the women’s 800m T54, at 1:55.76. The event was won by America’s Tatjana McFadden (1:46.89).
In one of the day’s headline events, Kenya’s double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet crushed the women’s 5,000m world record, powering to victory in 13min 58.06sec.
Chebet, Olympic gold medallist at 5,000 and 10,000m in Paris last year, delivered a devastating finish to become the first woman to break the 14-minute barrier in the event, beating the previous world record of 14:00.21 set by Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay on the same Hayward Field track in September 2023.
Chebet, 25, had already broken the 10,000m world record at Hayward Field in May of 2024.
With reporting from AFP.
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