[1/7] Athletics – Diamond League – Pietro Mennea Golden Gala – Stadio Luigi Ridolfi, Florence, Italy – June 2, 2023 Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon poses with the display as she units a brand new global document and wins the ladies’s 1500m ultimate REUTERS/Remo Casilli
FLORENCE, Italy June 2 (Reuters) – Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon set a girls’s 1,500 metres global document on Friday by way of clocking 3:49.11, whilst global champion Fred Kerley triumphed within the males’s 100 metres on the 3rd Diamond League assembly of the season.
Kipyegon shaved virtually a complete moment off the former mark of three:50.07 set by way of Ethiopia’s Genzebe Dibaba in 2015.
The arena document completes the 29-year-old’s choice of feats, including to her two Olympic 1,500m golds and the 2017 and 2022 global titles, Commonwealth Video games gold medal from 2014 and 3 Diamond League titles.
The Kenyan remained at the back of the pacemakers for the primary part of the race prior to racing transparent within the ultimate 300m to complete smartly forward of Britain’s Laura Muir and Australian Jessica Hull, along with her competitors crowding round to congratulate her after the race.
“I am so satisfied for Religion,” Muir mentioned. “I might have liked to be nearer to her. However for the primary race of the season that is truly first rate. I’ve by no means long past during the first 800m as speedy as as of late.”
KERLEY TRIUMPHS
American Fred Kerley, who additionally gained in Rabat ultimate week, took the victory in a dominant 9.94 seconds, as Ferdinand Omanyala completed moment in 10.05 with Trayvon Bromell 3rd (10.09). Jamaica’s Yohan Blake got here in 7th.
Olympic gold medallist Jacobs didn’t compete because of a lingering again factor .
Within the girls’s tournament, Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou exploded off the blocks and crossed the road in 10.97 forward of Germany’s Ecu champion Gina Lueckenkemper and Briton Imani-Lara Lansiquot.
Dina Asher-Smith, who gained the arena 200 metres name in Doha in 2019, pulled out within the build-up to the race.
“I think somewhat drained as a result of I’m jet lagged. Crucial factor was once the win and I were given it,” Ta Lou mentioned. “This season, my primary objective is to win each and every time I stand at the monitor.”
American youngster Erriyon Knighton gained the boys’s 200m in 19.89, whilst the Netherlands’ Femke Bol set a gathering document within the girls’s 400m hurdles, surging clear of the remainder of the sector to win in a global main time of 52.43.
American Grant Holloway made up for his second-placed end in Rabat with victory within the males’s 110m hurdles.
Spaniard Mohamed Katir produced a lung-busting efficiency to win the 5,000m with a global main 12:52.09, with global document holder Joshua Cheptegei coming in fourth.
Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri and Andy Diaz gave the house enthusiasts packed into Luigi Ridolfi Stadium lots to cheer as they claimed wins within the males’s shot put and triple soar respectively, whilst compatriot Larissa Iapichino gained the ladies’s lengthy soar.
Reporting by way of Aadi Nair in Nashik, India; Modifying by way of Ken Ferris
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