2023-09-02 13:05:00
Christian Coleman (USA) equalized the year’s world record over 100 m at the Diamond League meeting in Xiamen, China.Yaroslava Mahutschich (UKR) convincingly wins in the high jump, over 800 m for men there is the World Cup revenge.Swiss athletes are not at the start .
On the track
The American Christian Coleman provided the biggest highlight at the meeting in Xiamen. The 27-year-old, who finished 5th at the World Championships, won the 100m in 9.83 seconds. He equaled the world best time of the year. Noah Lyles had won the world title by that time. In general, the race had been fast. Kishane Thompson (JAM) was just two hundredths behind Coleman in 9.85s. Fred Kerley ran 3rd in 9.96s.
The athletes also delivered a very fast race over 800 m. The Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyi managed to take revenge once morest Marco Arop (CAN). At the World Championships he had to wait in line, now he won the race with a time of 1:43.20 minutes, four hundredths ahead of Arop. Both athletes ran a new personal best time. Frenchman Benjamin Robert (FRA) completed the podium.
Kirani James (GRD) was also able to rehabilitate himself. At the World Championships he was disqualified in the final, but now he was able to celebrate victory at the Diamond League meeting one day following his 31st birthday. The 2012 Olympic champion ran a new season best of 44.38 seconds and finished ahead of Quincy Hall (USA), the bronze winner from Budapest, in the photo finish.
Im Oval
World champion Yaroslava Mahuchich also triumphed in China. While the Ukrainian had won the World Championships in Budapest with a height of 2.01 meters, she went one better in Xiamen. With a jump of 2.02 m, she set a new meeting record and equaled the world record of the year. She won ahead of Lia Apostolovski (SLO) and Eleanor Patterson (AUS), who both jumped 1.92 meters.
The Chinese audience celebrated a home win in the discus throw. With her last attempt at 67.41 meters, Bin Feng surpassed the Croatian Sandra Perkovic (67.32 m). Surprise world champion Lalauuga Tausaga from the USA had to settle for third place.
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