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Kipchoge among five finalists for Male World Athlete of the Year

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Eliud Kipchoge, who became the first man to run a marathon in under two hours last month, is among five finalists for the 2019 Male World Athlete of the Year award.

his Berlin victory in 2:01:39 last September.Also nominated are the United States' Sam Kendricks and Noah

Lyles, Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei and Norway's Karsten Warholm.Pole vaulter Kendricks cleared 6.06 metres

Doha.He also won 12 of his 17 outdoor competitions, including the Diamond League final.Fellow American Lyles



Kipchoge among 11 IAAF nominations for Male Athlete of the Year - but no place for shot putters

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Eliud Kipchoge, who became the first man to run a marathon in under two hours on Saturday (October 12), was among 11 nominees announced today for the Male Athlete of the Year award he won for a first time in 2018.

this month.Aside from Brazier, the United States has four other contenders.The 22-year-old American Noah

Lyles earned his first world titles, at 200m and 4x100m, after a season in which he has won IAAF Diamond


Defiant Hassan completes world double as Kovacs wins shot put for the ages

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Sifan Hassan completed her golden double in defiant fashion here at the International Association of Athletic Federations World Championships, following up her 10,000 metres win with the 1500m title on a pulsating night that also contained the greatest shot put contest ever seen.

team led off by individual 100m champion Christian Coleman and anchored by individual 200m champion Noah

Lyles was always going to have a chance of gold - assuming they avoided the fallibility that has often

threatening to overtake Mitchell-Blake on the last leg before crossing in an Asian record of 37.43.Noah

Lyles, the individual 200m champion. anchors the United States to victory in the world 4x100m final


Britain win first gold medal of IAAF World Championships

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opponent receives medical attention ©Getty ImagesSecond-placed Andre De Grasse of Canada, the winner Noah

Lyles of the United States and third-placed Alex Quiñónez of Ecuador stand on the podium during the


US win three golds at IAAF World Championships as Brazier ignores Salazar controversy

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World Championships here as Sam Kendricks retained his men's pole vault title in dramatic fashion and Noah

Lyles and Donavan Brazier, both 22, earned their first titles at 200 and 800 metres, respectively.

accelerated through to claim silver in 1:43.47.Bronze went to Kenya's Ferguson Rotich, who clocked 1:43.82.Noah

Lyles of the United States wins the men's world 200m title in Doha tonight ©Getty Images"Wesley's racing

s Jamaican compatriot Yohan Blake, on 19.26, and fellow countryman Michael Johnson, on 19.32.Behind Lyles

Ecuador’s second World medallist following the race-walking triumphs of Jefferson Perez.In the end, Lyles


Hot prospects at IAAF World Championships as Hassan, Miller-Uibo and hurdlers stand ready

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Had it not already been taken, the International Association of Athletics Federation World Championships that start here tomorrow could have used the phrase associated with the Sochi 2014 Winter Games: "Hot. Cool. Yours".

lines up in a men’s 100m.Coleman heads this year’s world lists with 9.81, with the second fastest - Noah

Lyles, on 9.86 - concentrating on the 200m, at which distance he has been IAAF Diamond League champion


Asher-Smith wins 100m IAAF Diamond League title in Brussels as Taylor equals Lavillenie’s record

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Dina Asher-Smith won her first International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League title as she ran a season’s best in the women’s 100 metres final at the second of the finals in Brussels.

the 1995 IAAF World Championships in Gothenburg and the second best of all time.In the men’s sprints, Noah

Lyles of the United States, who heads the season’s 200m lists with a clocking of 19.50 at the Lausanne

, his second best time ever, ahead of Canada’s double Rio 2016 medallist Andre De Grasse.That meant Lyles

, with 2015 world champion Sergey Shubenkov, an Authorised Neutral Athlete, third in 13.33.American Noah

Lyles won the men's 200m in Brussels ©Getty ImagesShubenkov’s Russian compatriot Mariya Lasitskene,


Lyles looking for third consecutive Diamond League 200m title in Brussels

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The final 16 Diamond League champions of the season will be decided in Brussels tomorrow night (September 6), as the International Association of Athletics Federations' season-long series concludes.

preview of the World Championships in Doha on September 27.A strong favourite for glory, 22-year-old Noah

Lyles will seek a third consecutive Diamond League title over 200 metres – the event he will run in


Warholm and Benjamin light up Zurich Diamond League final

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Karsten Warholm produced the second-fastest 400 metres hurdles performance of all time at the first of the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League finals in Zurich, in a stunning 46.92sec.

while Jamaica's Olympic 100m and 200m champion Elaine Thompson was third in 22.44.In the men's 100m, Noah

Lyles earned a first career win over his US compatriot, world champion Justin Gatlin, clocking 9.98.


Gatlin and Lyles line up, as champions assemble for first IAAF Diamond League final in Zurich

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Five Olympic champions, 11 world champions and 12 defending champions will converge on Zurich tomorrow, for the first of two International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League finals.

the Brussels venue is being renovated – will be a 100 metres match-up between United States sprinters Noah

Lyles and reigning world champion Justin Gatlin.Lyles, who will only contest the 200m at the forthcoming


Feat of Claye highlights Paris Diamond League meeting as Lyles speeds to 200m win

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Will Claye brought the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting here to a dramatic conclusion as he produced a triple jump of 18.06 metres to outdo the fellow American who has beaten him to two Olympic titles and one world gold, Christian Taylor.

United States team-mate Noah Lyles, meanwhile, offered continuing evidence of his status as favourite

America's Noah Lyles heads for 200m victory in a meeting record of 19.65 at the IAAF Diamond Leaugue

Paris ©Getty ImagesIn Lyle’s wake was Turkey’s world champion Ramil Guliyev, who finished in 20.01.Lyles

I’m coming off a loaded week in training so that gives me a lot of confidence," Lyles said."


New track for 2020 European Athletics Championships to be christened at Paris IAAF Diamond League meeting

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The new, blue track at Stade Charlety, which is hosting next year's European Athletics Championships, will be christened tomorrow by the world's best at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League meeting in Paris.

race here, and went on to secure the world title in London.But Guliyev didn’t have to race against Noah

Lyles on that occasion.The exuberant 22-year-old from Gainesville, Florida, leads this year's rankings


Hassan breaks women’s mile world record at Monaco Diamond League meeting

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Sifan Hassan produced a stupendous final lap in the women’s mile here to finish in 4min 12.33sec – thus breaking the 23-year-old world record of 4:12.56 held by Russia’s 1996 Olympic 800 metres and 1,500m champion Svetlana Masterkova.

probability with his winning performances, tonight taking victory in 9.91.His 21-year-old US compatriot Noah

Lyles, twice Diamond League 200m champion, had to settle for second in 9.92 after running out of track


Triple jumpers ready to raise the temperature at Monaco Diamond League

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As athletes train under sheer blue sky in warm and humid conditions before tomorrow's ninth stage of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League series, some will be aware of an additional responsibility.

will need to deploy all his wiles to get the better of his swiftly rising 21-year-old US compatriot Noah

Lyles.Twenty-one-year old Noah Lyles takes on 37-year-old compatriot and world champion Justin Gatlin