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Olympic champions blown off course in Lausanne Diamond League as Fraser-Pryce and Rojas excel

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A windy night at the Stade de la Pontaise in Lausanne blew several Olympic champions off course in tonight’s Wanda Diamond League meeting as Elaine Thompson-Herah, Hansle Parchment and Mondo Duplantis suffered rare defeats in the women’s 100 metres, men’s 110m hurdles and pole vault.

successive shot put win with a meeting record of 22.81 metres and Norway’s 20-year-old 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen


Olympic champions arrive in Lausanne as Diamond League returns to Europe

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A dizzying array of Olympic champions will be on show at the Stade de la Pontaise in Lausanne tomorrow night for the first of four European meetings that will bring this season's Diamond League to its conclusion, watched by an expected capacity crowd of 12,200.

States shot putter Ryan Crouser, who threw a Diamond League record of 23.15 metres, and Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen

1988 US trials in Indianapolis by the late Florence Griffith-Joyner.Olympic 1500 metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen



Thompson-Herah wins 100m at Eugene Diamond League in 10.54sec as Richardson is last

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Double Olympic 100 metres champion Elaine Thompson-Herah ran a Jamaican and Diamond League record of 10.54sec in Eugene to defeat a field including the two compatriots who joined her on the Tokyo 2020 podium and home sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson.

on, finishing third - but in good order - in 22.19.Norway’s 20-year-old Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen


Hassan’s 5,000m world record bid to presage Eugene Diamond League meeting

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Sifan Hassan is aiming to break the women’s 5,000 metres world record on the first of two days of stellar athletics in Eugene in Oregon in the United States that will conclude with the first Wanda Diamond League meeting since the Tokyo 2020 Games ended.

champion Katerina Stefanidi of Greece and Britain’s Tokyo bronze medallist Holly Bradshaw.Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Gabriela DeBues-Stafford and Australia’s sixth-placed Linden Hall.Norway's Tokyo 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen


Richardson to return from ban at Prefontaine Classic in star-studded women's 100m field

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American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson is set to return to competition for the first time at the Eugene Diamond League, after her one-month cannabis ban, in a stacked women's 100 metres field that features the top four athletes from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Muir in the women's 1500m and world champion Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot and new Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen


Ingebrigtsen embraces Olympic destiny as Hassan wins 10,000m battle with Gidey

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Norway’s 20-year-old boy wonder Jakob Ingebrigtsen became Olympic 1500 metres champion here tonight as

5,000m titles as a 17-year-old had come home in an Olympic record of 3min 28.32sec, "No one beats Jakob Ingebrigtsen

last month’s Monaco Diamond League meeting in a personal best of 3min 28.28sec, where an out-of-sorts Ingebrigtsen

finished third, was enough for Cheruiyot to get back into the team.Cheruyiot took over the lead from Ingebrigtsen

Asked about giving his bracelet to Ingebrigtsen after the race he commented:"I said, 'if someone beat

Ingebrigtsen commented: "I'm grateful."


World 1500m champion Cheruiyot added to Kenyan Olympic team as 18-year-old dropped

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World 1500 metres champion Timothy Cheruiyot, left out of the Kenyan Olympic team after finishing outside the top three qualifying places at last month’s trials, has been added to the squad for Tokyo 2020. 

now due to do that against a field that will include his perennial 20-year-old Norwegian rival Jakob Ingebrigtsen


Kipyegon smashes her Kenyan 1500m record to beat Hassan in Monaco and lay down Tokyo 2020 marker

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Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon laid down a huge marker for her chances of retaining the Olympic women’s 1500 metres title in Tokyo as she lowered her national record to 3min 51.07sec - moving to fourth on the all-time list - in winning at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco.

2013, with Cheruiyot winning in 3:28.45, just 0.04 off his best.This time round the gap was greater as Ingebrigtsen

record of 3:28.76 to pick up 7 huge points, while Jakob #Ingebrigtsen also goes under 3.30.

Diamond_League) July 9, 2021Once again the Monaco atmosphere and track produced super-fast 1500 metres running - Ingebrigtsen

last two weeks due to a bacterial infection and a sore throat, which is why I didn't race in Oslo," Ingebrigtsen





Asher-Smith beats wind and rain and Richardson at Gateshead Diamond League opener

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Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith coped best in driving wind and rain to beat a stellar 100 metres field including United States rival Sha’Carri Richardson as England’s north-east town of Gateshead hosted the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season.

of defeat, there was no faltering from Norway’s 20-year-old European 1500 and 5,000m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen


Duplantis, Ingebrigtsen and Mahuchikh star at European Athletics Indoor Championships

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Mondo Duplantis, Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Yaroslava Mahuchikh, three of the world’s finest young athletes

best of 2.07m.Like Duplantis, she didn’t reach her target; like Duplantis, she surely soon will.Jakob Ingebrigtsen

the final day of the Championships ©Getty ImagesA little earlier in the evening 20-year-old Norwegian Ingebrigtsen


Ingebrigtsen reinstated to European Indoors 1500m title in Torun as Thiam lays down golden Tokyo 2020

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heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam won the European Athletics indoor pentathlon title in Torun, Jakob Ingebrigtsen

Ingebrigtsen seemed to have earned the 1500 metres victory that eluded him two years ago in Glasgow -

appealed against the disqualification, and soon after midnight local time the result once again showed Ingebrigtsen

38.06 and Spain's Jesus Gomez third in 3:38.47.In an official statement, the Jury of Appeal ruled: "Ingebrigtsen

As debate had gone on late into the night, Ingebrigtsen said that if the decision stood he would probably

Rozmys bustled through on his outside.The field soon elongated as the defending champion, and then Ingebrigtsen