- Swedish Olympic champion Armand Duplantis improves his pole vault world record to 6.23 m at the Diamond League meeting in Eugene.
- The Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay pulverizes the best performance over 5000 m.
- Jason Jospeh finished 5th in the 110 m hurdles. The Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen sets a European record over 3000 m.
In the oval
One of the big highlights on the second day of the competition in Eugene Armand Duplantis. The Swedish Olympic champion jumped 6.23 m. In doing so, he improved the outdoor record that he set himself at the 2022 World Championships at the same location by 2 centimeters. Ernest John Obiena (Philippines) came second with 5.82 m ahead of former world champion Sam Kendricks (USA/5.72 m).
On the train
Set another world record on the final weekend of the Diamond League Gudaf Tsegay over 5000 m. The 26-year-old Ethiopian, who became world champion over 10,000 m in Budapest in August, completed the distance in 14:00.21 minutes. Tsegay thus beat the previous record set by Faith Kipyegon/KEN (14:05.20) last June by almost 5 seconds. Kenyan Beatrice Chebet came second behind Tsegay in 14:05.92, the third fastest time ever.
His best season to date ended Jason Joseph on the west coast of the USA with 5th place in the 110 m hurdles. The Swiss achieved a strong result in 13.12 seconds. The 24-year-old didn’t get off to a successful start, but after that he made up places and came within 6 hundredths of the three-time US world champion Grant Holloway in second place. The victory was won by Olympic champion Hansle Parchment from Jamaica in the world’s best time of 12.93 seconds.
After his triumph over the mile on Saturday Jakob Ingebrigtsen on Sunday over 3000 m. In a fast race, the Norwegian with a European record (7:23.64 minutes) came out on top in the photo finish, just a hundredth of a second ahead of the Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha. Local hero Grant Fisher takes third place with a North American record (7:25.47 minutes).