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While long jumper Simon Ehammer finished second at the Diamond League meeting in Paris, hurdle sprinter Jason Joseph had no chance.
Simon Ehammer celebrated his second podium in a Diamond League meeting in Paris. As in the previous year in Rabat, the decathlete ranked second in the long jump. His 8.11 m was only surpassed by the Greek Miltiadis Tentoglou by 2 cm. “I sniffed the air for the Olympics. The air suits me, »said Ehammer afterwards.
The Appenzeller cracked the 8 meter mark in the first attempt (8.01). While his personal best (8.45) remained out of reach, he came within an inch of his best result of the season. After not a single failed attempt, Ehammer, who had messed up badly in Götzis, was relieved: “Inside me I knew that I had to prove my skills.” The rhythm worked as desired.
Joseph cannot repeat Florence
Jason Joseph clearly missed his next podium finish. In 13.29 s, the Basel bidder took 7th place over 110 m hurdles. Just a week ago he had finished second in Florence, 19 hundredths faster and had improved his Swiss record. After the slowest start of all participants, Joseph did not start the race, as he explained to SRF: “I already felt difficult in the warm-up, today was no longer possible.”
Winner Grant Holloway broke the 13-second mark in 12.98s, setting the fastest time of the year. Behind the American, Frenchman Just Kwaou-Mathey (13.09) took second place, with great cheers.
On the track
Faith Kipyegon ran the 1500 m in Florence 7 days ago in 3:49.11 minutes – as the first woman under 3:50 minutes. Exactly one week later, the Kenyan set the next world record: Kipyegon also ran ahead of the competition in the 5000 m in 14:05.20 minutes.
The 2-mile race, which was not part of the Diamond League classification, was clearly the prey of Jakob Ingebrigtsen. The 22-year-old Norwegian put on a run for the history books, smashing the previous 26-year-old world record by four and a half seconds in a time of 7:54.10. The competition was at a disadvantage by 15 seconds and more.
Noah Lyles was a mere hundredth of a second ahead of Ferdinand Omanyala. The American crowned his progression and snatched the Kenyan in the last few meters in 9.97 s. Letsile Tebogo from Botswana sprinted to third place (10.05).
Thanks to Lamecha Girma, the Paris crowd was able to celebrate another world record in the 3000 m steeple. The Ethiopian undercut the previous record by one and a half seconds.
Keely Hodgkinson lived up to her role as favorite over the double track lap – and how: The 21-year-old shone at the start of the season in 1:55.77 minutes with a British record and the world record for the year. Hodgkinson then said: “I’m shocked that I ran so fast.”
In the oval
Australia’s Nina Kennedy surprisingly won the pole vault competition. At 4.77 m, she stayed 6 cm ahead of France’s Margot Chevrier and Katie Moon of the USA. Sandi Morris, the only athlete in the field to have broken the 5-meter mark before, broke three times at 4.71 and was only fifth with 4.61 m.