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Arab News
3 days ago
- Sport
- Arab News
Seville, Alfred and Koech shine in London rain
LONDON: Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles chewing his dust on Saturday as the Jamaican blasted out of the blocks and kept the hammer down to win the London Diamond League 100 meters in a hot 9.86 seconds. Seville, so impressive through the rounds at last year's Olympics before coming last in the final, roared into a two-meter lead after 20 meters and was never threatened as he came home clear, with Lyles finishing strongly, but not enough, for second in 10.00. A sold-out 60,000 Olympic Stadium crowd braved early storms to watch some superb performances as athletes start to build toward September's world championships in Tokyo. Julien Alfred won the women's 200m in a scorching personal best of 21.71 seconds, Briton Charlie Dobson was a surprise winner of the 400m, 18-year-old Kenyan Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech won the 1,500m and Mykolas Alekna won the discus with a Diamond League record of 71.70 meters. As always, however, it was the 100m that was the center piece, with, as always, Lyles at the center of that. The American, who had been struggling with an ankle injury, began his season in earnest last week with victory over 200m in Monaco and was in confident mood clad in a fetching mauve one-piece on Saturday. However, it was the red blur of Seville that caught the eye after a brilliant pick-up stage that effectively settled the race by 25 meters. 'I am proud of how I ran among a stacked field. I was the only one to run under 10 seconds today, it is something special and phenomenal heading into a major championship,' said Seville, who has yet to turn his talent into individual gold on the world stage. Lyles was also upbeat. 'I feel great after that, I feel extremely healthy and I am feeling no pain,' he said. 'I wanted the win but I think it was my fastest-ever season opener, so I will take that result today.' Alfred wins 200m The women's Olympic 100m champion, St. Lucia's Alfred, was hugely impressive winner of the 200m, forging clear in the latter stages to clock a meeting record. British duo Dina Asher-Smith (22.25) and Amy Hunt (22.31) followed her home. In a high-quality 1,500 meters field it was rising star Koech who took the honors, forcing past Britain's world champion Josh Kerr on the inside 200 meters out and driving clear to win in 3:28.82. His compatriot, Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyoni, made it a middle-distance double by taking the 800m. Canadian Marco Arop, whom he beat by one hundredth of a second in last year's Olympic final, came off the final bend in the lead but Wanyoni surged through to win in 1:42.00. Medina Eisa, 20, beat fellow Ethiopian Fantaye Belayneh in a fantastic women's 5,000 meters, battling in a back-and-forth final 200 meters to snatch victory in 14.30.97 as Belayneh set a personal best of 14:30.90. Despite the injury absence of Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, there was plenty to cheer for the home fans in the women's 800m as Georgia Hunter Bell ran a superbly-judged race to win in 1:56.74 from American Addison Wiley. There was British success in the men's 400m too but not what was expected as Dobson overhauled favorite Matt Hudson-Smith on the line. Dobson was 10 meters adrift entering the final straight but finished like a train to sweep past five rivals and looked stunned when he saw his personal best of 44.14 seconds on the screen. World and Olympic silver medallist Hudson-Smith, tying up, finished second in 44.27. Alekna did not let a wet circle impact his performance as he won the discus with a mighty 71.70 throw – a Diamond League record but almost four meters off the world record the Lithuanian set in the United States in April in a performance dubbed 'weather doping' because of the assistance gained from high winds. For the latest updates, follow us @ArabNewsSport
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Alfred coasts in London, but Lyles pipped in season-opening 100m
Julien Alfred fired out a broadside at her rivals for the women's world 200m crown with an impressive victory in the London Diamond League meet on Saturday, but Noah Lyles was pipped in his opening 100m of the season. Alfred, the women's 100m Olympic champion, set a meet record with a world-leading 21.71 seconds at a 60,000-capacity sell-out London Stadium. It put her joint ninth on the all-time list for the 200m in a massive boost for the St Lucia sprinter before the world championships in Tokyo in September. "It was a strong first 150 metres of the race and I managed to control it to finish strongly," said Alfred, whose 100m gold at the Paris Olympics was the first of any colour for her tiny Caribbean island homeland. "It was a great race for me, and races like this give me a lot of confidence as we get closer to Tokyo. I did the 200m last year before the Olympics and I finished second, but seeing how I ran today and how comfortable I felt, I am a lot more confident in my 200m heading into the worlds," she added. Lyles, who won Olympic gold in the men's 100m in Paris last year, suffered a dreadful start and was left chasing Jamaica's Oblique Seville, who racked up a straightforward gun-to-tape win in 9.86sec. The 28-year-old American, making a late start to the season after coming back from an ankle tendon injury, insisted, however, that he felt great. "I feel extremely healthy and I am feeling no pain," he said. "I wanted the win but I think it was my fastest ever season opener, so I will take that result today." In an afternoon of high-class track and field, Femke Bol produced yet another dominant run in the 400m hurdles for her 29th consecutive Diamond League win. The Dutch athlete clocked 52.10sec, finishing a full second ahead of American Jasmine Jones. "I wanted to run quicker in Monaco but my second bend was really not great there," Bol said, referring to her world-leading 51.95sec from last week. "I had hoped to do better here. I think I executed the second bend better here but other elements were a little less good, so it is a bit disappointing." - Wanyonyi still chasing Rudisha - Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi, hunting down compatriot David Rudisha's 800m world record of 1:40.91 -- set when he won Olympic gold in this same stadium in 2012 -- fell short. Wanyonyi, the current Olympic champion, edged Canada's Marco Arop for victory in a meet record of 1:42.00. "My training right now is at 80%, so I will be upping the training in the next few weeks and over the next races before Tokyo," the Kenyan warned. There was also a meet record of 3:28.82 for Kenya's Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech in a loaded men's 1500m. Reigning world champion Josh Kerr came second in 3:29.37 in a dramatic final event at the home of Premier League club West Ham. Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Georgia Hunter Bell delighted the home crowd by producing an impressive kick to win the women's 800m in a season's best of 1:56.74. It was the first of a trio of wins by British athletes in quick succession. Charles Dobson ran a personal best of 44.14sec to seal a dramatic victory in the men's 400m, overhauling fellow Britain Matthew Hudson-Smith, the world and Olympic silver medallist, in the final metres. "It is an incredible feeling, I love running here in front of a massive home crowd. It is just awesome to get that time," said Dobson. "Tactically it went perfectly, and I won the race, so what more can I ask for?!" And Morgan Lake claimed an unlikely win in the women's high jump, the sole athlete to clear 1.96m to finish ahead of the likes of Australia's 2022 world champion Eleanor Patterson and Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the world record holder and current world and olympic champion. The outstanding performance in the field came from Lithuania's world record holder Mykolas Alekna, who threw a Diamond League and meet record of 71.70m in the men's discus. Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay also set a meet record of 4:11.88 in an electric women's mile, bettering the previous best set by Sifan Hassan in 2018 by almost three seconds. lp/gj
Reuters
3 days ago
- Sport
- Reuters
Seville, Alfred and Koech shine in London rain
LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles chewing his dust on Saturday as the Jamaican blasted out of the blocks and kept the hammer down to win the London Diamond League 100 metres in a hot 9.86 seconds. Seville, so impressive through the rounds at last year's Olympics before coming last in the final, roared into a two-metre lead after 20 metres and was never threatened as he came home clear, with Lyles finishing strongly, but not enough, for second in 10.00. A sold-out 60,000 Olympic Stadium crowd braved early storms to watch some superb performances as athletes start to build towards September's world championships in Tokyo. Julien Alfred won the women's 200m in a scorching personal best of 21.71 seconds, Briton Charlie Dobson was a surprise winner of the 400m, 18-year-old Kenyan Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech won the 1,500m and Mykolas Alekna won the discus with a Diamond League record of 71.70 metres. As always, however, it was the 100m that was the centre piece, with, as always, Lyles at the centre of that. The American, who had been struggling with an ankle injury, began his season in earnest last week with victory over 200m in Monaco and was in confident mood clad in a fetching mauve one-piece on Saturday. However, it was the red blur of Seville that caught the eye after a brilliant pick-up stage that effectively settled the race by 25 metres. "I am proud of how I ran amongst a stacked field. I was the only one to run under 10 seconds today, it is something special and phenomenal heading into a major championship," said Seville, who has yet to turn his talent into individual gold on the world stage. Lyles was also upbeat. "I feel great after that, I feel extremely healthy and I am feeling no pain," he said. "I wanted the win but I think it was my fastest-ever season opener, so I will take that result today." The women's Olympic 100m champion, St Lucia's Alfred, was hugely impressive winner of the 200m, forging clear in the latter stages to clock a meeting record. British duo Dina Asher-Smith (22.25) and Amy Hunt (22.31) followed her home. In a high-quality 1,500 metres field it was rising star Koech who took the honours, forcing past Britain's world champion Josh Kerr on the inside 200 metres out and driving clear to win in 3:28.82. His compatriot, Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyoni, made it a middle-distance double by taking the 800m. Canadian Marco Arop, whom he beat by one hundredth of a second in last year's Olympic final, came off the final bend in the lead but Wanyoni surged through to win in 1:42.00. Medina Eisa, 20, beat fellow Ethiopian Fantaye Belayneh in a fantastic women's 5,000 metres, battling in a back-and-forth final 200 metres to snatch victory in 14.30.97 as Belayneh set a personal best of 14:30.90. Despite the injury absence of Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, there was plenty to cheer for the home fans in the women's 800m as Georgia Hunter Bell ran a superbly-judged race to win in 1:56.74 from American Addison Wiley. There was British success in the men's 400m too but not what was expected as Dobson overhauled favourite Matt Hudson-Smith on the line. Dobson was 10 metres adrift entering the final straight but finished like a train to sweep past five rivals and looked stunned when he saw his personal best of 44.14 seconds on the screen. World and Olympic silver medallist Hudson-Smith, tying up, finished second in 44.27. Alekna did not let a wet circle impact his performance as he won the discus with a mighty 71.70 throw – a Diamond League record but almost four metres off the world record the Lithuanian set in the United States in April in a performance dubbed 'weather doping' because of the assistance gained from high winds.
CNA
3 days ago
- Sport
- CNA
Seville, Alfred and Koech shine in London rain
LONDON :Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles chewing his dust on Saturday as the Jamaican blasted out of the blocks and kept the hammer down to win the London Diamond League 100 metres in a hot 9.86 seconds. Seville, so impressive through the rounds at last year's Olympics before coming last in the final, roared into a two-metre lead after 20 metres and was never threatened as he came home clear, with Lyles finishing strongly, but not enough, for second in 10.00. A sold-out 60,000 Olympic Stadium crowd braved early storms to watch some superb performances as athletes start to build towards September's world championships in Tokyo. Julien Alfred won the women's 200m in a scorching personal best of 21.71 seconds, Briton Charlie Dobson was a surprise winner of the 400m, 18-year-old Kenyan Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech won the 1,500m and Mykolas Alekna won the discus with a Diamond League record of 71.70 metres. As always, however, it was the 100m that was the centre piece, with, as always, Lyles at the centre of that. The American, who had been struggling with an ankle injury, began his season in earnest last week with victory over 200m in Monaco and was in confident mood clad in a fetching mauve one-piece on Saturday. However, it was the red blur of Seville that caught the eye after a brilliant pick-up stage that effectively settled the race by 25 metres. "I am proud of how I ran amongst a stacked field. I was the only one to run under 10 seconds today, it is something special and phenomenal heading into a major championship," said Seville, who has yet to turn his talent into individual gold on the world stage. Lyles was also upbeat. "I feel great after that, I feel extremely healthy and I am feeling no pain," he said. "I wanted the win but I think it was my fastest-ever season opener, so I will take that result today." ALFRED WINS 200M The women's Olympic 100m champion, St Lucia's Alfred, was hugely impressive winner of the 200m, forging clear in the latter stages to clock a meeting record. British duo Dina Asher-Smith (22.25) and Amy Hunt (22.31) followed her home. In a high-quality 1,500 metres field it was rising star Koech who took the honours, forcing past Britain's world champion Josh Kerr on the inside 200 metres out and driving clear to win in 3:28.82. His compatriot, Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyoni, made it a middle-distance double by taking the 800m. Canadian Marco Arop, whom he beat by one hundredth of a second in last year's Olympic final, came off the final bend in the lead but Wanyoni surged through to win in 1:42.00. Medina Eisa, 20, beat fellow Ethiopian Fantaye Belayneh in a fantastic women's 5,000 metres, battling in a back-and-forth final 200 metres to snatch victory in 14.30.97 as Belayneh set a personal best of 14:30.90. Despite the injury absence of Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, there was plenty to cheer for the home fans in the women's 800m as Georgia Hunter Bell ran a superbly-judged race to win in 1:56.74 from American Addison Wiley. There was British success in the men's 400m too but not what was expected as Dobson overhauled favourite Matt Hudson-Smith on the line. Dobson was 10 metres adrift entering the final straight but finished like a train to sweep past five rivals and looked stunned when he saw his personal best of 44.14 seconds on the screen. World and Olympic silver medallist Hudson-Smith, tying up, finished second in 44.27. Alekna did not let a wet circle impact his performance as he won the discus with a mighty 71.70 throw – a Diamond League record but almost four metres off the world record the Lithuanian set in the United States in April in a performance dubbed 'weather doping' because of the assistance gained from high winds.
CBC
3 days ago
- Sport
- CBC
Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred posts the fastest women's 200m time of the season in London
Reigning Olympic 100-metre champion and 200m Olympic silver medallist Julien Alfred won the women's 200m race at Diamond League London, with a world-leading time of 21.71 seconds.
