Arya News - Brazil’s Alison Dos Santos beats world record holder Karsten Warholm in a thrilling 400m hurdles final at the meet.
World 100m champions Oblique Seville and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden roared to victories at the Silesia Diamond League as Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis wrapped up another dominant pole vault display.
World champion Seville of Jamaica posted a time of 9.83 seconds for a meet record, as Americans Kenny Bednarek (9.87) and Christian Coleman (9.93) completed the podium.
The women’s blue riband event was won by their teammate Jefferson-Wooden in the season’s first head-to-head over 100m with Olympic champion Julien Alfred, in a season’s best of 10.78 seconds. Olympic silver medallist Sha’Carri Richardson trailed in third at 10.96.
Duplantis had an uncharacteristic three failures in the pole vault before claiming victory at 6.20m, ahead of Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen, who took silver at 6.00m, while Greek rival Emmanouil Karalis bagged bronze at the same height.
Dos Santos smokes world record-holder Warholm
Brazil’s Alison Dos Santos delivered another standout performance as he held off world record holder Karsten Warholm in a thrilling 400m hurdles to win in 46.43 seconds, the sixth-fastest time ever run.
The world-leading time smashed the meet record of 46.82 seconds set by Warholm last year.
“I expected a fast race, the lineup was amazing — everybody was here,” said Dos Santos. “I knew that to win here I had to give my best.”
Warholm’s teammate Jakob Ingebrigtsen, fresh from winning European 5,000m gold, made his first Diamond League appearance in a 1,500m race in two years.
Ingebrigtsen clung on to finish fourth in a race won by American Ethan Strand in 3:30.77, ahead of Kenya’s Phanuel Kipkosegi Koech and Olympic champion Cole Hocker of the US.
“I felt a little rusty at the beginning, then a little better as the race went on,” said the Norwegian. “Every day I will be stronger.”
Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, who ensured hammer throw domination for Canada with two golds at last year’s Tokyo World Championships, won their respective events here with bests of 82.92m and 77.09m.
Olympic and 2023 world champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic won the women’s 400m in 48.87 seconds, but there was no such luck for Morocco’s two-time Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali, beaten into second by Ethiopia’s Gemechu Godana, who clocked a meet record of 8:02.74.
World record holder Ja’Kobe Tharp claimed victory in the 110m hurdles in 13.05 seconds, while teammate Alaysha Johnson won the women’s short hurdles in 12.52.
Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh equalled the meet record to win the women’s high jump at 2.00m.
And Botswana’s world 400m champion Busang Collen Kebinatshipi smashed the meet record set by world record holder Wayde van Niekerk in winning the one-lap race in an impressive 43.59 seconds.