by Azzédine Habz and Grace Stark, not announced, lit a meeting of the Diamond League loaded with drama on Friday in Paris on Friday, snatching the spotlight with two exceptional performances which put a tour of high -level athletes in the shade.
Paris turned out to be the ideal test field while athletes continue to settle their shape before the September world championships in Tokyo.
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Habz sent the partisan rapture crowd by becoming the sixth fastest man over 1500m of all time, on the coatting tails of two cardiac stimulators with watchmaker 3: 27.49 for a competition record and a new French record.
In a quick shocking race, Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech in Kenya has established a junior world record in the second, while 11 of the next 12 athletes have all timed national records for the Netherlands, Belgium and South Africa.
“It’s incredible, there is no other word for that,” said Habz, born in Morocco, 31 years old, twice by two minor medalists inside in the interior.
“It is really a dream come true. To succeed in a race like this in Paris is even stronger.”
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There was an eruption more and more records in perfect and hot conditions at the Stade Charlete.
American Stark timed 12.21 seconds in the 100m hurdles to go spouse fifth faster of all time, holding the world champion and holder of the world record in Nigeria, Tobi Amusan.
“I wanted to break that 12.3 so badly!” Said Stark. “He feels that I can party.
“And then, I just need to continue working, take it through the race, stay focused and stay silent.”
The husband Paulino of the Dominican Republic was not mistaken in the female 400m, although she had to withdraw all the stops in the house directly to exceed the rival of Bahreïni Salwa Eid Naser.
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Paulino, gold medalist at the Paris Olympic Games from last year and the 2023 worlds in Budapest, won three consecutive victories at the Charlete in 48.81 seconds, four hundredths before Naser.
The American Rai Benjamin also accumulated a record for the 46.93 seconds competition in the hedges of the 400m, which facilitates the work of victory in the absence of the Norwegian rival Karsten Warholm and the Brazilian Alison Dos Santos.
“The sub47 is impressive. I come from it intelligently and I ran for the victory,” said Benjamin.
– ‘a little frightened’ –
Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia illuminated the 2023 edition of the Paris meeting by breaking the previous world record (7: 52.11) for the 3,000 m steepleple.
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There was a disaster at the Paris Olympic Games, however, after Girma fell heavily in the last round of the Stade de France track.
But he made a winning return to Stade Charlety, winning in 8: 07.01 after admitting that he had overcome a feeling of dread.
“It’s a great thing for me today, especially after the Paris Olympic Games,” said Girma. “It seems that it was a long time ago, so it was very important to me. It is a great success, so I am very happy.”
“I was a little afraid at the beginning of entering the race. Now that the race is over, I feel much better.”
Sofiane El Bakkali from Morocco is the double Olympic Steeple champion, but he chose to run the 5000m in Paris alongside the Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha, who won his 11th victory for the Diamond League in 12: 47.84.
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The faith of Kenya Cherotich led a global advance of 8: 53.37 in the female steeplechase, holding the Peruth Chemutai in Uganda.
Nicola Olysgers in Australia, double indoor world champion which won twice in Paris (2021, 2023), won the female high jump with the best of 2.00 m.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine, world champion and Olympic which established the current world record of 2.10 meters during the Diamond League competition last year in Paris, finished second with 1.97 m on the account of another Australian, Eleanor Patterson.
Grant Holloway, the triple world champion and Olympic gold medalist returning to action after a disastrous opening outing in China, could only finish fifth in the 110m hedges, although in a better 13.11 seconds.
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It was his American teammate Trey Cunningham who won a 13.00 -second personal record, ahead of Dylan Beard, also in a 13.02 seconds bp, while Jason Joseph set a Swiss record of 13.07 for the third.
And Spain Mohamed Attaoui chose an interior line to exceed the American duo of Josh Hoey and Bryce Hoppel in what he called a “brutal” 800m in a record of a season of 1: 42.73.
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