British sprinter simply defeats top-class 200m discipline as Megan Keith runs UK under-23 5000m file at similar assembly
The lengthy journey to China paid off for British duo Daryll Neita and Megan Keith as they posted nice early-season outcomes.
Competing in Suzhou, simply outdoors Shanghai, on Saturday (April 27) on the second Diamond League of the 2024 season, Neita ran 22.62 (0.2) to beat a discipline that included world 100m champion Sha’Carri Richardson of america and European 200m gold medallist Mujinga Kambundji of Switzerland.
Keith, in the meantime, clocked a 13-second PB of 14:43.24 to complete eighth in a girls’s 5000m received by Mekedes Alemeshete in 14:36.70 forward of fellow Ethiopians Ayal Dagnachew and Letesenbet Gidey. For Keith, who turned 22 a couple of days in the past, it was an Olympic qualifying mark, British under-23 file and locations her No.5 on the UK all-time rankings. It comes six weeks after her Olympic qualifier of 30:36.84 for 10,000m at The Ten in California, too.
In her first out of doors race of 2024, Neita received comfortably forward of Anavia Battle (22.99) and Richardson (23.11). “My coach has been killing me in exercises so I actually had no concept how I used to be going to do at the moment,” mentioned Neita. “I got here right here praying and hoping for the win and to come back out and win it in an honest time in such a robust discipline, I really feel actually assured going ahead.”
The British sprinter, who is predicated in Italy underneath coach Marco Airale, will now run a sequence of early-season races such because the Diamond League in Doha and the adidas Atlanta Metropolis Video games. “My plan is simply to remain wholesome and in a single piece and prepare for the summer time,” she mentioned. “Particular person medals are the aim for this summer time. I’m aiming for the highest. Why not?”
One week after enhancing his world file to six.24m on the Diamond League in Xiamen, Mondo Duplantis received the boys’s pole vault once more with 6.00m earlier than failing three makes an attempt at 6.25m.
Mondo Duplantis (Diamond League)
“It was essential for me to come back and leap nicely at the moment, be certain I obtained the win over a troublesome group of men,” he mentioned. “I by no means complain once I leap over six metres and get a Diamond league win.”
South Africa’s Akani Simbine beat American duo Christian Coleman and Fred Kerley within the males’s 100m as he ran 10.01 (-0.1) to Coleman’s 10.04 and Kerley’s 10.11.
Akani Simbini (Diamond League)
“We at all times know that the final a part of my race is fairly robust and it exhibits,” mentioned Simbine. “I’m proud of popping out right here and replicating what I did final week at nationals and having a robust final half.”
Selemon Barega received the boys’s 5000m in a gathering file of 12:55.68, with fellow Ethiopian Biniam Mehary runner-up in a PB of 12:56.37 and Kenya’s Benson Kiplangat third in 12:58.78. Solely 17, Mehary was ninth on this planet indoor 1500m ultimate in Glasgow.
Selemon Barega (Diamond League)
Tobi Amusan was disqualified from the ladies’s dash hurdles after a false begin however, working underneath protest, the Nigerian completed first in an in depth race from Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Devynne Charlton. Camacho-Quinn was given the win, although, in 12.63 (0.3).
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (Diamond League)
Within the males’s 800m, Algeria’s Slimane Moula led into the house straight and held off Kenya’s Wycliffe Kinyamal to win in 1:44.55 to Kinyamal’s 1:44.88, with USA’s Clayton Murphy third in 1:45.18 and Britain’s Ethan Hussey fifth in 1:45.55.
Slimane Moula (Diamond League)
Within the throws, Valarie Allman received the ladies’s discus with 69.86m forward of China’s Feng Bin who threw 67.11m, whereas Cuba’s Yaimé Pérez was third with 65.59m. “I really feel like issues have been so near connecting to that large throw,” mentioned Allman. “However I’m all into attempting to make it occur and excited to get again with my coach and put within the work. It’s giving me some good confidence at this level within the yr.”
Chase Jackson of america received the ladies’s shot with 20.03m with Canada’s Sarah Mitton second with 19.86m and China’s Tune Jiayuan third with 19.83m.
Within the girls’s javelin, world champion Haruka Kitaguchi of Japan threw 62.97m to win from Australia’s Mackenzie Little (62.12m) Colombia’s Flor Denis Ruiz Hurtado (60.70m).
Flor Denis Ruiz Hurtado, Haruka Kitaguchi, Mackenzie Little
On a weekend that noticed Britain’s Jacob Fincham-Dukes rise to No.6 on the UK all-time rankings with 8.20m (1.2) in Austin, Texas, the lengthy leap at this Diamond League was received by Marquis Dendy of america with 8.05m (-0.2) forward of Chinese language athletes Wang Jianan (8.04m) and Shi Yuhao (7.99m).
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