George Mills ran the second quickest time by a Briton within the males’s 1500m as he completed third on the Diamond League in Paris.
After beating Sir Mo Farah’s long-standing British 5,000m report in Oslo final week, Mills, 26, once more bettered Farah to climb to second within the all-time UK listing with a time of three minutes 28.36 seconds.
Solely Josh Kerr has run the gap sooner for Nice Britain – in 3:27.79 on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Azzedine Habz received the race in entrance of his dwelling crowd by clocking 3:27.49 – a meet report and French nationwide report – whereas Kenya’s Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech set a world junior report in second within the non-Diamond League race.
Nice Britain’s Amy Hunt took second within the ladies’s 200m with a season greatest 22.45 to complete behind American Anavia Battle whereas former world champion Dina Asher-Smith needed to accept sixth regardless of a fast begin.
Georgia Hunter Bell, concentrating on her second Diamond League win of the season, additionally completed sixth within the ladies’s 1500m as Eire’s Sarah Healy got here second with a private greatest 3:57.15, behind Kenya’s Nelly Chepchirchir.
The Diamond League will transfer to Eugene and Monaco subsequent earlier than the sequence visits the UK for a sold-out London Athletics Meet on 19 July.
The finals will happen in Zurich on 27 and 28 August – simply over a fortnight earlier than the beginning of the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
