Jamaica’s Fraser-Pryce, contemporary from a fifth world 100m title in Eugene final month, clocked a world main 10.62 seconds for the win, the sixth quickest time ever run over the blue riband occasion.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (proper) gained the ladies’s 100m occasion on the Monaco Diamond League meet on 10 August 2022. Picture: @Diamond_League/Twitter
MONACO – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Noah Lyles underlined their dominant dash seasons with victories on the Monaco Diamond League on Wednesday, as Faith Kipyegon narrowly missed a sensational world record in the 1,500m.
Jamaica’s Fraser-Pryce, contemporary from a fifth world 100m title in Eugene final month, clocked a world main 10.62 seconds for the win, the sixth quickest time ever run over the blue riband occasion.
The Jamaican’s victory on the Stade Louis II was her third sub-10.70 run inside per week and noticed her grow to be the primary girl in historical past to interrupt 10.70 six instances in the identical season.
Her time additionally smashed the earlier meet better of 10.72sec set by disgraced American Marion Jones in 1998.
“I did what I needed to do and we had fun and let the clock do the talking,” stated Fraser-Pryce.
Lyles, who gained the world 200m title final month in a blistering 19.31sec, additionally set a meet record, clocking 19.46sec – the ninth quickest time ever run over the gap – to enhance on his personal earlier mark of 19.65 set again in 2018.
The American ran a robust bend in a US cleansweep, getting the higher of teenager Erriyon Knighton and world 400m champion Michael Norman.
“It’s my second best time ever tonight so I consider that a great race,” stated Lyles.
“Every time I come here I expect to run very fast and, if not a personal best, something close to it.”
World and Olympic 1,500m champion Kipyegon arguably produced the stand-out efficiency of a tremendous night time of monitor and area in balmy circumstances in entrance of a giant crowd.
The Kenyan ran the second quickest ever time over the gap as she gained in 3:50.37, falling just half a second wanting Ethiopian Genezebe Dibaba’s world record set in 2015, additionally in Monaco.
“I have been chasing the time for quite some time but I am happy with the personal best,” stated Kipyegon, who was left to bolt residence alone after each pacesetters had completed their jobs.
“I knew this was the best place to get the world record but I am so disappointed I lost it in the last metres.”
WIGHTMAN TAKES 1000M WIN
The first world champions’ duel of the night time noticed Briton Jake Wightman obliterate the meet record for a snug victory in the 1,000m in 2:13.88.
Wightman, a shock winner of the world 1500m title in Eugene, kicked with 150 metres to go to reel in Canada’s world 800m bronze medallist Marco Arop.
The world 800m champion, Kenya’s Emmanuel Korir, ran out of steam and eased as much as cross the road in final place.
“I did not really know I was in shape to do this today,” stated Wightman.
“It was just very, very hard,” he added. “I had to stay strong to be able to catch him. This is a really nice step towards the European championships in Munich where I will run the 800m.”
The 5 different world gold medallists on present all produced the products.
Two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas gained the ladies’s 400m in 49.28sec whereas American Grant Holloway claimed victory in 12.99sec in the boys’s 110m hurdles regardless of arriving in Monaco with no baggage, misplaced en route from a meet in Hungary.
Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber threw a better of 64.50m to win the ladies’s javelin, however Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas made laborious work for the triumph in the ladies’s triple soar, ultimately producing a successful effort of 15.01m after unusually opening with three no-marks.
Qatari Mutaz Barshim, whose gold in Eugene was his third world title, famously shared Olympic gold in Tokyo with Gianmarco Tamberi, however the Italian bailed out after just one profitable soar, on the opening top of two.20m, to complete eighth.
It regarded for a second like Barshim may need to share first place with South Korea’s Woo Sang-hyeok after each cleared 2.30m however failed at 2.32m with the identical soar countback.
Barshim promptly gained a golden jump-off at 2.30 for victory.
“Today felt like a marathon with too many jumps. I’m tired,” stated the Qatari.
