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Brussels Overview
The 47th Allianz Memorial van Damme passed off on Friday, 11 September in Brussels’ iconic King Baudouin Stadium (previously Hysel), in-built 1930 and used for worldwide soccer/soccer video games. The meet title recollects Ivo van Damme, a Belgian middle-distance runner who gained two medals within the 1976 Olympics earlier than tragically dying in a street accident the next 12 months. The 2-hour Diamond League was proceeded by a two-and-a-half-hour pre-program of youth and nationwide occasions.
There was a plethora of superstars: Mondo, Shericka, Elaine, Femke, Jakob… We anticipated a lot and weren’t disillusioned. There was a world report for Jakob within the 2000 meters to comply with his world report in Paris within the 2 miles. I hear that he shall be trying the World report on the 2023 meters subsequent. Jakob is an excellent athlete, however to maintain claiming world information for hardly ever run, non-championship distances? Come on! You’ll not be stunned to know that the official outcomes report a season’s finest for each finisher and nationwide and space information galore!
There was hypothesis that Shericka Jackson would get near the world 200m report of 21.34. She did, however not fairly shut sufficient, having to accept a gathering report of 21.48. Shericka is so laid again that getting any response from her is tough. She instructed me that she didn’t really feel any strain from folks’s expectations of a world report.
Newly topped world champion Femke Bol gained the 400 as anticipated in a gathering report of 52.11, commenting: “It was my first Brussels Diamond League assembly, and I beloved it a lot. The group was wonderful. So loud. It was like being at residence”. Mondo gained the pole vault with 6.10, and Yaroslava Mahuchikh took the excessive bounce with one other 2-meter bounce. Ukrainian victories are all the time common, the extra in order Yaroslava now lives in Belgium. Cynthia Bolingo’s win within the 400 in 50.09 additionally gave the house crowd one thing else to cheer.Â
Zharnel Hughes ran 19.82 whereas affected by flu. What would he run if he was wholesome?
The ladies’s 1500 was arguably the race of the night time, with Ciara Mageean working an Irish report however nonetheless ending second to Laura Muir, who gained in 3:55.34 to comply with her 800m victory in Zurich final week.
Haruka Kitaguchi, who gained the world javelin title final month by taking the lead together with her sixth throw, produced an analogous flourish right here as her ultimate effort went out to a world-leading Japanese report of 67.38m.
Unusually at a Diamond League, there was a 5K and a 10K, which resulted in two Kenyan winners, with Daniel Ebenyo taking the boys’s 10K in a PR of 26:57.80 and Lilian Rengeruk of Kenya successful the ladies’s 5K in 14:26.46.
