Three days after a mixed performance in Stockholm, shot putter Yemisi Mabry showed improvement on Wednesday at the Diamond League meeting in Oslo and took fourth place. Local hero Karsten Warholm experienced disappointment.
Shortly after their start in Sweden, middle distance runner Robert Farken and long hurdler Emil Agyekum were also there in the Norwegian metropolis. Olympic champion Mabry (MTG Mannheim) lifted the ball three times over 19 meters and took fourth place (19.19).
Indoor world champion Chase Jackson (USA) with a meeting record on the first attempt (20.74) and the Dutch world champion Jessica Schilder (20.11) both exceeded the 20-meter mark that Mabry is still waiting for this summer. This area should return to the European Championships in Birmingham (August 10th to 16th) at the latest. Canadian Sarah Mitton came third with 19.89 m.
Agyekum fifth in the battle of the giants
The Berliner Agyekum, who had increased his best performance on Sunday by eleven hundredths to 47.72 seconds, ran to a respectable fifth place in the battle of the giants between Alison dos Santos and world record holder Karsten Warholm in cool weather in 48.40 seconds. Warholm (47.40) really wanted to win in front of his own fans and gave everything, but the Brazilian (46.89) seemed more relaxed and spoiled the home party for the Tokyo Olympic champion.
Farken (SG Motor Gohlis-Nord Leipzig), who remained below the European Championship standard over 1,500 m in Sweden in 3:32.99 minutes, this time tackled the mile. However, the 28-year-old was passed through in the end after a brisk start and finished tenth in 3:49.74 minutes with Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot Kenya winning (3:48.21).
Over 5000 m, Maximilian Thorwirth (LAV Stadtwerke Tübingen) was the pacemaker in the slow start to his farewell season and dropped out as planned after four laps after illness and injury. In a fast race, the Ethiopian Addisu Yihune prevailed in 12:47.62 minutes and replaced Florian Bremm (Franconia Athletics) at the top of the world annual best list.
A total of ten athletes in Oslo were faster than the German, who shone with his 12:56.80 minutes in Turku, Finland, at the beginning of the month. Frederik Ruppert (LAV Stadtwerke Tübingen/12:57.61) and Mohamed Abdilaahi (Cologne Athletics/12:57.90) have also beaten 13:00.00 minutes this summer.
Tebogo teaches Gout Gout a lesson
In the eagerly awaited duel between Letsile Tebogo and U20 world record holder Gout Gout, the Olympic champion from Botswana sent a clear signal and won confidently in 19.84 seconds after a strong performance. The 18-year-old Australian, on the other hand, paid a lot of money on his debut in a 200-meter race in the Diamond League – sixth place in 20.60 seconds for the young challenger.
Things went better for other young stars: Over 800 meters, world champion and Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi and indoor world champion Cooper Lutkenhaus – at 17, the youngest athletics world champion in history – fought a tough fight. The Kenyan, who had already been beaten by Briton Max Burgin in Rabat (Morocco), seemed a little tired, but drew level in the final sprint. The young American resisted, crashed to the finish – and in the photo finish he was just a hundredth ahead in the world’s best time of the year and house record of 1:42.08 minutes. The youngster celebrated his second Diamond League victory within three days.
Javelin thrower Yan Ziyi, who achieved the second longest throw in the history of the 1999 modified throwing device at the Diamond League home game in Xiamen with 71.74 m, confirmed her performance from May with a dominant victory. With 67.11 m, the 18-year-old U20 world champion from China finished clearly in front.
Duplantis not there – Karalis gambles away
In the pole vault, the Australian Kurtis recorded his second success in a row in the absence of the Swedish high-flyer Armand Duplantis, to whom he had inflicted a surprising defeat in Stockholm. 5.82 m was enough to win ahead of Sondre Guttormsen (Norway/5.72) and Sam Kendricks (USA/5.72). World Cup runner-up Emmanouil Karalis gambled away: after mastering 5.62 m, the Greek missed 5.72 m and then failed three times at 5.82 m – only sixth place for the favorite.
Over 100 meters, Olympic champion Julien Alfred (St. Lucia) triumphed with wind support in 10.76 seconds ahead of Great Britain’s Amy Hunt, who again stayed under eleven seconds (10.99).