Karsten Warholm failed in the 400 meter hurdles in the Diamond League final. Rai Benjamin clocked the top result of the world season.
Karsten Warholm is the 400-meter hurdles Olympic champion, three-time world champion and two-time European champion. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS
Norway’s superman Karsten Warholm was humiliated again.
The 400-meter hurdler led the Diamond League Finals in Eugene until the last fence, until he got a little carried away and the U.S. Ray Benjamin stormed to victory with this season’s top result of 46.39. Warholm was second (46.53).
Warholm went from win to win this season, until at the end of August in the Zurich Diamond League, there was the first loss. Norski (47.30) beat Australia To Kyron McMaster (47,27).
– McMaster’s victory is not a surprise. He is on the rise, but despite his World Championship silver, he was not quite successful in Budapest. Karsten once again had such a strong charge in the honors that it will take some time to gather something similar again, Iltalehti’s athletics expert Arto Bryggare analyzed after the Zurich race.
McMaster was third in Eugene on Saturday (47.31).
Warholm is an Olympic champion in the 400-meter hurdles, a three-time world champion and a two-time European champion.
Comet from Japan
Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi dominates the women’s javelin. ZumaWire / MVPHOTOS
The women’s javelin throw went in a command familiar from recent times, when the Japanese comet Haruka Kitaguchi took the win (63.78) and the main prize money of about 28,125 euros. That’s the amount that each winner of their category earns from the diamond final.
Kitaguchi broke the Japanese record of 67.38 in the Brussels Diamond League last week. At the World Championships in Budapest, the woman won gold.
There were only five competitors in the men’s jump. An Italian with Cuban background took first place Andy Diaz with a tame result of 17.43.
A Korean high jumper was responsible for the hardest single result of the first events of the finals in Eugene Sanghyeok Woo. The result of 235 is the second highest of the season in the world and a South Korean record.