The top of the season will get loopy. Stuart Weir is on trip, as am I. Throughout my day without work, I’m posting a number of tales a day I missed in September. I encourage you to your indulgence, however some enjoyable items on the ship of the season. That is the intro to the Van Damme Memorial Quantity 47!
Brussels Overview
There was a plethora of superstars: Mondo, Shericka, Elaine, Femke, Jakob… We anticipated a lot and weren’t upset. There was a world file for Jakob within the 2000 meters to comply with his world file in Paris within the 2 miles. I hear that he shall be making an attempt the World file on the 2023 meters subsequent. Jakob is a superb athlete, however to maintain claiming world data for not often run, non-championship distances? Come on! You’ll not be shocked to know that the official outcomes report a season’s finest for each finisher and nationwide and space data galore!
There was hypothesis that Shericka Jackson would get near the world 200m file of 21.34. She did, however not fairly shut sufficient, having to accept a gathering file of 21.48. Shericka is so laid again that getting any response from her is difficult. She advised me that she didn’t really feel any strain from folks’s expectations of a world file.
Newly topped world champion Femke Bol received the 400 as anticipated in a gathering file of 52.11, commenting: “It was my first Brussels Diamond League assembly, and I beloved it a lot. The gang was wonderful. So loud. It was like being at residence”. Mondo received 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 well-liked, 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.
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 file however nonetheless ending second to Laura Muir, who received in 3:55.34 to comply with her 800m victory in Zurich final week.
Haruka Kitaguchi, who received the world javelin title final month by taking the lead along with her sixth throw, produced an identical flourish right here as her closing effort went out to a world-leading Japanese file 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 profitable the ladies’s 5K in 14:26.46.
