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Long-standing distance marks fall at King Baudouin Stadium as Mondo Duplantis and Faith Kipyegon fall short with the best attempts in the world.
Sifan Hassan | and For Farah were the stars of the show at the Brussels Diamond League meeting on Friday (September 4), setting new one-hour world records.
The Dutchwoman, who won 10,000 gold meters at last year’s World Championships, broke the world marathon record. Brigid Kosgei in the last minute to cover a distance of 18,930 km.
Kosgei was later disqualified for entering the track.
And at the end of the night, Farah broke Haile Gebrselassie World’s best one hour running away from sparring partner Bashir Abdi on the way to a new mark of 21,330km.
Duplantis World he broke a meeting record of 6.00 m in the pole vault, but failed three times in a new outdoor world record of 6.15 m.
Faith kipyegon he was also unsuccessful in his attempt for the world record of 1000 meters inside the King Baudouin Stadium.
Brussels lit up by a couple of world records
Sifan Hassan set the first night world record in a women’s hour.
A pacemaker army He did an excellent job of circling the field at a world record pace practically from the start, which means the only question was who would finish in front.
Kosgei tried his best to get rid of the world track champion, but when the pistol indicated a minute to go, Hassan hit the front.
And despite Kosgei’s best efforts to stay with her, Hassan, the world record holder for over a mile, soon ran away.
His final distance was 18,930km, one lap more than the previous record of 18,517km set by Ethiopia. Say melody in 2008.
In his first official track race, Kosgei was disqualified for stepping on the sidewalk with second place for Israel, born in Kenya Lonah Saltpeter whose 18,571 km were also further than the best in the world before.
Hassan said in his interview on the track: “I am very happy. I never thought I was going to race until now. Actually, at first I did not feel good, but after a few minutes it became easier. It was a very strong race. Thank you. for organizing this at a very difficult time. I am very happy to be here. “
Farah’s record bet was in serious doubt after 35 minutes when the last pacemaker slipped away leaving him alone with his training partner Abdi.
At this point, viewers could see a hologram of Gebrselassie’s world record run in lane three about 10 meters ahead of the pair.
But Farah, yelled at by former Gebrselassie manager Jos Hermans, sped up the tempo to step in front of Wave Light’s timing guide on the sidewalk.
In his first track race in five years, Farah was doing most of the work up front, but Abdi took the lead with five minutes to go.
That move was clearly part of a plan, as he saw the Belgian break Gebrselassie’s 20km world record, unofficially timed at 56: 20.02, and gave the four-time Olympic champion a breather.
The Briton then launched a signature kick to pull away from his friend in the final stages and record a distance of 21,330km, just 55m beyond the mark of the great Ethhopian of 2007.
Farah said on the track afterwards: “That’s amazing. I am very happy to break the world record today. Me and Bashir Abdi worked together. I am very happy for him and me. An incredible race to do it and demonstrate.” people what is possible.
“I feel tired, but at the same time, in the middle of the race we had to work hard and come out. We were helping each other to get through it. It’s good to break a world record.” – Mo Farah
Faith Kipyegon failed in her bid for the 1000m world record after desperately closing in on Monaco three weeks ago.
The 1500m Olympic champion looked on course after 400m, but running alone during the last lap was difficult for the Kenyan, who clocked 2: 29.92, almost a second less than the double Olympic champion. By Svetlana Masterkova 1996 mark in the same stadium.
Just 48 hours after his sensational duel in the center of Lausanne with Sam kendricks, the world pole vault record holder Mondo Duplantis overcame six meters again in the open air.
The Swede then had three unsuccessful attempts at a new 6.15m outdoor world record, one centimeter more than Sergey bubka 6.14m mark since 1994, but only close with his first effort.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen he won his last race as a teenager, running the last lap in glorious isolation when he took the 1500m in 3: 30.69.
Heptathlon World Champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson had two best hits of the season in his two events of the night, although you may think he could have done better.
With local favorite and current Olympic champion Nafi Thiam Missing due to an Achilles tendon injury, the Briton came slowly off the blocks in the 100m hurdles on her way to fourth place behind Belgian Anne Zagre.
Despite that, his time of 13.57s was the fastest of the year as Zagre won in 13.21s.
In the high jump, she equaled her season’s best of 1.84m before three failures at 1.88m that put her in sixth place.
From Australia Nicola McDermott He was victorious with 1.91 m.
From Italy Eseosa Desalu He maintained his impressive recent form with a comfortable victory in the men’s 200m in 20.39 seconds.
Poland has strength in depth in the women’s 400 meters and Iga Baumgart-Witan He proved it here, posting the best 52.13 of a season.
