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Diamond League ultimate: Charlie Dobson claims shock 400m win in Brussels

In the meantime, Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith narrowly missed out on victory within the ladies’s 100m.

The 28-year-old, who gained silver within the 4x100m relay at this summer season’s Paris Video games, completed 0.04 seconds behind Olympic champion Julien Alfred of St Lucia, who crossed the end line with a time of 10.88s.

Alfred’s US rival Sha’Carri Richardson completed eighth within the nine-woman area, having eased off nicely earlier than the road as victory grew to become out of attain.

Second marks a optimistic finish to the season for Asher-Smith, who failed to achieve the ultimate of the 100m in Paris after ending fifth in her semi-final.

Ivorian Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith completed third with Britain’s Daryll Neita fourth.

Elsewhere, Sweden’s Armand Duplantis completed an unbeaten p[ole vault season on a excessive with a fifteenth and ultimate victory of the yr.

Duplantis set a brand new assembly document with 6.11m however was unable to enhance on his personal world document which he set for a tenth time on 25 August with a vault of 6.26m in Poland.

“My legs felt horrible tonight and I am simply actually drained,” he stated.

“That took much more from my physique that I anticipated. With 6.11m I obtained a great consequence, however the world document wasn’t meant to be tonight.”

Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake gained the boys’s 100m in 9.93s forward of People Christian Coleman (10.00s) and Olympic bronze medallist Fred Kerley (10.01s).

Olympic and world champion Marileidy Paulino continued her dominance on the monitor by successful the ladies’s 400m.

The Dominican Republic athlete took victory with a time 49.45s.

She is unbeaten in one-lap competitors since final yr’s Diamond League meet in Silesia, Poland. Eire’s Rhasidat Adeleke completed third.

Lastly, Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen took victory within the males’s 1500m with a time of three minutes and 30.37 seconds, holding off Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot and Paris Video games winner Cole Hocker.

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