The 2025 Diamond League season is up and operating
There was the nice, the unhealthy, the surprising and the thrilling. There have been the totally predictable, the shocks and the down-right unusual! It was good to have the Diamond League season again even when a few of it had an actual early season really feel to it.
Enterprise as typical
Yaroslava Mahuchikh received the excessive bounce.
Mondo successful the pole vault with 3 vaults.
Beatrice Chebet received the 5000m adopted by 6 Ethiopians.
Valarie Allman successful the discus.
Shocks
Gent Hollaway dropping – race received by Cordell Tinch.
El Bakkali crushed within the steeplechase – by Sanuek Firewu.
Wonderful performances
Jessica Schilder successful the shot with 20.47 (together with her first throw).
Bayapo Ndori successful the 400m in 44.25.
Mingzun Zhang successful the lengthy bounce.
Anania Battle successful 200 in 22.41.
Aline Sambini successful the 100m in 9.99.
Danielle Williams successful the 100m hurdles – see separate put up.
Disappointing
Mujinga Kambundji eighth within the 200 after successful the world indoors 60m.
Christian Coleman and Letsile Tebogo fourth and seventh within the 100m.
Uncommon occasions
Religion Kipyegon successful the 1000 however failing to interrupt the world document. Nonetheless she was recorded as setting a Assembly Document and a World Lead – so, what number of occasions has the 1000 been run this season and what number of occasions ever in Xiamen?).
Karsten Warholm successful the 300m hurdles. We perceive that it was a WR, WL, MR, DLR, WPB and so far as we all know the quickest time by a Norwegian in Asia on a Saturday on which there was a papal funeral.
Early season
Yaroslava Mahuchikh received the excessive bounce with out clearing 2 meters.
Mondo failing at 6.01.
RunBlogRun needs to congratulate the big variety of athletes who achieved a season’s finest, particularly those that had been of their first competitors this season!
Sartorial magnificence prize
Marquis Dendy for his brilliant orange hat.
Britwatch
Morgan Lake 5th within the excessive bounce, Amy Hunt fifth within the 200, Jeremiah Azu third within the 100. Can’t assist saying it, Jeremiah, however 6095 miles is quite a bit strategy to go to run for 10.17 seconds.
Finest piece of commentary:
Hannah England on the 1000m. “1000m is a horrible distance. You must run at 800 tempo after which preserve going one other 200”.
Better of the flashquotes
“I should examine with my coach the place I can do higher subsequent time”. Shericka Jackson
“My ft aren’t good”. Gudaf Tsegay
“I’m not excellent at indoors”. Chase Jackson
Misplaced in translation. Yaming Zhu on his triple bounce efficiency “We made some adjustment for this race”.
“It’s an extended journey to be right here”, Jenna Prandini
“I simply wish to bounce as excessive as I can”. Nicola Olysagers
“I feel this stadium is even higher than the Birdsnest in Beijing”. Marquis Dendy
“That 15 hour flight harm, however I needed to suck it up and get out right here and compete”. Anavia Battle. She received!
“Probably not as a result of the season remains to be new”. Beatrice Chebet. Good reply simply want I knew what the query was!
And all of it begins once more in Shanghai subsequent Saturday.
