Photo: Stephenie Ann McPherson won the women’s 400m at the Oslo Diamond League Meet on Friday.
Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers produced a stadium warming run en route to winning the Women’s 200m on a chilly night at the Oslo’s Exxon Mobil Bislett Games in Norway. This was the seventh stop on the IAAF Diamond League circuit.
The 2015 World Champion at 200m was away from the start and left the chasing pack for dead as she crossed the line in a Diamond League record, world leading and meeting record of 21.93 seconds.
In what was built as rematch of the top two from the 2015 World Championships, Elaine Thompson was left behind from the start and never changed any gear to finish second in a modest 22.64 seconds.
Third place went to Bulgaria Ivet Lalova Collio in 22.7 8 and fourth was fellow Jamaican, Simone Facey in 22.88 seconds.
Schippers time eclipsed the from the Gwen Torrence 1994 meeting record by 0.01 and erased the IAAF Diamond League record of 21.98 held jointly by Veronica Campbell-Brown and Allyson Felix.
Jamaican Stephanie Ann McPherson was the nation’s top performer on the night copping the Women’s 400m in 51.04 seconds, ahead of USA’s Natasha Hastings 51.38 seconds and fellow country woman Novelene Williams- Mills in 51.66 seconds.
Canada’s Andre De Grasse edged USA’S Mike Rodgers 10.07 to 10.09 to win the men’s 100m. Third spot went to USA’s Dentarius Locke in 10.12 seconds. Veteran and early race leader Kim Collins pulled up with a groin strain and finished back of the field in 11.59 seconds.
It was all American in the women’s 100m hurdles was won by Brianna Rollins in 12.56, well ahead of 2008 Olympic champion Dawn Harper Nelson, who clocked a 12.75 sec and third was Jasmin Stowers in 12.79 seconds.
The men’s 400m hurdles went to Turkey’s Yasmani Copello in 48.79 seconds ahead of Puerto Rican Javier Culson 48.99, and American Michael Tinsley 49.02 respectively.
In a hotly contested Men’s Shot Put contest USA’s Joe Kovacs produced sixth round mark of 22.01m to stave off challenge from Poland’s 19-year-old Konrad Bukowiecki who went out to world junior leading mark of 21.14m in the fourth round. Third shot went to another Polish athlete in Tomasz Majewski with 20.56m. Jamaica’s O’Dayne Richards was sixth place with a below par 19.14m.
Other highlights in the field came in the Men’s Javelin where Germany’s Thomas Rohler produced an impressive world leading mark of 89.30m to secure the win. His compatriot Johannes Vetter was second with an 87.11m throw. Trinidad and Tobago’s Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott was third with 86.35m.
Sandra Perkovic was the first winner of the evening, dominating the field in the discus to maintain her unbeaten streak in the 2016 IAAF Diamond League. The Olympic champion’s best on the day was 67.10m, but each of her four measured efforts were better than runner-up Nadine Muller’s 63.09m.
The middle and long distance events produced some good races on the night with the dominace from the African nations. Kenya’s pair of Asbel Kiprop and Faith Kipyegon dominated their respective Dream Miles.
Kirop won in a world leading 3:51.48 seconds ahead of fellow country man Elijah Manangoi 3:52.04 and Algeria’s Olympic champion Taoufik Makhloufi 3:52.24, who were second and third respectively.
Kipyegon comfortably took care of the women’s race in world leading effort of 4:18.60 seconds. Great Britain’s Laura Muir was second in 4:19.12 seconds and Sweden’s Meraf Bahta in 4:25.26 seconds.
2015 World Champion and the invincible looking Kenyan Hyvin Kiyeng, put on a master class in the 3000m steeplechase, beating a solid field by nearly 10 seconds in 9:09.57.Ethiopians Sofia Assefa and Etenesh Diro finished second and third in 9:18.53 and 9:19.40 respectively.
Hagos Gebrhiwet led a top-three sweep for Ethiopia in the men’s 5000m in 13:07.70, holding off Muktar Edris (13:08.11) and Yomif Kejelcha (13:08.34) with a 53.9-second last lap.
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