Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon continued the world record streak with a best one mile in Monaco. European javelin champion Julian Weber has to be satisfied with second place.
Kenyan Faith Kipyegon has broken her third world record in seven weeks. The 29-year-old middle-distance runner not only set the world record number three in 4:07.64 minutes at the Diamond League meeting in Monte Carlo over a mile.
At the same time, she smashed Sifan Hassan’s record. The Dutchwoman finished four years ago – also in Monaco – in 4:12.33 minutes. The two-time Olympic champion and world champion Kipyegon had already set world records over 1,500 meters (3:49.11 minutes) and 5,000 meters (14:05.20 minutes) in June.
Although European Champion Julian Weber took second place for the best placement of the three German starters in the Principality, he struggled with the distance of 84.23 meters. At the German championships two weeks earlier, the man from Mainz had thrown a distance of 88.72 meters. “Of course I wanted more. I wanted to win,” said Weber. The Czech Jakub Vadlejch secured victory with 85.95 meters.
Hartmann sprints to sixth place
European Championship runner-up Bo Kanda Lita Baehre finished fourth in the pole vault. With three jumps he came up to 5.72 meters, but then got out injured. The Swedish world record holder Armand Duplantis unexpectedly did not get past this height. He had to share fourth place with Lita Baehre and Sam Kendricks (USA), who was also tied. Christopher Nilsen (USA) won with 5.92 meters.
Joshua Hartmann finished 6th in the 10.15 seconds over 100 meters. In the national title fights, the Cologne sprinter had recently improved the German record over 200 meters to 20.02 seconds. The fastest sprinter was Ferdinand Omanyala (Kenya) in 9.92 seconds.
Olympic champion Karsten Warholm stayed well below his world record (45.94 seconds) over 400 meters hurdles. The Norwegian still won in the world best time of 46.51 seconds ahead of world champion Alison dos Santos from Brazil, who finished second in 47.66 seconds.
