Diamond League closing: GB’s Daryll Neita second in 200m in Brussels

In the meantime, there was extra frustration for Britain’s Molly Caudery within the ladies’s pole vault as she narrowly missed out on a podium spot.

Caudery, who was eradicated from qualifying on the Paris Video games with a no mark, jumped a better of 4.80m to complete fourth in Brussels, with Olympic champion Nina Kennedy clearing 4.88m to say victory.

Kenyan Religion Kipyegon stormed to victory within the ladies’s 1500m to win her fourth successive Diamond League title and fifth general.

The 30-year-old, who broke the Olympic document when claiming 1500m gold in Paris, was pushed onerous by Ethopia’s Diribe Welteji however crossed the road in a gathering document time of three minutes 54.75 seconds.

Olympic silver medallist Jess Hull of Australia was third.

Britain’s Georgia Bell, who received bronze in Paris, and Melissa Courtney-Bryant completed seventh and ninth respectively.

Olympic males’s 200m champion Letsile Tebogo missed out on a fifth straight Diamond League win of the season after being crushed by American Kenny Bednarek.

Bednarek, who took silver in Paris, crossed the road simply 0.13 seconds away from Tebogo in a time of 19.67.

Alexander Ogando of the Dominican Republic completed third in 19.97 – the one different athlete to go sub-20.

Within the males’s excessive bounce, Italian Gianmarco Tamberi bounced again from his Olympic disappointment to say victory.

Tamberi, the 2020 Olympic champion, might solely end eleventh in Paris after his preparations had been hampered by sickness and damage.

However he returned to kind by clearing 2.34m to edge out Oleh Doroshchuk of Ukraine, with South Korea’s Sanghyeok Woo third.

The ultimate occasion of the night noticed Olympic bronze medallist Femke Bol of the Netherlands declare her fourth successive Diamond League title with a dominant victory within the ladies’s 400m hurdles.

Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone was ineligible for the occasion having not competed on the Diamond League circuit this season.

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