Athletics

Namibia: Tebogo Tops 200m, Wanyonyi On Hearth in Combined Evening for Olympic Champs

August 23, 2024
Ibrahim

Emmanuel Wanyonyi went near breaking David Rudisha’s vaunted 800m world file in Thursday’s Diamond League meet in Lausanne in what was a combined night time for Olympic champions making their return after the Paris Video games.

Wanyonyi repeated the blistering type that noticed him win within the French capital, going inside 0.20 seconds of the 1min 40.91sec world file set by Rudisha when successful Olympic gold in London in 2012.

The Kenyan can have one other likelihood on the subsequent meet on the elite calendar, in Silesia, Poland on Sunday.

Different Olympic champions who have been profitable included Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo, who blasted to a formidable 19.64sec to win the 200m.

The 21-year-old, whose 200m gold in Paris was the primary ever for his nation, admitted that he had come to Lausanne on the again of eight days of no coaching, having made a rapturous return to Gaborone.

“Crucial factor for me is that even after such achievements like those I did on the Olympics, on the finish of the day, you simply need to preserve operating to take care of the shape all through the season,” he mentioned.

Greece’s Miltiadis Tentoglou left it late to win the lengthy soar in 8.06m and Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh claimed victory within the ladies’s excessive soar in 1.99m.

– Revenge for Ingebrigtsen –

It was not all excellent news for newly-crowned Olympic champions, nevertheless, with Grant Holloway, Cole Hocker and German shot putter Yemisi Ogunleye all failing to again up their Paris type by topping the Swiss podium.

There was at the very least some redemption for Norway’s Jakob Ingebrigtsen in beating Hocker within the 1500m.

The Norwegian had been an odds-on favorite for Olympic gold in Paris, however set out too rapidly and ultimately completed fourth.

“It has been virtually two weeks since Paris so there was loads of time to get better,” Ingebrigtsen mentioned of his win in a meet file of 3min 27.83sec.

“For me loads of it has been psychological together with going dwelling, taking some straightforward days after which getting again to work. Tonight’s race gave me good solutions.”

Maybe the largest upset was within the males’s 110m hurdles as Olympic champion and three-time world gold medallist Holloway was edged into second by Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell, who gained in 13.10sec.

“Coming off that prime from the Olympics, it is difficult to maintain that very same tempo, however I am centered on studying from this race to run higher subsequent time,” Holloway mentioned.

“As soon as you have reached your objectives, it may be although to maintain pushing, however I am ready to defend my world titles. So long as I am enhancing, it is a good signal.”

– Two-lap delight –

One of many occasions of the season has been, doubtless, the boys’s 800m, with 4 athletes within the Olympic ultimate dipping beneath the 1min 42sec mark for the primary time ever.

And as soon as once more it didn’t disappoint in Lausanne as Wanyonyi of Kenya set a sensational world lead of 1:41.11 for victory.

It was the joint second quickest time ever run — alongside Denmark’s Wilson Kipketer.

Aided by wavelength expertise and two pace-setters, Wanyonyi gritted his enamel proper by means of to the road, with Rudisha’s once-untouchable mark seemingly on the right track to be damaged at a while within the close to future.

Wanyonyi is not going to be resting on his laurels, nevertheless, heading straight to Poland for Sunday’s Diamond League meet, whereas additionally resulting from compete in subsequent month’s finals in Brussels.