Armand Duplantis and Jakob Ingebrigtsen thrilled spectators as they set world data on the Silesia Diamond League assembly on Sunday. Duplantis celebrated in his ordinary exuberant model as he set a brand new mark of 6.26 metres within the pole vault, lower than three weeks after he final broke it when defending his Olympic title in Paris. The 24-year-old Swede was congratulated by Polish President Andrzej Duda, who got here onto the monitor and shook his hand.
“Everything just came together to allow me to do this,” mentioned Duplantis, whose first world file additionally got here in Poland in February, 2020.
“I know a lot of people came here to see me jump, so I wanted to put in a good showing for them.
“This yr I centered on the Olympics, the file simply got here naturally as a result of I used to be in good condition.
“So I am not surprised with the record today, but I am thankful.”
In the three,000 metres, Ingebrigtsen, who misplaced his 1500m Olympic crown however received the 5,000m title, held his palms to his face in astonishment, then on high of his, head mouth agape, after posting a time of 7min 17.55sec.
The 23-year-old Norwegian smashed Kenyan Daniel Komen’s 28-year-old mark by greater than three seconds.
“It feels special, amazing,” mentioned Ingebrigtsen.
“I was hoping to challenge the world record here, but based on my training, I can never predict exactly what kind of time I am capable of.
“I might not have imagined I might run 7:17, although.”
Kenya’s Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi had entertained hopes of breaking compatriot David Rudisha’s 800m world record of 1:40.91 set as he won Olympic gold in London in 2012.
However, Wanyonyi’s thunder was stolen by his great rival over the distance Canada’s world champion Marco Arop, who looked on course to set the record himself until tying up in the final few metres.
Arop, who took silver behind Wanyonyi in Paris earlier this month, finished in 1:41.86.
Expectations had been high for Wanyonyi after he went within 0.20sec of Rudisha’s mark in Lausanne last Thursday.
Nevertheless he sounded less than enamoured at the hype that had surrounded him potentially breaking the record.
“My physique didn’t reply effectively however I’ve completed my finest,” he said.
“I don’t like when folks say that I’m going to interrupt the world file.
“I do not want to say anything about the record.”
‘Fire in me’
Another Olympic champion from Africa, Letsile Tebogo, made no mistake within the 200m. The 21-year-old Botswanan swept imperiously previous American Kenny Bednarek, who had led into the straight, to win.
Tebogo, who was awarded two homes and a diamond on his return dwelling following the Olympics, timed a meet file of 19.83sec.
Femke Bol and Karsten Warholm each set meet data within the ladies’s and males’s 400m hurdles, exhibiting they’d shrugged off the frustration of failing to win the Olympic titles in Paris.
Dutch star Bol had cried after she did not mount a problem to Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone in Paris, ending third, however with the American absent received her second Diamond League race inside per week, timing 52.13sec.
Warholm has needed to recover from his Olympic disappointment in being dethroned as champion by Rai Benjamin, the Norwegian doing it in the easiest way attainable in a time of 46.95sec.
“I wanted to do this race well before the Diamond League final (Brussels September 13/14) so it feels nice to come out and to see the momentum going after the Olympics,” mentioned Warholm.
“It has been tough getting up after such a big competition, but today felt good.”
The charismatic 28-year-old mentioned he hoped he would by no means once more run as flat as he did within the Olympic remaining the place he nonetheless took silver.
“I did not have it in me in the most important day of the year,” he mentioned.
“We need to go back to work and to make sure it does not happen again.
“As lengthy as I’ve the fireplace in me, which continues to be burning proper now, I’ll carry on going.”
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