The second and ultimate evening of the Diamond League ultimate delivered extra shut racing in Brussels because the 2026 Wanda Diamond League season got here to a dramatic conclusion.
Audrey Werro, who front-ran majority of the 2 laps, held off a late cost from Femke Broeders-Bol to assert victory in an exhilarating girls’s 800m, with the Swiss athlete producing a gathering report of 1:54.75.
Broeders-Bol regarded set to overtake Werro within the ultimate phases, closing quickly down the house straight, however Werro discovered sufficient to carry on for the win.
“Final yr it was a little bit of a shock for me to win this title however this yr there was a bit bit extra strain and I feel I managed fairly properly with that.
“I knew Femke was simply behind me, I felt her. I feel it pushed me simply to only hold going quicker and quicker. Normally I feel it’s additionally a fantastic factor to have this sturdy adversity as a result of it exhibits me I shouldn’t keep in my consolation zone and I ought to proceed with my coaching.”
The previous 400m hurdler completed simply 0.06 behind in 1:54.81, with Ethiopia’s Saida Tsehaye initially taking third in 1:57.57.
Nevertheless, Tsehaye was later disqualified for a lane infringement, selling Switzerland’s Veronica Vancardo to 3rd in 1:58.66.
Speaking after the race, Broeders-Bol mentioned: “I’m very completely satisfied however a bit bit annoyed to get that shut.
“In all honesty, I wished to be in entrance however I felt within the first 50m Audrey was actually going for it. I spoke to my coach and we favor the entrance but when it isn’t that then it’s obtained to be from the again, which I made a decision it needed to be right now.
“I feel as a result of she [Werro] went out so quick I could not run a bit on the surface and wasn’t capable of decide up on the 200m half however I’m studying this half additionally. I’m completely satisfied I may nonetheless run a extremely good race when it’s my Plan B and never my Plan A that’s going into execution.”
There was additionally a shock outcome within the girls’s 1500m, the place Poland’s Klaudia Kazimierska produced a private finest of three:54.05 to assert the Diamond League title.
Nice Britain’s Georgia Hunter Bell, who has loved a outstanding season, may solely end fourth after fading over the ultimate lap however nonetheless completed with a season’s finest of three:56.40.
Hunter Bell admitted afterwards that fatigue had caught up along with her following a season which has included three main championship victories, in addition to a number of Diamond League wins and the British Championships.
“I hoped to win right now however actually the previous few days have been actually powerful mentally for me to only get the adrenaline going. I’ve finished so many races this yr, I feel that is my nineteenth race.
“Three championships, three titles, I’ve tapped into the adrenaline a lot that I’m working out of steam as we get in direction of the top of the season. However I hope {that a} little bit of disappointment right here signifies that I can come again and discover that fireplace once more.”
Within the girls’s 100m, Jamaica’s Tina Clayton produced a superb begin to take victory in 10.93 (0.3).
Nice Britain’s Amy Hunt continued her spectacular weekend by taking second in 11.06, including one other Diamond League ultimate podium to the third-place end she recorded in Friday evening’s 200m.
Sha’Carri Richardson completed third in 11.07.
Hunt was the one athlete to try a double throughout the 2 days of the Diamond League ultimate, and regardless of a packed season, she believes there’s nonetheless extra to return at subsequent week’s World Athletics Final Championship in Budapest.
There was one other standout efficiency within the males’s 200m as USA’s Kenny Bednarek stormed to victory in 19.62 (0.8).
The time equalled the world lead for the yr, with Bednarek pulling away from the sector to safe the Diamond League title regardless of the cool circumstances in Brussels.
South Africa’s Sinesipho Dambile took second in 19.89 whereas Makanakaishe Charamba from Zimbabwe completed third with 19.99.
Within the girls’s 400m, Marileidy Paulino produced one other spectacular efficiency to win in a brand new assembly report of 48.64.
The Dominican Republic athlete dominated the race so as to add one other Diamond League title to her assortment, ending forward of Henriette Jæger (49.20) and Nickisha Pryce (49.36).
Alison dos Santos arrived in Brussels recent from a 400m hurdles world report, having run 45.80 in Zurich final week, and he lived as much as expectations to assert the Diamond League title.
The Brazilian was unable to match that world-record tempo however nonetheless produced a gathering report of 46.70, successful by a cushty margin.
USA’s Trevor Bassitt completed second in 48.03, whereas Brazil’s Matheus Lima took third in 48.18.
Masai Russell was one other athlete arriving in Brussels after setting a world report in Zurich, with the American having run 12.09 within the 100m hurdles final week.
She additionally continued her successful type, taking the Diamond League title in a gathering report of 12.20. Russell was joined on the rostrum by coaching companion’s Devynne Charlton, who lowered her Bahamian nationwide report to 12.33 for second, and Jamaica’s Megan Simmonds who completed third in 12.43.
On the sector, Jamaica’s Rajindra Campbell produced the efficiency of his life within the males’s shot put, saving his finest till his ultimate throw.
Campbell launched the shot 23.08m to set a brand new Jamaican nationwide report, world lead and assembly report as he claimed the Diamond League title.
The mark strikes him to fourth on the all-time checklist and noticed him win by a major margin.
USA’s Jordan Geist completed second with 22.23m, whereas compatriot Joe Kovacs took third with 22.09m.
There was a shock winner within the girls’s excessive bounce as Eleanor Patterson denied world champion Nicola Olyslagers and Olympic champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh.
Patterson cleared 2.01m on her third try, only one centimetre shy of her private finest, to take the Diamond League title.
Mahuchikh was unable to clear 2.01m, having a better of 1.99m to complete second, whereas Olyslagers took third with 1.95m.
There was one other assembly report within the girls’s javelin, with China’s Ziyi Yan producing a finest throw of 68.42m to assert victory.
Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi completed second with a season’s better of 65.44m, whereas Flor Ruiz took third with 64.07m.
Full outcomes right here.
