Sprint queen Jefferson-Wooden storms to big win in Brussels

American clocks 10.76 in girls’s 100m for emphatic victory as Niels Laros additionally impresses in 1500m in penultimate Diamond League of 2025

Melissa Jefferson-Wood’s sensible season continued as she powered to a giant victory within the girls’s 100m on the Diamond League in Brussels on Friday (Aug 22).

The American champion has received Diamond League races in Silesia and Eugene this summer season and has a better of 10.65 whereas right here in Brussels the 24-year-old clocked 10.76 (-0.2) as she scorched away from the remainder of the sector.

Runner-up behind the Olympic bronze medallist was Sha’Carri Richardson of the US with 11.08 as Britain’s Daryll Neita was third in 11.15 and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica fourth in 11.17.

„This was my first time operating in Brussels,“ Jefferson-Wood stated. „I am all the time wanting ahead to operating in new locations and to find new issues.

„I am going again house to the States to get some good coaching in and clear up the small issues. I do know that I am in nice form and that it is all about placing collectively the proper race on the excellent time, when it issues probably the most, and that’s on the World Championships in Tokyo.

„So now all of the small conferences are achieved and it is time to return house and work on the most important one of many season. The plan is unquestionably to go on the market and take gold. I really feel like I put myself in a very great place to be a contender for that and now it is time to have belief.“

One other athlete coming into improbable kind on the proper time is Niels Laros, because the middle-distance runner despatched out a warning shot to his 1500m rivals with a robust and dominant victory.

The Dutch runner, who remains to be solely 20, decisively kicked previous Phanuel Koech of Kenya coming into the house straight to win in emphatic vogue in 3:30.58.

Koech, who is just 18 himself, received the London Diamond League 1500m in spectacular type and clocked a world under-20 document of three:27.72 in Paris this summer season, however he was nearly a second behind Laros right here in 3:31.41.

Yared Nuguse of the US was third in 3:31.51. Such was the standard, Jake Wightman was ninth in 3:32.95 with Neil Gourley in tenth.

„That is my second Diamond League of the season and second win,“ stated Laros. „I select my races exactly and it is good that it seems this fashion.

„It’s undoubtedly completely different to race with out Jakob Ingebrigtsen. He’s typically the one who pushes the tempo when the pacemakers step out. The race turns into extra tactical with out him. I do not know if that is higher for me. Not essentially I feel as everybody within the race is succesful to deal with completely different race eventualities.

„I’m certified for Zurich (Diamond League last subsequent week). The race itself shouldn’t be actually necessary for me, however it’s necessary to be in a fine condition round that point of the season with the World Championships simply across the nook.

„I hope to battle once more for the win, however I cannot be disenchanted if the outcome shouldn’t be good. I had some setbacks earlier this season and I do know that I’m not in my very best form but.“

Agnes Ngetich of Kenya loved a runaway victory within the girls’s 5000m in 14:24.99 forward of a deliberate 5000m and 10,000m double in Tokyo subsequent month.

In fifteenth, Innes FitzGerald, the European under-20 3000m and 5000m winner not too long ago, continued her busy season by clocking 14:48.84 – marginally slower than the long-standing Zola Budd nationwide document that she smashed on the London Diamond League.

Katie Moon pipped Molly Caudery to the win within the girls’s pole vault. Each athletes had first-time clearances as much as 4.80m, however the American cleared 4.85m at her third try whereas Caudery could not handle the peak. Nonetheless, it was the very best British efficiency of the night time and exhibits she’s in good kind going into the countdown to Tokyo.

Nikki Hiltz of the US ran down Linden Corridor within the girls’s 1500m to win in 3:55.94 as Laura Muir handed a variety of rivals with a robust last 400m to complete fourth in a season’s better of 3:57.63.

Winfred Yavi ran the quickest time ever within the new girls’s one mile steeplechase occasion with 4:40.13. The occasion is because of be labeled as a world document occasion quickly however the jury remains to be out over how common it is going to be.

„It felt more durable than the 3000m,“ she stated. „I needed to change my jumps as I used to be operating sooner in direction of the steeple.“

Jacory Patterson received the boys’s 400m in 44.05 comfortably forward of fellow American Vernon Norwood as Charlie Dobson was third in 44.81 because the Briton beat, amongst others, Commonwealth champion Muzala Samukonga and European gold medallist Alexander Doom.

Earlier within the night, Chase Jackson of the US threw a gathering document of 20.90m within the girls’s shot put.

Britain’s Ethan Hussey ran 1:45.80 to win the 800m B race in Lausanne this week. Right here he clocked the same time – 1:45.92 – however wound up eighth as Eliott Crestan of Belgium received in 1:43.91.

There was a shock within the males’s discus as Ralford Mullings of Jamaica threw 69.66m to win his first-ever Diamond League as he beat world record-holder Mykolas Alekna, because the Lithuanian threw 68.82m as Olympic champion Roje Stona of Jamaica was solely seventh and Britain’s Lawrence Okoye did not register a mark.

The 3000m steeplechase additionally noticed a shock as former world champion Getnet Wale of Ethiopia was crushed by Ruben Querinjean because the Luxembourg athlete ran a nationwide document of 8:09.47.

Full outcomes right here