Werro survives Broeders-Bol scare to seal Lausanne 800m

Audrey Werro held off a fast-closing Femke Broeders-Bol to win the Lausanne Diamond League 800m in a gathering document, with the pair now set to conflict with Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell and Lilian Odira in Zurich subsequent week.

Audrey Werro was unstoppable on the European Championships in Birmingham final week and right here, on the Diamond League on house soil in Lausanne on Friday (Aug 21), she was all the time going to be robust to beat.

Femke Broeders-Bol got here near an upset, although, as the previous hurdler made up a deficit of a few metres with an enormous house straight surge to virtually catch Werro on the road.

Werro clocked a meet document of 1:55.33 with Broeders-Bol, who seems higher each time she tackles 800m, breaking Ellen van Langen’s Dutch document with 1:55.41.

The 2 athletes embraced one another with a smile instantly after ending however Werro will little doubt be slightly apprehensive that Broeders-Bol pushed her so shut. The 2 will race once more, too, in an excellent greater 800m showdown with Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson, European 1500m champion Georgia Hunter Bell and world 800m gold medallist Lilian Odira in Zurich in per week’s time.

In third, in the meantime, Saida Tsehaye, who turned 18 final month, clocked a powerful 1:56.92 on this ever-evolving occasion.

Werro stated: „I actually loved the race, particularly with all of the followers who got here to assist me. The turnaround after the European Championships was very brief, so I needed to get better rapidly and I felt extra drained than normal as we speak. Regardless of that I managed to win, so I am very glad.“

Broeders-Bol stated: „I am very glad and proud, this was a terrific race after the European Championships. I am not glad that I let somebody move me whereas I used to be nonetheless feeling good (Tsehaye down the again straight) however that’s one thing I wanted to be taught and I discovered it by expertise as we speak.

„The Europeans gave me confidence and this race provides me much more confidence that I belong with the very best. I must belief myself, maintain pushing after 500 metres, cease defending myself an excessive amount of and easily take pleasure in racing.“

The lads’s 800m was additionally a terrific race as Emmanuel Wanyonyi, the Olympic champion from Kenya, completed strongly to clock 1:42.19 as he held off Djamel Sedjati of Algeria (1:42.31).

Marco Arop of Canada had boldly adopted the pacemaker by 400m in 48.86 however paid for it within the house straight as he pale to fourth in 1:43.18 with Brandon Miller of america (1:42.55) additionally passing him.

Amy Hunt’s go to to Lausanne to tackle among the finest sprinters on the planet at 200m following her 4 gold medals on the European Championships was extremely anticipated. However the story of the race was Shericka Jackson, the second-fastest lady in historical past over 200m, pulled up sharply with harm because the runners got here into the house straight.

Kayla White of america remained unfazed as she went on to win her first-ever Diamond League race in 22.18 (0.3) within the cool overcast circumstances, as Hunt snatched second place from Favour Ofili of Nigeria – the 2 girls given the identical time of twenty-two.32.

One other Europe versus Remainder of the World match-up got here within the girls’s 100m hurdles with Masai Russell of america clocking a meet document of 12.27 (-0.2) forward of Nadine Visser, the champion in Birmingham final week, who clocked 12.42 right here.

Emma Zapletalová continued her domination of the ladies’s 400m hurdles this summer time together with her fifth Diamond League win of 2026, her 52.41 being the second-fastest time on the planet this 12 months.

Birhanu Balew of Bahrain confirmed his rivals a clear pair of heels within the males’s 5000m as he eased clear within the last 200m to win in 12:57.55. Behind, there was an enormous scrap between People for the minor locations with Parker Wolfe second in 12:58.20, Nico Younger third in 12:58.33 and Graham Blanks fourth in 12:59.16. US record-holder Grant Fisher, in the meantime, was again in eleventh in 13:07.74.

Within the males’s 400m hurdles Rai Benjamin gained his first race of the 12 months with an excellent 46.67, breaking Ed Moses‘ 47.14 meet document from 1981 and beating the remainder of the sphere by properly over a second.

Winfred Yavi of Bahrain additionally set a meet document, this time within the 3000m steeplechase, of 9:00.04 as Britain’s Elise Thorner clocked 9:18.29 in eighth with European champion Gesa Krause a DNF.

The 200m noticed Letsile Tebogo of Botswana win with 19.87 (-0.3) as Britain’s Zharnel Hughes was fifth with 20.33.

Within the discipline, Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage of Sri Lanka threw 88.14m within the javelin to beat Neeraj Chopra of India by 9cm, whereas within the girls’s occasion Haruka Kitaguchi of Japan threw a season’s better of 64.90m to win.

The lads’s triple leap noticed Pedro Pichardo of Portugal win with 17.44m (-1.0) as European champion Andy Díaz Hernández was third.

Miltos Tentoglou of Greece gained the lads’s lengthy leap with 8.24m (2.1) as Simon Ehammer of Switzerland was runner-up with 8.13m (1.3).

Hana Moll of america jumped 4.84m to win the ladies’s pole vault forward of European champion Angelica Moser of Switzerland, who cleared 4.74m.

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