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South Africa&rsquo;s Prudence Sekgodiso achieved her first ever victory in a Wanda Diamond League meeting, winning the 800m at the Meeting International Mohammed VI d&rsquo;Athl&eacute;tisme in Marrakesh in a world-leading 1:57.26 on Sunday (19).
There were also meeting records for Chase Jackson in the women&rsquo;s shot put and Lazaro Martinez in the men&rsquo;s triple jump, while home favourite Soufiane El Bakkali once again delivered in the steeplechase.
Sekgodiso had been undefeated so far this year on home turf, but this was the 22-year-old&rsquo;s first international race of the season and she duly raised her game. Olympic finalist Habitam Alemu of Ethiopia led through the first lap in 57.07, but Sekgodiso timed her finish to perfection to emerge victorious with her second PB of the year, taking 0.79 off the mark she set in Pretoria in March.
Alemu was second in 1:57.70 and Noelie Yarigo was further back in third in 1:59.96.
In the final race of the night, El Bakkali ensured the fans in the stadium went home happy as he triumphed in the steeplechase.
The Moroccan was contesting his first steeplechase of the season and was up against talented Ethiopian duo Getnet Wale and Samuel Firewu, as well as Kenya&rsquo;s Amos Serem. After an opening kilometre of 2:42.62 from the pacemaker, Wale took up the running and led through 2000m in 5:30.66.
He ended up as El Bakkali&rsquo;s toughest challenger in the closing stages, but the world and Olympic champion crossed the line first in 8:09.40 to maintain his winning streak. Wale was a close second in 8:09.78 with Serem a further second back in third.
There was an even closer finish in the women&rsquo;s 5000m. A breakaway pack of five women &ndash; comprising Kenya&rsquo;s Edinah Jebitok and Ethiopia&rsquo;s Medina Eisa, Fotyen Tesfay, Melknat Wudu and Likina Amebaw &ndash; emerged in the closing stages. That was reduced to three on the final lap as Tesfay, Eisa and Jebitok started to sprint for the line.
Just when it looked as though Tesfay was going to hold on, her compatriot Eisa came charging through to take the win by 0.05 in 14:34.16. Tesfay was at least rewarded with a PB, as was Jebitok (14:35.64).
Shortly before the Ethiopian 1-2 in the 5000m, there was a Kenyan 1-2 in the men&rsquo;s 800m.
The consistent Emmanuel Wanyonyi, still just 19 years of age, held off a strong challenge from compatriot Wyclife Kinyamal to win in 1:43.84. Kinyamal followed in 1:43.98 while France&rsquo;s Yanis Meziane was third (1:44.13).
France&rsquo;s Azeddine Habz stole a march on a competitive 1500m field to run away with victory in 3:32.86. Contesting his first outdoor race of 2024, the European indoor bronze medallist positioned himself near the front of the pack from the outset while Ethiopia&rsquo;s Lamecha Girma initially stayed towards the back of the field.
Girma, along with British duo Elliot Giles and George Mills, moved up through the field with a lap to go, but Habz had already started his long run for home by then and could not be caught. He finished 0.61 ahead of Mills, who just caught Giles on the line. Girma was fourth in 3:33.54.
<h2>National and meeting records fall on the field</h2>
Serbian teenager Angelina Topic notched up her second high jump victory in this year&rsquo;s Wanda Diamond League, this time with a national record.
Nine days after winning in Doha with 1.94m, the European bronze medallist dominated the competition, winning with a first-time clearance at 1.95m and then going on to clear a Serbian record of 1.98m on her third try. Germany&rsquo;s Christina Honsel was second with 1.91m.
Chase Jackson broke a 10-year-old meeting record in the shot put with a second-round heave of 20.00m, adding 31 centimetres to Valerie Adams&rsquo; mark from 2014. The two-time world champion took an early lead with 19.62m, then threw her winning mark in the next round. Germany&rsquo;s world indoor silver medallist Yemisi Ogunleye was her closest challenger, throwing 19.40m.
Recent world record-breaker Mykolas Alekna racked up his third consecutive competition beyond 70 metres in the discus. The Lithuanian fouled his first attempt but then took the lead in round two with 69.94m. He then unleashed a 70.70m throw in round four &ndash; just eight centimetres shy of the meeting record &ndash; to extend his lead over Australia&rsquo;s Matt Denny (67.74m). World and Olympic champion Daniel Stahl was third with 67.49m.
The meeting record &ndash; admittedly one of the more vulnerable ones in the books &ndash; fell with the first attempt in the men&rsquo;s triple jump. Olympic champion Pedro Pichardo bounded out to 16.76m in round one to break a 10-year-old meeting record of 16.62m that had stood to Nelson Evora. Cuba&rsquo;s 2022 world indoor champion Lazaro Martinez then exceeded it with 17.10m in round three, which remained the best mark of the day.
Elsewhere, Switzerland&rsquo;s Angelica Moser won the women&rsquo;s pole vault with 4.73m as Italy&rsquo;s Roberta Bruni placed second with 4.65m.
<h2>Doom strikes at 400m</h2>
World indoor champion Alexander Doom opened his individual outdoor campaign, and the Belgian clearly picked up where he left off from the indoor season.
Nigeria&rsquo;s Emmanuel Bamidele got off to a strong start and led at half way, but Doom, Muzala Samukonga and Bayapo Ndori were all close behind on the final bend. As they came into the home straight, Bamidele&rsquo;s challenge started to fade, while the other three forged ahead.
Just as he had done at the World Indoor Championships over 400m and in the 4x400m, Doom timed his finish well to claim victory in a PB of 44.51, which puts him second on the Belgian all-time list in between Jonathan (44.43) and Kevin Borlee (44.56).
Samukonga was second in a season&rsquo;s best of 44.54 and Ndori took third (44.59).
Two-time world champion Shericka Jackson made her long-awaited 200m season debut and emerged with a victory &ndash; but only just.
Jackson, the second-fastest woman of all time, crossed the line in first place in 22.82 (-1.0m/s) but instead of pulling away from the field to win by a clear distance, as she often does, the Jamaican appeared to be fighting for victory all the way. Maboundou Kone of the Ivory Coast was second in 22.96.
Cameroon&rsquo;s Emmanuel Eseme got the better of Olympic 200m champion Andre de Grasse in the men&rsquo;s 100m, winning in 10.11 (-0.8m/s) to the Canadian&rsquo;s 10.19.
World bronze medallist Rushell Clayton led a Jamaican 1-2 in the women&rsquo;s 400m hurdles, winning in 53.98 from compatriot Shiann Salmon, who clocked a season&rsquo;s best of 54.27.

South Africa’s Prudence Sekgodiso achieved her first ever victory in a Wanda Diamond League meeting

Sekgodiso clocks world 800m lead in Marrakesh

Australia&rsquo;s Rose Davies continued her breakthrough by taking apart the 5000m meeting record at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix &ndash; a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting &ndash; in Tokyo on Sunday (19).
The 24-year-old, who before this year had never broken 15 minutes for 5000m, set her third PB of the year to win by more than three seconds in 14:41.65, less than two seconds outside the Oceanian record.
The race set off at a steady pace with 1000m being passed in 3:00.19 and 2000m in 5:59.01. Davies and Kenya&rsquo;s Margaret Akidor then started to push the pace and reached 3000m in 8:55.41. The next kilometre was covered in another 2:56 as the pair started to ease away from Davies&rsquo; compatriot Isobel Batt-Doyle.
With a 2:50 final kilometre, Davies finally shook off the challenge of Akidor and went on to cross the line in 14:41.65 with Akidor finishing second in 14:41.65. Batt-Doyle was a distant third in 15:08.67.
Davies broke 15 minutes for the first time in Melbourne earlier this year with 14:57.54, and then reduced her PB to 14:47.86 at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Suzhou last month.
Japanese javelin star Haruka Kitaguchi delighted the home crowd by snatching victory in the sixth round, just as she had done at the World Championships in Budapest last year.
New Zealand&rsquo;s Tori Peeters took an early lead with 61.16m, while Kitaguchi opened with 60.20m. World silver medallist Flor Denis Ruiz Hurtado of Colombia moved into pole position in round five with 62.06m, which prompted Peeters (61.26m) and Kitaguchi (62.02m) to improve.
But with her final throw of the competition, Kitaguchi sent her spear out to 63.45m to take a well-received triumph in front of her adoring fans.
There were further Japanese victories in the men&rsquo;s hurdles events. National record-holder Rachid Muratake clocked a season&rsquo;s best of 13.22 (-0.6m/s) to win the 110m hurdles comfortably from Senegal&rsquo;s Louis Francois Mendy (13.50).
All-round hurdles talent Ken Toyoda was a similarly dominant winner of the 400m hurdles. He clocked a PB of 48.36 to finish several strides ahead of compatriot Haruto Deguchi (48.91).
China&rsquo;s Wu Yanii took the women&rsquo;s 100m hurdles in 12.80, crossing the line 0.10 ahead of Japan&rsquo;s Yumi Tanaka.
Australian champion Yual Reath equalled his PB of 2.30m to take a confidence-boosting victory over 2022 world indoor champion Woo Sanghyeok in the high jump. Reath, who has won nine of his 11 competitions this year, had a clean card up to and including 2.27m, which Woo needed three tries to clear. The Korean went no higher, but Reath went on to clear 2.30m on his second attempt before ending his series with three solid but unsuccessful tries at 2.33m.
China&rsquo;s Zhang Mingkun sailed out to a lifetime best of 8.13m in the final round of the men&rsquo;s long jump to displace 2016 world indoor champion Marquis Dendy as the leader. The US athlete finished second with 8.07m.
Elsewhere, New Zealand&rsquo;s Zoe Hobbs was a comfortable winner of the women&rsquo;s 100m in 11.17 (-0.3m/s). Hiroki Yanagita won a close men&rsquo;s final in 10.21 (-0.1m/s), although Hakim Sani Brown posted the fastest time of the day with his 10.07 clocking in the heats.
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Seiko Golden Grand Prix

Australia’s Rose Davies continued her breakthrough by taking apart the 5000m meeting record at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix

Davies smashes 5000m meeting record in Tokyo

After bursting off the turn and widening the gap between herself and the field around her, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone once again demonstrated her range by cruising to 200m victory at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, on Saturday (18).
Her plan for the season, however, revolves around focusing on just one event, one she calls &ldquo;what I&rsquo;m most comfortable with&rdquo; &ndash; the 400m hurdles.
While McLaughlin-Levrone dropped down in distance to test her speed in Los Angeles, her US compatriot Rai Benjamin raced his specialism and was rewarded with a world-leading 46.64 &ndash; the ninth-fastest performance of all time &ndash; on his 400m hurdles season opener.
<h2>McLaughlin-Levrone makes a statement</h2>
One year after producing the second-fastest 400m in US history (48.74), only to later withdraw from the World Championships because of a knee injury, McLaughlin-Levrone said she had not given much thought to attempting a 400m and 400m hurdles double at the Paris Olympics before ultimately deciding to focus solely on the hurdles, the event in which she most recently smashed the world record two years ago en route to the 2022 world title.
Doubling is "definitely a possibility in the future, but just wanting to come back after last season, stick to one event and try to do it the best I can,&rdquo; said McLaughlin-Levrone, the Tokyo Olympic gold medallist. &ldquo;Be healthy, which we are, and I&rsquo;m very happy about that and just keep it that way.&rdquo;
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After testing her speed over 200m in California, she may run some 400m races in the coming weeks to continue to do the same. McLaughlin-Levrone, who added that her knees &ldquo;feel great&rdquo;, had hoped to run sub-22 at UCLA's Drake Stadium. Despite registering the slowest reaction time in the nine-runner field, she achieved the Olympic standard while convincingly beating runner-up Abby Steiner (22.32), Brittany Brown (22.35), Rhasidat Adeleke (22.45), Jenna Prandini (22.61) and Olympic and world silver medallist Gabby Thomas (22.68).
Thomas also ran a 100m race earlier the same day.
&ldquo;Today was really tough because I just didn&rsquo;t feel like myself,&rdquo; Thomas said. &ldquo;I would have loved to have gotten more out of today and that&rsquo;s what&rsquo;s really frustrating because it doesn&rsquo;t reflect what I did in practice or did in training.&rdquo;
<h2>Change pays off for Benjamin</h2>
Rai Benjamin and his coach Joanna Hayes had &ldquo;changed a lot,&rdquo; he said, in his own training this year before running a world-leading 46.64 to win the 400m hurdles. The motivation behind the changes was keeping him healthier entering a major championship, which has not been the case the past two years, as he chases his first global gold medal at 400m hurdles. Benjamin owns the second-fastest all-time performance in the event and has claimed silver at the Tokyo Olympics and silver and bronze at the last two world championships while competing against Karsten Warholm and Alison Dos Santos, the trio that has pushed the event faster than ever in the past three years.
Those training changes heavily include technique, with Benjamin and Hayes honing his final 100m, as well as &ldquo;figuring out that we could get away with 13 (steps between hurdles) now at this time of year,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But championship season, I have to go 12s down the backstretch.&rdquo;
He left Saturday&rsquo;s race describing &ldquo;still a lot of things to fine-tune&rdquo; despite taking the world-leading time away from Dos Santos. What did running a time like that in May tell him about what could be possible in the Olympics?
&ldquo;Who knows, maybe 45, maybe 44, who knows? Sky&rsquo;s the limit.&rdquo; Benjamin said. &ldquo;Once I keep coming out and just running well, staying healthy, I think I&rsquo;m the fastest guy in the field, honestly.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Michael Norman, a longtime training partner of Benjamin, won the 400m in 44.53, beating Kirani James (44.85) and Vernon Norwood (44.86). Norman has rarely sprinted since the winter because of what he termed a &ldquo;quite a difficult January to May&rdquo; while dealing with injuries.&nbsp;
One day after saying he hoped his shot put attempts would &ldquo;hit the wall&rdquo; in UCLA&rsquo;s intimate shot facility, Joe Kovacs won with 22.93m, the joint 16th farthest ever winning mark and just two centimetres off Leonardo Fabbri&rsquo;s world lead set in Savona.&nbsp;
<h2>Nakaayi runs world lead</h2>
Melissa Jefferson overcame a slower start to edge Morolake Akinosun, 11.27 to 11.28, to win the 100m, but the day&rsquo;s smallest margin of victory belonged to Halimah Nakaayi, who won the 800m in 1:57.56, only six-thousands of a second ahead of Tsige Duguma.&nbsp;
&ldquo;Of course I would like to be an Olympic champion,&rdquo; Nakaayi said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s my dream.&rdquo;
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In a 400m featuring world champion Marileidy Paulino and 800m specialist Mary Moraa, Paulino won in 50.27, ahead of Moraa&rsquo;s 50.56. Their showdown was initially expected to include Olympic and 2022 world 800m champion Athing Mu, but Mu did not ultimately compete.
Tonea Marshall won the 100m hurdles in 12.55, edging Alaysha Johnson by 0.02. Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn finished fourth after initially false-starting and running under protest.&nbsp;
In winning the 1500m in 3:34.73, Olli Hoare did not reach the Olympic standard of 3:33.50, which he called his top goal for the race, but said he was happy with his season&rsquo;s best performance nonetheless, as he prepares for next week&rsquo;s Bowerman Mile at the Prefontaine Classic.
&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t get on the pace, I expected more people to push forward for it and then the last lap felt very slow for me, which is a good sign, so I came through on the outside and just so I could win the race,&rdquo; Hoare said.&nbsp;
Hoare outkicked Reynold Kipkorir Cheruiyot by 0.1, with Matthew Centrowitz finishing third in 3:35.16. The 34-year-old 2016 Olympic gold medallist has called this season his last competing as a professional, and said announcing that decision had been helpful in his approach toward his final Olympic trials in June.
&ldquo;I love pressure, I&rsquo;ve been dealing with it my whole life having a two-time Olympian as a father,&rdquo; Centrowitz said. &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t add pressure. If anything I&rsquo;m running a little more free, nothing to lose.&rdquo; He added that &ldquo;I&rsquo;m taking this season as seriously as any other year.&rdquo;&nbsp;
Using a 52.09 final lap, the fastest of any competitors, Bryce Hoppel won the 800m in 1:43.68, a season&rsquo;s best. Hoppel had already achieved the Olympic standard of 1:44.70, but the race pulled five men under it, including Isaiah Jewett (1:44.02), 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightman (1:44.10), who is also tuning up for next week&rsquo;s Prefontaine Classic, and Brandon Miller and Isaiah Harris.
If many events were claimed by favourites, it was not the case in the men&rsquo;s pole vault or 100m. Ernest John Obiena vaulted 5.80m to upset Simen Guttormsen (5.70m) and US athletes KC Lightfoot (5.70m), Chris Nilsen (5.70m), Jacob Wooten (5.60m) and Sam Kendricks (5.60m). In the sprint, Kyree King ran 10.11 to top Letsile Tebogo&rsquo;s 10.13, with Aaron Brown third in 10.23.
Thea LaFond won the women&rsquo;s triple jump at 14.37m, Anna Cockrell ran 53.75 to win the 400m hurdles and Diribe Welteji won the 1500m in a season&rsquo;s best of 3:55.23, leading four women under four minutes.&nbsp;
<h2>Barega top in 5000m</h2>
The two-day meeting began on Friday evening, when 12 men ran under the Olympic 5000m standard of 13:05 in a race won by Selemon Barega in 12:51.60. Barega closed the final 400m in 54.15, the fastest lap of anyone in the field, to edge his Ethiopian compatriot Berihu Aregawi, in 12:52.09. Barega and Aregawi had already achieved the standard before Friday, however. World record-holder Joshua Cheptegei had yet to, until he finished third in 12:52.38. He was among six who achieved the standard in the race, including Biniam Mehary, Cooper Teare, Stewart McSweyn, Cole Hocker and Morgan McDonald.
Only two months after winning the world indoor 3000m title, Elle St. Pierre ran a 63.2 bell lap to capture her own Olympic standard and win the 5000m in 14:34.12. The time is a personal best by 24 seconds.
Also on Friday, Sandi Morris needed only four jumps at three heights to win the women&rsquo;s pole vault at 4.70m, her highest clearance since February&rsquo;s US Indoor Championships. Valarie Allman easily claimed the women&rsquo;s discus title at 67.93m, nearly three metres farther than her competition, and Roje Stona comfortably won the men&rsquo;s discus at 66.93m.&nbsp;
In a hammer competition featuring five women already with the Olympic standard, Brooke Andersen won on her second throw of 77.32m, edging Denna Price. Mykhaylo Kokhan won the men&rsquo;s hammer at 80.33m. Ceili McCabe ran a Canadian record 9:20.58 to win the women&rsquo;s steeplechase, leading four women who reached the Olympic standard in the race.
Andrew Greif for World Athletics
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World leads by Rai Benjamin and Halimah Nakaayi, while Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone makes a statement with 200m win

Meeting Name	Venue	Country	Date
Susanne Meier Memorial	Stadion	SUI	20 May 2024
French Combined Events Championships	Stade	FRA	18 May 2024
Hypomeeting	Mösle-Stadium,	AUT	18 May 2024
Seiko Golden Grand Prix	National	JPN	19 May 2024
HBF Run for a Reason	Perth	AUS	19 May 2024

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