Reekie & Muir lead British success in Stockholm Diamond League

Housemates Jemma Reekie and Laura Muir dominated their music occasions on a a hit day for British athletes at the Stockholm Diamond League assembly.

Reekie, 22, won the 800m – her fourth victory this season – in a single minute 59.68 seconds and fellow Scot Muir, 27, clocked three minutes 57.87 to recall the 1500m.

Holly Bradshaw cleared 4.69m to recall the pole vault.

Adam Gemili became once a class apart within the 200m as he won in 20.61 seconds.

European champion Muir stayed up with the two pacemakers in the end of the 1500m earlier than sprinting some distance off from the realm within the final 200m to lead a British 1-2-3. Laura Weightman became once 2d and Welshwoman Melissa Courtney-Bryant third with a deepest finest of 4: 01.81.

Reekie became once also distinctive. The beneath-23 European champion pulled some distance off from American Raevyn Rogers honest appropriate earlier than the final bend to speak a snug recall.

Briton Laviai Nielsen completed 2d at the succor of American Wadeline Jonathas within the 400m in 52.16.

No British athletes had been interested by the one-soar final of the revolutionary lengthy-soar competition.

Abigal Irozuru (6.57m), world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson (6.52m) and Shara Proctor (6.14m) didn’t earn the head three after 5 jumps to qualify for the females’s soar-off.

The tournament became once won by Ukraine’s Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk with 6.85m, while South African Ruswahl Samaai took the males’s tournament with 8.09m.

Warholm misses out on world file

There had been two attempts at world files. Norway’s Karsten Warholm, 24, ran the 2d-quickest 400m hurdles in historic previous in clocking 46.87 to recall, and might perhaps well well additionally need overwhelmed the 46.78 label area by Kevin Younger in 1992 had he no longer struck the final hurdle. Warholm also won the males’s 400m.

Swede Mondo Duplantis won the males’s pole vault with 6.01m, nonetheless failed at his three attempts to interrupt Ukrainian Sergey Bubka’s file of 6.14m area 1994.

The subsequent Diamond League assembly – they are all being held at the succor of closed doorways consequently of of the coronavirus pandemic – is in Lausanne on 2 September.

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