Oblique Seville of Jamaica won the men's 100m at the Silesia Diamond League on Sunday in a meet record 9.83 seconds, ahead of Kenny Bednarek at 9.87 and Christian Coleman at 9.93, Al Jazeera reports.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden took the women's 100m in 10.78, beating the Olympic champion Julien Alfred, with Sha'Carri Richardson third in 10.96.
The best race was over the hurdles
Alison dos Santos of Brazil ran 46.43 in the 400m hurdles to beat Karsten Warholm, who holds the world record. It is the sixth-fastest time ever recorded over the distance.
"I expected a fast race, the lineup was amazing," Dos Santos said, adding that everybody was there.
He is right that this is the explanation. The 400m hurdles has spent several years in an unusual condition where the top few men push each other into times that would once have been unthinkable, and a full field is the mechanism. A race is not just a measurement of one athlete; it is the reason the measurement comes out where it does.
Duplantis, again
Armand Duplantis cleared 6.20m to win the pole vault. Sondre Guttormsen of Norway took second at 6.00m, with Emmanouil Karalis of Greece third at the same height.
A 20cm margin in the pole vault is enormous, and by now unremarkable, which is its own kind of achievement.
Elsewhere on the card
Ethan Strand of the United States won the 1500m in 3:30.77 from Phanuel Kipkosegi Koech of Kenya and Cole Hocker. Yaroslava Mahuchikh of Ukraine won the high jump with a meet record of 2.00m. Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic won over 400m in 48.87, and Ja'Kobe Tharp took the 110m hurdles in 13.05.
What we could not establish
We could not establish the attendance, the wind readings for the sprints, the full fields, or the standings in the Diamond League series. One further 400m result in our source carried an ambiguous label, and we have left it out rather than guess at it. We verified this account from a single publication.
