November 23, 2024
Blessing

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare ran a season’s best of 22.05 to win the women’s 200m ahead of Rio 2016 100 and 200m champion Elaine Thompson, who clocked 22.21, and Britain’s European 100 and 200m champion Dina Asher-Smith, third in 22.42.

The women’s 100 metres went to world silver medallist Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast, who clocked 11.02.

Michael Norman won the men’s 400m in 44.62, heading fellow American runners Kahmari Montgomery, second in 45.12, and Fred Kerley, third in 45.33.

Russian world high jump champion Mariya Lasitskene, competing as an Authorised Neutral Athlete, won in a meeting record of 2.04m.

Christian Coleman, who took world 100m silver behind fellow American Justin Gatlin in 2017, reversed that result as he won in a 2019 world-leading time of 9.81, with his 37-year-old rival finishing second in 9.87.

Britain’s Zharnel Hughes was third in 9.97.

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