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Seville, Jefferson-Wooden roar to 100m wins at Silesia Diamond League

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Oblique Seville and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the 100m events at the Silesia Diamond League, with Seville posting a meet-record time of 9.83 seconds for Jamaica's world championship title. Jefferson-Wooden also claimed victory over Olympic champion Julien Alfred in the women's event with a season-best time of 10.78 seconds. Alison Dos Santos won the 400m hurdles in 46.43 seconds, setting a new meet record and surpassing Karsten Warholm's previous mark by nearly two-tenths of a second.
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Alison Dos Santos, a Brazilian athlete, won the 400m hurdles at the Silesia Diamond League with a time of 46.43 seconds, breaking his own personal best and shattering the meet record previously held by Karsten Warholm. In other events, Oblique Seville of Jamaica set a new meet record in the men's 100m with a time of 9.83 seconds, while his teammate Melissa Jefferson-Wooden won the women's 100m with a season's best of 10.78 seconds. In the pole vault, Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis took victory at 6.20m, ahead of Sondre Guttormsen of Norway and Emmanouil Karalis of Greece, who both cleared 6.00m.

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Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, who ensured hammer throw domination for Canada with two golds at last year’s Tokyo World Championships, won their respective events here with bests of 82.92m and 77.09m. Olympic and 2023 world champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic won the women’s 400m in 48.87 seconds, but there was no such luck for Morocco’s two-time Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali, beaten into second by Ethiopia’s Gemechu Godana, who clocked a meet record of 8:02.74.
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World 100m champions Oblique Seville and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden roared to victories at the Silesia Diamond League as Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis wrapped up another dominant pole vault display. asserted
Duplantis → roar → display
World champion Seville of Jamaica posted a time of 9.83 seconds for a meet record, as Americans Kenny Bednarek (9.87) and Christian Coleman (9.93) completed the podium. asserted
Bednarek → post → podium
The women’s blue riband event was won by their teammate Jefferson-Wooden in the season’s first head-to-head over 100m with Olympic champion Julien Alfred, in a season’s best of 10.78 seconds. asserted
event → win → seconds
Olympic silver medallist Sha’Carri Richardson trailed in third at 10.96. asserted
Richardson → trail → 10.96
Duplantis had an uncharacteristic three failures in the pole vault before claiming victory at 6.20m, ahead of Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen, who took silver at 6.00m, while Greek rival Emmanouil Karalis bagged bronze at the same height. asserted
Karalis → have → height
Dos Santos smokes world record-holder Warholm Brazil’s Alison Dos Santos delivered another standout performance as he held off world record holder Karsten Warholm in a thrilling 400m hurdles to win in 46.43 seconds, the sixth-fastest time ever run. The world-leading time smashed the meet record of 46.82 seconds set by Warholm last year. “I expected a fast race, the lineup was amazing — everybody was here,” said Dos Santos. asserted
Santos → smoke → race
“I knew that to win here I had to give my best.” asserted
I → know → best
Warholm’s teammate Jakob Ingebrigtsen, fresh from winning European 5,000m gold, made his first Diamond League appearance in a 1,500m race in two years. asserted
teammate → win → years
Ingebrigtsen clung on to finish fourth in a race won by American Ethan Strand in 3:30.77, ahead of Kenya’s Phanuel Kipkosegi Koech and Olympic champion Cole Hocker of the US. asserted
Ingebrigtsen → cling → US
“I felt a little rusty at the beginning, then a little better as the race went on,” said the Norwegian. asserted
Norwegian → feel → beginning
Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, who ensured hammer throw domination for Canada with two golds at last year’s Tokyo World Championships, won their respective events here with bests of 82.92m and 77.09m. Olympic and 2023 world champion Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic won the women’s 400m in 48.87 seconds, but there was no such luck for Morocco’s two-time Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali, beaten into second by Ethiopia’s Gemechu Godana, who clocked a meet record of 8:02.74. asserted
who → ensure → 8:02.74
World record holder Ja’Kobe Tharp claimed victory in the 110m hurdles in 13.05 seconds, while teammate Alaysha Johnson won the women’s short hurdles in 12.52. asserted
Johnson → claim → 12.52
Ukraine’s Yaroslava Mahuchikh equalled the meet record to win the women’s high jump at 2.00m. And Botswana’s world 400m champion Busang Collen Kebinatshipi smashed the meet record set by world record holder Wayde van Niekerk in winning the one-lap race in an impressive 43.59 seconds. asserted
Kebinatshipi → equal → seconds
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