Rome: Highlights Athletics: IAAF Diamond League

Hello and welcome to highlights of the Diamond League from Rome.

It's our first meeting in Europe this year and a chance for some

That will be good enough. Oh, yes. Good work, Chris. A good win by

Helen Doyle. Olympic European, Commonwealth and now world champion.

It's a busy week for the Diamond League with two

meetings in just four days, but before Birmingham it's Rome.

Once the centre of a vast empire, modern Italy's capital is known

for its rich cultural, architectural and artistic history.

The eternal city is also home to the Stadio Olympico,

the venue for tonight's action, where we've got all this to come.

There's a high-class field in the Men's High Jump,

Lynsey Sharp is up against a dominant Caster Semenya in the 800m.

The Men's 400m sees the return of World Champion Wayde van Niekerk.

Olympic Champion Greg Rutherford faces the best the rest of the world

World 5000m Champion Almaz Ayana has her eyes on the world record

Justin Gatlin ran a meeting record 9.75 here last year.

Can he inspire Britain's CJ Ujah to another sub-ten second time?

First though, it's the Women's 400m hurdles.

Eilidh Doyle already has an impressive Diamond League victory

Tonight she faces the World Leader Georganne Moline.

Here to talk you through it are your commentators,

The line-up for the first race. Two athletes that have won Diamond

League races, Eilidh Doyle, and Genevieve Russell. Georgiana

a 53.974 Moline this year. In our hometown. Really good lane, lane

four. Plenty to aim for. Cassandra Tate. Second in Rabat a couple of

weeks ago. Bronze-medallist in Beijing last year. 25-year-old still

improving. Eilidh Doyle, winning in Doha in 54.50 three. This is their

threat, Russell. 22 years of age. Not another half a second off her

personal best. It is a stacked field. Coached by Stephen Francis.

She said she made a lot of mistakes setting her first personal best of

the season. She reckons she can go a lot quicker. Cleanly away. Moline

getting away a little bit lonely. Cassandra Tate starting quickly

outside her. Cassandra Tate going well. Nine lanes in Rome. Doyle,

very much trying to set the pace over the first 200 metres. Really

attacking through the first five flights. Just stuttering, Russell

coming back into it. Forcing her way through, really good top bend, the

Jamaican. Now opening up the lead coming into the home straight. Can

she keep her technique? Russell climbing over that hurdle. One more

flights ago. Doyle in second place. Coming off the hurdle well, Russell.

Coming through to win just inside... Exactly the same time, and we have

seen them coming down by 100s of the second. It is a new World lead. Did

not start as quickly as one or two others. Forcing their way into the

front round the bend. Finishing really well. Nicely judged race from

Russell. Eilidh Doyle attacking the race through the first 250, holding

her form well. Russell is so, so strong. Strangely lacklustre run

from Moline, the world number one, in lane four. Awful run. Russell

holding her form well. Doyle losing second place, to Lewis. Victory

margin of four or five metres. As you say, a best. Confirmation of the

result. 53.90 six. The women's triple jump, one or two

with things not going their way. Only four get to have a final three

jumps according to the new rules. Thomas, 14.46, very close to her

personal best earlier in the year. A more familiar name in second place.

She responded in two, with 14.5 one. The 31-year-old. Close to a season's

best. A night when the competition was not that good. Managing a 14

.64. 14.70 eight. This was her best. Not as good a competition as we saw

in Doha, but three in a row for the Colombian. Real disappointment for

the Venezuelan, Rojas. Down in seventh place. There is the line-up,

for the 200 metres. Big names winning this discipline in this

Olympic Stadium, Frankie Frederick, Michael Johnson, Maurice Greene in

years gone by. Bronze-medallist last year,

Brommell. Alonso Edward. Winning in Rome two years ago. Ameer Webb going

in lane five. Personal best of 19.85 in Doha. Pretty strong line-up.

Trayvon Bromell, watch him in the red. The way this time, brilliant

start from Brommell. -- Bromell. Edwards. Bromell going backwards to

Matt Whitley. A big win. 20.05, big win. The winner in Joe Hart, Ameer

Webb, maintaining his form. -- winner in Joe

. Racing well, in contrast to so many Europeans just finding their

racing legs. Brown with a cracking start. Trayvon Bromell gets away.

Ameer Webb, much better judged race. Coming off the bend, into the home

straight, does what he did in Doha, moving away from the rest of the

field. Plenty of space between him and the others. Not renowned as a

super quick track. Always hard to get under 20 seconds. A little bit

cooler. A slight breeze behind them, as you said. Ameer Webb looks good,

we will see him in the 100 metres later on. Interesting to see how he

goes in that event. Very convincing victory from Ameer Webb. Very smooth

performance coming from lane five to defeat Brown, Edward. Quite a busy

night in the field. Quite a few women struggling in the pole vault.

4.55, looking solid. The bigger names, Silva and others have been

passing. One or two others have struggled. Lisa like

have struggled, no marketable. 57.96 was a modest opener. -- no marker.

That one is surely beyond 60 metres. If it is, the first such throw.

Conditions not helping the throwers. 61.66, a lead of almost a couple of

metres. Despite continuing controversy,

Caster Semenya has dominated in both her Diamond League outings

so far this year. Today she faces a field comprised

of the very best in the world, including all the medallists

from Beijing, the World Indoor Champion and Great

Britain's Lynsey Sharp. The stage is set for one of the best

800m races of the season and perhaps a sneak preview of this summer's

Olympic Final. The line-up for the 800m Women. What

a field we have here. Caster Semenya, who will undoubtedly start

every race as favourite. Already has two Diamond League wins to her name

this year. Lynsey Sharp, of Great Britain, on the outside, the

European Champion from 2012. Silver-medallist 2014. Semenya, so

far she's toyed with the fields she's been in. She's looked as

though she's been able to run a lot quicker. More of that in a second.

The World Champion. One or two others would have loved to have been

in this race because it is stacked. The 800m Women. For Caster Semenya,

controversy follows her throughout her career and continues to do so.

She is running very well, Caster Semenya. The others have to work out

a way to beat her. Tonight is a big test. This could be a World

Championship Final line-up that we have. Interestingly, does Semenya

know anybody is going off with Usovich? They are starting to

stretch out now, Tim, as they move closer to Usovich? They didn't go

out that slowly. The majority of the pack went through 28.5 for the first

200. Good to see Lynsey Sharp up there in an attacking position.

She's in fourth place on the inside there, Semenya quite badly boxed at

the moment, towards the back of the field. 57.15 at the front, the field

round about 58 seconds and Semenya just watching, Lynsey Sharp in a

good spot, following Lamote. Now, how far will Usovich go? Semenya

watching for the danger, quickly follows Niyonsaba, Lamote is

struggling in the front. Niyonsaba and Caster Semenya who are forging

ahead at the moment. Lynsey Sharp is moving into fourth place. These two

are beginning to pull away. Has Niyonsaba got enough to hold off

Semenya? Semenya has waited until the last 50 metres. This time she is

putting her foot down early and Semenya moves away. Niyonsaba has no

answer. Lynsey Sharp going well in third, but Semenya kicks away. It

will be a quick time. 1:56.66. I said the others have to find a way.

If Niyonsaba is the next best, in terms of challenging Semenya, she

had nothing there that Semenya needed to be worried about. It will

be a World Leading time for the South African. The sheer power that

Semenya unleashes here with 60 to go is awe-inspiring. The way she tears

up the ground between herself and Niyonsaba. That gap is 10 or 12

metres at the line. It is a totally dominant performance and a third

Diamond League in a row for the South African. Good running for

Lynsey Sharp in third place. They have no answer to this power.

Niyonsaba 1:58.20. A season's best from Lynsey Sharp - 1:59.03. A poor

performance from Eunice Jepkoech Sum. Caster Semenya comes out on

top. The pole vault, we saw Kiriakopoulou

clear 4.55. The bar is at 4.60. That is a good attempt by Stefanidi.

Stefanidi and Kiriakopoulou going well so far. As I said, it's been a

struggle for one or two others. Katie Nageotte, the American, has

gone out, Ling Li has already gone. Silva has only had two attempts so

far, the World Champion. That was her going clear. 4.60. Has passed

4.55. It was a season's best. But looks in good form tonight, Silva.

Stefanidi, Kiriakopoulou are still in the competition, the two Greek

athletes. They are in a scrap with Silva.

Kiriakopoulou struggled early on. She is delighted with that.

Kiriakopoulou going clear at 4.65. That now puts the pressure on Silva,

who has passed at this height. This is Stefanidi. The Greeks are really

going well. Anything Kiriakopoulou can do, Stefanidi following on. Now

takes the lead. She goes clear at 4.70. And one or two others may have

struggled tonight but these three are going really well.

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk shook the world of 400m

running with his surprise victory in Beijing.

His winning time of 43.48 made him the fourth fastest man

He is also the only man to have run sub-44 seconds for 400m,

sub-20 seconds for 200m and sub-10 for 100m.

Can he bring some of that blistering pace to his first

There is the line-up. It is marked by the return to the European

circuit of Wayde van Niekerk, the reigning World Champion, the

23-year-old South African, goes in Lane 4. A nice lane draw for him,

too, having Makwala outside him. Not a strong event for Europe at the

moment. The European record - 44.33. It goes back to 1987. Galvan in 1,

McDonald in 2, Borlee in 3, van Niekerk in 4, Makwala 5, Haroun, 6,

Taplin, Norwood and Lendore complete the line-up. Makwala runs with that

yellow armband and he's gone off quickly, getting ground on Haroun,

the youngster, Haroun, the youngest in the field, running strongly.

There he is, fourth from left. In the green is Taplin, in Lane 7. But

certainly van Niekerk has gone off quickly, too. He is up with Makwala.

Van Niekerk in the grey, in Lane 4, eases around the bend, the reigning

World Champion looks like he is heading for a good one. Makwala

trying to come back at him. Good running from Taplin. Taplin is

coming back. Van Niekerk, those flailing arms of van Niekerk keep

him clear. It's a strong run. 44.20. That is very close to the fastest

time in the world this year. He has run 44.11. It will probably be

rounded down. It has - 44.19. That was a fabulous run. Beautifully

judged. Steve, Makwala gauged his effort a bit better than he has done

in his last two outings. He cruised the first 200. Makwala is getting

better. Taplin threatened him here. He had enough to come away. But he

was looking for the clock early. He thought he was running a bit

quicker. He's run 44.10 this year. It is 44.19 today. He's ready to go

really quick this year. Well, that was good. I think by his standards,

though, he would probably give himself seven out of ten. The world

number one last year, Wayde van Niekerk, winning tonight, 44.19.

Looked in control ahead of Bralon Taplin. Makwala was third, a

season's best. Tamberi, his first attempt at 2.24.

The World Champion is visualising. Sixth in Rabat. He is trying to get

the crowd behind him. How they love their champions here!

That's good! Gives it a little scrape. But 2.24 is within his

compass tonight. Maybe more. Hussong of Germany. That looks

better. That is much better. That is surely way past the middle line

between those two white lines. That is beyond 60 metres. That may well

put her into second place. Palameika - 61.66 in the second round. 61.21,

into second place from sixth. That is some improvement.

The lead at the moment is 61.66 from Palameika, in the second round.

Round three for the South African. Hits that one hard. Not ideally

flighted. It comes down a long way. That is surely well beyond 60

metres. That might take the lead. She doesn't look delighted with it.

She knows that Sunette Viljoen is not hitting her straps. She is a

69-metre thrower. That was in New York four years ago. 61.95 and she

takes the lead. 5000m World Champion Almaz Ayana has

a clean sweep so far this year with impressive victories

at the Doha and Rabat Ethiopians dominate the start list

here in Rome where the meeting record and perhaps the world record,

both held by Tirunesh Dibaba, Britain's Steph Twell also features

in this race against the clock. Now, we move to one of the

highlights of the evening, the 5000m Women. Quite a big field. The big

names on the second page of the start list. None bigger at the

moment than Almaz Ayana, who is going for the world record tonight,

it is rumoured. She's got the likes of Burka, Cherono and Biwot. How

quick can she go tonight? Ayana will be asking Tverdostup to lead early

on, also Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya, these two will be trying to

take her through in a Ayana is not frightened of going out

hard. I can't see her having anyone near her if the pacemakers do the

job, up to 3,000 metres. They will probably let her go and she will be

front-running all by herself. There is so much great action going on.

The high jump - that is good from Barshim. A second-time clearance at

2.24. Fassinotti went clear first time. Robbie Grabarz maintains his

perfect card. And Tamberi shares first place as well. Three of them

there. Chris Baker has gone clear second time of asking at this height

as well. The two Brits going really well. Good to see Barshim beginning

to look like more his old self. Stefanidi, we have already seen her

go well at 4.70. Goes clear at the second time of asking, at 4.75!

First athlete clear. Silva, the World Champion, finished in third

place with three failures at 4.70. Kiriakopoulou, second time attempt

for her at 4.75. Can she join her compatriot? Yes, she can! Yes, she

can! Punches the air yet again, does the Greek. Stays in second place on

countback. 4.75 for Katerina Stefanidi, with Nikoleta

Kiriakopoulou the same height. Back in the 5000m Women. There is

good news and bad news for Ayana in the sense that they went a bit

slower than she asked. That is not a bad thing. They went through the

first 1000m at world record pace. She wanted 2:48.00. I don't think

she will be able to maintain more than a lap or two at this pace. It

will mean that for half of the race, Ayana will be on her own. There is

the chasing pack, if you like, there is an athlete between them, Yalew,

who tried to go with Ayana, which was silly. I'm sure eventually the

pack will reel her in. The previous lap was around 69

seconds. If she just stays in range. Talking about Tirunesh Dibaba, her

ability to pick the pace up in the last couple of laps, by

don't think she has the same ability. We see Steph Twell

struggling to hold on to that pack. Grovdal struggling for Norway. She

would do well to keep your powder dry in the second part of the race.

She has looked fatigued. This pace is about perfect. She is very much

in range, the crowd, they are doing a Mexican wave, I wish they would

watch the race. They are enticed to create some atmosphere. The woman,

undoubtedly, is she goes, on her own for a long part of the race. What

can she do? Issue goes even close to the world record, massive

performance. There is Ayane, world champion, the best in the world. We

are not sure about the injury situation Tirunesh Dibaba. The pack

are about 80 metres behind the leader. Containing the likes such a

row no, Senbere Teferi. Kibiwot. Absolutely no one near her, nobody

can go with this young lady at the moment. Still right in the sort of

rain she needs will stop men's long jump coming up.

Goodwin, in the first round, comes down right on that superimposed

eight-metre line. The Pan-American games silver-medallist last year.

Former world junior champion. Just sitting back a little bit. Maybe the

back with rotation, a little bit higher. 8.01, solid opener. The

first real big test of the year for Greg Rutherford, Olympic champion,

world champion. So far, when he is asked the big questions, managing to

deliver. First round, that is close. Right on the eight-metre mark. A

slight breeze into their faces. The long jumpers going down the back

straight, in the opposite direction to where the sprinters are coming

down in the home straight. Not getting the best of the conditions.

Just taking the lead by two centimetres. 8.03 for Greg

Rutherford in the first round. He is looking for his form of two years

back. Came in at 2.20, looking very smooth. A very

big margin of clearance. That was a big jump from the Ukrainian. Only

four men have gone clear so far. No. That is unlucky. That would have

matched his personal best. Baker going out at 2.27, third attempt.

Almaz Ayana, on world record pace. She only has to run 70 seconds per

lap, for the last three laps to break the world record. She's coming

up to four kilometres. Tirunesh Dibaba went through in 11.20 eight.

She has dropped a bit of time, that is her slowest. How much is she

slowing? They are miles behind in terms of the race for second. Ayane

coming into the home straight, two laps to go. She needs a bit of help

from the crowd. The announcer trying to get them behind her. The world

record time, 14 minutes, 11.1 five. She has just gone through 11.50

eight. That was a slow lap. She really has depicted up now. If she

was raising the virtual figure from Tirunesh Dibaba in 2008, in Oslo,

she cleared her last two laps in 63.08, and 65. She has two focus,

and dig so deep over these next 600 metres. The world record within

reach. Almaz Ayana, she used to run the steeplechase, saying she found

that difficult, frightened of the barriers. Attacking a great barrier,

the world record. She's now coached by her husband. What a job the two

of them have done. She comes into the home straight, the panel summer

time. Next time round looking at the clock. Checking what she needs.

Needs about a 65 last lap. She has slowed right down. Over the last two

laps, not significantly, and not that she has divine something. She

has two fine extra pace -- has to find extra pace. Can she lift that

pays. -- pace? Only two people have gone quicker at this distance.

Tirunesh Dibaba, set in the world record in Oslo. Here she comes. The

crowd on their feet, trying to cheer them home. She needs to find

something really quick. I fear it is starting to slip away. 60 metres to

go. Watch the clock. The time is ticking away. The world record just

alluding her. She crosses the line in the second fastest time. Oh, my

word. She smiles, but you have to feel for her. It was there for the

taking. All the way round, until the last 600 and 700 metres. Inside

world record pace. When she needed to find an Ethiopian sprint, could

not get enough leg speed going over the last 400 metres. Missing it by

just over one second. 1.5 seconds. Cell destroying as we watch the

other athletes come across the line. You know, in your career, you don't

get that many chances. She is still improving, but she needs more help,

to find somebody prepared to take her a little further, I'm sure she

can break the world record. It is a world lead. In second place, Mercy

Cherono, managing to get a personal best to finish second.

The line-up for the men's 110 metres hurdles. Really open race. Dimitri

Bascou, the Frenchman, Ortega one of the fastest in the world this year.

Dimitri Bascou at quickest. Hitting the first hurdle really hard. They

comes Ortega, he wins it. What a good race. He left it late. Finally

coming through. Dimitri Bascou down on the track. I think O'Farrell went

down. Ortega did not get the best of starts. Certainly Dimitri Bascou at

quicker than anybody else. Clattering the first hurdle. Martin

faded over the last few flights. Ortega coming through for a good

win. Third from left. He stuck to his guns. O'Farrell went down hard

in the blue. Ortega easing into the win. Really good running from Andrew

Pozzi. A season's best for Pascal Martinot-Lagarde.

She had led for much of the women's chaplain. The women struggling with

the conditions tonight. That was better. Really getting going in the

latter stages. 64.76, the best so far this year. Having led early on,

improving, not a lot. Looks as if it was about 63 metres, actually 61.90

to. Around half a metre separating the

top three. The winning throw coming in the third round. The line-up for

the men's 1500 metres. Chris O'Hare is in very good form indoors, the

European chairmanship bronze-medallist two years ago.

Three and three quarters laps of the track. About 15 or 16 bodies there.

The pacemaker coming in front of them. 1:50.05 unrealistic for a

sprint. Not sure he has asked for that. I think this is a race where

you want to win, but at a decent pace. If you work that hard, the

third lap is going to be slow. 53.9 four. That is quick. Most of them

going through and around 55 seconds. The second lap is about a second and

a half slower. The fastest time in the world this year 3:32.3 five. Kip

-- that time is vulnerable. They are strung out in single file. Henrik

Ingebrigtsen at the back of the pack. As they come through with two

laps to run. 1.37, the pacemakers, that backdrop in further behind. It

is just silly. The pacemakers will keep going. Manangoi backing. When

you run that fast, the group bargaining about 1.5 three. That is

more sensible. Ryan Gregson sitting off the pace. 12-macro will pick up

on the last lap. Even with the ability that the likes of Manangoi

and Biwott have, it is hard to come back from that. They will come back.

The lap they went through, was about five seconds slower. That does not

help anybody. The second pacemaker moves aside.

It is nothing like the pace requested. As Steve said, you wonder

the requests these crazily fast tempos. It is a cool evening, not

too bad. 300 metres to run. It is anybody's race. As they head down

the back straight. Still eight or ten men who could take this one.

Cabella moving down the back straight. Looking at the big screen,

managing this one. The Ethiopian record holder in second place. He

was second in Doha. Ryan Gregson attacking on the outside. Manangoi

trying to keep them at bay. Brilliant run by Ryan Gregson. Chris

O'Hare nowhere to be seen. Manangoi easing away towards the line. A

really strong competitive 1500 metres. We spend too much time

talking about pacemakers, sold a dummy by the meeting organisers.

Again, they were relatively irrelevant. Not a spectacularly

quick final lap, 55.70 one. A good run, nevertheless. Manangoi. Biwott,

and Ryan Gregson getting in amongst the best of the Africans. An Olympic

qualifying mark for the British runner.

Bondarenko - well clear in the high jump. He keeps himself in the lead.

Perfect so far. First time clearances at 2.20,.2.27 and now

2.30. Bondarenko is still wearing the

tracksuit bottoms as if to say, I'm still getting warmed up here. Robbie

Grabarz at 2.30. Yes, that's better! Robbie was telling me he's getting

back to his old run-up. He has more room approaching the bar. That is

great form. 2.30 for Grabarz. His season warming up as well, so good

to see him back after that silver medal at the World Indoors, a sign

that he is returning to the form that saw him win an Olympic medal in

2012. Tamberi then. Took three attempts to clear 2.27 when the

1500m was on. The crowd want to see the World Indoor Champion continue

here. Here he goes. He's clear! Just. Only just. Gives it a good

rattle. He's making a lot of it! Others have made it look easier than

the Italian has, but Tamberi clear. Bondarenko clear, Grabarz is clear,

Tamberi is clear. The big three, if you like. One or two others are

struggling - Barshim is out at this height. What about Zhang? Third

attempt. He's gone clear as well! We have a

real competition on. The four of them are clear. All in their own

ways playing to the crowd. Zhang, a real showman as well. Tamberi has

the beard. Zhang has the dance. Bondarenko has got the tracksuit

bottoms! Robbie Grabarz is just British! What are you trying to say?

He is calm, cool and collective. There is the line-up for the 100m

Women. It's a solid field. A competitive field. Kambundji,

Lalova-Collio, Henry, Pierre, Gardner, Ahye, Thompson, Tenorio and

Swoboda. Elaine Thompson, a silver-medallist in the World

Championships last year. Has a gold from Beijing in the sprint relay.

Great start from English Gardner, also going well is Barbara Pierre,

but Gardner is easing away from them, on the near side is Thompson,

Thompson takes it! 10.87 for the Jamaican. Gardner torn apart over

the last 20. She ran brilliantly for 80 metres, but Thompson managed her

effort supremely. She announced herself, didn't she, last year,

Elaine Thompson? Thompson is the coming athlete. She left it a bit

late, but that 200 metre strength that she has, she used it really

well here. That is one of the best performances we have seen tonight.

The women's sprinting this year is very open. Schippers, Thompson and

others - it will be a cracking couple of races in Rio. The 100m

Women result: Goodwin, who was the world leader,

is the world leader coming into this... The Americans have so many

long jumpers at the moment and, of course, they have always been

criticised in recent times by the great Carl Lewis. American long

jumping is certainly improving. Goodwin is strong and powerful. His

World Lead of 8.45 was maybe a surprise to one or two. 8.19 his

best so far this evening. Greg Rutherford, 8.03 is his opener.

Good speed from Rutherford. Hits the board well. And that is big from

Rutherford. Certainly very big. The longest jump in the world this year

because he doesn't look too far short of it there. It is 8.45. By

Marquise Goodwin. Good height from Rutherford. He is such a massive

fella, that respectfully speaking, it doesn't look as if he's got that

much height. He has. That is a big jump - 8.31, a season's best. Right

at the top end of the track, the men lining up for the 100m Men. There is

Martina, the 31-year-old on the inside. Aaron Brown is not there. So

it is Justin Gatlin being introduced to the crowd in Lane 3. Jimmy Vicaut

of France, his first big 100m of the year. He's ran a couple of 200s so

far. 9.86 at his best. Still leading the world, Femi Ogunode, now running

for Qatar, the former Nigerian. A man who was in great form at home

in Pretoria, he ran 9.96, Akani Simbine. Chijindu Ujah, former

Junior Champion, sub-ten seconds. He will be looking for a quick time

here. British sprinting going really well. Plenty of them qualifying for

the Olympics. Ameer Webb, similar for him. The American team will be

difficult to get into. The 200 is his best event. Isiah Young of the

USA on the outside. Gatlin gets away well, leaves Jimmy

Vicaut, and look at Gatlin, has a metre, they are starting to run him

down a bit, Vicaut coming back, but it will be Gatlin, Webb gets close

at the end, 9.94. Webb finishing very, very quickly. But Gatlin, I'm

not sure what he will think of that. I don't know whether he was hoping

to run quicker. It has been taken down to 9.93.

A season's best. Tim, it looked as though Gatlin was going to go away,

but Webb was strong? Webb had the better second half. He didn't have

the pick-up at the start. He almost got Gatlin. Another three or

four-metres, Ameer Webb would have taken that one. He won the 200

earlier on, 20.04. That is some double. Gatlin on top, Ameer Webb

very impressive in second. Gatlin's winning time, 9.93. Vicaut under 10

seconds. All medallists at global

Championships, here is Tamberi. He's talked a lot ops of course, he was

at the press conferences this week and people focus on his character,

the beard, the rest of it. As I was saying earlier on, the other high

jumpers respecting his ability to produce the good jumps when he needs

to. Not on this occasion, though. That is his second failure at 2.33.

Bohdan Bondarenko at 2.33. Goes clear! Yes! Beginning to find his

competitive streak again. He's had some rough old days over the last

few months, has Bohdan Bondarenko. That is a season's best for the

Ukrainian. His first failure recorded at this height, but second

time of asking and he's got it. Bondarenko is approaching his best,

the 26-year-old. Lapierre - the Australian is really

quick. Great lift off the board for Lapierre. So crucial to get a good

jump in the first three rounds with the new rules. And very, very close,

amongst three or four athletes. Lapierre managing to get out to

8.18. What a field it is, the race

features the winners of the last three Olympics and the winner of the

last four World Championships. 11 men in history have broken 8

minutes for the steeplechase, four go here tonight. They do need to hit

their marks, when you are operating at that sort of speed, very small

mistakes in pace making and tempo judgment can have a catastrophic

effect on the end result. Bondarenko in the high jump. This competition,

that he's already won, the bar at 2.37. Never. Well, that might be

enough for him tonight. He won it with a second-time clearance of

2.33. Robbie Grabarz takes second place ahead of Tamberi, a really

good men's high jump competition. Bondarenko getting back to his best.

Or certainly not too far away from it. With a lap to go, it is

interesting for me, it is who attacks these barriers the best.

Kemboi takes them in his stride. If they can run a sub-60 for the last

lap - it is less than 400, of course. The winner in Doha in

8:05.00. Birech fell there, Tim. I'm not sure what happened. There is

only one winner now. 200 to run, he's hammering it. Around the crown

of the bend, approaches the water jump, negotiate this well... He went

through the bell in exactly 7:00.00. Down the home straight, here is the

winner. The winner surely in 30 or 40 metres. It will be so close to

eight minutes. He's done this time after time after time. 8:01.43,

another massive win, Birech falling down the back straight. Maybe that a

product of the pressure that he was under, that has been applied by

Conseslus Kipruto. Conseslus Kipruto - 8:01.41, winning by almost ten

seconds. Greg Rutherford, his final attempt in the long jump. Yet again,

the new rules, they were not getting as many attempts in the last three

or four, the last three rounds from the top four. We have had four

passes, we have had three no jumps. We have only had three legal jumps

from the top four in these final four rounds. So Greg Rutherford,

what can he do? He's already won the competition. Well, not quite as far,

I'm not sure there... Difficult to see as the runners were going by. If

you weren't sure about how quick he is going, look at him going past the

steeplechasers. I couldn't see where he landed. It may well extend his

lead. Very, very close, he is applauding the crowd. Just waiting

to see what it comes up as. Greg Rutherford coming out on top. It

doesn't matter what others have done. He was the seventh ranked

coming into this competition. Once again, he is unbeaten in Olympic

year. 8.19 in the final round. Greg Rutherford on top. It was a good

night for the British athletes in Rome. On the track, Chijindu Ujah

running well in the sprint. A great third from Lynsey Sharp against

Semenya and Niyonsaba. It was in the field where the best results came -

Robbie Grabarz getting back to his best. In the long jump, we had the

top seven in the world here. Guess who was ranked seven? Greg

Rutherford. He dominates the opposition. 8.31 his winning jump.

If you want a point tore -- pointer to the Olympic Games, he won here

before London. And he won there! Stay with us here on BBC One

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