Rabat, Morocco: Highlights Athletics: IAAF Diamond League

Welcome to highlights of the Rabat Diamond League, the first time the

series has come to Morocco and to market they have made sure it is a

world-class field. COMMENTATOR: Looking magnificent. Finding that

little bit extra. Gets it to the line. Here comes Lynsey Sharp of

Scotland. Silver for Scotland. She is a really good competitor.

Brilliant performance. Has been relentless, ruthless here. Coming

away with a gold-medal! Well done, sir. It is all about LaShawn

Merritt. What a performance. Rabat is the capital of Morocco and the

first city in Africa to host a Diamond League meeting. A UNESCO

World Heritage site, the city is known for its historical and modern

architecture. Your commentators today are Stuart Storey and Tim

Hutchins. We start with the women's 400-metre hurdles. There is the

line-up. Not much in it as they go towards

the first of the barriers. Russell being left behind by Nel, who has

gone off pretty quickly in the back straight. The rest are pretty even

as we go down towards approaching 200 metres. Russell is recovering

and is on the shoulder of now. What will happen at the 200-300 metres,

on the outside, Hanna Titimets going well, also. Into this final bend.

Russell looking very strong. She has taken over the lead. A steady 150.

On the inside is Cassandra Tate. Russell is going to take this one.

Janieve Russell of Jamaica wins it and is second place, Cassandra Tate,

in third place, Nel. The time, 54.1 eight. Pretty quick on the day, the

second fastest in the world this year. Just ahead of Doyle in Doha. A

good run. Not the great first 200 metres. An evenly paced 400 from

Russell of Jamaica. It was a beautifully judged race from

Russell. Went out hard and settled around the second bend and then

kicked hard off the bend and eased away from the Nel. The time is

pretty good in easy conditions. There is a strong wind coming off

the Atlantic. Should be behind the athletes down the home straight for

the most part but in their faces over the back straight. Janieve

Russell, 22 years old, showing enormous strength and good judgment

in that very tough event. That is the result. A personal best for

Russell. A season's best for Cassandra Tate. A good race. Coming

up, Britain's Lynsey Sharp in action in the 800 metres. In the 110 metre

hurdles, David Oliver, the 2013 champion, looking for a first

Diamond League win. A top field in the 800 metres featuring Olympic

medallist Amos. In the 400 metres, the British champion faces LaShawn

Merritt. The women's 100 metres. They have been waiting patiently.

There is Kambundji. A fabulous time at the European Championships two

years ago but struggling to make her mark among the best in the world.

Kerron Stewart, and a former Olympic medallist. This athlete, a couple of

outings already this year. Elaine Thompson. Okagbare, a long jump

medallist in 2008. Very quick over the sprints. Five women in the world

have gone under 11 seconds so far this year. It is early days. Nobody

in this field has done it yet in 2016. I fancy the meeting record

might have a degree of mobility. -- vulnerability. Carmelita Jeter is in

four. Away they go. Quickest away is

Thompson beside Carmelita Jeter. Leading from Kerron Stewart. Coming

through for a second place finish. Okagbare. Thompson, Okagbare,

Stuart. 11.0 four. The wind, -1.3. If that is the case, it is swirling

like crazy. They look at the start with Kerron Stewart fading a little

bit. Stuart has been at the top of the tree in the past but Thompson,

world champion silver-medallist last year. Terrific endurance and that

looked easy. Very comfortable in the end. The body language shows she was

well within herself. That looks really good at 11 point 02. Despite

the headwind, the first three certainly Okagbare and Stuart

setting a season's best. And a new meeting record. Very impressive

indeed. This is how the Diamond League

points system works. There are 14 meetings with 16 track and field

events for men and women. Every event, sprint, hurdles or shot put,

has its own competition with seven rounds and the winner gets ten

points, second place, six points, third four points, down to one point

for six. In September, each overall Diamond League race winner will take

home $40,000 and a sparkling diamond trophy.

The triple jump. Rojas not in the form we saw last

week. Could not get the power behind the jumps. There it is. 14.11 was

her best jump, way down. European Championship silver-medallist in

2012. Patricia -- Patricia Mamona. The World Championship indoor

finalists, as well. Papachristou, she was fifth in Doha

in the triple jump. She has done a little bit better here. A good

range. That was not bad. The end result, 14 metres and 28, that was

in the first round of the competition and she could not

improve on that but she did equal that in the fourth round. Caterine

Ibarguen, who will beat this woman? Under pressure from Rojas of

Venezuela, but came up with a sensational jump in Doha. On this

occasion, good enough to take it and get another ten points. Caterine

Ibarguen, of Columbia, tall, elegant, powerful, remains unbeaten

in 33 finals. That is some record. I would not think it is too often

achieved. There it is, the final round. Against a slight headwind.

The next event on the track is the men's 800 metres. It should be a

competitive race. What a field. Amos. Nijel Amos, Diamond League

winner last year, only 22. Remember the silver medal in the Olympics in

2012. The pacemaker on the outside is the

Kenyan, Meli. They go into the back straight. On the inside, Abdelati El

Guesse. The pacemaker going to quickly by my count, way ahead of

the rest of the field. He has gone way too far ahead of the rest. Amos

is there. Kaboul is sitting in. Amel Tuka at the back, as he often is.

Makhloufi also at the back. You cannot blame the pacemaker. They

have to think on their feet. I was amazed how slowly Makhloufi went out

over the first 200 but he has made his way up and is probably running

the most even splits. El Manaoui is leading. Bosse has

gone for this. He is playing well. He is leading, Amos in second place.

Bosse has taken this one. They are not going to catch him. He came off

the bend so quickly. Makhloufi in seconds, ambled to cut in third.

Amos nowhere. Nijel Amos of what's one, he found himself in some

considerable difficulty in that. Absolutely nowhere in the final

stages, but what about the effort by Bosse France? He really went for

that, a season's best for him and he ran it tactically brilliantly. It

really was a good race in the end. He races a lot and consistently. The

way he eased up to the shoulder of the leader with 200 to go, changing

gear at the bend. Amos did not have the same gear to go to. Bosse is a

big fellow, about six foot three. Into the straight, extending the

lead. Makhloufi misjudged it somewhat. He was just too far back

at the bell I think to get on terms with Bosse.

Pretty tight for the places, but a good run by Bosse. The next event on

the track is the men's steeplechase, they call it a man killer of an

event. Very tough indeed. It's a big field, it's significant because it

sees the return of Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad. He spent all of

the asked you -- last year out with an Achilles injury. How well has the

recovered from that? I was talking to one of the French meet directors

today and he said Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad doesn't come out

unless he's ready to race and to be fair, he's very consistent so let's

see how he goes here. He's about forth from back. They come round

that bend and into the home straight. We are looking for

something around eight minutes tempo. Bernard Nganga leads. He was

the pacemaker in Doha a few weeks ago. Single file at the moment.

Certainly the two principles, consensus computer once Jairus

Birech, it's going to the script as far as they are concerned --

conserves consensus Caputo. It could have been much quicker, it was on

schedule for eight minutes for some considerable time and he seems to be

emerging as the man to beat at the moment. Berridge hasn't -- Birech

hasn't really been doing the business but but Kipruto is the man

of the moment. Let's see if he can hang onto this. The first kilometre

was world-record tempo. They are really attacking this. That's why

the gap has grown to about 35 metres for the chasing pack. Kipruto still

tucked in their behind the pacemaker. Kipruto could go below

eight minutes. Birech hanging onto his coat tails at the moment, the

man who finished fourth so frustratingly in the World

Championship last year with three laps to run. Birech had good second

places but he finished fourth behind 3Com patriots in Beijing. Kipruto,

left of picture, beginning to wind it up with a lap and a half to go.

Paul Koech is in third place, the third fastest man in history, from

Rome in 2012. He is 40 metres down now, in the water jump as they go to

the straight. Birech has a quick finish. I would say Kipruto has to

do something pretty special over the next 200 or 300 metres if he wants

to shake off Birech. Birech didn't get this close this -- last time

out, there has been a drop-off in place and it's allowed Birech to

stay there but Kipruto did finish strongly in the final stages of his

last race. As I say that, the pedal goes down into the back straight has

the approaches the hurdle. 300 to run and looking very strong now down

the back straight is Kipruto. He's shown an impressive turn of speed.

This is perhaps a new quality, taking Birech on at his own skill.

That is a vicious kick over the last 300 metres. Birech has specialised

in defeating one field after another over the last couple of seasons but

Kipruto has opened those 15 metres up in the space of about 150. Waving

to the crowd now as he comes off the bend into the straight. He's got a

great rival behind him, he's going to miss eight minutes by two or

three seconds, he did the damage with the acceleration down the back

straight. He jogs across the line, ten metres to the good, it is indeed

a new meeting record. It's the fastest time in a world this year,

improving his own time from Doha by just over two microseconds. He was

clearly on for a sub eight minutes and he's jogging around the bend

into the home straight, he really is a former world junior champion and

my goodness me, he's now coming of age. Confirmation of the win for

Kipruto, the fastest time in the world this year. Birech I good

second. Paul Koech a distant third, he spends a lot of the race on his

own. The pole vault next, Yarisley Silva,

her opening height, we've already seen this height troubles by the

Swiss. Yes, that's nice. She's a very compact powerful volta, the

reigning champion from last year, silver-medallist at the Games in

London. Baniotis, 2.25 in the high jump

competition. Twice world Indoor Championship analyst incidentally.

Really attacked that bar, that was a very aggressive piece of running and

the sprints showed there was a slight miners headwind but certainly

it's been up to 2.5 plus, so that's interesting, isn't it? It's

fluctuating, that's for sure. The high jumpers may have a slight back

wind from time to time. Robbie Grabarz next to go, and

Olympic medallist back in 2012. Jumping with new-found confidence

this year, it has to be said. His personal best, 2.30 seven. That's

nice, from Robbie Grabarz, much better. He did jump 2.29 in Doha, a

couple of weeks back. Let's go back to the women's pole

vault, the third attempt at this height for Katerina Stefanidi. She

is based in the United States. She is a 4.73 jumper. That's nice. Lots

of power, lots of speed there from the Greek. The European championship

silver-medallist producing a meeting record there. And making it look

relatively easy, I have to say. It's that 4.40, up to 4.6 five. Back to

the men's high jump, trying to maintain his perfect card to date.

Probably a bit fed up with minor medals, the Olympic

silver-medallist, the world indoor bronze-medallist from a few weeks

back and a brilliant, brilliant clearance there. No trouble at all.

He becomes the first man clear and at first attempt, that means the men

behind him, who have had 12-macro failures that this height, have to

clear the next height, 2.31, then 2.34, it will be, doing just enough

there, nicely judged. Next event on the track, the men's high hurdles

and what a Olivero Brazil, Richardson USA, Oliver USA. Antonio

Alkana was South Africa. David Oliver, world champion in 2013 and a

big bronze-medallist in 2008, is a real powerhouse.

A good start. Look at Orlando Ortega going away, Konstadinos Douvalidis

is going well. David Oliver is going to get it, Orlando Ortega in second

place and the time, just looking at the clock, 13.13, a new meeting

record of course but Orlando Ortega absolutely superb. So was David

Oliver, just for once it was great to see him really competing, David,

because getting that at 13.12, it's been rounded up and there was one

100th of a second between him and Orlando Ortega. I thought it was

Konstadinos Douvalidis in third place. David Oliver get the win and

he desperately needs that on the season. Let's have a look at the

start. I'm a little surprised, David Oliver third to left, a good start.

Orlando Ortega got the better start, leading at this stage. Oliver

battled to get back on terms. Antonio Alkana on the near side from

South Africa having a fabulous run. Only now, about three quarters of a

way through, does Oliver get the lead. That win is pretty comfortable

from David Oliver, I'm amazed they put it down to one 100th of a

second, it was easy to call relatively speaking. One 100th

between David Oliver and Orlando Ortega. I thought maybe... Johnathan

Cabral was third. He was ahead, clearly ahead of Konstadinos

Douvalidis. There it is, David Oliver, 13.12, a meeting record.

On Barranco, a very important job for him, a third and final -- Bohdan

Bondarenko. The job was a very good job, but Bohdan Bondarenko wheeze of

the season's best on 2.28 but here's Amanda achieved 2.42 in his career,

2.28 is a season's best, it will give him a breathing space. He's

very tall. Not as fast into the bar as some of the high jumpers we see,

but that's a good clearance. Nothing iffy about that one, that was a very

good clearance indeed. In the vault now, Nicole Buchler Switzerland has

started the season well. This is second attempt at 4.70, had one

failure at this height. Desperately needs it. That's a terrific vault, a

fabulous piece of vaulting. Well, she is back in business here against

Stephanie -- Katerina Stefanidi. A lovely approach and clearance.

Katerina Stefanidi, at 4.7 five. That would equal the meeting record

if she can achieve it. It would be on her first attempt, of course. Oh,

yes. So Katerina Stefanidi goes into the lead. In this pole vault

competition, it's quite a competitive one between herself and

Nicole Buchler, Yarisley Silva in third place. Way below par. But

Katerina Stefanidi is really going well. It's good to see. To Bohdan

Bondarenko, oh, yes, he goes clear. That really is a very, very good

performance indeed. That's eight 2.31, the second attempt, not bad,

he is getting there at last. Tall, rangy, attacking, great lift off the

ground, superb impact. Terrific impacts. The end result is a very

fine clearance indeed. Next up is home favourite Abdalaati

Iguider, the reigning world and Olympic 1500 metre bronze-medallist

and he will be looking to head to the podium once again, in Rio, in

August, but can he give the crowd in the Moroccan capital something to

cheer about? Ewan-macro the next men -- the next event on the track, the

men's 3000 metres. It's a strong field. Abdalaati Iguider will bring

the crowd to their feet, should he win this one, the Olympic

bronze-medallist at 1500 metres. Surely all eyes here on Abdalaati

Iguider, third to left, as they wait patiently. He was only fourth in the

world indoor 3000, relatively poor for him. He normally makes it onto

the rostrum, certainly in indoor races.

Away they go. The early pace looking healthy. Four minute mile tempo they

will maintain for almost two miles if they stick to the schedule.

Ismael Kombich should be comfortable at this tempo. Just under two laps

as they go through. Still with Ibrahimov leading. Still anybody's

race. Nine in the pack. 652 run and Iguider looking very smooth. Easy to

forget he is a 3.28 1500 metres runner. You have to be very close to

the front in a tactical race like this. If you are not there, watch it

covering every move. As they come down towards the bell, Iguider, and

an enormous roar. Iguider hits the front for the first time

effectively. Kipkoech in fourth place. 300 metres to run. Let's see

the form of Iguider, has he got the form today? They have had so many

good champions over the years. They love middle-distance running. They

know it well. Still only a metre between Iguider and Ibrahimov. As

they come into the straight, Ibrahimov tries to raise his game.

Iguider stretches his stride and eases away. The gap seven metres at

the line. 7.37 for Iguider. So much harder running in the last couple of

laps but relatively easy for the Moroccan 29-year-old. It is easy to

forget he has great strength, Iguider. As Olympic medallist at

1500 at London. That is a very powerful combination of speed and

strength. They got what they wanted, a home win at last. A break crowd

here. A terrific run in with 200 metres to go. The indoor champion in

2012. He has been around a while. A look over his shoulder. Adel Mechaal

of Spain in third place. They do not get much noisier than this.

Confirmation of the time. The pictures behind the caption line.

The crowd still going berserk here. The time is pretty solid going down

the results card. This is the final attempt in the win in's pole vault

for Nicole Buchler. Katerina Stefanidi cleared 4.70 five. The

third and final attempt, that was for the victory. Could she snatch

victory from the jaws of defeat? No, she couldn't. Confirmation. Katerina

Stefanidi. Very good in these gusty conditions. Back to the men's high

jump and Erik Kynard in real trouble. We saw Bohdan Bondarenko go

clear at the second time of asking. It is not to be for Erik Kynard.

Everything was going sweetly and then he hit the blocks, so to speak,

at 2.30 one. Confirmation of the wind for Bohdan Bondarenko. Fabulous

performances in the 2.40s a couple of years back.

Kovago in the discus. Robert Urbanek still leading. An Olympic Games

silver-medallist in 2004, Kovago. Look at that transfer. Great

control. He likes that one. It looks to me to be around 64 metres. He has

64.83 to beat, which is a throw by Robert Earl Burnett. That was a

lovely flowing movement. He had total control of that. It worked

against his left side. He had good use of the torque. Just short of the

lead, second place. We can catch up with Dan Bramble. In third place. It

would be nice if he could build on this. It would give him such

confidence if he could do it. That is another one, it looks again

around the eight metres mark. Does not look terribly happy. Slightly

better on the board. He has made his adjustments. A simple technique,

lovely to watch. A lovely arch in the middle, no rotations. Let's see

if he has gone any better. It is eight metres. A season's best for

him outdoors. The men's 200 metres. I would expect Edward to go off

quickly. Gavin Smellie of Canada has gone off quickly. Alonso Edward

leading into the straight. Under pressure from Wilfried Koffi but

Edward is coming away with this. Edward has this one tied up will

stop a wonderful run. A new meeting record. Really, when you look at the

way in which Edward lined up, he had a perfectly lain in the six lane. He

did not challenge until he came off the bend. His transition was good.

Wilfried Koffi came through strongly into second place. There he is. We

can look at this from the start. I want to look through this. Edward...

Wilfried Koffi is the man who went strongly off Herrera of Mexico.

Bruno Hortelano-Roig of Spain was doing well. Alonso Edward, so tough

and strong. Wilfried Koffi came through in the final stages to take

second place. On the line, by the dip. That was a competitive race

from Wilfried Koffi. And a really good run of my Hortelano-Roig in

Lane 3. Alonso Edward is more experienced. A 19.8 man, it is easy

to forget that. A brilliant dip from Wilfried Koffi of the Ivory Coast to

take second. The 200 metres results...

Commonwealth and European silver-medallist Lynsey Sharp goes

next in the women's 800 metres. After missing out on the final in

the World Championships last summer, she said she hoped to use the

experience as a lesson for the future. Can she hit top form on the

track in Rabat? The winning's 800 metres and what a packed field. More

like a World Championship final. 13 starters including four World

champions. Lynsey Sharp is the European champion. Caster Semenya,

frankly, she toyed with the field in Doha 16 days ago. A controversial

character. She has come back from what was a stepping away from

athletics for a couple of years while there were discussions about

hormone levels but she is back. She is sticking to the rules. She can do

no more. It is not her fault. Looking here for 57.5, the 400 from

Tkachuk of the Ukraine. There is the many, powerfully built. Makes Lynsey

Sharp look quite frail. The last 200 metres last time out for is in many

was impressive, in Doha. A very quick last 200 metres. It will be

interesting to see how Eunice Sum handles this. She has experience

against Caster Semenya, who has so much left in the tank. Her season so

far has proved it and heard times approved it and the speed in which

she recovers from one race to the next is incredible. 300 metres to

run. The pacemaker has done her job. Look at Caster Semenya. Barrel

chested, so comfortable in second place. Moving up as well in third

place I think is Oskan-Clarke. Beginning to move away and looking

so comfortable. The rest floundering. Francine Niyonsaba

giving everything she can but the world number one wins it comfortably

indeed. A 59.9 second lap after the opener. So impressive. It will stoke

the fires of controversy yet further. She has run the fastest

time in the world this year by a couple of seconds. Almost a couple

of seconds. She has thrashed a fabulous field. Francine Niyonsaba

battle down the home straight. Eunice Sum, who we did not see in

the second lap. Beaten by many metres by Caster Semenya. The

Olympic silver-medallist might go one place better come Rio. 157.74,

Francine Niyonsaba. Lynsey Sharp went under two minutes. I have a

feeling the gold medal is already won in the Olympic Games in Rio,

unless injury takes its toll. Caster Semenya, of South Africa. The world

champion down in eighth. The discus. Malachowski. 65.91 leading at the

moment. That was his third round throw. This is his fall. Out of the

eight only the top four go through for three further throws. A lot of

opposition to that by the athletes but that is the rule and that looks

to me around 66 or more. He is a really consistent thrower. Not so in

the last competition but when it matters, he can provide the throw

necessary to take the lead. He is dangerous right the way to the

bitter end. What has he got? That's good, a

meeting record, 66.80 eight. The long jump now, Rushwal Samaai, in

second place behind Fabrice Lapierre. That's a good jump. That

could well take the lead. That's very close to Fabrice Lapierre's

jump. Look at that! Absolutely superb on

the runway. Let's have a look, what's he got?

8.38 equals the meeting record, he's gone into the lead! Marquise

Goodwin, third-place, fourth round. A little bit of backward rotation on

that, a third-place for him. That is right on the board, spot on with

that. That's 8.11, so third-place for Marquise Goodwin of the United

States. 2013 world champion LaShawn Merritt

is next in the men's 400 metres. He won da Silva medal at last year's

World Championships and is off to a good start this season, having won

at the opening Diamond League meeting in Doha. There's the line-up

for the men's 400 metres. Rabah Yousif of Great Britain, 46.14

in Des Moines in the states this year in April.

LaShawn Merritt of course with that sub 20 200 metres, not going off as

quickly as Isaac Makwala of Botswana, who is flying around the

back straight. LaShawn Merritt taking it very much easier indeed.

Brown going quite well off the Bahamas, but LaShawn Merritt now

taking close order on Isaac Makwala. Isaac Makwala has really gone for

this one. As the fastest 300 metres and LaShawn Merritt has to tackle

him here. LaShawn Merritt usually has the strength and I wonder if

Isaac Makwala can hang on. Isaac Makwala ties up after that fast

first 200 metres. LaShawn Merritt wins its. Kevin Borlee on the

outside. 44.68, the time. You have to say that Isaac Makwala of

Botswana went for it. Too fast over the first 200 metres. He was well up

there at 300 metres and really fell apart over the last 50 metres, which

wasn't surprising. Far too fast over the first 200, but you have to

admire his determination. He went for it and didn't quite get it. But

at least he got... And Rabah Yousif was down the field, we will bring

you date with that in a moment for British viewers. LaShawn Merritt and

Kevin Borlee. I don't know why he did that, as a koala. There's no way

he was going to maintain that tempo and come home in around 44 flat. A

beautifully measured run from LaShawn Merritt. He wasn't upset by

Isaac Makwala's run. This is an unforgiving event, if you get it

wrong your legs feel like they wait turns. Kevin Borlee has come through

for second place, snatching it from Isaac quali. -- Isaac Makwala. It's

a meeting record. Brown butter seasons best in fourth place.

In second place at the moment is, his best throw was in the third

round. This is the fifth round throw, it's a good throw. It looks

beyond the 65-metre line or thereabouts. He's having a very good

series. 64.65 in the fourth round. What has he got here? A lovely

rotation in that circle. Good lift of the discus, and he's looking

forwards, just waiting for the computer to show us what he has got.

We have got it now. It's 6504 -- it is 65.0. More. Fabrice Lapierre, I

said he got close to the great man. He did, the great man on this day

was Rushwal Samaai of South Africa. That was terrific jumping. He was

only just short at 8.36, spot on the board, you don't get any better than

that. He was quick on the runway, with an 8.31 and an 8.36, and if he

had got that 8.38 equals Rushwal Samaai's jump, he would have won

because he got a second-best jump, so he lost it by two centimetres. A

seasoned's best for this Australian in very good form. Rushwal Samaai

equals the meeting record. A good win, and Bramble had a season's

best. Piotr Malachowski has the discus is stitched up here, he leads

this event quite comfortably and has done so from early on in the event.

That really was good control. Didn't fall out that time, that's much

better. That is much better, that is 67 territory. That's better than

66.88, there is a smug smile on his face as he walks out of the circle!

He has done it again. His season's best is 68.03 and that's not far

behind that. He's going to take it from Robert Urbanek and Zoltan

Kovago. He's happy. A meeting record and yet another top of the podium

performance by Piotr Malachowski of Poland. There is the result of the

discus. Our last race on the track is the

women's 5000 metres, featuring Almaz Ayana, the Ethiopian is the reigning

world champion in this event and got her season off to start with victory

in the 3000 metres in Doha. Can she add a second Diamond win of the

season today question might we can go back to the track now for the

final event of the programme, the women's 5000 metres, and they have

perhaps saved the best until last because the pace has been requested

its world record tempo. It's a small field, but a very good quality one,

11 starters, two of are pacemakers. We understand they are going off at

2.50 per kilometre, the world record by Tirunesh Dibaba ack in 2008, 14.1

one. Six in the field have broken 15 minutes but Almaz Ayana is one of

the few in history who have gone under 14.20, only four women have

that achievement to their name. Will the wind put paid to it though? I'm

looking to our left where the water jump is and the women are running

past now and high up on the rim of the stadium there are flags blowing

very, very stiffly indeed. If Ivar 50 or 60 feet up at the top of the

standard bearers there is incredibly strong winds-macro blowing off the

Atlantic. They need to be running 68 seconds per lap. Well, 14.46, and

14.3 sixes her lifetime best. The gap is beginning to show. Almaz

Ayana has cut loose and eased away. 200 metres yet to the two kilometre

point and the gap has suddenly opened up very quickly indeed. Meraf

Bahta is caught at the back of the field, she is the sort of athlete

who has the calibre with under 31.510 kilometre strength, I think

she has got the ability to run quicker than this, has Meraf Bahta

but she's never done it before run the 5000 is a very tough event to

come to terms with. Anything around 14.45 would be a big improvement for

Meraf Bahta. Almaz Ayana, left of picture is streaking away with every

stride and she has gone through two kilometres, just waiting for that

split to become apparent. She's isolated, it will be tough for her

now. It really is, because two kilometres reached in 5.43 by Almaz

Ayana, just about spot on. She was half a second out of 5.40,

metronomic running from the Ethiopian.

There is a pack of five. The world record beckons for this little

Ethiopian. Relatively unheard of before Shanghai last year, when she

exploded onto the world distance running scene. She is still only 24

years old. She has run superbly so far. She goes through in just

outside 12 minutes, probably 12.01, it may be real beyond her but it's

been a mighty powerful effort from her. It will be one of the quickest

times in history. Her own personal best, 14 point 1432, the meeting

record is 14.45, I don't think that's got too far to go. That was

set in 2012. Almaz Ayana is down the back straight, her arms swinging a

little bit more freely and violently almost as she goes through with 600

metres to run. The crowd is urging her on from the infield, her agent

who has done is -- who has done so much to push back the barriers of

running. He was having a career as a world record breaker. Almaz Ayana is

in the zone, looks up for the first time I have seen, she comes towards

the bell. A 61 second lap surely is beyond even her. I fear that despite

the brilliant effort, Tirunesh Dibaba's world record set just under

eight years ago is safe for a while longer but on a better evening

without this wind, with pacemaking further into the race, I think it's

there for the taking. Yes, there will be a few that give her the pace

she once, even over 3000 metres it was found wanting but 5000 metres

it's been a lone race against the clock for her. -- there are few who

can give her the pace she wants. It's been a fantastic demonstration

of distance running over 5000 metres. She is the world champion

and she's got an Olympic year to come and my goodness me, who can

beat? We'll will see if anybody can. Is going to be mighty close but I'm

sure it will be outside the world record. This effort from Almaz

Ayana, they are raised to their feet in the home straight roaring her on,

30 metres to go. Watch the clock, it's been an astonishing effort from

Almaz Ayana. She was right on the case there, she got it right for

over two thirds of the distance. Probably for something like three

quarters of the distance. Second place coming home, a distant second

place, it is Viola Jelagat Kibiwot in second place. The world record

was threatened. A personal best from her. Senbere Teferi in third place.

Each of those first three, Almaz Ayana included a had a lonely

journey unfold over the last few laps into the second half of the

race particularly, but well done for such fabulous racing and running

against the clock rather than racing because most of them in isolation.

It's been a real feast of brilliant running against the clock and for

many, many minutes that world record was under threat. Almaz Ayana, she

wins the 5000 metres in 14 point 16 .3 one. Well, confirmation of the

windfall Almaz Ayana. -- the win, for Almaz Ayana. Outside the world

record, but a fabulous display of running, winning comfortably. That's

a record for Meraf Bahta. She reaches new ground. The performance

of the Knights, along with the women's 800 metres, won bike Caster

Semenya, Almaz Ayana is on 20 points after a win in Doha and comfortably

out in front. Our next Diamond League action is from Eugene in the

USA on Sunday, 2:30pm on BBC Two. In other sporting action there is

coverage of the men's European Gymnastics Championships, starting

on Saturday. You can catch the rowing World Cup from Lucerne on

Sunday, on BBC Two. That's it for our highlights of the rubber Diamond

League but we've got plenty of -- plenty more athletics for you to

enjoy this summer. That's what it means to him. Is going to be close,

isn't it? I've got to tell you, that's good. He's just done what he

does best. What does it have in store for us this year? Oh, that's a

huge jump. It's a perfect day. # The whole world

sitting on a ticking bomb... You should leave the monastery

immediately.