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Hello and welcome to Diamond League Highlights from Stockholm. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
We've passed the halfway stage now and we're still in Scandinavia | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
as we move from Oslo to Sweden's capital. | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
Built to host the 1912 Olympics, the stadium has witnessed | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
Some of the world's best athletes have gathered here again to attempt | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
to write their own names into the history books. | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
Did he hit that?! Davis is going to last this out. | :01:21. | :01:38. | |
Harrison takes that brilliantly. Oh, yes. That is huge for Taylor! | :01:39. | :01:51. | |
Dina Asher-Smith looking fantastic here. | :01:52. | :02:00. | |
Here to talk you through it are your commentators Tim Hutchings | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
Welcome to the Olympic Stadium, to the North of the city, on a cool and | :02:04. | :02:15. | |
damp evening, 15 Celsius in the arena but a great array of athletics | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
from the stadium, starting with the man's 400m hurdles. | :02:21. | :02:31. | |
That is the line-up. The best line-up we have seen all season. A | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
shame the conditions are not that great. They have all gone off | :02:37. | :02:48. | |
weekly. Javier Culson is fast and also Tinsley in the back straight. | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
Javier Culson definitely reading as they go towards and past 200m and | :02:56. | :03:04. | |
into the third 100m. And Tinsley being overtaken by LJ van Zyl on the | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
apex of the bend. Has he got enough left? Patryk Dobek going strongly on | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
the outside. And Tinsley has gone. Nicholas Bett a little better | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
although he stutters. Brett Robinson, LJ van Zyl fighting hard, | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Patryk Dobek on the near side. And Clement gets second place and Patryk | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
Dobek third. His season is coming together, Culson, they get the time, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
it is not a good night for the sprinters. Solid enough, the winner | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
over a strong field. Tinsley just ran out of gas. He did go quicker | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
over the first 200m. He is more of an even paced sprinter and he really | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
motored tonight in the first half and I think he paid for it. There it | :03:56. | :04:02. | |
is, Culson... A good run again, Patryk Dobek in third, ahead of LJ | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
van Zyl. And Nicholas Bett still not flying. | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Over to the discus competition. The World Championship silver-medallist | :04:14. | :04:23. | |
building nicely. Daniel Bailey, is like improvement on her second-round | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
effort. She hits that smoothly. The 36-year-old so experienced and that | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
is big. A fabulous fifth round effort. Ben Youssef Meite opened, | :04:34. | :04:39. | |
that is what she is chasing. That was almost right on 60 five. A | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
season's best with one round to both. Very quick on the runway, 400m | :04:47. | :05:09. | |
is one of the great sprinters. -- Tianna Bartoletta. She is twice | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
World Champion at the Long Jump. Last year in Beijing and back in | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
2005. She has been around a long time. 5000m next. Five men in the | :05:19. | :05:30. | |
field running under 30 minutes. The pace requested would result in a new | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
world best. 235, the and the big names present. Muktar Edris, winning | :05:38. | :05:46. | |
here in 2014. So this big field gets under way. There is no Mo Farah, the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Olympic and World Champion at this distance. What we are looking for in | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
this sort of race, with the Olympic Games and athletics eight weeks | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
away, it is some sort of indication from somebody in this field is most | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
of the big-name protagonists who would challenge Mo Farah are in this | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
field, something that indicates a quality in the likes of one of these | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
man that can threaten the documents of Mo Farah by Rio. Edris not | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
looking good in fourth place, the Diamond Race leader. Running out of | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
steam. The gap between him and the leading trio is growing. Uefa in | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
fifth place, he is only 16 years old. Eight in the African junior | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
cross-country in March. Virtually unheard of. It is the bowl now. And | :06:40. | :06:47. | |
it is Kejelcha, the star of the European team in second place, | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
trying to latch on to the coat-tails of the tall figure of Stable Lads' | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
Association who has led a lot in these last three laps. Now Edris | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
wakes up in the White top and he tries to go with the reading trio. | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
Gradually clicking up the acceleration and going through the | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
gears. The World Championships last year Kejelcha when he had such a | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
marvellous season on the Diamond League circuit but a fifth in | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
Shanghai and a third in Oslo and he might have the beating of this | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
field. Stable Lads' Association carries on hunting and chasing | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Kejelcha into the slipstream but has he got the speed? Berihu in fourth. | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
Stable Lads' Association eases it over the last 50. He loved it late | :07:36. | :07:45. | |
and he crossed the line from Kejelcha. He did leave it late but | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
he judged it perfectly. And that is not a bad return. His evening's | :07:50. | :07:55. | |
work. Just checking, Jeilan. That is a new personal best. Over six | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
seconds. Jeilan showed the same sort of form he did in winning the world | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
title in 2011. Always in the right place in the right home. You felt | :08:07. | :08:13. | |
Kejelcha had got enough. -- in the right time. So that new personal | :08:14. | :08:21. | |
best, Kejelcha. Edris making it a one and two and 34 Ethiopia. He | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
could be a danger to the likes of Mo Farah, he perhaps has that change of | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
pace to challenge the British runner. Ivana Spanovic knows what | :08:32. | :08:42. | |
the target is, you can tell how cold it is. That is good, that is good. | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
That looks a little better. The tracksuit bottoms, the tights kept | :08:48. | :08:55. | |
on to protect those muscles. It has been drizzly all morning, and she | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
missed the board so that is a good jump. Very simple technique. | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
Backward rotation but generally very good indeed and very athletic, Gough | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
the board and in the approach. 6.90, that is the lead. The Serbian taking | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
them all on. This is the World Champion from | :09:18. | :09:28. | |
2013, chin. Round five. Very very fast, she is a big character. It is | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
around 68 metres. The season's best from chin was in Shanghai four weeks | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
ago. She topped the world rankings. And that is big from chin in round | :09:45. | :09:58. | |
five. -- from chin. That was the winning throw in her fifth round. | :09:59. | :10:08. | |
Good enough for second place. And in third, Hill from Cuba. That is the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
line-up for the women's 100m hurdles. | :10:15. | :10:27. | |
And listen to the response to this lady. European champion back in | :10:28. | :10:42. | |
2006, she begins her campaign. And next are the fastest woman in the | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
world, Kendra Harrison, unbeaten this season. The world leading time. | :10:48. | :10:57. | |
The women's 100m hurdles. A return from the champion from 2006, a | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
decade ago, Susanna Kallur. Kallur going well, going | :11:03. | :11:24. | |
brilliantly. And on the near side, Queen Harrison. Going away, wins it. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
In second place, Nia Ali of the United States. And that was a very, | :11:31. | :11:42. | |
very good opener by Susanna Kallur. But this young woman takes some | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
beating, Kendra Harrison. Nia Ali was second. And look at that for the | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
start. Kallur out of the blocks. This is her first race. Harrison | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
obviously away and Ali going well. Alina Talay dropped at this stage. | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
Kendra Harrison is such a good technician and Queen Harrison sneaks | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
through into third place. In these conditions, I cannot emphasise how | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
quick that is. Only about five other athletes in the world have done that | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
this year, six over athletes, who can run as quick as that. These | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
conditions of foul impaired Eugene most years or in California. -- | :12:26. | :12:37. | |
compared to. So there it is. Rob Susanna Kallur 13 seconds, in fifth | :12:38. | :12:44. | |
place, just behind -- just ahead of Alina Talay. | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
British record holder Dina Asher-Smith will want to build on an | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
impressive start to her outdoor season ahead of next week's British | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
Championships. Today, she is the fastest in the field but faces stiff | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
competition from Desiree Henry and Margaret Adeoye. These women subject | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
to drizzle on the far side of the track. Dina Asher-Smith, exciting | :13:11. | :13:20. | |
British talent. Simone Facey from Jamaica in six. But this young lady, | :13:21. | :13:28. | |
British record holder at 100m and 200m, world junior champion in 2014. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
What a good job the coach has done with her. That is Marie Josee Ta Lou | :13:34. | :13:39. | |
of the Ivory Coast who just missed the Beijing final last year, third | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
in her semifinal. Desiree Henry, a former world youth champion in 2011, | :13:44. | :13:51. | |
in very good form, her personal best in April in California. That is 29, | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
sixth in the World Championships over 200m but not in good form, only | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
sixth in Lucerne a couple of nights ago. And Adeoye, her first race, the | :14:01. | :14:10. | |
31-year-old Briton, it in 2016. Asher-Smith in-line five. | :14:11. | :14:20. | |
A good start from Asher-Smith, fourth from left, under 11 seconds | :14:21. | :14:21. | |
last year to set the British record. Asher-Smith leads from their | :14:22. | :14:34. | |
team-mate, coming through strongly on the outside is Simone Facey, but | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
Asher-Smith is going to take this one under pressure towards the line, | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
but wins in 22.7 four. Mminus 0.8 wind, that is what they were running | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
into, and that is very satisfying indeed. She would have wished, I am | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
sure, for significantly better conditions than this, and she would | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
have run quicker and a nicer night. She did, she had very good | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
transition of the bend, stays to the inside of the lane, runs very nicely | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
indeed, Desiree Henry, the European medallists in the 4x100m, part of | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
the team with Asher-Smith, she really had a good race with pace | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
closing down to get second place at Desiree Henry. But Henry, good race, | :15:18. | :15:24. | |
but certainly Asher-Smith, the best of 22 point 47. Gradually coming | :15:25. | :15:33. | |
back to form, but that is not bad in these conditions. There it is, a win | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
for Dina Asher-Smith from Simone Facey. I thought Desiree Henry | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
started fast and ran well, personal best, 22.88 in third place. I could | :15:43. | :15:52. | |
have executed a bit better on the straight, of my 200, it would | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
ideally have been a bit better. But the first 100, not ideal conditions, | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
I am quite happy. Brittney Reese in third place with 6.67 in this long | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
jump, tall powerhouse that is Brittney Reese, three times the | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
world champion, and that is a pretty good jump indeed. Certainly is a | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
terrific competitor. Has she done enough? Chasing 6.90, which we saw | :16:16. | :16:26. | |
earlier. It's the board perfectly, absolutely spot-on. No finesse about | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
this, lovely hang in the middle, I have to say, she gets it all | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
together, gets terrific left off the board. A real dynamo of an athlete, | :16:39. | :16:46. | |
6.88, not quite enough, two centimetres short of Spanovic. She | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
is just ahead of the twice world champion, Brittney Reese, at 6.88. | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
Tianna Bartoletta in third. Well, Ruth Beitia, can you be the second | :16:57. | :17:13. | |
person clear? 2.0 at best. Oh, yes! Once she is out of the bed, there | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
she goes, that is OK. She is tall, very, very tall, twice world | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
champion silver-medallist, this year of course, import them. And back in | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
2010 as well, won the European title as well. -- in Portland. She is the | :17:31. | :17:38. | |
second person clear budget goes into the lead. One more attempt at this | :17:39. | :17:51. | |
height, really finding it difficult, Licwinko. Oh, yes, she has got it! | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
She remains in the competition. That is Ruth Beitia, the smile on her | :18:00. | :18:04. | |
face, because Licwinko is one of the main opponents. This time she got it | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
right, very pleased with that. Stays in the competition, just clicked it | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
as she went down. It was a good clearance, though, having said that. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
So she is in third. Well, they're getting stripped off for the start | :18:18. | :18:19. | |
of the 100m. No problem with the start, pretty | :18:20. | :18:39. | |
even, actually, it looks like Bailey is going well, but here comes Harvey | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
on the inside, he gets it, I think Meite was third, I think Richard | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
Kilty was third. 10.19, a very good run indeed, it went pretty well with | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
the form book. A good opener, let's have a look at the start, Meite got | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
away pretty well, Kilty going well from the second lane, Meite in the | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
light blue top looks good at this stage. Harvey coming through, he | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
gets there. Meite in second place, was it Kilty in third, or did they | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
catching? Let's have a look at this, Kilty just over striding on the far | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
side a little bit. Yes, he has got beaten, hasn't he? Looked a little | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
better on the first run through, but he was fifth in the end, 10.31 for | :19:25. | :19:32. | |
third. Same time for third, fourth and fifth, it does not get much | :19:33. | :19:40. | |
closer than that. Now, here is Shawn Barber. Trying to find his rhythm | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
this season, it has not been a brilliant season for Barber, | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
season's best of 5.91, but that is better! The first man clear at 5.65, | :19:52. | :20:03. | |
remember, he is a 5.93 man, Barber, and the pressure is all on Renaud | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
Lavillenie, a third attempt for the Frenchman at this height. Christian | :20:08. | :20:14. | |
Taylor in the first round of the triple jump, second longest triple | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
jumper in history. That is not a bad opener. I do not think it is 17 | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
metres, but it is OK. Taylor, in this triple jump, he is last in the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
jumping order. And that looks to have taken the lead to me. Next best | :20:32. | :20:44. | |
is 16.32 by Troy Doris of Guyana. So here is Lavillenie in that pole | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
vault. Under real pressure, his opening height, the world | :20:48. | :20:59. | |
record-holder. Both he and... Not going smoothly, his season, but | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
going better tonight now! Under a bit of pressure there, both they and | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
Shawn Barber, at the third time of asking, at 5.6 25. Lavillenie leads | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
by dint of that being his opening height. Barber had a second time | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
clearance as the previous night. -- at the previous height. | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
Last month in Eugene, Ruth Jebet became only the second woman ever to | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
run under nine minutes in the 3000m steeplechase, missing out on a world | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
record by just under a second. Ghribi is the record-holder and | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
provides the quickest competition, as Jebet looks to go one better. | :21:45. | :21:52. | |
On the far side of the track, some 16 starters in this one, and of | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
course we are used to bury QuickTime is being run these days, indeed the | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
second athlete has joined the under nine minute club this year. -- very | :22:04. | :22:09. | |
quick times. The number two all time, the Asian games champion, | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
Jebet. Running for Bahrain, although she is, of course, Kenyan born. The | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
pacemaker, Fancy Cherotich, will take over and the pace that has been | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
asked for is three minutes for the first kilometre. The world record is | :22:34. | :22:41. | |
8:50 8.1, that was said by a Russian in Beijing. -- set. They got off at | :22:42. | :22:51. | |
a fair old lick here, and Ruth Jebet, who beat the world champion, | :22:52. | :23:01. | |
slots right into third place. With two and a half minutes on the clock, | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
the second and fourth fastest athlete in history and art in this | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
Beeld, the Olympic gold and silver-medallists from London. -- | :23:09. | :23:15. | |
are in this field. It is a pretty packed field. The leader has Jebet | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
in her slipstream. The second pacemaker, who was supposed to take | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
them to halfway, cannot stay with this. She has not gone with it, just | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
looking to see if Ghribi is out there. She is way back, she has to | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
be coming back from injury or illness, because she is not remotely | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
interested in challenging. So Ruth Beitia, then - second attempt, | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
always looks very confident, believing that she is going to clear | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
it, and that is so important in the vertical jumps. 37 years old now, | :23:51. | :24:00. | |
Ruth Beitia. Fourth in the Olympic Games in London. Oh! Squeezes over | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
that one. It is almost like she maintained contact with it most of | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
the way over, beautifully judged, the arc. That gives her the lead, | :24:14. | :24:21. | |
1.93, and now the others have it all to do. This is Troy Doris, second | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
jump in the triple jump, first-round, as you can see, 16.32. | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
We saw Christian Taylor at 16.70 in his first-round jump. That is a | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
lovely piece of jumping, it looks as though he has gone a bit further | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
than that. 16.50 by the look of it. Look at him, he has got more clothes | :24:50. | :24:55. | |
on, weighed down by Kit! But obviously that tells you the story | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
of the condition out here. 16.55, there he is, second place. Alessia | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
Trost, third and final attempt at 1.93. It would be a season's best if | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
she were to get this. 1.92 she jumped in Eugene at the end of May. | :25:15. | :25:24. | |
No, no. No. Just took off a little bit too far away, or seemingly so, | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
difficult to judge from here. She has gone now. Licwinko desperate to | :25:29. | :25:37. | |
get over this, she struggled at 1.90, doing it on the third attempt. | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
That was close, actually. That was close. She has gone too. So this big | :25:46. | :25:56. | |
striding athlete hammers in, gets good lift, just too much on that bar | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
there. That is the result of the high jump, Ruth Beitia's a season's | :26:05. | :26:16. | |
best. Jebet down the back straight, a lead of 70 metres now, running | :26:17. | :26:27. | |
superbly. Second in Shanghai, 9:15, only 11th in the World Championships | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
last year, how she has come on over this last 12 months or so. Around | :26:31. | :26:40. | |
about 3:03 for the second element but has maintained the tempo pretty | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
well considering the pace of the first kilometre. Anything around | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
8:30 is world-class, frankly. The rest of the field go through in her | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
slipstream. She comes through below us with two laps to run. A tiny | :26:57. | :27:00. | |
little figure, the diminutive figure, a little stuttering over the | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
barrier. The Australian duo running really well. A personal best for | :27:05. | :27:22. | |
LaCaze last week, and she has had personal bests at different | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
distances, all pretty solid times, in contrast to the African | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
steeplechasers, who do not focus on flat running at all, really only | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
concentrate on the chase itself. But there is little Ruth Jebet driving | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
on, with six and would metres to run, still looking strong. -- with | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
600m. Barring disaster, she has the race won. The lead is about 100m. | :27:45. | :27:55. | |
Chepkoech has dropped back and is being reeled in by the Australian | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
duo. Jebet, again, without stuttering performance over the | :28:02. | :28:04. | |
barrier, she has to be losing a couple of metres each time she does | :28:05. | :28:08. | |
that. The Australians on the hand, they have got a good team in Europe | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
at the moment, some only arrived in the last few days, gradually finding | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
their feet. Jebet enters the last lap, she has got to cover it in | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
around 6768 seconds to break nine minutes. She has held to form pretty | :28:23. | :28:28. | |
well through the second kilometre. In Stockholm, they love distance | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
running, they love steeplechasing. Can they roar her on through the | :28:33. | :28:39. | |
last 300m? She is working hard, LaCaze is in fourth, there are some | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
big names behind this Australian pairing. Madeline Hills was fourth | :28:43. | :28:50. | |
in Oslo last Thursday, a personal best of 9:20 four. She went out in | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
the World Championships last at 5000 and the steeplechase. This is a | :28:56. | :28:59. | |
great battle between this trio. A little domestic dustup between the | :29:00. | :29:02. | |
Australians, the water jump for the final time for Jebet. The crowd | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
roaring her on, she is not going to be under nine minutes. It has been a | :29:08. | :29:12. | |
mighty strong run, impressive run, as LaCaze takes hard in towards the | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
final water jump out of shot. Skipping over the final barrier, the | :29:17. | :29:24. | |
little Bahraini was a winner beating the world champion, she has beaten | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
the field by virtually the length of the home straight. 9:08, the meeting | :29:28. | :29:36. | |
record has gone. Gravy was not a factor at all. -- Ghribi. A good run | :29:37. | :29:45. | |
from LaCaze, across the line now, 9:20 3.5, and Hills come through for | :29:46. | :29:51. | |
fifth place, very good performance. Very good performance. She loves to | :29:52. | :30:00. | |
run on her own and she did the same thing despite the presence of the | :30:01. | :30:08. | |
World Champion in that fabulous race and she dipped under nine minutes. | :30:09. | :30:14. | |
That is confirmation of the win, Jebet. A meeting record, the only | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
one of the night so far. Rabbi, of Kenya. And great run from Match of | :30:21. | :30:36. | |
the Day. A second attempt now. The world record holder is used to these | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
situations, he has been in these situations several times before and | :30:40. | :30:46. | |
he really hits the deck. That is fabulous, much, much better. That | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
was better. A second time the clearance for the Olympic champion, | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
twice indoor champion, Corinthian Casuals. No throws to open with, the | :30:57. | :31:07. | |
Egyptian. He is a massive thrower. World Championship silver-medallist | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
last year. That is big, over 85 metres for the 27-year-old. One in | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
Eugene with 87 metres. On fifth in Oslo last week, he had a bad evening | :31:21. | :31:24. | |
in the stadium but he has gone much better. 86 metres X Maclay. That is | :31:25. | :31:31. | |
going to take some catching. Shawn Barber in the Pole Vault, his | :31:32. | :31:39. | |
third and final attempt of 5.7 three. Hill had problems at 5.50, | :31:40. | :31:51. | |
5.60 five. -- he had problems. The World Champion finding it tough. Oh, | :31:52. | :31:58. | |
no, no! He is out. He is in second place behind Corinthian Casuals, a | :31:59. | :32:06. | |
familiar pattern in many respects. Chris Carter of the United States -- | :32:07. | :32:18. | |
behind Renaud Lavillenie. He is pretty quick on the runway and that | :32:19. | :32:25. | |
looks to be a bit better. 16.21 in the first round. Not bad control | :32:26. | :32:38. | |
rate the way through. Third place. That is the line-up for the women's | :32:39. | :32:40. | |
400m. The bronze-medallist in the World | :32:41. | :33:00. | |
Championships is part of the Great Britain Relay. 51.55 her season's | :33:01. | :33:05. | |
best. Novlene Williams-Mills around a long time and competing in five | :33:06. | :33:13. | |
World Championships beginning in it soccer in 2007. A of experience. So | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
then Bundy-Davies of Great Britain, a member of the British four by | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
four, season's best 51.26 in Geneva five days ago. Twice European junior | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
champion Laviai Nielsen. 52.20 eight. A season's best. Just a | :33:33. | :33:43. | |
little bit quicker last season. A not -- a long hold but they have got | :33:44. | :33:52. | |
away this time. Looks as though the 24 has gone off quickly in this. | :33:53. | :34:00. | |
Bundy-Davies going well. Williams Mills flying down towards 200m and | :34:01. | :34:03. | |
she leads at the moment, the most experienced athlete in the | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
competition so far. And she is certainly leading, John Sillett | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
going well. The Polish runner running nicely -- Bundy-Davies. | :34:14. | :34:20. | |
Onuora strength in the final stages. Bundy-Davies looking good and it is | :34:21. | :34:29. | |
going to be anybody's race. Novlene Williams-Mills and Onuora is coming | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
through strongly. Novlene Williams-Mills is going to take | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
this, Onuora gets second, Grenot gets third. That was a good race. | :34:37. | :34:43. | |
Nothing special about the time but my goodness me, Novlene | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
Williams-Mills charged through the first 200m and she probably went a | :34:48. | :34:53. | |
bit quick because he, they had caught her. Bundy-Davies looked good | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
as she came into this part of the race, tied up a bit here. And right | :34:57. | :35:02. | |
on the inside, Nielsen going well but losing form. Onuora on the | :35:03. | :35:10. | |
outside closing down well. Yes, conditions, the times said it all. A | :35:11. | :35:20. | |
world-class field. Not many races won in the Diamond League as slow as | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
that, no reflection on the athletes. It was a cool evening and they were | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
held a long time before they got away. I expected more from | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
Bundy-Davies, she got her personal best five days ago in Geneva, 51.26, | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
but tonight she dived down the home straight when I thought she would | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
kick on well, finishing in fourth place. 52.7 one. Fresh from breaking | :35:41. | :35:49. | |
the Scottish male record in Oslo, Laura Muir turns her attention to | :35:50. | :35:56. | |
the metric mile, targeting the 1500m podium in Rio but this is her first | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
race in the distance. She is joined by Laura Weightman who has already | :36:04. | :36:08. | |
had a qualifying time in Eugene. The women's on the back straight -- | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
the women on the back straight and what a good field this is and what a | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
fascinating race this could turn out to be. Looking out for the world | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
indoor champion in 2012, Hellen Obiri. And also for Uefa who ran so | :36:23. | :36:28. | |
doggedly in Oslo last week, hanging on to the coat-tails. Also Fulham of | :36:29. | :36:46. | |
Great Britain, European Championship bronze-medallist in 2014 -- Laura | :36:47. | :36:58. | |
Weightman. Four minutes a realistic top -- target for athletes of this | :36:59. | :37:08. | |
calibre. It is important they go with it and they run aggressively. A | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
lot of strength in this field, Muir does not like to hang around all the | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
slack. The Polish runner in this field as well, the tall figure in | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
the mere -- in the middle, Weightman towards the back of the pack on the | :37:26. | :37:29. | |
outside, out of trouble. As they head down the home straight with | :37:30. | :37:33. | |
three laps to go. 84 macro in second place, the 22-year-old of Australia, | :37:34. | :37:43. | |
Jenny Blundell all. And a lot of strange movements. Surging round the | :37:44. | :37:53. | |
outside, the Ethiopian, Besu Sado. A best of just outside four minutes. | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
Up to 400m. 63 .1 nine. Pretty much perfect and they look up for it. | :38:01. | :38:07. | |
Besu Sado is almost having a conversation with the other it | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
Ethiopian runners. If she can tempt them to stay with her through the | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
second lap, 2.07 is a promising split. Yes, it is. Not bad | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
pacemaking. We saw Jenny Meadows with her first pacemaking job the | :38:24. | :38:28. | |
last time out in Oslo and she did well to take 2.0 seven. Laura | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
Weightman moving well and Laura Muir getting herself out of the middle of | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
the pack and onto the outside and in a position to attack. Ricoh Arena on | :38:38. | :38:44. | |
the outside. They have slowed down a little bit, not sure what the | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
statistics will tell us -- Ricoh Arena. It is a shame. Towards the | :38:50. | :39:03. | |
back of the field, running a seesaw tight race. What a shame. That Italy | :39:04. | :39:18. | |
pays off 63, the first lap. She should step aside now, she should | :39:19. | :39:21. | |
step of the track and we hope she does not get in anybody's way, Sado | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
still leading. Weightman hits the front and she does not have great | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
speed, neither does Laura Muir and the British runners in first and | :39:32. | :39:37. | |
second at the moment. 550 two run. A bit of elbowing with Sado. And they | :39:38. | :39:49. | |
come down towards the bowl. Laura Muir perfectly poised, Sado moving | :39:50. | :39:57. | |
onto her shoulder. Laura Muir, Sado, Weightman in third place. Weightman | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
one making them work on this final lap, she looked very strong and very | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
confident last week -- Muir. Hanging onto the coat-tails of her | :40:10. | :40:19. | |
competitor in Oslo. The third lap, Muir looks to have lost a bit of | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
speed and almost her rhythm. Up on her toes again and onto the shoulder | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
of Meraf Bahta. Moving round the outside with Sado heading backwards. | :40:30. | :40:35. | |
Just liking speed at this stage. 150 metres to run. Muir still battling. | :40:36. | :40:48. | |
624 down the outside, it is anybody's race. Muir looking for a | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
way through and she cannot seem daylight. A big win for the Polish | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
runner, she has blown away, look at that. Meraf Bahta. Gudaf Tsegay | :40:58. | :41:08. | |
taking third place. Sado lacking the legs through the last 150. The place | :41:09. | :41:15. | |
times will be stronger because a lot of athletes within a second or two | :41:16. | :41:21. | |
of that strong run from Angelika Cichocka who came with a personal | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
best of 4.03 and has very nearly broken that the night, it is | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
certainly has season's best. Two terms of a second from her lifetime | :41:32. | :41:36. | |
best. Look at the form from the Polish runner as the rest of them | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
struggle. Muir ran a very different race today. She stayed back in the | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
pack and she did not want to get out there quickly. And in the end, she | :41:46. | :41:52. | |
did not have the speed to stay with this woman. And they expected Hellen | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
Obiri to be up there. Meraf Bahta ran well tactically, at the back, | :41:57. | :42:01. | |
moving up slowly but surely, getting her to second place. So the third | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
round of the javelin. The World Champion Diego looking for that | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
90-metre form and he really does, that. He hit that hard. It looks | :42:12. | :42:19. | |
much better but when he hit the javelin, it knows that it is hit. He | :42:20. | :42:27. | |
moves his front foot ahead and he unleashes the arm. He hits it almost | :42:28. | :42:32. | |
with his chest first and his arm follows through. Not passive, very | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
active, but he has got it, such power. Second place at the moment. | :42:37. | :42:47. | |
Yego. Back to the third-round throw now of | :42:48. | :42:56. | |
Thomas Rohler. The best of the third round. He is a big man, the German. | :42:57. | :43:04. | |
That is beyond 85 metres. Remember 86 metres, the third-round throw | :43:05. | :43:09. | |
that you saw a couple of minutes ago. The German World Championship | :43:10. | :43:20. | |
finalist last year. Hitting 85 metres, 89. Falling just 11 | :43:21. | :43:27. | |
centimetres. Four inches shy of the lead from round three. Into place, | :43:28. | :43:32. | |
come to believe. The final round in the Triple Jump for Christian Taylor | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
already leading. Getting better and better. That is certainly better. We | :43:38. | :43:46. | |
said this man is such a consistent jumper, he really is. He is way out | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
of there as World Champion, Olympic champion. He has done it all and he | :43:51. | :44:00. | |
wants to do it again. That is 17.50 nine. He has won it. By newly a | :44:01. | :44:06. | |
metre from Troy Doris. Christian Taylor in a class about on the | :44:07. | :44:14. | |
night. So there it is. It is a packed field. Vincent Parise | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
attempts to get them under way properly this time unlike in | :44:21. | :44:26. | |
Shanghai, not his fault. David Rudisha, fabulous run in Birmingham | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
over 600 metres. In very good form for the world record-holder. | :44:33. | :44:44. | |
Hears the championship man, always difficult to beat. World | :44:45. | :44:56. | |
Championship finalist last year, fall in Beijing. What can David | :44:57. | :44:58. | |
Rudisha now do in the men's 800m? Well, this promises much, it really | :44:59. | :45:14. | |
does, very calm now, and the superb pacemaker has gone out already. | :45:15. | :45:23. | |
Timothy Kitum has gone up to get position, Bosse right on the back of | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
the group, and Rudisha moves into second place. Looks very | :45:29. | :45:38. | |
comfortable, Aman behind him, Kitum, then Bosse, who was always a threat, | :45:39. | :45:47. | |
proved to be so in the last race. They are settling down, Kitum is the | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
leader of the two Kenyans, apart from Rudisha. I am surprised that | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
Bosse has not made more interest of Rudisha, not really interested in | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
going with the pacemaker, they have gone through in about 52 seconds. It | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
was slow, and Rudisha looked like he wanted to control this one. He is | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
leading the race proper, then Aman, then Bosse really attacking down the | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
back straight. Rudisha responds now, and this is what is going to happen, | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
Bosse was always going to put the pressure on, and Kdzczot making some | :46:22. | :46:27. | |
headway into third place, Rotich coming through behind Aman. So | :46:28. | :46:32. | |
Rudisha and Bosse into the final bend now, with Rotich powering down | :46:33. | :46:39. | |
the straight. Remember, he won the race in Shanghai, and look at these, | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
Rudisha is beaten here, Bosse, Rotich, is he going to do it again? | :46:45. | :46:51. | |
He will take it, Rotich, Bosse second, Kszczot third, Rudisha was | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
fourth, and in fifth place was Abdullah. The time, 1:45.7, he came | :46:55. | :47:09. | |
through on the inside and David Rudisha, and he beat him there, but | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
my goodness me, that was another race for him, and I just wonder, | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
Tim, where Dave Wood Rhodesia is at this time? Gulp it is a very good | :47:19. | :47:22. | |
question, I do not think he is comfortable running in that manner. | :47:23. | :47:31. | |
-- David Rudisha. I am sure he does not like the conditions, but they | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
are the same for everyone. He had to kick in really hard to keep Bosse at | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
bay. Bosse moved alongside him very fast, but they were all beaten by | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
this man, Rotich, who knows how to celebrate! Is celebration probably | :47:46. | :47:52. | |
annoyed Rudisha in Shanghai. The picture could be very different in | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
seven or eight weeks' time. That concludes proceedings in Stockholm, | :47:57. | :47:58. | |
there are the leaders. The season rolls on, the performance | :47:59. | :48:13. | |
of the night for me was Ruth Jebet of Bahrain, 9:08.37 in the | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
steeplechase. We will be in Monaco very soon, we hope the weather will | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
be significantly better! When I next weekend, the British championship | :48:26. | :48:27. | |
with places on the road to rail at stake. We will have the best of the | :48:28. | :48:33. | |
action from one o'clock on BBC Two. -- on the road to Rio. | :48:34. | :48:42. | |
That is all for now from Stockholm, though, until next time, goodbye! | :48:43. | :48:46. |