In the primary Diamond League motion, Kishane Thompson equalled a gathering file to beat Olympic champion Noah Lyles of their first 100m race towards one another for the reason that ultimate at Paris 2024.
American Lyles bought the higher of Thompson to win Olympic gold final yr, however the Jamaican was victorious in Poland, clocking 9.87 seconds to edge out his rival by 0.03secs.
“My job is to get the job completed. Truthfully, I compete towards myself, no offence to the competitors,” mentioned Thompson.
Sweden’s world file holder Armand Duplantis as soon as once more secured victory within the males’s pole vault with a better of 6.10m.
It was not fairly the 6.29m that noticed the 25-year-old break the world file for the thirteenth time final week, however it was nonetheless sufficient to take the win forward of Emmanouil Karalis and Kurtis Marschall.
Within the ladies’s 400m hurdles, Femke Bol of the Netherlands prolonged her world result in 51.91s as she sealed her twenty ninth successive Diamond League victory – whereas Kenya’s Religion Kipyegon missed out on a brand new world file within the ladies’s 3,000m by lower than a second.
The three-time Olympic 1500m champion crossed the road in a time of 8:07.04, falling simply in need of the file set by China’s Wang Junxia of 8:06.11 in 1993.
“I’m so glad,” Kipyegon mentioned. “I noticed the world file purple line through the race however at the moment it was extremely popular.
“I’m grateful for what I’ve completed. All these data, that is what I really like doing. I wish to be an inspiration for younger folks and I like to problem myself.”
American Melissa Jefferson-Wood equalled a gathering file to win the ladies’s 100m with Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith seventh.