Armand Duplantis dominates pole vault at Diamond League in China

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· Posted: May 03, 2025 11:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

Armand Duplantis dominated the rod vault but was incapable to amended his satellite grounds and American Cordell Tinch became the 4th fastest precocious hurdler of each clip astatine the Shanghai-Keqiao Diamond League connected Saturday.

Olympic and satellite champion Duplantis soared 6.11 meters to triumph the contention comfortably from Greek Emmanouil Karalis (6.01) but failed successful his azygous effort astatine 6.28, a centimeter higher than the grounds helium acceptable successful February.

"The leap did not consciousness that great, and the tally did not consciousness that large either," the Swede said.

"[But] to person a bully effort portion not feeling my champion is really a truly bully thing."

Tinch, who bushed 110m hurdles satellite grounds holder Grant Holloway successful the bid opener successful Xiamen past week, smashed Liu Xiang's gathering grounds with a scorching tally of 12.87 seconds to lucifer the champion effort Dayron Robles managed successful his career.

"It sounds beauteous good," Tinch said of lasting down lone compatriots Aries Merritt, Holloway and Devon Allen successful the all-time list.

"I felt similar I was going to tally thing accelerated (but) I didn't cognize it would beryllium 12.8 fast."

Canada's Mitton finishes 4th

American Chase Jackson, who volition spell for a 3rd consecutive satellite rubric successful Tokyo successful September, won the changeable enactment with a propulsion of 20.54m.

Canadian changeable enactment star Sarah Mitton finished fourth, with a champion propulsion of 19.59m.

It marked a flimsy betterment upon her show at the Diamond League play opener in Xiamen where Mitton finished 5th (19.23m).

Mitton, of Brooklyn, N.S., won her 2nd consecutive satellite indoor title successful Nanjing, China, connected March 21 with a propulsion of 20.48m.

Simbine notches different 100m win

South African Akani Simbine backed up his triumph successful Xiamen past week by moving down Olympic metallic medallist Kishane Thompson successful the past fewer strides to triumph the 100m successful 9.98 seconds.

Jamaican Thompson was 2nd successful 9.99 with Botswana's Letsile Tebogo, who won the 200m astatine the Paris Olympics, 3rd successful 10.03.

Karsten Warholm, who ran a satellite champion clip successful the 300m successful Xiamen, confirmed his good signifier by dominating the much acquainted 400m successful a clip of 47.28 seconds, adjacent if helium was not blessed with his race.

"I deed a mates of hurdles," said the Norwegian satellite grounds holder.

"You ever privation to usage each juncture to nonstop a message, the connection I nonstop is the imaginable is precise bully if I cleanable up my races."

In the 400m flat, American Christopher Bailey chased down Botswana's Bayapo Ndori connected the location consecutive to triumph successful 44.17 and reverse their positions from past week.

Olympic champion Quincy Hall finished past successful his archetypal outing since his stunning triumph successful Paris past year.

Battle goes back-to-back successful 200m

American Anavia Battle, the fastest pistillate implicit 100m this year, made it 2 wins retired of 2 successful the Diamond League 200m this play successful 22.38 with Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke 2nd successful 22.72.

Grace Stark won the 100m hurdles successful 12.42, good shy of the 12.17 Olympic champion Masai Russell clocked successful Miami connected Friday to grounds the 2nd fastest clip successful history.

Twice Diamond League champion Berihu Aregawi conscionable held disconnected compatriot Kuma Girma astatine the enactment to triumph the men's 5,000m successful 12:50.45 with Mezgebu Sime finishing 3rd successful an Ethiopian 1-2-3.

Their compatriot Tsige Duguma ran the fastest clip of the play to triumph the women's 800m much than a 2nd successful beforehand of Australian Sarah Billings successful 1:56.64.

Elina Tzengko of Greece bushed a beardown tract with a propulsion of 64.90m to instrumentality the javelin.

Ukraine's Olympic and satellite precocious leap champion Yaroslava Mahuchikh made it 7 wins successful her past 7 Diamond League meetings with a leap of two metres.

There was much Ethiopian occurrence successful the men's 3,000m steeplechase with Abrham Sime storming location to triumph successful 8:07.92, portion Portugal's erstwhile Olympic and satellite champion Pedro Pichardo won the triple leap successful 17.03m.