Kenyans set two track world records at Prefontaine

EUGENE, Ore. — Kenyans Faith Kipyegon and Beatrice Chebet set world records and American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden received a star-studded ladies’s 100 meters Saturday as the Prefontaine Classic celebrated its fiftieth anniversary.

Kipyegon completed the 1,500 in 3 minutes, 48.68 seconds, besting her report of 3:49.04 in the occasion set final yr.

Chebet grew to become the first ladies to run under 14 minutes in the 5,000, ending in 13:58.06 to surpass Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay’s 2023 mark of 14:00.21 set at the Prefontaine Classic.

“When I was coming here to Eugene, I was coming to prepare to run a world record, and I said I have to try. I said, ‘If Faith is trying, why not me?’” Chebet stated about her good pal. “And today, I’m so happy because I’ve achieved being the first woman to run under 14. I’m so happy for myself.”

The day’s most anticipated race was the 100, which featured the highest three finishers from the Paris Olympics.

Jefferson-Wooden, who took the bronze medal final summer time, completed in 10.75 seconds. Gold medalist Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia was second in 10.77,and Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith of Ivory Coast was third in 10.90.

Sha’Carri Richardson, the silver medalist in Paris, completed final in the nine-runner area. It was just the second out of doors 100 of the yr for Richardson, who stated she struggled with an unspecified damage in February.

“The only motivation that I had today was having a healthy race and the fact that I executed a healthy race knowing that now I have the time, because I do have that by being the reigning world champion, and all I have to do is just keep pushing and focusing in our practice, so I’m super excited to just finish,” stated Richardson, who has her consideration on September’s world championships in Tokyo.

Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson received the lads’s 100 in 9.86 seconds, forward of British runner-up Zharnel Hughes. Thompson, who completed second to Noah Lyles at final summer time’s Olympics, went into the Pre with the world’s best time this yr at 9.75.

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who set the world report in the 400 hurdles in Paris, simply received the flat 400 in 49.43.

“It’s a long year, so I’m really just taking it day by day, taking it slow, building and seeing which direction you want to go in by the end of it,” McLaughlin-Levrone stated.

Ethiopian Tsige Duguma, the silver medalist at final yr’s Olympics, received the 800 in 1:57.10.

Rudy Winkler set an American report in the hammer throw with a hurl of 272 ft, 10 inches. Canadian Camryn Rogers received on the ladies’s aspect.

“My training this week was very bad, so I kind of came into this like zero expectations of like ‘Whatever I throw, I throw,’ so I was super surprised by that today,” stated Winkler.

In the opposite area occasions, American Chase Jackson received the ladies’s shot put at 68-8 1/2. Lithuanian Mikolas Alekna took the discus at 232-10.

Tara Davis-Woodhall received the long bounce with leap of 23-2 1/2 inches. Pole vaulter Armand Duplantis, who set a world report in Stockholm final month, cleared 19-8 1/4 at the Pre.

Biniam Mehary of Ethiopia ran the ten,000 in 26:43.82, a world best this yr. Jamaican Ackera Nugent received the 100 hurdles in 12:32.

Alison dos Santos of Jamaica, the bronze medalist in both the Tokyo and Paris Games, received the lads’s 400 hurdles in 46.65. Olympic gold medalist Letsile Tebogo of Botswana received the 200 in 19.76. British sprinter Matthew Hudson-Smith held on to win the flat 400 in 44.10.

Niels Laros of the Netherlands received the Bowerman Mile, an occasion distinctive to the Prefontaine, in 3:45.93.

The Prefontaine Classic is known as for Steve Prefontaine, the Oregon track star who died in a car accident in 1975. The occasion is the lone U.S. stop on the Diamond League collection.