Hagos holds off Ingebrigtsen in hot 5000m
2 min readThere was plenty of solid action off of the Diamond League progamme.
It’s been a good week for Hagos Gebrhiwet. On Wednesday the 25-
10km phenom Rhonex Kipruto, running in his debut over the shorter distance, took command as the field passed the 3000m point, and led until the penultimate lap, when Ingebrigtsen, the European champion, took the lead with just over 500 metres to go. The Norwegian teenager tried to build a small gap with the move, but Gebrhiwet reacted quickly to stay in contact. The Ethiopian then made his bid with 250 metres remaining and while he couldn’t quite shake Ingebrigtsen, he did hold him for the 13:01.86 win. Ingebrigtsen clocked a national record 13:02.03 in second.
Nicholas Kimeli of Kenya was third in 13:05.48 with Australian Stewart McSweyn next in 13:05.63
In the long jump, world champion Luvo Manyonga improved his season’s best to 8.37m in the fifth round to eek out a victory ahead of Jamaican Tajay Gayle, who reached an 8.32m lifetime best in round three.
“I was a little scared and I was holding back to start,” said Manyonga, who added two centimetres to his 2019 best. “At the beginning I need to test my ankle as I was not sure my ankle could handle it but, I said to myself, ‘just jump because this is where I was crowned world champion’.”
Olympic champion and 2019 world leader at 22.00 Elaine Thompson was a convincing winner in the 200m, clocking 22.13. Marie-Josee Ta Lou was second in 22.36, a season’s best.
And finally, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made up a 15-metre deficit to anchor a Jamaican quartet to a 42.29 victory in the 4×100 relay, to edge a British squad by a scant 0.01.
Source: IAAF
