LIVE UPDATES: Stockholm Diamond League

LIVE UPDATES: Stockholm Diamond League

Follow the live updates of the Stockholm Diamond League meeting where world-class competitors will go head-to-head in Sweden.

Jun 18, 2017 by Taylor Dutch
LIVE UPDATES: Stockholm Diamond League
Follow the live updates of the Stockholm Diamond League meeting where world-class competitors will go head-to-head in Sweden. Will Bershawn Jackson earn a victory before the USATF Outdoor Championships? Who will win the stacked men's 1500m that includes 2008 Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop and Olympic finalists Abdelaati Iguider and Ayanleh Souleiman? And can Andre De Grasse repeat after winning the 100m in the Oslo Diamond League meeting? Follow along to find out.

LIVE RESULTS

Men's 400m hurdles

The first event on the track will be the men's 400m hurdles. This will be Bershawn Jackson's final race before the U.S. championships next week. This season is also his last as a professional track athlete. It's been an incredible career with four world championship titles and an Olympic bronze medal.

Karsten Warholm takes the heat in 48.82 over Magi Rasmus. Warholm, from Norway, stormed the track over the final two barriers. Jackson was in winning contention in the final 100 meters, but stumbled a bit over the second-to-last hurdle and finished sixth overall.

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Women's 3000m

The women's 3000m is on the track now. Hometown hero Meraf Bahta is the featured athlete in this race. She was sixth in the 1500m at the 2016 Olympic Games and recently made her debut in the 10K at the Payton Jordan Invitational. She ran 31:13 to break the Swedish national record. Since then, she's gone back down in distance and notched a personal best of 4:00 in the 1500m at the Rome Diamond League meeting.

2:52 for the first 1000m so pretty good pace going right now. As soon as they give the splits though Bahta hesitates to go with the pace-makers. She currently has four competitors trailing her.

5:50 for the 2K split so they've slowed down quite a bit. It's five athletes trailing Bahta now with less than two laps to go. Bahta picks up the pace in the last lap, she's winding it up now.

Amazing finish for Bahta and Azemra Gebru! Bahta edges her out in the final 100 meters with the win in 8:47.07, and the Ethiopian follows in 8:47.26.

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Men's 400m

Steven Gardiner of the Bahamas takes the heat pretty easily in 44.58 over Baboloki Thebe and Kevin Borlee. Gardiner's performance is his second victory in Diamond League competition this year. He won the Doha 400m a few weeks ago.

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Men's steeplechase

We'll have an exciting showdown in the men's steeplechase. Five men have run under 8:11 in this heat, including Olympic finalist Soufiane El Bakkali, who was fourth at the Olympic Games last summer. 

The race is off and Bakkali is sticking right on the pacer, the first lap was a little quick, but the pack has settled slightly. 2:39 for the first kilometer, which has strung out the field significantly. Bakkali now has a 20-meter lead on the runner-up who is 10 meters ahead of the chase-pack. 

Bakkali is still with the pace, still 20-meters ahead of the rest of the pack. He's alone now as he goes through the 2K split in 5:25. 

6:00 with two laps to go, the gap has extended slightly. 

Bell lap (67-68 seconds for that last lap so slowed down a bit). 

Bakkali takes the victory in 8:15. In a last-ditch effort to catch Bakkali, Yemane Haileselassie closes in 8:18 and Nicholas Bett follows for third in 8:21. 

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Women's 200m

The favorite in this race is Murielle Ahoure, who owns two world championship silver medals (100m and 200m in 2013). She also earned two world indoor championship silver medals in the 60m dash (2012, 2014). 

Women are on the track now for introductions. 

WOW tight finish but Ahoure takes the win by one one-hundredth of a second! 22.68 for Ahoure and 22.69 for Crystal Emmanuel of Canada! That's a personal best for Emmanuel. 

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Men's 110m hurdles

False start and it's been determined that Andrew Pozzi will be disqualified. A second false start and Antonio Alkana of South Africa will be disqualified. 

Olympic silver medalist Orlando Ortega takes the win just barely over 2015 world champion Sergey Shubenkov. Ortega won the heat in 13.09 over Shubenkov's 13.10 final time. 

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Men's 1500m

Men's 1500m is off now. Rotich is setting the pace here and takes the field through 400m in 55 seconds. The field is pretty well strung out with two laps remaining. 1:52 through 800m for the pacer. 

Now the pack is heading into the last lap in about 2:34. Top pack is now down to six men with Cheruiyot leading! 

Wow world best for this year! Timothy Cheruiyot takes the win in 3:30 over Alsadik Mikou and Aman Wote. Asbel Kiprop followed for fourth in 3:33. Cheruiyot started his kick on the backstretch and it paid off with a world lead! 

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Men's 100m

Andre De Grasse is on the track now and will lead this men's 100m field. 

DE GRASSE! 9.69 winning time for Andre De Grasse! It won't be wind-legal (+4.8), but the time would be a season's best and an improvement on his personal best mark of 9.91. 

Five men ran under 10 seconds in that windy race. Ben Youssef Meite followed in second (9.84), Ryan Shields finished third (9.89), Yunier Perez finished fourth (9.92), and Julian Reus closed for fifth (9.99). 

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Women's 800m

Last event on the track is up now. 

The wind has picked up quite a bit for this race. Francine Niyonsaba has inserted herself behind the pacer to go through 400m in 56.81. 

Niyonsaba will take the win in a hard-fought last 100m in 1:59.1. Lovisa Lindh of Sweden also broke two minutes with a runner-up finish in 1:59.41. Selina Buchel closed for third in 1:59.66 and Melissa Bishop followed to dip under two minutes in 1:59.70. In total, six women broke two minutes. 

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