Reigning Diamond League Champion Noah Lyles produced a trademark late surge to claim victory in the men\u2019s 100m at the Rome Diamond League. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The US sprinter ran out a comfortable winner as Cameroon\u2019s Emmanuel Eseme set a national record of 9.94 in second. Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo was third in a season\u2019s best of 9.95, world indoor champion Jordan Anthony fourth in 9.96 and Marcell Jacobs fifth in a season\u2019s best of 9.99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julien Alfred came within 0.02 of the meeting record in the women\u2019s 200m, winning comfortably in 21.93.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
World champion Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, contesting her first individual race since the 2025 World Championships, was second in 22.17. USA\u2019s Anavia Battle finished third in 22.39 and world silver medallist Amy Hunt fourth in 22.52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Henriette Jaeger won a high-quality women\u2019s 400m in a season\u2019s best of 49.60. World indoor champion Lurdes Gloria Manuel of Czechia was second in a big PB of 49.77, her first time inside 50 seconds, while Nickisha Pryce was third in 49.80 and Aaliyah Butler fourth in 49.83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson finished seventh in 51.14, improving her PB by half a second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage produced the best javelin throw of his career to smash the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea meeting record with a world-leading 92.62m at the Wanda Diamond League<\/strong> meeting in Rome on Thursday (4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Sri Lankan opened with 84.49m \u2013 a mark that would have been good enough to win \u2013 before launching his second-round effort way beyond 90 metres. His 92.62m added more than two metres to the meeting record of 90.34m set by Andreas Thorkildsen 20 years ago, moved Pathirage to eighth on the world all-time list and made him the second-best Asian thrower in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was also the best throw in the world since the 2024 Olympic final, and secured him a clear victory over two-time world champion Anderson Peters, who was second with 83.91m, and world bronze medallist Curtis Thompson, who was third with 83.89m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI tried my best today to set a national record and I managed to improve it by three metres,\u201d said Pathirage. \u201cEven though I had only two valid attempts today, I am very stable mentally. It was very hot in Rabat, but the weather in Rome is good and felt like ideal conditions in which to throw far. Winning today felt like a Sri Lankan festival.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was another meeting record in the men\u2019s 110m hurdles, where Trey Cunningham became the 29th member of the sub-13-second club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2022 world silver medallist won in a world-leading PB of 12.98, breaking the meeting record set by Allen Johnson in 1999. Jamaica\u2019s world silver medallist Orlando Bennett was a distant second in 13.31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis was a long time coming,\u201d said the US hurdler, who lost his luggage on the way to Rome but thankfully had an extra pair of spikes and kit in his hand luggage. \u201cBeating the meeting record set 27 years ago by Allen Johnson, who is an all-time great, is special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am very excited for the World Ultimate Championship,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be the 16 fastest people and only one winner. My motto this year is to enjoy what is happening right now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emma Zapletalova improved her own world lead and Slovakian record to win the women\u2019s 400m hurdles in 52.58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The world bronze medallist\u2019s performance moved her to third on the European all-time list, and gave her victory over Olympic silver medallist Anna Cockrell, who was second in a season\u2019s best of 52.77. Jamaica\u2019s Rushell Clayton finished third in 53.14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Likina Amebaw led an Ethiopian sweep of the top seven places in the women\u2019s 5000m, winning in a world-leading PB of 14:18.41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amebaw improved her best by six seconds and was followed by Aleshign Baweke, who clocked 14:18.54, Freweyni Hailu, who ran 14:18.94, and Senayet Getachew, who finished fourth in 14:22.37. The top four all set PBs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Olympic steeplechase champion Winfred Yavi had led through 3000m in 8:41.17 and continued to lead at 4000m, but faded from contention in the final kilometre. She finished eighth, though was rewarded with a Bahraini record of 14:30.06.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leonardo Fabbri gave the Italian crowd a popular home victory in the men\u2019s shot put, winning with 22.14m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was the only man in the field to throw beyond 22 metres, beating two-time world champion Joe Kovacs, who threw 21.87m, three-time Olympic champion Ryan Crouser, who reached 21.50m, and world indoor champion Tom Walsh, who threw 21.49m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Andy Diaz also delivered an Italian victory, winning the men\u2019s triple jump in his first competition since retaining his world indoor title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Diaz took the lead in the second round with 17.58m, then improved by one centimetre to 17.59m in round five. Jamaica\u2019s world leader Jordan Scott finished second with 17.33m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Miltiadis Tentoglou appeared to have done enough to win the men\u2019s long jump after moving into the lead with 8.20m in the fifth round and then improving to 8.24m in the final round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Bulgaria\u2019s Bozhidar Saraboyukov produced the winning leap with the final jump of the competition, reaching 8.26m (-0.1m\/s). Cuba\u2019s Jorge Hodelin was third with 8.18m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The women\u2019s pole vault was even closer, as two-time world indoor champion Molly Caudery won on countback from Olympic champion Nina Kennedy and Switzerland\u2019s Angelica Moser. All three cleared 4.80m; Caudery and Kennedy managed it on their first attempts, while Moser got over on her second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Caudery\u2019s British compatriot and fellow world indoor champion Georgia Hunter Bell won the women\u2019s 1500m comfortably in 3:58.63, ahead of Poland\u2019s Klaudia Kazimierska, who ran 3:59.24, and USA\u2019s Nikki Hiltz, who clocked 3:59.26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elsewhere, European champion Gabriel Tual won a close men\u2019s 800m in a season\u2019s best of 1:43.66, holding off Mark English, who was second in a season\u2019s best of 1:43.80. Jamaica\u2019s Megan Simmonds won the women\u2019s 100m hurdles in a season\u2019s best of 12.50 from USA\u2019s Kendra Harrison, who ran 12.54, and Nadine Visser of the Netherlands, who clocked 12.58. 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Fabbri and Diaz delight home crowd<\/h2>\n\n\n\n