Overview

• Beatrice Chebet set a Rome Diamond League meeting record in the women’s 5000m with 14:03.69, finishing just 2.5 seconds shy of the 14:00.21 world record.
• The 25-year-old Kenyan expressed confidence in her fitness and plans to return home to prepare for another world record attempt.
• Jamaica’s Andrenette Knight dominated the women’s 400m hurdles in 53.67, while Anavia Battle (22.53) and Ireland’s Sarah Healey (3:59.17) won the women’s 200m and 1500m.
• American sprinters claimed the short sprints as Trayvon Bromell clocked 9.84 to win the 100m and Quincy Hall edged South Africa’s Zakithi Nene by .01 in the 400m with 44.22.
• In close finishes, Switzerland’s Jason Joseph denied Cordell Tinch in the men’s 110m hurdles photo finish, France’s Azeddine Habz beat Timothy Cheruiyot by three-hundredths in the 1500m, and South Korea’s Woo Sanghyeok took the high jump at 2.32m.