Running Through The Shanghai Diamond League Meeting

The season is still early but that doesn’t mean there weren’t big-time showdowns in today’s Diamond League Meeting from Shanghai. Let’s just dive in and take this race by race.

On The Track

Men’s 400m Hurdles

Samba and Rai Benjamin and the 2 names of note here. Samba takes the 400m Hurdles with an unreal final gear over the last 50 meters vs Rai… and I haven’t even finished my coffee yet.

Men’s 5000m

This Field is STACKED.

2:00 in and everyone is very strung out; although that won’t last forever but Paul Chelimo was game early, through 1500m in 4:00.

Now we see Barega to the front as the pack bunched up behind him… a bit of an impatient move; wouldn’t you know Kejelcha is there too.

After a 2:42 last K the field performs a mutiny on Barega — Kimeli in the lead but everyone’s still there with 600m to go.

Kejelcha with a 53-second last lap followed by Barega and Gebrihwet; Kejelcha just too much for Barega over the final 100m — 13.04.16 in a world lead.

Ultimately, you might have expected more out of this stacked of a field but with Kejelcha never opting to take the lead the field let it slow too much in…