PARIS — Trayvon Bromell upset fancied US teammate Noah Lyles to win the 100m at the Diamond League in Paris as Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis dominated the pole vault in a high-quality meet.
Lyles, the reigning Olympic champion, suffered a disastrous start and could not make up the difference as Bromell, a two-time world bronze medallist, stormed to the win in 9.91 seconds from lane eight.
“I’m good. The feeling at the start was not what I expected,” said Lyles, who finished second, a hundredth of a second off Bromell.
Switzerland’s Audrey Werro continued her dominant form over 800m as she scorched to another victory, in a Diamond League record of 1min 53.80sec, AFP reported.
Femke Broeders-Bol, the convert from 400m hurdles, was second in a personal best of 1:55.60 as she continued her transformation into a true two-lap competitor.
Werro’s time was the third fastest ever run, bettering her previous best set in Stockholm earlier this month by 0.18sec.
The 22-year-old Swiss runner’s performance saw her edge closer to the oldest world record in athletics — the 1:53.28 for the outdoor 800m set by Jarmila Kratochvilova of the then-Czechoslovakia in 1983.
“I was not expecting to run this fast this season,” said Werro, who credited her improving time to becoming a professional athlete no longer also juggling university studies.
“These recent performances have really given me hope and built my confidence to what is coming next.”
In the pole-vault, Duplantis, like Emmanouil Karalis, entered the competition at 5.63m, both skipping 5.73m.
The Greek cleared 5.83m without a problem, Duplantis opting to sit that height out as the competition moved to the business end.
