Werro beats Bol in a meeting record at Athletissima; Wanyonyi runs 1:42.19 in Lausanne
Five meeting records fell at the Pontaise, where Birhanu Balew won a 5000 m with four men under 12:59 and Winfred Yavi ran 9:00.04.
Photograph: Audrey Werro at the Athletissima press conference in Lausanne, August 2026, by Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAudrey Werro won the 800 m at Athletissima in Lausanne on Friday in 1:55.33, a meeting record, a week after her European title. Femke Broeders-Bol was second in 1:55.41, a Dutch record, and Saida Tsehaye of Ethiopia third in 1:56.92. The old record was Keely Hodgkinson's 1:55.69 from last year.
The men's 800 m went to Emmanuel Wanyonyi in 1:42.19 from Djamel Sedjati, 1:42.31, and Brandon Miller, 1:42.55, with Marco Arop fourth. The 5000 m was the deepest race of the night: Birhanu Balew of Bahrain won in 12:57.55, Parker Wolfe ran a personal best 12:58.20 for second, Nico Young 12:58.33 for third and Graham Blanks 12:59.16 for fourth. Winfred Yavi won the steeplechase in 9:00.04, another meeting record, 20 metres clear of the pacemaker, with Faith Cherotich second in 9:01.90.
Rai Benjamin opened his 400 m hurdles season with 46.67 in a non-Diamond League race, and Masai Russell ran a meeting record 12.27 in the 100 m hurdles. Mondo Duplantis cleared 6.21 m, also a meeting record, then went after the world record and missed.
Four men under 12:59 and the winner was the one nobody was talking about. Depth is the story of this season's 5000 m.
Sources: Athletissima; FloTrack; RunBlogRun.
