Kazimierska runs 3:54.05 and Balew 12:45.70 as the Diamond League season ends in Brussels
Seven meeting records on the final night. Werro held off Broeders-Bol by 0.06 in the 800 m and Gemechu Godana, 20, outran El Bakkali in the steeplechase.
Photograph: Audrey Werro in the 800 m at Weltklasse Zürich, August 2026, by Quejaytee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsKlaudia Kazimierska took a second and a half off her best to win the women's 1500 m on the second night of the Diamond League Final on Saturday. Her 3:54.05 was a world lead and a meeting record, and it reversed last month's European final in Birmingham, where Georgia Hunter Bell had beaten her to gold. Dorcus Ewoi ran 3:54.72 for second, Jessica Hull 3:54.73 for third and Hunter Bell was fourth.
The women's 800 m was the race of the night. Audrey Werro broke Pamela Jelimo's 18-year-old meeting record, but Femke Broeders-Bol, in her first season at the distance, pushed her to the line and finished six hundredths behind. Keely Hodgkinson skipped Brussels; all three meet in Budapest next week at the Ultimate Championship, where each individual winner takes 150,000 dollars from a 10 million dollar pot.
Birhanu Balew of Bahrain pulled away on the last lap of the men's 5000 m to win in 12:45.70, an Asian record that took more than two seconds off the world lead, with the top six inside 12:50. The steeplechase came down to Soufiane El Bakkali and Gemechu Godana, and when the 20-year-old Ethiopian lifted the pace on the final lap the Olympic champion let him go, 8:08.67 to 8:10.03.
Elsewhere, Alison dos Santos ran 46.70 in the 400 m hurdles, a meeting record that had stood for 40 years to the day since Andre Phillips, and Marileidy Paulino ran 48.64 for a fourth Diamond League 400 m title. Rajindra Campbell's 23.08 m in the shot moved him to fourth all-time.
Seven meeting records at a 50th edition. The circuit ended at full speed.
Sources: World Athletics; World Athletics.
