U.S. distance runner Alicia Monson continues to interrupt data this season. On Sunday afternoon, Monson smashed the American 5,000m document with an unbelievable 14:19.45 clocking at London Diamond League. Her time stands because the quickest 5,000m time in North American historical past.
Monson completed fifth in a stacked 5,000m discipline behind the reigning world champion Gudaf Tsegay, Olympic champion Sifan Hassan, world XC champion Beatrice Chebet and younger Ethiopian phenom Medina Eisa, who ran a U20 world document of 14:16.54 to complete fourth. Monson held on with the lead group of 5 girls till 600m to go, however a powerful surge with 200m to go solidified the document, and he or she broke Shelby Houlihan’s mark of 14:23.92 from 2020 by 4 and half seconds.
This North American 5,000m document is Monson’s third space document of her profession and the third of her 2023 season. On the 2023 Millrose Video games in February, Monson set the three,000m document indoors, working 8:25.05. Three weeks later, on the Sound Working 10,000m, Monson smashed Molly Huddle’s North American 10,000m document of 30:13.17 set in 2016 with a time of 30:03.82.
This meet marked the return of two titans, Hassan and Tsegay, who each opened their outside seasons at this distance. The race didn’t disappoint, with Hassan main from 3,000m onwards into the ultimate lap. Nonetheless, as Hassan started to surge, she couldn’t maintain off the middle-distance pace of Tsegay, who ran a blistering 60-second last lap to take the win in a gathering document and private greatest time of 14:12.29. Kenya’s Chebet managed to dip forward of Hassan on the end line, securing second place in 14:12.92. Hassan took third in her monitor return post-London Marathon victory, attaining a private greatest and European document of 14:13.42.
Tsegay’s successful time is the fifth-fastest 5,000m in historical past, however solely the third-fastest time this yr behind Religion Kipyegon’s world document of 14:05.20 from the Paris Diamond League in June.
A 5000m for the ages 🤯
Gudaf Tsegay 🇪🇹 smashes the assembly document with 14:12.29.@SifanHassan 🇳🇱 breaks the European document with 14:13.42.
Medina Eisa 🇪🇹 breaks the world U20 document with 14:16.54.
Alicia Monson 🇺🇸 breaks the North American document with 14:19.45
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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) July 23, 2023
We’re 26 days away from the beginning of the 2023 World Championships in Budapest, and the ladies’s 5,000m may maybe be the race of the championships, with the unbelievable depth of the sector.
With the Canadian Monitor and Subject Championships subsequent weekend in Langley, B.C., a lot of our nationwide workforce athletes have been absent from Diamond League motion in Monaco and London. Pole vaulter Alysha Newman was the only Canadian athlete competing in London. She completed ninth, with one clearance of 4.36m, bowing out after three makes an attempt at 4.51m.
For full outcomes from the London Diamond League, examine right here.
