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Diamond League Stockholm: Keely Hodgkinson runs PB but stunned by Audrey Werro in 800m

Meanwhile, Olympic and world champion Duplantis suffered its first Diamond League defeat in three years.

In March, the 26-year-old athlete broke the world record for the 15th time with a jump of 6.31 m in Uppsala, just north of Stockholm.

However, the best he could muster on Sunday was 5.80m, placing him second behind Australia’s Kurtis Marschall (5.90m).

In the men’s discus, Daniel Stahl achieved a local victory, as the world champion beat Australian Matthew Denny (69.02) and Slovenia’s Kristjan Ceh (67.67) with a throw of 69.60 metres.

Britain’s Lawrence Okoye finished eighth with 64.02, just shy of his season’s best (71.88).

In the women’s 100 meters, Britain’s Amy Hunt came in second behind American Melissa Jefferson-Wooden with a personal record of 10.97 seconds. Dina Asher-Smith was sixth in 11.24.

In the men’s 200 meters, British sprinter Jeremiah Azu was disqualified after his wrong start, and American Kenneth Bednarek won the race in 19.87 seconds, while South African Sinesipho Dambile came second in 20.10.

Great Britain’s Elise Thorner came second in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, finishing almost 12 seconds behind winner Marwa Bouzayani of Tunisia in a record time of eight minutes 59.28 seconds.

In the men’s 400 meters, Charlie Dobson came fifth, while South African Zakithi Nene took first place in 44.48 seconds.

American Cooper Lutkenhaus won the men’s 800 meters race with a season’s best time of 1 minute and 42.70 seconds, while Ben Pattison (1:43.70) and Jake Wightman (1:44.39) from Great Britain took fourth and seventh place, respectively.

American middle-distance runner Yared Nuguse edged 19-year-old Australian Cam Myers to victory in the men’s 1500 meters.

In the women’s shot put, another meet record was broken by Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands with a time of 20.89 meters.

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