(Brussels) Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse won his first Diamond League medal this season on Friday, finishing third in the 200 meters.
De Grasse, the reigning Olympic champion, clocked 19.89 seconds to earn his spot in the tour finals Sept. 16-17 in Eugene, Oregon.
His compatriot Aaron Brown finished fourth in 19.98 and also earned a place in the final. He and De Grasse achieved the best times of the season in this event.
American Kenneth Bednarek won the race in 19.79, followed by Britain’s Zharnel Hughes, with a time of 19.82.
De Grasse finished sixth at the Worlds. He had not finished higher than fifth in the Diamond League this season, before this bronze medal obtained on Friday.
With this result, De Grasse finished the Diamond League season in sixth place overall.
Ingebrigtsen sets 2000 meter mark
Olympic 1500m champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen broke a 24-year-old world record in the 2000m.
He finished in four minutes, 43.13 seconds.
Making his first appearance since last month’s world championships, the 22-year-old Norwegian bettered the previous mark of 4:44.79 set in 1999 by Morocco’s Hicham El Guerrouj.
The 2000m is not part of the Olympic program.
In the women’s 200m, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson failed in her attempt to set the world record, set 35 years ago by Florence Griffith-Joyner.
Jackson, the reigning world champion, clocked 21.48.
Griffith-Joyner’s mark of 21.34 was set at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Anthonique Strachan finished far behind, with a time of 22.31, while American Jenna Prandini completed the podium in 22.47.
Jackson won Olympic bronze in the 100m and gold in the 4x100m relay at the Tokyo Olympics.
The 29-year-old won gold in the 200m at the 2022 Worlds and retained her title last month in Budapest, Hungary.
