The American Masai Russell (25 years) has achieved the second best mark in history in the 100 hurdles with some impressive 12.14 seconds (+0.5 m/s). With this time, the athlete born in Washington DC won the corresponding race Xiamen Diamond League and was just 0.02 seconds away from the world record held by the Nigerian Tobi Amusan (12.12). The third in the history of times is Russell’s generational companion, and also an American, Tia Jones (12.19).
Precisely, Amusan herself, who also finished very strong, was second in the race with a time of 12.28 secondswhile Devynne Charltonfrom the Bahamas, set a national record thanks to his 12.37 seconds to complete the podium.
“I can’t plan when I’m going to break the world record”declared Russell in his appearance before the press this week. On this occasion he has come close to it, but certainly the search for the record and his fight with Amusan to win the Diamond League are very interesting. Yes indeed, The Olympic distance champion seems to be on another level. Already in May of last year he had run in Florida in 12.17 (+2.0 m/s) showing his evolution, when in 2024 he registered 12.25 in the Olympic qualifiers in his country.
On his own website, Russell defines himself as “a social media influencer and vlogger passionate about athletics, beauty, fashion, style, having a good time and female entrepreneurship”. As he also highlighted before the Paris Olympics, “the goal is to run faster than 12.12.” You are already on the verge of something very big.
Other results
Another of the protagonists of the day, with permission from the feat of the Chinese Ziyi Yan in javelin, was the Ugandan middle distance runner Peruth Chemutaiwhich was imposed with 8:51.06, meeting record, in the 3,000 metersahead of Bahraini Winfred Yavi (8:51.54).
In lengththe duel between Miltiadis Tentoglou and Mattia Furlani was not such because the Greek reached 8.46 meters, the meeting record, and the Italian stayed at 8.28, fourth.
The men’s 100 final It promised high flying due to the level of the participants and the victory went to them Kenyan Ferdinand Omanyala with 9.94the only one of the ten athletes to go under ten seconds. American Chris Coleman was seventh with 10.08 and Botswana Letsile Tebogo eighth with 10.10.
In the men’s 400 meters hurdles The victory went to the Brazilian Alison Dos Santos, who stopped the clock at 46.72, only ten hundredths less than the other big favorite, the Norwegian Karsten Warholm.
In the short distance, the 110 hurdlesthe victory again, as in Shanghai a week ago, went to the American Jamal Britt (13.07), followed by the Japanese Rachid Muratake (13.13) and the Jamaican Orlando Bennett (13.20).
One of the queens of world speed, the Jamaican Shericka Jacksonflew over the runway in the 200 meters to win with 21.87, the meeting record, in a race in which the American veteran Sha Cari Richardson was also present with 22.38.
In the women’s category, the victory in weight It was for the Jamaican Rajindra Campbell (22.34 meters), in height for the Ukrainian Yuliia Levchenko (1.99), in disk the American Valarie Sion (68.45 meters) and in the 1,500 for the Australian Abbey Caldwell (3:57.26), while in the men’s, in the final of 400Botswana Busang Kebinatshipi took the victory (43.92), in the 5,000 the Ethiopian Addisu Yihune (12:57.32).