Muir breaks British mark as world records fall in Paris

Laura Muir group a caller British 1500m people arsenic rival Faith Kipyegon smashed nan world grounds astatine nan Paris Diamond League, while Yaroslava Mahuchikh collapsed a 37-year people successful nan women’s precocious jump.

Muir, 31, ran 3 minutes 53.79 seconds for 3rd spot to amended nan nationalist grounds she group successful winning Olympic metallic successful Tokyo 3 years ago.

Kenyan Kipyegon clocked a sensational 3:49.04 to declare triumph up of Australian Jessica Hull arsenic nan 30-year-old now targets a 3rd successive Olympic title successful nan French superior adjacent month.

British champion Georgia Bell clocked a immense individual champion of 3:56.54 for 5th arsenic she builds towards her Games debut, while Katie Snowden was ninth successful 3:58.13.

Ukraine's world precocious jump champion Mahuchikh, 22, underlined her gold-medal credentials for Paris by breaking Belarusian Stefka Kostadinova's 1987 grounds of 2.09 metres pinch a first-time clearance astatine 2.10m.

Briton Morgan Lake vanished ninth pinch a leap complete 1.92m.

Elizabeth Bird ran a season's champion 9:09.07 to return 3rd successful nan women's 3,000m steeplechase, won by Bahrain's world champion Winfred Yavi successful 9:03.68.

Laviai Nielsen ran a individual champion 50.76 secs for 5th successful a high-quality women's 400m, won by nan Dominican Republic's world champion Marileidy Paulino successful 49.20 secs.

Two Diamond League meetings stay earlier nan Paris 2024 Olympics begin.

Monaco hosts nan ninth arena successful nan bid connected Friday, earlier athletes person a last opportunity to fine-tune their preparations successful London connected Saturday, 20 July.

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