Hunter Bell, Dobson And Lake Claim Wins In London

Georgia Hunter Bell, Charlie Dobson and Morgan Lake claimed victories successful beforehand of a sell-out location crowd of 60,000 astatine nan London Diamond League.

Olympic 1500m bronze medallist Hunter Bell stormed clear connected nan location consecutive to return triumph successful nan women's 800m successful a season's champion 1 infinitesimal 56.74 seconds.

Dobson could hardly judge his triumph successful nan men's 400m arsenic he burst past nan leaders successful nan closing stages, including compatriot Matthew Hudson-Smith, to timepiece a individual champion 44.14 seconds.

Lake won nan women's precocious jump arsenic nan only jock to clear 1.96m successful a section that included world grounds holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh and Olympic medallist Eleanor Patterson.

But world 1500m champion Josh Kerr, who had targeted his ain British record, was made to settee for 2nd arsenic he was upstaged by Kenyan 19-year-old Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech.

Koech passed Kerr connected nan wrong pinch 200m to spell and held connected for triumph successful 3 minutes 28.82 seconds, arsenic Kerr clocked his champion clip of nan play pinch 3:29.37.

Behind, Elliot Giles was sixth successful 3:32.51 and Neil Gourley placed 10th (3:33.69), but George Mills fell aft being tripped connected nan last lap.

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