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CTV News
19-07-2025
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- CTV News
Canada's Marco Arop races to second in 800 metres in Diamond League
Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi, right, beats Canada's Marco Arop to win the Men's 800m during the Wanda Diamond League Series London Athletics Meet at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, Saturday July 19, 2025. (Adam Davy/PA via AP) LONDON — Canadian middle-distance racer Marco Arop finished second in a Diamond League 800 metres Saturday. The 26-year-old from Edmonton posted a season-best one minute 42.22 seconds at London Stadium behind Kenyan victor Emmanuel Wanyonyi's 1:42. Britain's Max Burgin placed third in 1:42.36. Arop, the reigning world champion and last year's Olympic silver medallist in Paris, led at the final turn Saturday, but Olympic champion Wanyonyi reeled the Canadian in down the stretch. 'This is such a great place to race, and it lifted us all (to) produce a really competitive and close race today,' Arop said. 'I was happy to run a season best. I just trust in my coach's plan and it seems to be paying off.' Arop bested his previous fastest time this season of 1:42.73 in Monaco on July 11 when he finished fifth. Wanyonyi, who set a meet record in London, aims to take the world crown from Arop in September in Tokyo. 'I am so excited to win this race. That is what I came here to do, and it is great to set a meeting record too,' Wanyonyi said. 'It was a great race to be a part of. Preparation has been going well after Monaco, so this one was important today. My training right now is at 80 per cent, so I will be upping the training in the next few weeks and over the next races before Tokyo.' This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 19 2025.
Toronto Star
19-07-2025
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- Toronto Star
Canada's Marco Arop races to second in 800 metres in Diamond League
Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi, right, beats Canada's Marco Arop to win the Men's 800m during the Wanda Diamond League Series London Athletics Meet at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, Saturday July 19, 2025. (Adam Davy/PA via AP) Thomas Ash flag wire: true flag sponsored: false article_type: : sWebsitePrimaryPublication : publications/toronto_star bHasMigratedAvatar : false :
CBC
19-07-2025
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- CBC
Edmonton's Marco Arop nipped by Olympic champion at Diamond League London
Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya won the men's 800-metre race at Diamond League London, setting a new meet record time of one minute 42 seconds, while Edmonton's Marco Arop finished in second place with a season-best time of 1:42.22.
CBC
18-07-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Marco Arop, Noah Lyles headline Diamond League's London event
Canada's Marco Arop will look for another season's best when he competes at the Diamond League track and field meet in London this weekend. Arop, the Paris Olympics silver medallist in the men's 800-metres, is coming off a season's-best result at the Diamond League stop in Monaco last week. The Edmonton native finished in one minute, 42.73 seconds to claim a fifth-place result. Olympic gold medallist Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, will also be in London for the event after winning that Monaco racewith a world-leading time of 1:41.44. CBC Gem and will carry all the live action from the Novuna London Athletics Meet, beginning on Saturday at 9 a.m. ET. This weekend's men's 800m race is just one of several key events on Saturday — including Round 2 of Noah Lyles vs. Letsile Tebogo. Chris Chavez, the founder of Citius Mag, joined Trackside hosts Perdita Felicien and Aaron Brown to preview the biggest storylines and races to watch at Diamond League London. 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles, Canadian Marco Arop headline London Diamond League 20 hours ago Hosts Perdita Felicien and Aaron Brown are joined by Chris Chavez to break down the biggest storylines heading into one of the most anticipated athletics meets ahead of worlds.
Reuters
11-07-2025
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- Reuters
Lyles wins Tebogo rematch, Wanyonyi tops high class 800m at Monaco Diamond League
MONACO, July 11 (Reuters) - American Noah Lyles made an impressive season debut in the 200 metres to beat Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday, where Kenyan Emmanuel Wanyonyi outclassed a high-class 800 metres field. An injury-hampered campaign had raised doubts over three-times world 200m champion Lyles's chances of defending his title in Tokyo in September, but the 100m Olympic gold medallist responded to the doubters in style. Lyles finished third over 200m in Paris last year but shortly after finishing the race won by Botswana's Tebogo the American said he had COVID-19, and the pair had not faced each other since then. Tebogo was quick out of the blocks and stuck with Lyles around the bend with the two side by side going into the home straight but the American pulled away in the final 50 metres to win in 19.88 seconds with Tebogo coming home in 19.97. "I put myself in the fire for that one coming back against Tebogo," Lyles said. "I didn't feel any pressure, I don't see any reason to put pressure on myself, that's what we love to do." As defending champion, Lyles does not need to worry about qualifying from the U.S. championships at the end of July, and will head to London to compete in the 100m next week. "I am going to go to the London Diamond League. I have been missing to compete for the last few weeks. "I was watching Prefontaine and I wanted to be there but we wanted first to make sure that I am healthy and fully able to compete." The highly anticipated men's 800m, which featured all eight Olympic finalists from Paris, was expected to threaten David Rudisha's world record of 1:40.91 which has stood since 2012. Olympic champion Wanyonyi hit the front down the back straight, opening up an unassailable gap and finishing in a time of 1:41.44, ahead of American Josh Hoey, who failed to make last year's Olympics but won the world indoor title in March. "The 800m is now very competitive so I need to push even harder than usual on my trainings," Wanyonyi said. "Sometimes I am thinking about the world record. I think I can break it in the future." Femke Bol is now unbeaten in 28 Diamond League 400m hurdles races after the Dutchwoman sailed to a world lead and meeting record of 51.95 seconds. The 2016 Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad, racing in her final season, set the early pace but Bol looked comfortable and eased into the lead rounding the final bend. Olympic champion Paulino Marileidy had to battle down the home straight before catching American 21-year-old Aaliyah Butler in the closing metres to win the women's 400 flat. "It felt amazing to be so close to Paulino, to know that all the work I am putting in is coming out with amazing results," Butler said. Olympic gold medallist Masai Russell continues to struggle since breaking the American record in early May, finishing fourth in the women's 100m hurdles won by Jamaica's Megan Tapper. Russell also finished fourth in Eugene on Saturday. Two-times Olympic and world pole vault champion Mondo Duplantis was the only athlete to clear six metres, setting a meeting record of 6.05, but failed in his three attempts at 6.29 to break the world record for a 13th time. In the final race of the evening, St Lucian Julien Alfred bounced back from her defeat in Eugene to win the women's 100m, with the Olympic champion posting 10.79.
