Britons Laura Muir and Jemma Reekie each claimed victories on the Stockholm Diamond League, as Swedish pole vault star Armand Duplantis went near setting one other world document on dwelling soil.
Olympic silver medallist Muir, 31, confirmed a powerful flip of velocity as she burst clear within the ultimate 200m to win the ladies’s 1500m in three minutes 57.99 seconds.
“To be working what I’m now and figuring out that I’ve a pair extra months of coaching earlier than the Olympics could be very thrilling going ahead,” stated Muir, who started her outside season by working 3:56.35 for fourth place in Eugene final week.
“It is all about August this yr. That is after I must be at my greatest.”
While not an official Diamond League race – that means no factors have been on supply as athletes look to qualify for September’s ultimate – Muir’s fellow Scot Reekie, 26, managed the ladies’s 800m to win in 1:57.79.
Olympic and world champion Duplantis sought to interrupt the lads’s pole vault world document for the ninth time as he was cheered on by his dwelling crowd.
After claiming victory as the one athlete over 6.00m, the 24-year-old went agonisingly shut however didn’t go clear in three makes an attempt at 6.25m.
British world bronze medallist Ben Pattison completed fourth within the males’s 800m in a season’s greatest 1:44.44. Elliot Giles was sixth in 1:45.10, whereas former 1500m world champion Jake Wightman clocked 1:45.35 for eighth as he continued his return to health following an injury-disrupted 2023.
Revee-Walcott-Nolan was sixth within the ladies’s 1500m in a private greatest 4:00.77.
Jamaica’s world champion Shericka Jackson ran a season’s greatest 22.69secs to win the ladies’s 200m as Britain’s Amy Hunt completed third in 22.92secs.
Elsewhere, Dutch world 400m hurdles champion Femke Bol posted her quickest ever season opener in 53.07 seconds.