Kenya’s world 800m champion clocked 1:21.63 to beat 2017’s Caster Semenya.
Mary Moraa bounced back from her Olympic defeat to Keeley Hodgkinson to set a world best 600m of 1:21.63 at the ISTAF meeting in Berlin on Sunday (September 1st).
In front of a crowd of more than 40,000, the Kenyan beat Caster Semenya’s mark, also set in Berlin 2017, by 14 hundredths of a second.
“I feel so good and happy,” Moraa said. “Achieving this record on the first try is just overwhelming. I’m so happy with the way I ran today.”
Olympic finalist Shafiqua Maloney finished runner-up in 1:22.98, the sixth-fastest time in history.
Elsewhere, Sam Kendricks cleared 6.01m in the pole vault before clearing three attempts at the US record 6.08m.
Gina Luckenkamper delighted German fans by winning the women’s 100m in 10.93, while another local favourite, Gesa Felicitas Krause, won the 2000m steeplechase in 5:56.71 and Julian Weber won the javelin in a season’s best of 88.4 m:
Weber lives in Berlin and went to the meeting by public transport.
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Olympic decathlon silver medalist Leo Neugebauer won the three-event “triathlon” with 2,540 points thanks to a 10.77 100m, 53.13m discus and 4:38.10 1,500m.
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