Athletics: Results from Zurich Samsung Diamond League

Another beautiful night in world of athletics, all thanks to top-class athletes who gave us another enjoyable meeting, with top performance results and few surprises.

Greatest surprise of the evening was that Olympic and world record holder at 800 meters, David Rudisha, was defeated by Ethiopian Mohammed Aman, setting a new national record of 1:42,53, while Rudisha ended with 1:42,81.

World fastest man, Usain Bolt, showed his dominance in the 200 meters again, giving the crowd a high performance race that ended with a meeting record of 19.66, finishing before Nickel Ashmeade with a PB of 19.85 and Jason Young with 20.08, all from Jamaica.

His training partner, Yohan Blake, won again in the 100 meters mark, as well as Bolt, setting a new meeting record of 9.76, before Nesta Carter's season best of 9.95 and Ryan Bailey of USA with 9.97, while USA's Tyson Gay was disqualified after a bad reaction from the starting block.

In the women's 100 meters event, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won with 10.83 before USA's Carmelita Jeter with 10.97 and Allyson Felix with 11.02, while in the 400 meters, Sanja Richards-Ross showed her dominance again with winning time of 50.21 finishing before Amantle Montsho with 50.33 and Rosemarie Whyte with 50.41.

Felix Sanchez didn't make it to give himself a birthday gift with winning his fifth victory in Zurich, settling for fourth place with 48.82, while first place went into the hands of USA's Angelo Taylor with 48.29 before Omar Cisneros with 48.34 and Jehue Gordon with 48.40.

Men's 5000 meters brought a lot of excitement, where African runners showed their dominance, with Kenyan Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa winning the race with 12:59,24, before Bernard Lagat's season best of 12:59,2 and Dejen Gebremeskel with 13:00,83, Tariku Bekele finished sixth, while 10.000 meters vice-champion from London, Gullen Rup finished ninth.

In man's technical events, Ivan Urkhov (RUS) won the high jump with 2.31, Renaud Lavillenie (FRA) won the pole vault with 5.70, Tero Pitkamaki (FIN) won the javelin throw with 85.27, Fabrizio Donato (ITA) won the triple jumple with 17.29. In women's technical events, Yelena Sokolova (RUS) won the long jump with 6.92, Perkovic Sandra (CRO) won the discus throw with 63.97, while Valerie Adams (NZL) set a new meeting record in the shot put with 20.81.

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