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Simbine over Prescod in 100m battle<\/strong><\/p>\n Olympic fourth-placer, Akani Simbine of South Africa took the win in the men\u2019s 100m with a solid 10.03 clocking. <\/p>\n The 29-year-old – who was victorious in Stockholm twelve months ago – improved on second position in Rabat back in May to cross the line clear of Great Britain\u2019s Reece Prescod (10.14). <\/p>\n Simbine explained afterwards:<\/p>\n \u201cIt seems like a good season towards the World Championships – I am satisfied with the results and the training so far. I just wanted the win here and I got it so I\u2019m glad at the moment and let\u00b4s go building up on it.<\/p>\n \u201cIn such conditions, I think the time was fast. If the conditions are ideal, it means it could be a very very fast time – somewhere around my PB but we leave that for the World Championships. I have a two-week break now so I will go back to training and then get ready for the Silesia Diamond League.\u201d<\/p>\n Surprise one-lap win for Nene <\/strong><\/p>\n Zakithi Nene of South Africa caused an upset while taking the honours in the men\u2019s 400m with 45.30. Only seventh in Oslo, the 25-year-old finished ahead of NCAA champion, Emmanuel Bambidele of Nigeria who clocked 45.48.<\/p>\n \u201cI came into the race after a couple of days of sickness so that was very unexpected,\u201d Nene revealed.<\/p>\n \u201cTo win my first Diamond League is very exciting in front of my friends and family. I am not sure what will be next as I need to sit down with my coach after today and analyse the race. I have been consistently running 45 lows, which is great especially when the weather is bad like today. It was really terrible out there and quite tricky but I am from Durban so I am used to it – this is what I train in so maybe that helped me a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n Ethiopian women dominate the 1500m <\/strong><\/p>\n Ethiopian trio Freweyni Hailu, Diribe Welteji and Hirut Meshesha showcased a masterclass in team tactics to secure the top three positions in the women\u2019s 1500m.<\/p>\n Hailu – the Olympic and world fourth place finisher – registered 4:02.31 to claim the victory after third and second spot in Doha and Rabat, respectively. <\/p>\n Her compatriots, Diribe Welteji (4:02.79) – fourth in the world 800m final last year – and world indoor 3,000m bronze medalist, Hirut Meshesha (4:03.01) ensured the Ethiopian stranglehold on the race continued until the finish-line. <\/p>\n \u201cI am very grateful for this victory and also for my compatriots finishing so well,\u201d said Hailu. <\/p>\n \u201cThe victory is great but the competition was not ideal due to the weather, but we have to adapt to all conditions. I believe in more victories to come this season.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Olympic fourth-placer, Akani Simbine of South Africa took the win in the men\u2019s 100m with a...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-okategoriserad"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}