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Masai Russell Sets Women’s 100m Hurdles World Record in Zurich

Her legal 12.09 run capped a night of record-breaking performances that recalibrates the top ranks in hurdles and vault events.

Overview

  • Brazil’s Alison Dos Santos lowered the men’s 400m hurdles world record to 45.80 and beat Karsten Warholm, who finished second in 46.69.
  • Masai Russell clocked 12.09 in the women’s 100m hurdles under a 0.0 m/s wind reading, a legal mark that improved the previous world record.
  • Tobi Amusan finished second in the 100m hurdles in Zurich with a 12.23, leaving Russell as the new benchmark in the event.
  • Armand Duplantis won the pole vault with 6.25 m in a competition where he and Emmanouil Karalis both cleared 6.20 m at the same meeting for the first time.
  • The cluster of new marks reshapes rankings and momentum for athletes as they head into the season’s final championships and intensifies rivalries in hurdles and the pole vault.