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Irish Times
2 days ago
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- Irish Times
Sarah Healy produces lifetime best to take second in 1,500m at Diamond League in Paris
Another terrific sprint finish by Sarah Healy saw her nail second place in the 1,500 metres at the Meeting de Paris on Friday night, improving her lifetime best to 3:57.15 in the process. On a perfect evening for running inside the Stade Charlety, the eighth stop on the Diamond League circuit, Healy might well have scored another victory too, as Kenya's Nelly Chepchirchir just held on for the win in 3:57.02. Just like she did in winning the European Indoor title over 3,000m last March, Healy bided her time over the last 150 metres, after holding sixth place at the bell. Entering the homestretch in third, she kicked past the top Ethiopian Birke Haylom, but just ran out of track when trying to run down Chepchirchir Healy's time improved her lifetime best of 3:57.46, clocked at the same meeting last year. Only Ciara Mageean's Irish record of 3:55.87 from 2023 is faster, and that may well come under threat before the summer is out. READ MORE It was only Healy's second outdoor 1,500m race this season, after she also produced a magnificent finishing kick to win the 1,500m at the Rome Diamond League a fortnight ago. The 24-year-old had already improved her 3,000m best to 8:27.02 in finishing third in the Rabat Diamond League last month. Haylom held on for third in 3:57.50, with Healy's training partner Georgia Hunter Bell sixth in 3:58.06. Mark English was also back on track just over a week after racing the 800m at the Oslo Diamond League, and the 32-year-old continued his rich vein of form over the distance with a sixth-place finish in 1:43.98 – breaking the 1:44-barrier for only the second time. English did get slightly boxed at the back after the first lap, in another stacked field of 13 runners, moving up five places in the last 200m. Victory on the night went to Mohamed Attaoui from Spain in 1:42.73, just ahead of Josh Hoey from the US, who clocked 1:43.00 – and like English is also coached by Justin Rinaldi. English broke the 1:44 barrier for the first time with his Irish record of 1:43.92 to take the win in Hengelo earlier this month, which smashed his previous Irish record of 1:44.34 which he set in Bydgoszcz, Poland last month. Although Rhasidat Adeleke wasn't racing in Paris, after back-to-back 400m races in Oslo and Stockholm where she finished fourth and sixth respectively, she'll no doubt have watched the Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino make her Diamond League season debut. Paulino produced a stunning victory and meeting record time of 48.81 seconds, improving the mark of 49.12 she set here two years ago. The Olympic champion finished strongest of all, getting past her old rival Salwa Eid Naser from Bahrain, second in the Olympics last summer, who clocked 48.85, with newcome Martina Weil from Chile also breaking 50 seconds to nail third in 49.83, a national record. Azeddine Habz also delighted the Paris crowd when winning the 1,500m in a French record of 3:27.49, the top-six all running sub-3:30. Jimmy Gressier followed that with a French record in the 5,000m, running 12:51.59 to finish fourth behind Yomif Kejelcha from Ethiopia, who won in 12:47.84. The World Championships in Tokyo may still be just under three months away, but times are fast heating up.
The Guardian
12-06-2025
- Sport
- The Guardian
Jake Stewart sprints to Dauphiné win on stage five as Evenepoel holds lead despite fall
The British rider Jake Stewart won a sprint finish to triumph in the fifth stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné on Thursday as Remco Evenepoel held on to the race lead. Stewart claimed his first career victory in a World Tour race, edging the bunched finale ahead of Axel Laurance and Søren Waerenskjold after the hilly 183km run from Saint-Priest to Macon. 'That one feels good,' said the 25-year-old who finished fifth in Sunday's opening stage in Montlucon. 'The boys backed me … and the team backed me, they did an awesome job, so I'm just so happy that I could finish it off for them.' The Israel Premier Tech team managed to win despite the race retirement of their German sprinter Pascal Ackermann, who fell during the stage. 'It's such a shame with Ackermann, he crashed again today, and it was handed over to me there for the final, but it was also a really good day for him, so I'm gutted that he didn't get to contest the finish,' added Stewart. Evenepoel, who took the yellow jersey in Wednesday's time-trial, crashed in the final kilometre but was able to resume without difficulty and lost no time in the overall standings. 'There are no major injuries, just small scratches,' said the Belgian. 'I was coming out of the roundabout, I wanted to accelerate, and I slipped. My hands were slippery from the wet weather, so maybe I slipped off the handlebars or started pedalling too early.' Evenepoel is expected to battle with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar for the overall victory in the Alps. Jonathan Milan, winner of the second stage in Issoire on Monday, was the favourite in the event of a bunch sprint. On the Côte des Quatre Vents – the final climb of the stage over 5.4km at a 4.6% gradient – the towering Italian resisted the acceleration of Mathieu van der Poel's Alpecin-Deceuninck teammates. But he paid for his efforts afterwards, only finishing fifth in the sprint, despite having been ideally placed by his Lidl-Trek team. Sign up to The Recap The best of our sports journalism from the past seven days and a heads-up on the weekend's action after newsletter promotion Friday's sixth stage is a hilly 126.7km run from Valserhône to Combloux near the border with Switzerland.
BBC News
09-06-2025
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- BBC News
Milan wins Dauphine stage two to take over yellow jersey
Jonathan Milan took victory on stage two of the Criterium du Dauphine with a sprint finish in Trek's lead-out train hit the front during the final kilometre of the 204.6km ride from Premilhat, and they left Milan alone with 150m year's Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix winner Mathieu van der Poel then fought hard to catch the Italian held on to clinch his first road race win in France, with British rider Fred Wright edging out Van der Poel for also claimed the yellow jersey from reigning Tour de France and Giro d'Italia champion Tadej Pogacar, who won the opening stage on Sunday."It was really tough," said Milan, 24. "Yesterday and today, I suffered a lot."At one point I was really on the limit, but I have to say thanks to my team-mates because they brought me back."We knew we had to take the last corner at the front, and it was just a perfect lead-out. I'm really happy because this means a lot to all of us."Local rider Romain Bardet, who is competing in his last professional race, attacked on the final categorised climb of the day and built a 20-second Bardet did not get any support in the breakaway so the peloton soon closed the gap, with Lidl Trek putting Milan in a prime position during the three will begin in the 34-year-old Bardet's hometown of Brioude. Stage two results Jonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl Trek) 4hrs 54mins 49secsFred Wright (GB/Bahrain Victorious) Same timeMathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck)Stian Edvardsen-Fredheim (Nor/Uno-X Mobility)Paul Penhoet (Fra/Groupama-FDJ)Emilien Jeanniere (Fra/TotalEnergies)Bastien Tronchon (Fra/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale)Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kaz/XDS Astana)Matis Louvel (Fra/Israel-Premier Tech)Clement Venturini (Fra/Arkea-B&B Hotels)
BBC News
05-06-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Le Court wins stage one of Tour of Britain Women
Kim le Court got the better of Kristen Faulkner in a two-up sprint finish to win the first stage of the Tour of Britain pair attacked and went clear of the peloton with 30km to go and then held off the chasing Le Court, 29, launched her sprint from the front with just over 200m to go and outlasted the American Olympic road race champion to the Wiebes led home a much-reduced bunch in third, five seconds behind, while British riders Cat Ferguson and Millie Couzens finished fifth and champion Lizzie Deignan finished 20th as she races in Britain for the final time before retiring. Last year Le Court became the first Mauritian rider to compete in the World Tour, and she won the prestigious Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day race in April. The four-day Tour of Britain Women began with an 81.5km stage in North Yorkshire between Dalby Forest and riders faced two classified climbs, at Blakey Ridge and Langburn's Bank, with Le Court starting her attack at the bottom of the latter, with Faulkner in the lead pair the peloton split, with FDJ-Suez and Movistar leading the chase from a reduced group which was 34 seconds behind with 28km to almost crashed out of the race with 15km to go, misjudging a corner and narrowly avoiding a traffic island. Le Court waited for her to regain momentum and the two continued with their break until the finish, before winning the sprint to take the leader's second stage is over a 114.3km route between Hartlepool and Saltburn-by-the-sea.
Washington Post
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Kooij wins 12th stage of Giro d'Italia in sprint finish, Del Toro keeps overall lead
VIADANA, Italy — Dutch cyclist Olav Kooij won the 12th stage of the Giro d'Italia in a sprint finish Thursday as Mexico's Isaac Del Toro slightly extended his overall lead in the pink jersey. Wout van Aert, the winner of Sunday's ninth stage, placed himself at the front as riders turned for home and led his Visma–Lease a Bike teammate Kooij into the final 200 meters.
