Canada’s 800m world champion, Marco Arop, had a powerful begin to his 2024 Diamond League marketing campaign in Xiamen, China, on Saturday, profitable in a world-leading time of 1:43.61.
Arop led the race from the entrance and held on for the win on the ultimate lap forward of a surging Wyclife Kinyamal of Kenya. Kinyamal completed second in 1:43.66.
Canada’s Marco Arop for the win in a photograph end! 🙌🇨🇦
The reigning males’s 800m world champion begins his #DiamondLeague season with a victory in a time of 1:43.61 pic.twitter.com/aC3c0sJyjn
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That is Arop’s quickest time of the 2024 season to this point and the eighth time he has run below 1:44 in his profession. It is usually the fourth Diamond League win of his profession.
The 25-year-old’s profitable time in Xiamen was solely an 800m world lead for a number of hours till world championship silver medalist Emmanuel Wanyonyi ran 1:43.56 to win the Continental Tour Kip Keino Traditional in Nairobi.
Arop had a outstanding 2023 season, profitable his first world title over 800m and setting a brand new Canadian file of 1:42.85 on the Diamond League closing in Eugene, Ore.
Lower than 100 days from the Paris Olympic Video games, Arop might be one of many gold medal favourites within the males’s 800m occasion. He’ll subsequent compete for Workforce Canada at World Relays in Nassau, The Bahamas on Could 4 and 5.
For full outcomes from the Xiamen Diamond League, verify right here.
