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Gudaf Tsegay produced an astonishing run to smash the women's 5000m world record at the 2023 Diamond League Final in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday (17 September).
The Ethiopian and Beatrice Chebet were right on world record pace with three laps to go.
Reigning world 10,000m champion Tsegay kicked on at the front with the Kenyan unable to stay in touch, and started to move clear of the Wavelight record indicators.
The 26-year-old was just outside the magic 14-minute barrier, but her time of 14:00.21 was almost exactly five seconds faster than Faith Kipyegon's run of 14:05.20 in Paris in June.
Chebet was second in a personal best of 14:05.92 with another Ethiopian, Ejgayehu Taye, a distant third in 14:21.52.
Pole vault king Mondo Duplantis claimed the second world record of the afternoon.
The Swede needed just three attempts to win the competition, clearing 5.62m, 5.82m and 6.02m with a minimum of fuss.
He had the bar raised to 6.23m, one centimetre above his previous best, and the 23-year-old brushed the bar on his way over for his seventh world record.
Olympic champion Hansle Parchment overcame a slow start to win his latest meeting with Grant Holloway.
The Jamaican, who took silver in Budapest last month as Holloway completed a hat-trick of world titles, fairly charged home from halfway to go in front and clock a world lead and personal best of 12.93.
Holloway was second in 13.06 with fellow American Daniel Thomas just behind in third.
Less than 24 hours after just missing out on the mile world record at the Prefontaine Classic, Jakob Ingebrigtsen won a thriller over 3000m.
With Daniel Komen's 27-year-old world record out of reach, the Norwegian had his rivals queuing up behind him with a couple of laps to go but stayed in front and kept the inside line.
Yomif Kejelcha was his final challenger, and ingebrigtsen threw himself at the line to win by just one one-hundredth of a second in a new European record of 7:23.63.
Grant Fisher took third in an American record 7:25.47.
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