Canada’s Mitton wins women’s shot put, Arop runs to world-leading 800m at Paris Diamond League stop
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Canadian shot putter Sarah Mitton edged reigning Olympic champion Yemisi Mabry of Germany to win the women’s event at the Diamond League stop in Paris on Sunday.
Mitton, from Brooklyn, N.S., was in second place behind Mabry before launching her third of six attempts 19.99 metres for the longest throw at the Meeting de Paris. Mabry also delivered her best toss in the third round but it fell 0.06m short of Mitton’s mark.
Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands finished in third place after her third throw travelled 19.89m.
The 30-year-old Mitton, a two-time indoor world champion, surpassed the 19-metre mark on five of her six throws at Stade Charlety.
Mitton had a season’s best mark of 20.42m at the season-opening Diamond League meet in Shanghai, where she finished third. Her personal best is 20.68m, set in February 2025.
Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S. won Sunday’s Diamond League shot put competition with a third throw of 19.99 giving her top stop in Paris.
Edmonton’s Marco Arop followed up Mitton’s win with a world-leading time in the men’s 800m.
The Olympic men’s silver medallist and former world champion in the distance clocked a time of one minute 41.84 seconds — 1.3 seconds faster than his previous season’s best from the Stockholm Diamond League event earlier this month.
Arop, 27, beat Niels Laros of the Netherlands, who set a personal best time of 1:43.60 to finish second. Norway’s Tobias Grønstad was third in 1:43.63.
Reigning Olympic 800m champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya and 17-year-old American Cooper Lutkenhaus, who previously held the world lead at 1:42.08, did not compete.
Edmonton’s Marco Arop ran to a world leading time victory in the 800-metre of 1:41.48 Sunday at the Diamond League event in Paris.
Bromell edges Lyles in 100m; De Grasse 7th
In other results, Trayvon Bromell upset reigning 100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles to win the men’s 100m, while Canadian sprint star Andre De Grasse finished a disappointing seventh out of the eight runners.
Bromell beat Lyles by one-hundredth of a second with a season’s best time of 9.91, handing the fellow American his first defeat of the season.
Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic 100m champion, was third in a season’s best 9.96, with South Africa’s Akani Simbine fourth in 9.97. Markham, Ont.’s De Grasse crossed the line in 10.02.
With a time of 10.02 Andre De Grasse of Markham, Ont., sprinted to a seventh place finish Sunday at the Diamond League competition in Paris.
Armand Duplantis dominated the pole vault, clearing a meeting record 6.13m before three unsuccessful attempts at a world record height of 6.32m.
Botswana’s Busang Collen Kebinatshipi set a Diamond League record of 43.54 seconds to win the men’s 400m.
The Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino, the reigning Olympic champion, won the women’s 400m in a world lead.
Switzerland’s Audrey Werro set a Diamond League record of one minute and 53.80 seconds to win the women’s 800m, the third fastest time ever run.
Watch full coverage of the Wanda Diamond League stop in Paris, France.
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