The World Indoor 1,500m finalist, Kieran Lumb of Vancouver, kicked off his outside season on the observe with a 1,500m private greatest on the Doha Diamond League on Friday night in Qatar.
Lumb positioned eighth in 3:34.41, shaving greater than a tenth of a second off his earlier greatest of three:34.54 from final yr. His time was simply 0.9 seconds off the lads’s Olympic 1,500m commonplace of three:33.50.
“I felt good at the moment and pleased with how I executed,” Lumb instructed Canadian Operating post-race. “I do know if I hold competing nicely the occasions will come.”
This was Lumb’s first 1,500m race of the 2024 outside season, persevering with his late success from final fall, the place he set a Canadian file over 3,000m, gained a Canadian XC title and completed fourth within the street mile on the World Highway Operating Championships in Latvia.
Lumb is one among 19 athletes at present sitting in an Olympic qualification spot on factors for the lads’s 1,500m. To solidify his spot, he would wish to run the usual of three:33.50 earlier than June 30. Charles Philibert-Thiboutot is the one Canadian 1,500m runner with the Olympic commonplace.
Kenny Bednarek runs 200m world lead, Aaron Brown fifth
One of the vital thrilling races of the evening got here from American sprinter Kenny Bednarek within the males’s 200m. Bednarek continued his distinctive kind from World Relays into Doha, profitable the lads’s 200m in a world-leading time of 19.67 seconds (+1.7 m/s) forward of his U.S. 4x100m relay teammates Courtney Lindsey (20.01) and Kyree King (20.21).
World lead, @dldoha assembly file and private greatest.@kenny_bednarek didn’t come to play! 🔥#DiamondLeague pic.twitter.com/AjTQHbeMCN
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) Could 10, 2024
Canada’s Aaron Brown completed fifth in a season’s greatest time of 20.29 seconds. Brown already has the Olympic commonplace of 20.16 seconds within the 200m, which he achieved final yr on the Brussels Diamond League.
To view the complete outcomes from Doha Diamond League, click on right here. The subsequent cease on the Diamond League circuit is in Rabat, Morocco on Could 19.
