Dafne Schippers: Diamond League and meeting record for 200m of 21.93
DAFNE SCHIPPERS produced the performance of the meeting with a Diamond League record of 21.93 in the 200m but British eyes were on the runner-up in the women’s mile, Laura Muir, as she smashed the Scottish record. Clocking a world-leading 21.93, world 200m champion Schippers took one hundredth of a second off Gwen Torrence’s long-standing meeting record from 1994 as she also beat the Diamond League record, storming over the line in slightly chilly and damp conditions to win by more than half a second.
Schippers’ fellow sub-22 second sprinter Elaine Thompson, who claimed silver behind Schippers in Beijing last summer, was almost a second off her PB with 22.64 for the runner-up spot in Oslo, while Britain’s Jodie Williams was fifth with 23.29.