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\n NEW MARK Brazil\u2019s Alison dos Santos celebrates after winning the men\u2019s 400-meter hurdles, setting a new world record, at the Diamond League athletics meeting on Aug. 27, 2026, in Zurich, Switzerland. AP PHOTO\n <\/p>\n
Dos Santos stared toward the clock in amazement after finishing the 400-meter (m) hurdles on Thursday (Friday in Manila) at the Diamond League meet in Zurich. He immediately began pumping his right arm. His time: 45.80 seconds.<\/p>\n
Later, the stage belonged to Russell, and she punctuated a blazing performance in 100-m hurdles by holding aloft the index finger on her right hand. Her time: 12.09 seconds.<\/p>\n
Russell, the Olympic champion\u00a0from the United States, took 0.03 seconds off the previous world record held by Tobi Amusan \u2014 a mark the Nigerian set in a semifinal run\u00a0at the 2022 world championships in Eugene, Oregon, on her way to winning gold.<\/p>\n
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By signing up with an email address, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to the Terms of Service<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I heard that Alison dos Santos broke the world record, in the back of my mind, I was trying to focus and lock in, but I knew the track was hot,\u201d Russell said. \u201cI got a lot of motivation from him, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Dos Santos crossed the line to hold off the reigning world-record holder, Karsten Warholm of Norway. Warholm set the previous world mark\u00a0at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, cracking the once-unthinkable 46-second barrier with a 45.94. That particular race was historically fast, with dos Santos running a personal best of 46.72, which was only good enough for third.<\/p>\n This time, nobody was faster than dos Santos.<\/p>\n \u201cI have no words to explain what happened other than I just broke the world record,\u201d the 2022 world champion said. \u201cI have been showing a great form throughout the season \u2014 that I am fast, I am strong. We changed a lot of aspects of my training and racing in the preparation for this. I\u2019m starting faster, I\u2019m finishing stronger, and that is what I have to do to be able to break a world record.\u201d<\/p>\n After the race, Warholm came over and gave him a congratulatory hug. He took losing his world record in stride.<\/p>\n \u201cI have got to get back to the drawing board and do something else,\u201d Warholm said after finishing in 46.69. \u201cI still feel I can do something about it. I have been running 45.94 before. It is unbelievable. There is nothing more to say. It is a crazy event.\u201d<\/p>\n Russell started fast and never looked back to both hold off Amusan and rewrite the record.<\/p>\n \u201cCompeting in a world-record race is amazing,\u201d Amusan said. \u201cI came out here, and I did my best, and I am happy with this [season\u2019s best].\u201d<\/p>\n Soon after gathering her thoughts, Russell posed with her right index over her lips. This was one performance that couldn\u2019t be silenced.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I saw 12.09 … I just got so emotional,\u201d Russell said. \u201cI dreamed about this moment for so long, and then hearing the crowd, like, this is the best place I could have ever imagined to break the world record.\u201d<\/p>\n Sprinter Kenny Bednarek was certainly impressed.<\/p>\n \u201cCrazy night,\u201d said Bednarek, who won the 200 m in 19.62 seconds. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I have been at the meet where I have seen so many records.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH, Switzerland \u2014 The reactions from Alison dos Santos\u00a0and Masai Russell\u00a0at the finish line some 40 minutes apart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[58732,59478,58882,59318,6222,5420,59476,25917,6216,59482,5419,11029,59479,59480,59481,58736,59477,6220,41899,51],"class_list":["post-122001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-100m-hurdles","tag-2022-world-champion","tag-400m-hurdles","tag-alison-dos-santos","tag-athletics","tag-diamond-league","tag-eugene","tag-hurdles","tag-karsten-warholm","tag-kenny-bednarek","tag-masai-russell","tag-oregon","tag-personal-best","tag-record-breaking-performance","tag-sprinter","tag-tobi-amusan","tag-tokyo-olympics","tag-track-and-field","tag-world-record","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117174102272496281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}