{"id":127681,"date":"2026-09-08T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/127681\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:09:27","slug":"usas-russell-and-brazils-dos-santos-break-records-at-the-diamond-league-in-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/127681\/","title":{"rendered":"USA\u2019s Russell and Brazil\u2019s Dos Santos Break Records at the Diamond League in Zurich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He added, \u201cAs soon as I knew I was coming here, I was excited. The weather\u2019s good, the track\u2019s amazing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After 40 minutes in the event, USA\u2019s Russell, the Olympic Champion, timed 12.09 seconds in the women&#8217;s 100m hurdles to beat Nigeria\u2019s Tobi Amusan\u2019s previous best of 12.12 seconds that she held at the Eugene world championship in 2022. Amusan came second in the League while European champion Nadine Visser settled for third place in a season\u2019s best of 12.34. Russell said, \u201cMy start felt really good. As I was approaching the line, I thought, \u2018let me actually run through the line this time and see what the time is.\u2019 When I saw 12.09, I got so emotional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have dreamed about this moment for so long. This is the best place I ever could have imagined to break the world record. When I heard that Alison dos Santos had broken the world record, it confirmed the track was hot. I got a lot of motivation from him for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See Also: <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsgram.com\/delhi\/2025\/09\/21\/namo-youth-marathon-fight-against-drugs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Delhi: 5,000 Join Namo Youth Marathon for Fight Against Drugs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More Athletes Show-Up in the Diamond League<\/p>\n<p>More athletes like Audrey Werro carried on her impressive season with yet another record in women\u2019s 800m. Werro\u2019s win came when she clocked 1:54.75 minutes to level-up her own Diamond League record. Switzerland\u2019s Werro matched on Femke Bol aggressive towards her approach at the beginning, failing to maintain Werro\u2019s pace Femke couldn\u2019t hold firm ahead of her. Werro led the 200 metres and clinched the victory over Femke. Werro\u2019s run gave a future sign to her breaking the world record. Bol held a Dutch record of 1:54.81, better than what she set in Lausanne. Men\u2019s pole vault saw Mondo Duplantis and Emmanouil Karalis having an impressive pole vault contest that created history. Duplantis broke a world record of 6.25m while Karalis with the best Greek record of 6.00m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He added, \u201cAs soon as I knew I was coming here, I was excited. The weather\u2019s good, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[59318,2786,5420,25917,5419,533,41899,51],"class_list":["post-127681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-alison-dos-santos","tag-brazil","tag-diamond-league","tag-hurdles","tag-masai-russell","tag-usa","tag-world-record","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117236056992842593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127681","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=127681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}