CJ Allen runs season best in Stockholm Bauhaus Galan Diamond League meet; Moon skies world lead...
In Stockholm, Sweden, Washington State alum CJ Allen (photo courtesy Wanda Diamond League) ran a season best as he finished third in the 400 hurdles at the Bauhaus Galan meet, the seventh stop on the season long Wanda Diamond League tour Sunday.
Allen, running in his third Diamond League meet in a span of eight days, finished in a time of 48.12, as 2022 world champ Alison dos Santos of Brazil, the winner in Oslo a few days earlier, got the win in 47.01, while Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, was second in 48.05.
The Cougar alum started fast and ran even with dos Santos through the first five hurdles, before the Brazilian pulled away entering the turn. McMaster caught Allen shortly after hitting the final straightaway, though Allen appeared to make a late run coming off the final hurdle.
In a non-Diamond League scoring race contested before the television window, Washington's Wilma Nielsen finished eighth in the 800 meters.
Nielsen, who will be back in the USA in time for the NCAA championships which for the women begin on Thursday, ran 2:03.10, as Jemma Reekie of Great Britain won in 1:57.79.
Wilma's twin sister Julia finished seventh in 2:02.37.
Washington alum Jack Rowe did not finish in the men's 3000.
The Wanda Diamond League pauses for the rest of June for the European Championships which begins on June 7th, and the national championship and Olympic Trials window this month.
The circuit resumes July 7th with the Meeting de Paris in France.
In Chula Vista, California, former Pullman resident Katie Moon jumped to the world lead in the elite section of the women's pole vault at the Maximum Velocity Athletics High Performance meet Sunday afternoon at the Chula Vista Elite Athlete Training Center.
Moon cleared 15-11 (4.85m) to take the win and the world lead, eight days after finishing second at the Nike Prefontaine Classic in her outdoor season opener.
Courtesy of Moon's Instagram account, here is video of her world leading mark:
Other highlights from Chula Vista:
--Tacoma native and Oregon alum Lexi Ellis won the women's triple jump with a fifth round jump of 43-8 (13.31m);
--Washington alum Jacob Englar finished fourth in the elite section of the men's pole vault with a clearance of 17-9.25 (5.42m);
--In the men's 110 hurdles, Eastern Washington grad Parker Bowden won in a time of 13.60, after running 13.71 in the qualifying heat.
Ellis' mark is short of the automatic Trials standard of 44-3.5 (13.50m). For Bowden, the mark is his fastest time so far this season, but will need to run 13.50 to get the auto standard.
As of Sunday's meets, Ellis is tied for 15th on the 2024 US list (24 to fill the field), while Bowden is number 34 on the US list (36 to fill the field) in the hurdles, and Englar is outside the US top 24 at number 30.
All three are easily over the minimum standard to compete at the Trials, but only those who have met or exceeded the automatic standards are guaranteed a spot in Eugene. After the automatic qualifiers, the field will be filled until the desired number of entries are met.
NOTE: The Wanda Diamond League and the Maximum Velocity Athletics High Performance meet contributed to this report.
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