by Stuart Weir
Meeting de Liévin, photo by LOC This is the second piece on the amazing night in Liévin. The story is by Stuart Weir sent 3 pieces, and this is his 2/3, on the men’s events.
Liévin Men’s programme
Who’s in the mood for some #WorldIndoorTour action?
Pre-meet in the bag, the athletes are ready for @Meeting_Lievin tonight.
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The Meeting Liévin lived up to the high standard that it set last year being recognized as the top indoor meet. It was a full program of 12 track and five field events. Track events were from 60m to 3000m with prelims and A and B races where appropriate. A crowd of about 500 was allowed.
Wow! This is wonderful. @ColinJackson and I were talking about this race earlier last year!
Seeing it side by side is a beautiful piece of art!! https://t.co/in1IRlSGqN— S. Grant Holloway (@Flaamingoo_) February 10, 2021
The stand-out men’s performance saw Grant Holloway run the second fastest 60m hurdles race of all time, 7.32, coming within two hundredths of a second of Colin Jackson’s 1994 world record. Holloway had given notice by breaking the meeting record in the prelim with 7.38.
Ethiopia’s Getnet Wale records a huge 7.24.98, missing the 3000m world indoor record by a mere 0.08.#WorldIndoorTour pic.twitter.com/uqb6SUQywo
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Jakob Ingebrigtsen set a new European indoor 1500m record on his season debut, clocking 3:31.80. He commented afterwards: “Of course I want to run fast but this was my first race so I didn’t know what to expect. Training has been going well. I’m unsure if I will do more races or train because the Olympics is my main goal”.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen clocks world-leading 3:31.80 @Meeting_Lievin record and the fifth fastest 1500m indoors time in history.
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Elliott Giles was always in control of the 800m, winning in 1:49.45 and Getnet Wale ran a magnificent 7.24.98 in the 3000m the second-fastest indoor performance in history. Marcel Jacobs won the 60m at the third time of asking – after a false and faulty start.
Global champions take on world record-holders at @Meeting_Lievin #WorldIndoorTour
The men’s pole vault features five members of the event’s six-metre club: @ThiagoBrazPV, @LisekPiotr, @samkendricks, @airlavillenie and @mondohoss600.
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Mondo Duplantis won the pole-vault with 5.86, retiring at that point as he was feeling a strain. Chris Nilsen cleared the same height to finish second while Renaud Lavillenie was third with 5.80. Sam Kendicks continued to struggle only managing seventh, 5.60m.
The statement “Hugues Zango, the world indoor record-holder, won the Triple jump with 17.82 ” id true but does not tell the whole story. He started with three fouls, only just made the sand with his fourth before the majestic fifth. Juan Miguel Echevarria (8.25) won the long jump.
Last round long jump magic from Juan Miguel Echevarria!
The Cuban leaves it late and sails to a world-leading 8.25m ahead of Greece’s Militiadis Tentoglou’s 8.21m.
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Men’s winners
60m Marcel Jacobs (Italy) 6.54
60m hurdles Grant Holloway (USA) 7.32
800m Elliot Giles (GB) 1 :49.45
800m B race Mariano Garcia (Spain) 1:47.28
1500m Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Norway)
3000m Getnet Wale (Ethiopia) 7:24.98
Long jump Juan Miguel Echevarria (Cuba) 8.25
Pole Vault Mondo Duplantis 5.86
Triple Jump Hugues Zango (Burkina Faso) 17.82
