Keni Harrison breaks American 100m hurdles record at Prefontaine Classic

Diamond League

Keni Harrison continued her superb season by clocking 12.24 to just miss the 100m hurdles world record at the Prefontaine Classic on Saturday (May 28).

With a dominant run in front of a home crowd at Hayward Field in Eugene, the 23-year-old beat Brianna Rollins, who had previously held the American record with 12.26, and Jasmin Stowers and clocked the second fastest time in history behind Yordanka Donkova’s 12.21 run in 1988.

Harrison’s time at the Diamond League meeting takes 0.12 off the PB she had run in April when opening her outdoor season in Athens, USA, with that time having then put her equal-ninth on the world all-time list.

Rollins, who won the world title in 2013 and claimed world indoor 60m hurdles silver in Eugene earlier this year in a race that saw Harrison place eighth, clocked 12.53 for the Pre Classic runner-up spot, while Stowers ran 12.55. Another American athlete Nia Ali, who retained her world indoor title ahead of Rollins in March, clocked 12.72 for fourth, as Britain’s Tiffany Porter was seventh with 12.90.

In the final event of the programme, three-time world 1500m gold medallist Asbel Kiprop won his fourth Bowerman Mile title in a world-leading 3:51.52 to beat Morocco’s world bronze medallist Abdalaati Iguider with 3:51.96 and his fellow Kenyan Elijah Motonei Manangoi, who secured silver in Beijing, with 3:52.39.

Earlier on, Britain’s Charlie Grice had run an almost two-second PB to win the ‘national’ mile event in 3:52.64, making it two lifetime bests in two races following the 22-year-old’s 1:46.95 800m in Los Angeles a week before. That mark had been a world lead before the top three …

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