Hunter Bell triumphs again at Paris Diamond League
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- Georgia Hunter Bell won the women's 1500m at the Paris Diamond League in 3:55.63 (season's best), holding off Ethiopia's Freweyni Hailu (3:55.92) and France's Agathe Guillemot (3:56.24).
- The Paris win was Hunter Bell's second Diamond League victory of 2025, following her Rome triumph in 3:58.63 last month and her first world title in Torun in March.
- Armand Duplantis cleared a meet record 6.13m to win the men's pole vault, rebounding from his first loss in 40 meets at the Stockholm Diamond League on June 7, though he missed three attempts at 6.32m that would have broken his own world record.
- Audrey Werro ran 1:53.80 in the women's 800m — the third-fastest time ever — with the 22-year-old Swiss now openly targeting Jarmila Kratochvilova's 1983 outdoor world record of 1:53.28.
- Marco Arop (Canada) won the men's 800m in 1:41.84, the fastest time of the 2025 calendar year, while Trayvon Bromell upset reigning Olympic champion Noah Lyles to take the men's 100m in 9.91.
- The Paris meeting was staged in an adapted format after local police requested all sporting events be cancelled due to extreme heat, restricting competition to professional athletes only.
Why it matters: Hunter Bell's back-to-back Diamond League wins ahead of July's Commonwealth Games (Glasgow) and August's European Championships (Birmingham) validate her switch from 800m back to 1500m, where she claimed Olympic bronze in 2024. The Paris card, run despite a heat-driven cancellation request, also placed two athletes within striking distance of long-standing records: Werro is now three-quarters of a second from Kratochvilova's 43-year-old 800m mark and Duplantis remains one centimeter shy of his own world record.
