Max Burgin, a middle-distance runner from the UK, placed second in the 800-meter race at the Diamond League meeting in Rabat, setting a personal best time.
With a time of one minute, 43.34 seconds, the 23-year-old defeated Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi to take third place.
Tshepiso Masalela, a champion at the Olympics, set the meeting record of 1:42.69, ahead of Burgin, who was also a finalist.
Beatrice Chebet, the Olympic champion over both 5, 000m and 10, 000m, ran the second-fastest 3, 000m in Morocco, taking home the medal.
Her time of 8:11.56, which has been in place since 1993, is only second only to Wang Junxia’s 8:06.11, which is second only to her.
Shericka Jackson, the two-time 200m world champion, won her first 100m race of the year in 11.04 seconds elsewhere.
In the men’s race, where Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo struggled and finished last, before resigning from the 200m event, South Africa’s Akani Simbine ran 9.90 seconds to claim his third 100m Diamond League victory of the year.
British pole vaulter Molly Caudery, who was previously eliminated from Rabat, gave way to American world champion Katie Moon.
Caudery, who won the competition last week at the Doha meeting, had to leave because she had a niggle during warm-up.
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Source: BBC
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