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British sprinter finishes third behind Olympic 100m champion
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Global — Sean Ingle at King Baudouin Stadium
British sprinter finishes third behind Olympic 100m champion
Pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis pulls out with injury
Britain’s Amy Hunt was given a jolting reminder of the gap between her and the world’s very best female sprinters as she finished nearly half a second behind Julien Alfred in the Diamond League 200m final.
But afterwards Hunt insisted that coming third in a season’s best time of 22.16sec, on tired legs on a dank Brussels night, amounted to one of the better races of her career.
Pole vault superstar Mondo Duplantis pulls out with injury
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Source: The Guardian · Sean Ingle at King Baudouin Stadium. Published 4 Sept 2026, 09:22 pm.
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