Britain’s Jake Wightman won the men’s 800m while Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce suffered her first defeat of the season in the women’s 100m at the Diamond League in Brussels.<\/span><\/p>\n Wightman, the world champion over 1500m, recorded a personal best time of 1:43.65 to beat Algeria’s Djamel Sedjati.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Five-time world champion Fraser-Pryce lost to compatriot Shericka Jackson.<\/span><\/p>\n Armand Duplantis also suffered a shock defeat in the men’s pole vault.<\/span><\/p>\n After <\/span>settling for silver in the European Championships<\/span><\/a> last month, Wightman ran 800m under one minute and 44 seconds for the first time in his career.<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Fraser-Pryce, who set the <\/span>fourth-fastest ever women’s 100m<\/span><\/a> in July, was beaten by one hundredth of a second in a photo finish against Jackson.<\/span><\/p>\n “It takes a lot of hard work to beat Shelley-Ann, she’s a tough cookie to beat,” Jackson said after her first win in the Diamond League this season.<\/span><\/p>\n “Tonight I had a good execution, probably not perfect but it paid off in the end.”<\/span><\/p>\n Fraser-Pryce, who <\/span>pulled out of the last Diamond League meet<\/span><\/a> in Lausanne with a hamstring injury said she would “listen to my body” before deciding on whether to run in next week’s final event in Zurich.<\/span><\/p>\n Sweden’s world, Olympic and European pole vault champion Duplantis was beaten for the first time since August 2021 as he lost out to Ernest Obiena of the Philippines after failing to clear a height of 5.91m three times.<\/span><\/p>\n “I am human and I make mistakes and I definitely did some today. I didn’t find good rhythm on the runway today,” Duplantis said.<\/span><\/p>\n
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