Azeddine Habz
Personal Bests
Mile
Millrose Games
3:47.56
2/8/2025
3000 Metres
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
7:31.50
2/2/2025
10 Kilometres Road
27:44
1/5/2025
800 Metres
Meeting de Paris
1:43.79
7/7/2024
Mile
Prefontaine Classic
3:48.64
9/16/2023
Mile
Millrose Games
3:47.56
2/8/2025
3000 Metres
New Balance Indoor Grand Prix
7:31.50
2/2/2025
10 Kilometres Road
27:44
1/5/2025
800 Metres
Meeting de Paris
1:43.79
7/7/2024
Mile
Prefontaine Classic
3:48.64
9/16/2023
In near-perfect conditions following a week of brutal French heat, Sunday’s Paris Diamond League produced three Diamond League records.
In this episode:
– Audrey Werro came to Paris explicitly targeting the women’s 800m world record and ran a personal best of 1:53.80 — a Diamond League record, meet record, world lead, and Swiss national record. She’s now the only woman ever with multiple sub-1:54 performances (three of them, all this season). The world record is 1:53.28, set by Jarmila Kratochvílová in 1983. Werro is 0.52 back.
– Femke Broeders-Bol’s 800m transition is real. The reigning 400m hurdles world champion ran 1:55.60 in the 800m — a massive personal best — finishing second behind Werro’s Diamond League record. Her move to the 800m is no longer an experiment.
– Cam Myers ran 3:28.00 in the Paris Diamond League 1500m — a personal best by over a second, the 27th fastest time in history, and faster than Jakob Ingebrigtsen at the same age (Jakob ran 3:28.68 at 20). Myers beat a field that included 3:27 man Azeddine Habz and 2025 World Championship medalists Jake Wightman and Reynold Cheruiyot
– What it all means for the Bowerman Mile at the Prefontaine Classic
– Grant Fisher won the Paris Diamond League 5000m in 12:54.80, edging Jacob Krop (12:55.22) and Andreas Almgren (12:55.38) in a stacked field where ten athletes broke 13:00. The win also marked the fifth Diamond League victory by an American men’s mid-distance runner in 2026 — the most ever in a single year, with seven meets still remaining.
– Marco Arop dominates the men’s 800m. He confirmed after the race that he intends to go for the record this year: “Clearly I’m in shape for it”
– Trayvon Bromell beats Noah Lyles and there’s Twitter comments afterward by the Olympic champion
– Jamal Britt runs 12.89 PB in Paris — his 10th win of 2026, his 12th meet since April
– Collen Kebinatshipi runs 43.54 Diamond League record in Paris.
+ More highlights and shout-outs from around the running world including Western States.
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Botswana’s Tshepiso Masalela crossed the line first in a men’s 1500m race at the Copernicus Cup but was disqualified under Rule 7.1 (“unsporting or improper conduct”) after miming finger-gun gestures toward competitor Azeddine Habz before the finish. On the latest episode of "This Week In Track and Field" on the CITIUS MAG Podcast, Chris Chavez and Preet Majithia discuss whether the sport should encourage personality and showmanship or enforce strict decorum. Some say, “DQ was justified” as a way to protect sportsmanship Others say: “Punish it, but don’t erase the result” since the DQ seen as disproportionate One more camp says: “Let them show personality” since track is too uptight Where do you fall? Catch the full episode on The CITIUS MAG Podcast in audio form ⬇️ SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7HdV1fcJAUaHbZu7yNJ16u?si=Zsus7tUaTam7xREAJHJH5A APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-track-field-a-controversial-dq-for/id1204506559?i=1000751099377 __________ FOLLOW CITIUS MAG ▶ Subscribe to the podcast: https://apple.co/3Byp72I ▶ On Twitter: http://twitter.com/CitiusMag ▶ On Instagram: http://instagram.com/citiusmag ▶ On Facebook: http://facebook.com/citiusmag ▶ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/citiusmag ▶ On our website: http://citiusmag.com For other inquiries, contact us: chris@citiusmag.com Thanks for watching - please like, share and comment, and subscribe! Help us continue to bring track and field to your home and become a member today! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjyDlyHPHLhcIT8ov53d5qg/join
European Athletics
over 1 year ago
Sunday 9 March 2025: Day Four Highlights from the EICH in Apeldoorn 2025 Includes coverage from the following events: - Men 4x400m Relay - Women 4x400m Relay (ft the Dutch team including Femke Bol, Lieke Klaver, Cathelijn Peeters) - Men 3000m (ft Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Niels Laros, George Mills, Azeddine Habz, Andreas Almgren) - Men 800 (ft. Samuel Chapple, Eliott Crestan, Mark English) - Women 800m (ft. Anna Wielgosz, Clara Liberman, Audrey Werro, Anita Horvat) - Women 60m (ft. Mujinga Kambundji, Ewa Swoboda, Zaynab Dossa, Patrizia Van der Weken, Amy Hunt) - W3000 (ft Hannah Nuttall, Sarah Healy, Melissa Courtney-Bryant, Salomé Afonso) - Women Pentathlon ( ft. Jade O’Dowda, Saga Vanninen, Sofie Dokter, Kate O’Connor) - Men Pole Vault (ft. Emmanouil Karalis, Thibaut Collet, Menno Vloon, Bo Kanda Lita Baehre - Women Shot Put (ft. Yemisi Ogunleye, Jessica Schilder, Auriol Dongmo, Jorinde van Klinken) - Women High jump (ft. Yaroslava Mahuchikh, Angelina Topic ) - Men Shot Put (ft. Wictor Petersson, Tomáš Stanek, Zane Weir, Andrei Rares Toader) SUBSCRIBE to our channel for the best European Athletics videos and highlights: https://www.youtube.com/europeanathletics Follow European Athletics: https://www.european-athletics.com/ https://www.instagram.com/europeanathletics/ https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanAthletics https://twitter.com/EuroAthletics https://www.tiktok.com/@europeanathletics brnw.ch/EAWhatsApp #Athletics #EuropeanAthletics #TrackandField
The 2025 Millrose Games delivered historic performances, with Grant Fisher setting a 3000m world record (7:22.91) and Yared Nuguse breaking the Wanamaker Mile world record (3:46.63) in a night that rewrote the record books.Breaking it down:🔹 Fisher vs. Hocker in the 3000mFisher, the Olympic 5000m & 10,000m medalist, held off a stunning challenge from Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker in a race for the ages.Fisher ran 29.82, 29.82, 29.54 splits in the closing laps but couldn’t shake Hocker. With three laps to go, Hocker surprisingly surged into the lead, pushing the pace in pursuit of a world record.Fisher reclaimed the lead in the final stretch, securing the win and the $25,000 WR bonus with7:22.91, as Hocker clocked7:23.14—the second-fastest time in history.🔹 Nuguse dominates the Wanamaker MileJust an hour after Fisher’s record, Nuguse made history with a world record of3:46.63, breaking Yomif Kejelcha’s3:47.01 mark.Despite Josh Kerr withdrawing due to illness, the race delivered fireworks.Hobbs Kessler (3:46.90) also broke the previous WR, finishing second.Australia’s Cam Myers set a world U20 record (3:47.48), and France’s Azeddine Habz set a national record (3:47.56).+ more highlights and analysis