Trayvon Bromell beat fellow American Noah Lyles by one-hundredth of a second in the men’s 100m at the Paris Diamond League.
Bromwell, 30, clocked 9.91s from lane eight in near-completely still conditions (+0.1m/s wind), starting quicker than anyone else and holding off Lyles late in the race — five different men broke 10 seconds, including 2021 Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs (9.96s), Akani Simbine (9.97s) and world indoor 60m champion Jordan Antony (9.99s).
Anthony and Lyles are training partners, with a 9.92s run here Lyles’ third sub-10 clocking of 2026 but a slow start, even by Lyles’ standards, cost him. He was in fifth at 60m and seven hundredths down on Bromell, and while his top-end speed meant he jumped four spots by the finish, he ran out of track to win.
Bromell has battled back from injuries in recent years, with this just his second Diamond League win since the start of 2025. He finished second over 60m at U.S. indoors in early March, and later that month took bronze at world indoors in March — both finals won by Anthony.
“I really liked my start, I pushed the wheel,” said Bromell to Diamond League media post-race. “I know that I have so much more in my tank, the times and data from my biomechanics make me excited for the season.”
Bromell, far left, won a tightly-contested race in Paris (Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP via Getty Images)
He added that he will “go nuts” at the Prefontaine Classic next weekend, the annual American leg of the Diamond League in Eugene, Oregon.
Audrey Werro ran the fastest 800m in Diamond League history at the Paris leg, clocking 1:53.80 to win by nearly two seconds and improve her own world-leading time. She is the only woman to run sub-1:54 twice, having done so at the Stockholm Diamond League last month to go third all-time. This run is an improvement on that performance by nearly two tenths, bringing her within 0.52s of Jarmila Kratochvilova’s world record from 1983, something she will spend the rest of this summer chasing.
“I was not expecting to run this fast this season,” she said post-race. “These recent performances have really given e hope and built my confidence to what is coming next.”
Werro said pre-race that she was targeting a world record run, and had pacemaker Myrte van der Schoot cover the first lap in 55.35s to set her up. Werro hit the front from the break point 100m in, with nine women strung out behind her when they hit the bell.
A good race for second took place behind Werro in the second lap, with Femke Broeders-Bol and home favourite Anais Bourgoin battling it out. Broeders-Bol nipped ahead of her on the line, setting a huge lifetime best of 1:55.60, in only her second outdoor race in the distance since stepping up from 400m hurdles, and Bourgoin was rewarded with a 1:55.65 French national record. All ten women broke two minutes, an incredible sign of depth.
Werro celebrated another 800m victory in Paris (Sona Maleterova/Getty Images)
Elsewhere in Paris, Diamond League records were set in the women’s and men’s 400m, impressive considering the meet was nearly cancelled amid a heatwave this week.
Collen Kebinatshipi won the men’s 400m in a time of 43.54. The Botswana athlete ran just one hundredth slower than he did to win the World Championship final last September, and this is the second quickest by anyone in 2026 (behind Samuel Ogazi’s 43.38 from the NCAA finals in May). Zakithi Nene of South Africa also cracked 44 seconds, running 43.98 out of lane seven, two outside Kebinatshipi.
Marileidy Paulinho produced a storming back-half of the race in the women’s 400m, finishing in a world lead 48.48, almost a second ahead of runner-up Gloria Lurdes Manuel (49.37). It’s the ninth sub-49s clocking for the Dominican athlete, who is the Olympic champion over the distance, though was beaten by Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone at the World Championships last year.
A strong showing of middle-distance running was completed by 20-year-old Australian Cam Myers, who took down Frenchman Azeddine Habz to win the men’s 1500m in 3:28.00 — it improved his own world-leading time and bettered his Oceanic record. Most importantly it is a first Diamond League win for Myers, who has repeatedly finished in the top three but has found himself boxed in at the end of races and without the space to kick.
