Monaco Diamond League 2026: Wanyonyi Smashes 1000m World Record as Seville Takes 100m
MONACO — Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi broke the men's 1000m world record with a time of 2:11.83 at the Herculis EBS Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 10 July, according to World Athletics results compiled on the 2026 Diamond League standings.
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Sat, 18 July 2026 · 1 min read
MONACO — Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi broke the men's 1000m world record with a time of 2:11.83 at the Herculis EBS Diamond League meeting in Monaco on 10 July, according to World Athletics results compiled on the 2026 Diamond League standings.
In the same meet, Jamaica's Oblique Seville won the men's 100m in 9.88 seconds, with Botswana's Letsile Tebogo finishing fifth, olympics.com reported. Botswana's Collen Kebinatshipi also clocked a Diamond League and national record of 43.44 in the 400m, per the results.
The Monaco leg was the 10th stop on the 2026 Wanda Diamond League circuit, which runs from 16 May to 5 September. Wanyonyi's mark is the fastest ever ratified for the event by World Athletics.
**Global angle:** Wanyonyi's record extends a run of Kenyan middle-distance dominance and highlights the depth of African athletics on the Diamond League circuit, with Caribbean sprinters such as Seville and Tebogo also prominent ahead of the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest.
**Sources**
- https://www.worldathletics.org
- https://www.olympics.com
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Diamond_League
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