Christian Coleman equaled the fastest 100m time globally for the year, crossing the finish line in 9.83 seconds during a Diamond League event held in Xiamen, China, on Saturday.
Coleman, who finished in fifth place at the recent world championships just two weeks ago, made a powerful start out of the blocks, achieving his personal best time since winning the World title in 2019.
He emerged as the victor against Jamaican sprinter Kishane Thompson (9.85) and the 2022 World champion, Fred Kerley (9.96). Marcell Jacobs, the Italian Olympic gold medalist, secured seventh place with a time of 10.05 seconds.
With this remarkable performance, Coleman now shares the title of the world’s fastest man this year alongside his compatriot Noah Lyles, the new world champion, and British sprinter Zharnel Hughes.
You can find the complete results for the Xiamen event here. The next Diamond League meet is scheduled for Friday in Brussels and will be broadcast live on Peacock at 2 p.m. ET.
In addition to Coleman’s achievement, Kenyan athlete Emmanuel Wanyonyi clocked the fastest 800m time since the Tokyo Olympics, finishing in 1:43.20. He narrowly edged out the world champion, Marco Arop of Canada, by a mere four hundredths of a second.
The 110m hurdles event witnessed Jamaican athlete Hansle Parchment overtaking American hurdler Grant Holloway as they cleared the final hurdle in an exhilarating showdown between an Olympic gold medalist and a world champion. Parchment secured victory with a time of 12.96 seconds, matching Holloway’s time from the world championships and coming within two hundredths of a second of Jamaican Rasheed Broadbell’s fastest time in the world this year. Holloway took third place, also being passed by his fellow countryman, Daniel Roberts.