Russian Olympic and world women’s pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva showed the effects of a long season by failing with three attempts to better her own world record of 5.01 metres.
Isinbayeva has collected eight world records this year, including the first clearance at five metres.
A 19th career world record would have earned her an extra $100,000 in the last major meeting of the year.
Another Russian, world long jump champion Tatyana Lebedeva, narrowly failed to win the women’s triple jump after wining a million dollars for finishing first in the six Golden League meetings.
Ukrainian Ivan Heshko emerged from the pack in the finishing straight to win the men’s 1,500 metres ahead of Olympic silver medallist Bernard Lagat.
Saturday’s leading results:
MEN’S:
100 metres: 1. Marc Burns (Trinidad and Tobago) 10.00 seconds; 2. Aziz Zakari (Ghana) 10.01; 3. Dwight Thomas (Jamaica) 10.01.
800 metres: 1. Wilfred Bungei (Kenya) one minute 47.05 seconds; 2. Youssef Saad Kamel (Bahrain) 1:47.13; 3. Yuriy Borzakovskiy (Russia) 1:47.18.
1500 metres: 1. Ivan Heshko (Ukraine) three minutes 33.50 seconds; 2. Bernard Lagat (US) 3:33.55; 3. Alex Kipchirchir (Kenya) 3:33.71.
5000 metres: 1. Sileshi Sihine (Ethiopia) 13 minutes 39.40 seconds; 2. Boniface Kiprop (Uganda) 13:40.03; 3. Isaac Songok (Kenya) 13:40.24.
110-metre hurdles: 1. Allen Johnson (US) 13.09 seconds; 2. Dominique Arnold (US) 13.10; 3. Terrence Trammell (US) 13.17.
400-metre hurdles: 1. Bershawn Jackson (US) 48.05 seconds; 2. Kemel Thompson (Jamaica) 48.09; 3. Louis Van Zyl (South Africa) 48.11.
High jump: 1. Victor Moya (Cuba) 2.35 metres; 2. Vyacheslav Voronin (Russia) 2.32; 3. Yaroslav Rybakov (Russia) 2.32.
Long jump: 1. Dwight Phillips (US) 8.46 metres; 2. Miguel Pate (US) 8.30; 3. James Beckford (Jamaica) 8.28.
Shot put: 1. Adam Nelson (US) 21.92 metres; 2. Joachim Olsen (Denmark) 21.03; 3. Reese Hoffa (US) 20.87.
Javelin throw: 1. Tero Pitkaemaeki (Finland) 91.33 metres; 2. Andreas Thorkildssen (Norway) 89.60; 3. Sergey Makarov (Russia) 86.69.
WOMEN’S:
200 metres: 1. Allyson Felix (US) 22.27 seconds; 2. Veronica Campbell (Jamaica) 22.37; 3. Christine Arron (France) 22.43.
400 metres: 1. Sanya Richards (US) 49.52 seconds; 2. Tonique Darling (Bahamas) 49.54; 3. DeeDee Trotter (US) 50.64.
800 metres: 1. Zulia Calatayud (Cuba) one minute 59.07 seconds; 2. Hasna Benhassi (Morocco) 1:59.86; 3. Maite Martinez (Spain) 2:00.36.
3000 metres: 1. Meseret Defar (Ethiopia) eight minutes 47.26 seconds; 2. Gelete Burika (Ethiopia) 8:48.65; 3. Zakia Mrisko (Tanzania) 8:49.63.
100-metre hurdles: 1. Michelle Perry (US) 12.54 seconds; 2. Brigitte Foster-Hylton (Jamaica) 12.55; 3. Delloreen Ennis-London (Jamaica) 12.57.
Pole vault: 1. Yelena Isinbayeva (Russia) 4.74 metres; 2. Monika Pyrek (Poland) 4.62; 3. Tatyana Polnova (Russia) 4.50.
Triple jump: 1. Hrysopiyi Devetzi (Greece) 14.89 metres; 2. Tatyana Lebedeva (Russia) 14.86; 3. Yargelis Savigne (Cuba) 14.81.
Discus throw: 1. Natalya Sadova (Russia) 63.40 metres; 2. Franka Dietzsch (Germany) 61.91; 3. Aretha Thurmond (US) 60.68.—Reuters