2023 Prefontaine Classic

The 2023 Prefontaine Classic was the 48th edition of the annual outdoor track and field meeting in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Held on 16-17 September at Hayward Field, it served as the finals of 2023 Diamond League – the highest-level international track and field circuit. It was the first time that the Diamond League finals were held in the United States.

2023 Prefontaine Classic
Dates	16-17 September 2023
Host city	Eugene, Oregon, United States
Venue	Hayward Field
Level	2023 Diamond League
← 2022 2024 →

Highlights

The first day of competition was highlighted by Jakob Ingebrigtsen running 3:43.73 in the Bowerman Mile – the fastest mile in 24 years – followed by Yared Nuguse in 3:43.97.^[1] In the women's steeplechase, Winfred Yavi ran the #2 time in history to win.^[2]

Grant Fisher broke his own American record in the 3,000 Meters, finishing in 3rd place with a time of 7:25:47.

On the final day, Ingebrigtsen won his second 2023 Diamond League title in the 3000 metres while running the third-fastest time in history.^[3] Second-place finisher Yomif Kejelcha, who was beat by just 0.01 seconds, was upset with the Diamond League hosting the finals over 3000 m instead of the standard 5000 metres distance, saying that benefitted Ingebrigtsen.^[3] Gudaf Tsegay also broke the 5000 metres world record by five seconds, running 14:00.21. The record was noted to be impressive because it occurred in sunny 70 °F (21 °C) sunny weather with 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h) wind.^[3]

Results

While Diamond League points were used to gain entry into the finals, they were not used to determine Diamond League champions. Regardless of points accumulated throughout the season, winners of the 2023 Prefontaine Classic were crowned 2023 Diamond League champions in their respective events, with the exception of Athing Mu who was a National Wildcard and thus ineligible for the Diamond League trophy.^[3]

Diamond Discipline

Men's 100m Place Athlete Country Time Christian Coleman  United States 9.83 Noah Lyles  United States 9.85 Ferdinand Omanyala  Kenya 9.85 4 Kishane Thompson  Jamaica 9.87 5 Marvin Bracy  United States 10.01 6 Yohan Blake  Jamaica 10.08 7 Joshua Hartmann  Germany 10.30 8 Letsile Tebogo  Botswana 10.61 Ackeem Blake  Jamaica DQ

Men's 400m Place Athlete Country Time Kirani James  Grenada 44.30 Quincy Hall  United States 44.44 Vernon Norwood  United States 44.61 4 Bryce Deadmon  United States 44.90 5 Rusheen McDonald  Jamaica 45.10 6 Leungo Scotch  Botswana 45.18 7 Gilles Biron  France 45.51 Matthew Hudson-Smith  Great Britain DNF Alexander Ogando  Dominican Republic DQ

Men's Mile Place Athlete Country Time Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway 3:43.73 Yared Nuguse  United States 3:43.97 George Mills  Great Britain 3:47.65 4 Mario García  Spain 3:47.69 5 Reynold Cheruiyot  Kenya 3:48.06 6 Cole Hocker  United States 3:48.08 7 Narve Gilje Nordås  Norway 3:48.24 8 Azeddine Habz  France 3:48.64 9 Niels Laros  Netherlands 3:48.93 10 Stewart McSweyn  Australia 3:49.32 11 Sam Tanner  New Zealand 3:49.51 12 Elliot Giles  Great Britain 3:51.63 13 Abel Kipsang  Kenya 3:53.50 Cameron Myers  Australia DNF Erik Sowinski  United States DNF

Men's 400mH Place Athlete Country Time Rai Benjamin  United States 46.39 Karsten Warholm  Norway 46.53 Kyron McMaster  British Virgin Islands 47.31 4 Alison dos Santos  Brazil 47.44 5 Wilfried Happio  France 47.83 6 Ludvy Vaillant  France 47.93 7 Rasmus Mägi  Estonia 47.99 8 Trevor Bassitt  United States 48.42 9 CJ Allen  United States 48.62

Men's 3000mSC Place Athlete Country Time Simon Koech  Kenya 8:06.26 Samuel Firewu  Ethiopia 8:10.74 Geordie Beamish  New Zealand 8:14.01 4 Getnet Wale  Ethiopia 8:14.96 5 Ryuji Miura  Japan 8:15.45 6 Abraham Kibiwot  Kenya 8:16.27 7 Benjamin Kigen  Kenya 8:16.50 8 Amos Serem  Kenya 8:17.99 9 Abrham Sime  Ethiopia 8:20.08 10 Daniel Arce  Spain 8:31.53 Craig Nowak  United States DNF

Men's High Jump Place Athlete Country Mark Woo Sang-hyeok  South Korea 2.35 m Norbert Kobielski  Poland 2.33 m JuVaughn Harrison  United States 2.33 m 4 Hamish Kerr  New Zealand 2.29 m 5 Andriy Protsenko  Ukraine 2.20 m 6 Thomas Carmoy  Belgium 2.20 m

Men's Triple Jump Place Athlete Country Mark Wind Andy Díaz  Italy 17.43 m +0.1 m/s Hugues Fabrice Zango  Burkina Faso 17.25 m -0.3 m/s Donald Scott  United States 16.84 m +0.1 m/s 4 Chris Benard  United States 16.07 m +0.7 m/s Will Claye  United States NM NWI m/s

Men's Javelin Throw Place Athlete Country Mark Jakub Vadlejch  Czech Republic 84.24 m Neeraj Chopra  India 83.80 m Oliver Helander  Finland 83.74 m 4 Andrian Mardare  Moldova 81.79 m 5 Curtis Thompson  United States 77.01 m 6 Anderson Peters  Grenada 74.71 m

Women's 100m Place Athlete Country Time Shericka Jackson  Jamaica 10.70 Marie-Josée Ta Lou  Ivory Coast 10.75 Elaine Thompson-Herah  Jamaica 10.79 4 Sha'Carri Richardson  United States 10.80 5 Twanisha Terry  United States 10.83 6 Natasha Morrison  Jamaica 10.85 7 Dina Asher-Smith  Great Britain 10.96 8 Imani-Lara Lansiquot  Great Britain 11.01 9 Zoe Hobbs  New Zealand 11.18

Women's 1500m Place Athlete Country Time Faith Kipyegon  Kenya 3:50.72 Diribe Welteji  Ethiopia 3:53.93 Laura Muir  Great Britain 3:55.16 4 Freweyni Hailu  Ethiopia 3:55.68 5 Linden Hall  Australia 3:56.92 6 Birke Haylom  Ethiopia 3:56.98 7 Hirut Meshesha  Ethiopia 3:57.53 8 Jessica Hull  Australia 3:57.57 9 Melissa Courtney-Bryant  Great Britain 3:59.57 10 Cory McGee  United States 4:01.28 11 Ciara Mageean  Ireland 4:03.09 12 Sinclaire Johnson  United States 4:03.21 13 Worknesh Mesele  Ethiopia 4:09.34 Laurie Barton [d]  United States DNF

Women's 3000mSC Place Athlete Country Time Winfred Yavi  Bahrain 8:50.66 Beatrice Chepkoech  Kenya 8:51.67 Faith Cherotich  Kenya 8:59.65 4 Jackline Chepkoech  Kenya 9:01.18 5 Zerfe Wondemagegn  Ethiopia 9:05.36 6 Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek  Slovenia 9:08.11 7 Sembo Almayew  Ethiopia 9:13.08 8 Marwa Bouzayani  Tunisia 9:17.15 9 Courtney Wayment  United States 9:20.69 10 Alice Finot  France 9:41.09 Peruth Chemutai  Uganda DNF

Women's Pole Vault Place Athlete Country Mark Katie Moon  United States 4.86 m Tina Šutej  Slovenia 4.81 m Sandi Morris  United States 4.71 m 4 Wilma Murto  Finland 4.71 m 5 Nina Kennedy  Australia 4.56 m 6 Roberta Bruni  Italy 4.56 m

Women's Triple Jump Place Athlete Country Mark Wind Yulimar Rojas  Venezuela 15.35 m +1.2 m/s Shanieka Ricketts  Jamaica 15.03 m 0.0 m/s Kimberly Williams  Jamaica 14.61 m -0.1 m/s 4 Dariya Derkach  Italy 14.52 m +0.8 m/s 5 Thea LaFond  Dominica 14.46 m +0.3 m/s

Women's Shot Put Place Athlete Country Mark Chase Jackson  United States 20.76 m Sarah Mitton  Canada 19.94 m Auriol Dongmo  Portugal 19.92 m 4 Jessica Schilder  Netherlands 19.88 m 5 Maggie Ewen  United States 19.82 m 6 Danniel Thomas-Dodd  Jamaica 19.17 m

Women's Javelin Throw Place Athlete Country Mark Haruka Kitaguchi  Japan 63.78 m Tori Peeters  New Zealand 61.30 m Mackenzie Little  Australia 61.24 m 4 Maggie Malone  United States 60.42 m 5 Līna Mūze  Latvia 59.69 m 6 Victoria Hudson  Austria 57.99 m 7 Liveta Jasiūnaitė  Lithuania 57.45 m

Men's 200m (+0.6 m/s) Place Athlete Country Time Andre De Grasse  Canada 19.76 Kenny Bednarek  United States 19.95 Erriyon Knighton  United States 19.97 4 Alexander Ogando  Dominican Republic 20.08 5 Kyree King  United States 20.16 6 Aaron Brown  Canada 20.23 7 Joseph Fahnbulleh  Liberia 20.38

Men's 800m Place Athlete Country Time Emmanuel Wanyonyi  Kenya 1:42.80 Marco Arop  Canada 1:42.85 Djamel Sedjati  Algeria 1:43.06 4 Yanis Meziane  France 1:43.94 5 Daniel Rowden  Great Britain 1:44.21 6 Bryce Hoppel  United States 1:44.63 7 Benjamin Robert  France 1:45.43 8 Saúl Ordóñez  Spain 1:45.90 9 Wyclife Kinyamal  Kenya 1:46.33 Navasky Anderson  Jamaica DNF

Men's 3000m Place Athlete Country Time Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway 7:23.63 Yomif Kejelcha  Ethiopia 7:23.64 Grant Fisher  United States 7:25.47 4 Telahun Haile Bekele  Ethiopia 7:25.48 5 Selemon Barega  Ethiopia 7:26.28 6 Berihu Aregawi  Ethiopia 7:28.38 7 Luis Grijalva  Guatemala 7:29.43 8 Stewart McSweyn  Australia 7:31.14 9 Brian Fay  Ireland 7:54.73 Sam Prakel  United States DNF Getnet Wale  Ethiopia DNF Craig Nowak  United States DNF

Men's 110mH Place Athlete Country Time Hansle Parchment  Jamaica 12.93 Grant Holloway  United States 13.06 Daniel Roberts  United States 13.07 4 Shunsuke Izumiya  Japan 13.10 5 Jason Joseph  Switzerland 13.12 6 Freddie Crittenden  United States 13.15 7 Cordell Tinch  United States 13.21 8 Jamal Britt  United States 13.36 9 Just Kwaou-Mathey  France 13.46

Men's Pole Vault Place Athlete Country Mark Armand Duplantis  Sweden 6.23 m EJ Obiena  Philippines 5.82 m Sam Kendricks  United States 5.72 m 4 Kurtis Marschall  Australia 5.72 m 5 Chris Nilsen  United States 5.72 m 6 Ben Broeders  Belgium 5.52 m 7 KC Lightfoot  United States 5.52 m

Men's Long Jump Place Athlete Country Mark Wind Simon Ehammer  Switzerland 8.22 m 0.0 m/s Tajay Gayle  Jamaica 8.22 m +2.6 m/s Yuki Hashioka  Japan 8.15 m +1.2 m/s 4 Radek Juška  Czech Republic 8.10 m +1.2 m/s 5 Jarrion Lawson  United States 8.02 m +1.3 m/s 6 Will Williams  United States 7.99 m +1.5 m/s 7 LaQuan Nairn  Bahamas 7.27 m +0.5 m/s Best wind-legal performances Tajay Gayle  Jamaica 8.08 m +0.2 m/s

Men's Shot Put Place Athlete Country Mark Joe Kovacs  United States 22.93 m Ryan Crouser  United States 22.91 m Tom Walsh  New Zealand 22.69 m 4 Leonardo Fabbri  Italy 22.31 m 5 Payton Otterdahl  United States 21.43 m 6 Filip Mihaljević  Croatia 20.98 m

Men's Discus Throw Place Athlete Country Mark Matthew Denny  Australia 68.43 m Kristjan Čeh  Slovenia 67.64 m Daniel Ståhl  Sweden 67.36 m 4 Andrius Gudžius  Lithuania 65.47 m 5 Lawrence Okoye  Great Britain 65.23 m 6 Sam Mattis  United States 64.51 m

Women's 200m Place Athlete Country Time Shericka Jackson  Jamaica 21.57 Marie-Josée Ta Lou  Ivory Coast 22.10 Anthonique Strachan  Bahamas 22.16 4 Twanisha Terry  United States 22.21 5 Daryll Neita  Great Britain 22.35 6 Kayla White  United States 22.49 7 Jenna Prandini  United States 22.68 8 Tasa Jiya  Netherlands 22.92 9 Gémima Joseph  France 23.62

Women's 400m Place Athlete Country Time Marileidy Paulino  Dominican Republic 49.58 Natalia Kaczmarek  Poland 50.38 Lieke Klaver  Netherlands 50.47 4 Candice McLeod  Jamaica 50.76 5 Sada Williams  Barbados 51.07 6 Victoria Ohuruogu  Great Britain 51.15 7 Lynna Irby  United States 51.60 8 Aliyah Abrams  Guyana 51.97

Women's 800m Place Athlete Country Time Athing Mu  United States 1:54.97 Keely Hodgkinson  Great Britain 1:55.19 Natoya Goule  Jamaica 1:55.96 4 Mary Moraa  Kenya 1:57.42 5 Halimah Nakaayi  Uganda 1:58.34 6 Catriona Bisset  Australia 1:58.35 7 Rénelle Lamote  France 1:58.51 8 Sage Hurta  United States 1:59.65 9 Jemma Reekie  Great Britain 2:00.34 Kaylin Whitney  United States DNF

Women's 5000m Place Athlete Country Time Gudaf Tsegay  Ethiopia 14:00.21 Beatrice Chebet  Kenya 14:05.92 Ejgayehu Taye  Ethiopia 14:21.52 4 Lilian Kasait Rengeruk  Kenya 14:40.81 5 Lemlem Hailu  Ethiopia 14:42.29 6 Nozomi Tanaka  Japan 14:42.38 7 Alicia Monson  United States 14:45.98 8 Weini Kelati  United States 15:25.62 Elise Cranny  United States DNF Birke Haylom  Ethiopia DNF Sinclaire Johnson  United States DNF

Women's 100mH Place Athlete Country Time Tobi Amusan  Nigeria 12.33 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn  Puerto Rico 12.38 Kendra Harrison  United States 12.44 4 Danielle Williams  Jamaica 12.47 5 Megan Tapper  Jamaica 12.48 6 Alaysha Johnson  United States 12.48 7 Nia Ali  United States 12.62 8 Pia Skrzyszowska  Poland 12.81 9 Tia Jones  United States 12.82

Women's 400mH Place Athlete Country Time Femke Bol  Netherlands 51.98 Shamier Little  United States 53.45 Rushell Clayton  Jamaica 53.56 4 Janieve Russell  Jamaica 53.60 5 Anna Cockrell  United States 54.48 6 Ayomide Folorunso  Italy 54.68 7 Gianna Woodruff  Panama 54.95 8 Anna Ryzhykova  Ukraine 54.98 9 Viktoriya Tkachuk  Ukraine 55.48

Women's High Jump Place Athlete Country Mark Yaroslava Mahuchikh  Ukraine 2.03 m Nicola Olyslagers  Australia 2.03 m Angelina Topić  Serbia 1.95 m 4 Morgan Lake  Great Britain 1.91 m 5 Yuliya Levchenko  Ukraine 1.91 m 6 Vashti Cunningham  United States 1.91 m 7 Iryna Herashchenko  Ukraine 1.87 m

Women's Long Jump Place Athlete Country Mark Wind Ivana Španović  Serbia 6.85 m +0.2 m/s Ese Brume  Nigeria 6.85 m 0.0 m/s Quanesha Burks  United States 6.77 m +0.2 m/s 4 Brooke Buschkuehl  Australia 6.71 m +1.0 m/s 5 Jazmin Sawyers  Great Britain 6.68 m -2.6 m/s 6 Taliyah Brooks  United States 6.45 m 0.0 m/s

Women's Discus Throw Place Athlete Country Mark Valarie Allman  United States 68.66 m Laulauga Tausaga  United States 68.36 m Sandra Perković  Croatia 66.85 m 4 Jorinde van Klinken  Netherlands 66.03 m 5 Kristin Pudenz  Germany 62.96 m 6 Claudine Vita  Germany 61.51 m 7 Mélina Robert-Michon  France 61.26 m

References

1. LetsRun.com (2023-09-16). "Jakob Ingebrigtsen (3:43.73) Tops Yared Nuguse (3:43.97) in Epic 2023 Bowerman Mile". LetsRun.com. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
2. LetsRun.com (2023-09-16). "5 Thoughts on Day 1 at Pre: The Stars Delivered and We Can't Wait for 2024". LetsRun.com. Retrieved 2024-02-27.
3. LetsRun.com (2023-09-17). "World Records, American Records, & More: 8 Thoughts on a Wild Day 2 of the 2023 Prefontaine Classic". LetsRun.com. Retrieved 2024-02-27.

Results

• "2023 Prefontaine Classic Results". World Athletics.

External links

• Official Diamond League Prefontaine Classic website