Mary Moraa Sends Warning To Rivals With Win At Zurich Diamond League
- Mary Moraa won the women's 800m at the Zurich Diamond League after running a comfortable race on September 5
- The win is a statement of intent ahead of the Diamond League final next week at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels
- Moraa broke the women's 600m world record during a World Continental Silver meeting in Berlin on Sunday
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Mary Moraa eased to another win, cruising in style to win the women’s 800m race at the Zurich Diamond League on Thursday evening.
The 24-year-old clocked 1:57.08 to win the race ahead of Georgia Bell's 1:57.94 and Wiley Addison's 1:58.16.
The field was rather packed with Moraa, only one of the three athletes starting on one lane alone on the wet track of the Letzigrund Stadium.
Mary Moraa breaks the world record
The 24-year-old was fresh from breaking the world record in the unconventional women’s 600m at the ISTAF in Berlin, Germany. She shaved off a clean 0.14 seconds from Caster Semenya’s record that had stood since 2017.
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Shafiqua Maloney dominated the first leg of the race but faded after taking the bell. Moraa led a conservative race, biding her time before bursting to the front on the home straight.
Mary Moraa's 2024 season
Dubbed Nyamira Express or the Dancing Queen, Moraa was third at the Olympic Games in Paris finishing behind Keely Hodgkinson of Great Britain and Tsige Duguma of Ethiopia.
Heading into the Weltklasse, Moraa had already assured her place in the final in Brussels next week. This was her fourth Diamond League meeting in the 800m.
She won in Doha and Laussane and took second place in Eugene, Oregon, putting her behind Jemma Reekie.
Diamond League final and Athlos NYC
Moraa will be looking to make amends in the final next week after a disappointing fourth-place finish in the 2023 final. The final then held in Oregon, was won by former Olympic champion Athing Mu, with Hodgkinson and Natoya Goule-Toppin completing the podium places.
Afterwards, she will head to New York for the premier event of the Athlos NYC on September 26.
The amount of money Moraa earned
TUKO.co.ke had earlier reported how much Moraa earned for breaking the world record in Berlin.
Moraa shattered a record that had been in place since 2017. The prize money of the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver meeting is comparatively lower than that of other meetings.
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Mary Moraa, Zurich Diamond League
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