Melissa Jefferson-Wooden provided the highlight of the Brussels Diamond League meeting with the American sprinter blowing away her 100m rivals with a blistering win in 10.76 on the King Baudouin Stadium’s Mondo Sportflex™ Super X 720 athletics track.
However, the track also helped generate some fast middle and long-distance times at the last regular season Diamond League meeting of the summer on Friday 22 August.
The Netherlands’ Nils Laros, still only 20, came out on top of a fascinating duel with Kenya’s Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech, who is even younger at 18, but the man in his nation’s familiar orange apparel prevailed in 3:30.58 with Koech finishing second in 3:31.41.
The women’s mile steeplechase was something of a novelty addition to the programme having never featured at the Diamond League before.
Wilfred Yavi responded to the challenge and the Kenyan-born Bahraini runner crossed the line in a world best of 4:40.13 for the rarely run event.
Other highlights at the Brussels Diamond League included:
The Memorial Van Damme and its various Mondo athletics tracks installed in the King Baudouin Stadium have been inexorably linked.
Its incredible history of success over the last three decades has seen 18 world records and three world U20 records set there since the first Mondo track was installed in 1995.
Mondo Sportflex™ Super X 720 tracks are clearly hugely popular among the managers of Belgium’s top athletics stadia.In addition to being the track at Brusssels’ King Badouin Stadium, Mondo Sportflex™ Super X 720 tracks were installed in the Sport Flanders Bruges stadium and Dilbeek’s Atletiekpiste Roelandsveld last year.
All three stadia have World Athletics Class 2 Certification, making them Belgium’s best venues for athletics.
After the eight of the 2025 Diamond League meetings in stadia with Mondo athletics tracks have now been concluded, the overall record count is:
2025 Diamond League stages whose stadiums are equipped with Mondo athletics tracks