Deja vu fourth for Adeleke, world record for Ingebrigtsen

Another 400m fourth place for Rhasidat Adeleke at the Diamond League meet in Poland

Dominican Republic's Marileidy Paulino (2nd L) competes to win the women's 400m event of the Silesia Diamond League athletics meeting in Chorzow, Poland, on August 25, 2024; at (R) is second placed Bahrain's Salwa Eid Naser, at (2nd R) is third placed Poland's Natalia Kaczmarek and at (L) is fourth placed Ireland's Rhasidat Adeleke.  (Photo by SERGEI GAPON/AFP via Getty Images)

The style of race might have been very different to the Olympic final, but for Rhasidat Adeleke the result was just the same. The Dubliner came home fourth over 400m at the Silesia Diamond League in Poland today, clocking 50.00 behind the same three women who beat her in Paris. Marileidy Paulino took victory in 48.66, Salwa Eid Naser was second in 49.23 and Natalia Kaczmarek third in 49.95.

Adeleke had attacked the race from the outset, blasting through the opening 100m in 11.80 seconds to lead the field at that point, having been fifth in 12.01 during the Olympic final. She slipped to second by 200m (23.27) and turned for home a close third behind Paulino and Naser, but just didn’t have the legs to go with that pair down the home straight and was caught by Kaczmarek close to the line.