In Olympic rematch, 800m champion Wanyonyi pulls away from Canada's Arop at Lausanne event

Fresh off his silver medal at the Paris Olympics, Canada's Marco Arop returned to the track and finished second in the men's 800-metre event on Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In a rematch of Paris, Olympic champion Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi was able to hold offArop down the stretch, this time with a more sizeable margin.

Wanyonyi finished in a world-leading, and personal-best time of one minute 41.11 seconds in thenon-official Diamond League event. It was also thefourth-fastest 800mtime in history.

Arop, 25, ended his race in 1:41.72, and France's Gabriel Tualplaced thirdin 1:42.30.

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Olympic silver medallist Marco Arop of Edmonton finishes 2nd in Diamond League Lausanne 800m race

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In a repeat of the Paris 2024 Olympic results, Edmonton's Marco Arop finished in second place in a non-official men's 800-metre race at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, behind only Olympic gold-medal winner Emmanuel Wanyoni of Kenya.

At the Paris Olympics, Edmonton's Arop stopped the clock in a Canadian-record time of 1:41.20. Wanyonyi held on for gold, beating Arop by one-hundredth of a second in 1:41.19.

Arop's Olympic medal wasCanada's first in the event since Bill Crothers earned silver at the 1964 Tokyo Games, and fifth ever.

Arop entered the Olympics as the reigning world champion in the event and also claimed bronze at the 2022 world championships. He is also the second Canadian to medal in the men's 800 at a world championship alongside Gary Reed's silver in 2007.

Mitton 3rd in shot put

Sarah Mitton, of Brooklyn, N.S.,finished third in the shot put event with a throw of 19.52 metres.

American Chase Jackson won the event with a season-best toss of 20.64. Yemisi Ogunleyeplaced second at 19.55.

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Nova Scotia's Sarah Mitton throws to 3rd-place finish at Diamond League Lausanne

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Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S. finished in third place in the women's shot put event, at the Diamond League meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, with a throw of 19.52 metres.

Mitton is coming off a heart-breaking Olympic experience. A gold-medal favourite at the start of the competition, the 28-year-old was eliminatedafter falling out of the circle to end up with a fault on her third and final attempt.

Mitton was looking to be Canada's first-ever Olympic medallist in the women's shot put after becoming the first to medal at a world championships in the event in 2023.

Ogunleye took gold, with New Zealand's Maddison-Lee Wesche, and China's Song Jiayuan earning silver and bronze, respectively.

In other events, Jakob Ingebrigtsen regained his authority in the men's 1,500 after a shocking fourth place in Paris to beat Olympic champion Cole Hocker by more than two seconds.

In the men's 200, Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo kept his form despite a return trip home to Botswana to win in 19.64 seconds easing into the line.

WATCH | Tebogowins200m title:

Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo captures 200m title at Diamond League Lausanne

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Botswana's Letsile Tebogo wins the men's 200-metre race at the Diamond League Lausanne meet in Switzerland with a time of 19.64.

Ingebrigtsen's winning time of 3:27.83 was a meet record in Lausanne though still would have been fast enough only for fourth place at the Olympics.

"For me, a lot of it has been mental including going home, taking some easy days and then getting back to work," said Ingebrigtsen, who did win Olympic gold in the 5,000. "Tonight's race gave me good answers."

Dina Asher-Smith won the women's 100 clocking her season-best time of 10.88. That would have won a bronze medal in Paris where the British star failed to make the final.