Team USATF hurdles sweep highlights final 2020 Diamond League

Doha, Qatar -- Concluding a strange 2020 Diamond League season a small contingent of Americans took to the track in Doha. Aaron Mallett, Payton Chadwick and Kahmari Montgomory highlighted the day for Team USATF.
 
Official results can be found here.
 
Another big personal best of 13.15 from Aaron Mallett (St. Louis, Missouri) gave him the win in the men’s 110m hurdles and moved him to third on the 2020 world list and No. 1 on the U.S. list. The USATF Indoors 60mH champion was quickest out of the blocks after a pair of false starts reduced the field, and Mallett powered through the line to chop .08 off the PR he set at Rome last week.
 
A pair of former Arkansas heptathlon standouts swept the women’s 100m hurdles, with Payton Chadwick (Fayetteville, Arkansas) running the second-fastest time of her career for the win in 12.78 and Taliyah Brooks (Fayetteville, Arkansas) second in a lifetime best 12.86. Those are the two fastest times this year by Americans.
 
2018 USATF outdoor champion Kahmari Montgomery (Houston, Texas) charged off the final bend to take a one-meter lead in the men’s 400m, and he held that through the finish to win in 45.55, his third straight win this season.
 
In the pole vault, Sam Kendricks (Oxford, Mississippi) placed second behind world record-holder Mondo Duplantis as they both equaled the Doha Diamond League meet record of 5.82m/19-1. Three other Americans also placed in the top eight, led by Matt Ludwig (Akron, Ohio), who cleared 5.71m/18-8.75 for fourth. Cole Walsh (Phoenix, Arizona) was sixth, and Audie Wyatt (Huntsville, Texas) placed seventh.
 
Kayla White (Miami, Florida) was third in the women’s 100m in 11.25, with Chadwick doubling back from the hurdles to clock a PR 11.51, and two-time World Championships Team USATF member Christopher Belcher (Greensboro, North Carolina) notched a season best in the men’s 200m with a 20.86. Last year’s World Championships fourth-placer, Bryce Hoppel (Lawrence, Kansas), was fifth in the men’s 800m in 1:45.86. In the only women’s field event of the meet, Brooks was fifth in the long jump with a best of 6.30m/20-8.