DIAMOND LEAGUE FINAL RECAP — BIGGEST WINNERS AND LOSERS FROM ZURICH
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Chris Chavez and Mac Fleet break down the biggest winners and losers from the Diamond League final in Zurich. Some of the top highlights from the meet include…
- Brittany Brown makes the most of her second shot at the World team by winning the 200m final in a season’s best 22.13.
- Niels Laros solidifies his spot as the top dog in the 1500m with an undeniable victory over world leader Azeddine Habz, world junior record holder Phanuel Koech, and 2019 World champion Timothy Cheriyot, running 3:29.20 to also claim the Dutch national record by 0.03 seconds.
- Audrey Werro thrills the home crowd in Switzerland with a huge win and national record in the 800m, as she and Georgia Hunter Bell both dip under 1:56 for the first time in their careers, with Werro holding onto the edge with 1:55.91 to 1:55.96.
- Olympic champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi had to go to the well to stay ahead of Max Burgin on the homestretch of the 800m, but in the end he had just enough in the tank to take the win in 1:42.37 to Burgin’s 1:42.42.
- World champ Noah Lyles and Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo battle for every step of the 200m, with Lyles just beating his rival by inches in the end, 19.74 to 19.76.
- Olympic 100m champ Julien Alfred doesn’t look like she’s missed a step after withdrawing from two Diamond Leagues earlier this month with a hamstring issue, holding off a strong challenge from Tia Clayton to take the title in 10.76.
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Hosts: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram + Mac Fleet | @macfleet on Instagram
Produced by: Jasmine Fehr | @jasminefehr on Instagram
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Watch: Zurich Diamond League Final Interviews
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| 0:00.0 | All right, it is August 28th. I'm Chris Chavez, joined by Mac Fleet, who's up in the |
| 0:10.6 | mountains somewhere. |
| 0:11.7 | Can we, this guy, this truck's about to drive away in 30 seconds. |
| 0:16.4 | That's fine. |
| 0:17.6 | Tell the people, I guess, where you're at right now because you've been in the dark the last |
| 0:25.0 | couple days. |
| 0:26.3 | It's not that often that we'll just have a group chat going and then like there's just |
| 0:31.5 | dead silence from you. |
| 0:32.6 | And that's been the case the last couple days because you're on vacation. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, well, both, I mean, both Chris and I don't necessarily have a normal |
| 0:42.4 | work life. |
| 0:44.2 | So, yeah, I get whenever we have an opportunity to kind of like take a little break, we sort |
| 0:49.0 | to do that and it's just so happened to work out that my wife and I could come up to the |
| 0:53.1 | mountains as this truck |
| 0:54.2 | drives away yeah but we're up near the sequoia is at hum Lake where my family's been coming |
| 0:59.0 | for I don't know 25 years now at this point yeah having a great time but yeah no it |
| 1:04.8 | Chris you know sent the bat signal that we needed to pod and obviously the Diamond League final was |
| 1:10.1 | happening so i defined |
| 1:11.2 | some internet and so bear with bear with us i'm working off of some mountain internet here so um yeah |
| 1:19.0 | no i what it what a diamond league final yeah and we had we have preet in uh zurich so preets |
| 1:25.5 | in the bowels of that stadium right now, |
| 1:28.4 | just cranking away getting so many interviews. |
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