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Monte-Carlo – Our periodical of the 2011 season comes to a close with this two-part look back at the second period of the Samsung Diamond League series. We conclude with a summary of the Paris, Birmingham, Monaco, Stockholm, London, Zurich and Brussels meetings.

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8 July

Paris

The newly laid Mondo ground at the Stade de France did not get a superfast christening from Usain Bolt, but Jamaica’s The human race and Olympic champion comfortably held off local hero Christophe Lemaitre to win the 200 metres in 20.03 on a gloom when an appreciative crowd of 49,174 spectators saw four World season foremost marks set and victories for their other home hopes in Renaud Lavillenie and Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad.

The Engagement Areva’s four finest efforts of the season so far came from Cuba’s Yargelis Savigne, with a Triple Upon of 14.99 metres, Christina Obergföll of Germany, who won the Javelin with a to notice d throw of 68.01 metres, Ethiopia’s Meseret Defar, who earned a 5000 metres triumph in 14:29.52 after a 62.79 last lap, and Zuzana Hejnova, who won the 400m Hurdles in 53.29, which was also a Czech Republic dossier.

Source: International Association of Athletics Foundation