2023 Diamond League Men's 100m Standings As Fred Kerley Is Overtaken by Akani Simbine

• Ferdinand Omanyala has dropped to third place in the Diamond League standings
• Akani Simbine's back-to-back victories in Sweden and Poland see him at the top
• Omanyala will be back in action on Friday at the Diamond League meet in Monaco

Ferdinand Omanyala has ceded first place in this year's Diamond League Standings after Akani Simbine won the Silesia Diamond League on July 16.

Simbine beat the reigning World 100-metre champion, Fred Kerley, with a photo-finish in Poland to register his second successive victory this year.

The South African crossed the line with 9.97 seconds, just 0.01 seconds ahead of Kerley, to snap his unbeaten record this year. Simbine had earlier won the meet in Stockholm.

The former Commonwealth and African champion finished second in the Rabat Diamond League in May before finishing fourth in Florence.

The cumulated results saw him rise to the top of the table with 28 points, supplanting Omanyala, who was still at the top just before the Silesia race.

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Kerley's second-place finish also means that he moves to second, with Africa's fastest man dropping to third place.

Diamond League Men's 100m standings

*Figures courtesy of World Athletics.

Omanyala has two second-place finishes and a third-place finish in the three events he has participated in this year. He will be back in Monaco on Friday before he retreats again to prepare for the World Athletics Championships.

In Monaco, he is set to face Simbine and Botswanan sensation, Letsile Tebogo, among others, as captured by the Diamond League website.

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Sports Brief also reported on Mary Moraa winning her third 800m race at the Silesia Diamond League on July 16, clocking 1:56.85 to win ahead of Uganda's Halima Nakaayi and Jamaica's Goulee-Touppin Natoya.

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The win saw the Kenyan rise to first place in the season's standings as she seeks to defend the title she won last year. She is yet to lose a race this season after recording a new national record earlier this month.

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In news related to the 2023 Diamond League, Sports Brief reported on South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk setting a new record at the meet in Silesia.

The athlete has struggled with injuries since the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil but appears to have found his form as he aims at a return to the top.