Cornelius Kemboi capped his 2026 Diamond League campaign in style, powering to a podium finish in the men’s 5000m final in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday, 5 September.Download our Mozzart Sport app for more newsThe Kenyan produced a personal-best performance of 12:47.29 to finish third in a thrilling race won by Bahrain’s Birhanu Balew in a world-leading 12:45.70.Burundi’s Egide Ntakarutimana finished second in 12:46.73, setting a national record, as Kemboi led the Kenyan contingent across the line.Wanyonyi cements legacy with historic fourth Diamond League 800m titleThe podium finish marked another step forward for Kemboi, who has steadily improved throughout the outdoor season.He opened his campaign with a 35th-place finish at the Sirikwa Classic Cross Country in Eldoret before moving to the roads, where he placed fourth in the 10km Urban Trail de Lille in April in 27:12.Back on the track, Kemboi won the 5000m at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi in 13:09.31 before recording a fifth-place finish in the 3000m in Shaoxing and eighth in the 5000m in Xiamen.##NAJAVA_MECA_9936891##He continued to make his mark over 5000m, finishing 10th in Oslo in 12:56.02, second at the Commonwealth Games Trials, eighth in Paris and fifth in Monaco.Kemboi then finished fourth in the 5000m at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, before taking fifth in Lausanne, Switzerland, setting the stage for his breakthrough performance in Brussels.Krop finishes seventhJacob Krop also put up a solid showing in the final, finishing seventh in a season-best 12:51.23.Cherotich outduels strong field to claim third consecutive Diamond League titleKrop had enjoyed a busy 2026 campaign, beginning indoors with runner-up finishes over 3000m in Karlsruhe and Liévin before finishing fourth at the World Indoor Championships in Toruń.Outdoors, he placed third in the 5000m at the Kip Keino Classic and later finished second in Paris in 12:55.22, one of his strongest performances of the season.He also finished fourth in Monaco before placing 14th in Lausanne.##NAJAVA_MECA_9936760##Reynold Cheruiyot completed the Kenyan contingent in Brussels, finishing 10th in 13:22.24.Cheruiyot's season has largely centred on the 1500m, although he has also shown considerable versatility across longer distances.He opened the year with fourth place in the Cross-Country Relay at the World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Tallahassee before winning the 2km loop at the Sirikwa Classic.The 22-year-old subsequently posted a series of strong 1500m and 3000m performances, including a runner-up finish over 3000m in Shaoxing in 7:26.11.Shame as another Kenyan athlete is handed lengthy doping banHe also finished second at the Commonwealth Games Trials, fifth in Paris and fourth in the 1500m at the Silesia Diamond League before stepping up to the 5000m in Brussels.Ewoi delivers another big performanceEarlier, Dorcus Ewoi produced one of the evening's standout performances, finishing second in the women's 1500m final in a blistering personal best of 3:54.72.The world 1500m silver medallist pushed Poland's Klaudia Kazimierska all the way but had to settle for silver as the Polish athlete stormed to victory in a world-leading, national and meeting-record 3:54.05.##NAJAVA_MECA_9936769##Kazimierska's winning mark erased Faith Kipyegon's previous Brussels meeting record of 3:54.75, set in 2024.Ewoi, however, was just 0.67 seconds off the winning time and improved her personal best in the process.Australia's Jessica Hull completed the podium in 3:54.73, just one hundredth of a second behind Ewoi, while Great Britain's Georgia Hunter Bell finished fourth in 3:56.40.
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