{"id":766969,"date":"2026-06-29T03:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766969\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T03:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:29:14","slug":"athletics-paris-diamond-league-news-results-2026-australias-cameron-myers-win-race-breaks-national-1500m-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766969\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics, Paris Diamond League news, results 2026: Australia\u2019s Cameron Myers win race, breaks national 1500m record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of all the scintillating runs Cameron Myers<\/a> has produced, his latest has to take top billing.<\/p>\n

Myers, who only turned 20 this month, notched up a crushing win over 1500 metres at the Paris Diamond League<\/a> on Monday (AEST) \u2013 and claimed the Australian record in the process.<\/p>\n

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Cameron Myers in Paris.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Come the bell, the Canberra product had shaken off everyone in the field bar local hope Azeddine Habz.<\/p>\n

By the time he\u2019d hit 200m to go, the result was a foregone conclusion.<\/p>\n

Myers powered into overdrive on the back straight to dispatch the Frenchman and charged away to win in 3:28:00, finishing comfortably clear of Habz (3:29.80) and Great Britain\u2019s Jake Wightman (3:29.95). Wightman is a former 1500m world champion.<\/p>\n

Myers broke the national record of 3:29.41 set by Commonwealth Games gold medallist Olli Hoare in 2023.<\/p>\n

He also ran the fastest 1500m time in the world this year, although that was a mantle he already held.<\/p>\n

It was a statement run less than a month out from the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, beginning on July 23.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting the Australian record means so much because obviously Olli and Stewy [McSweyn, the previous record holder] were athletes that I looked up to a lot growing up,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just mental. It\u2019s nice to finally tick it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew I had something good in my legs, so I\u2019m glad I was able to show it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving that exterior pressure on yourself to get a time takes away from the main part of the race, which is winning. It\u2019s going to be huge for me going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sarah Billings broke the Australian 800m record at the Paris Diamond League.<\/p>\n

The Melburnian finished sixth in 1:57.01 to take down the 1:57.15 run by Olympic silver medallist Jessica Hull<\/a> at the Tokyo world athletics championships last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe depth of middle distance in Australia is insane, so to run an Australian record when all the other girls are flying is just so exciting,\u201d Billings said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in my early 20s, I was doubting whether I was an 800m runner or not. It\u2019s nice to have kept with it because it used to be a scary event for me, but now I have heaps of fun doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hull reshared an Oceania Athletics Instagram post of Billings\u2019 record-breaking run, congratulating her and writing: \u201cIt was only a matter of time!!!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of all the scintillating runs Cameron Myers has produced, his latest has to take top billing. Myers, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-766969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}