On September 10, Beijing time, in the men's 400 meters of the Athletics Federation Diamond League Finals, 26-year-old American star Cherry finally beat the London Olympic champion, 29-year-old Granada star James, ran out of 44.41 seconds to win the championship, James fell behind 0.01 seconds to the runner-up, the world record holder Van Nieckeck missed the finals, Cherry is the best flyer in the United States 400 meters this year, Brussels station set a personal best of 44.03 seconds, ranking fifth in the world this season.
Tokyo Olympic champions and runners-up Gardner and Zambrano also missed the finals, with James, who finished third in the Olympics, and Cherry, who finished fourth in the Olympics, became the two main players who attracted much attention in the finals, and their last meeting was in Brussels, where Cherry beat James in 44.03 seconds and beat James in 44.51 seconds.
James made a quick adjustment to the impact of the championship, the first 200 meters are still very fierce, into the 300 meters to 400 meters of the curve, the speed began to decline, Cherry at this time to accelerate, into the 100 meters straight to overtake James, the last 50 meters sprint James did not continue to pull away like Brussels Station, maintain a strong sprint to continuously narrow the gap with Cherry, the two are very close, almost at the same time across the finish line, and finally fell heavily on the track, you can see that they reached their respective limits.
Cherry laughed to the end, although the result did not open 44 seconds, but still had a thrill to win the Finals trophy, James 44.42 seconds to get runners-up, a notch away from the 43.88 season best, Trinidad and Tobago's Landry won the third place in 44.81 seconds, the Olympic men's and women's 4×400m relay bronze medalist, the United States Norwood won the fourth place in 44.84 seconds, and the veteran Mark Walla 45.41 sixth place.
Although Cherry is not the most talented American 400-meter flyer, but the most stable American 400-meter star this year, the Olympics won the fourth place, only 0.02 seconds away from the bronze medal, a total of 14 times this season into 45 seconds, including 4 times to refresh the personal best, improved to near the 44-second mark of 44 seconds 03, 26 years old is at its peak, next year's season Cherry is expected to run into the 44-second mark. Although Norman, another American player, has 43 seconds and 45pb, and the Olympic play anomaly won the fifth place, he is still not a big competition player, and perhaps it is more suitable for him to emulate Coley to practice 100 meters.
29-year-old South African king Van Nikek is the 43.03 seconds world record holder, but also the Rio Olympic champion and two-time World Championship champion, was expected to continue to create glory, in the honor of the competition surpassed Michael Johnson, but destroyed in a rugby game, seriously injured knee, strength returned to less than 44 seconds peak, this year's personal best 44.56 seconds ranked 12th in the world, the Olympics stopped in the semifinals, however, Van Niceck is full of confidence in himself, the most recent interview said that he is not far from the peak, next year's Eugene World Championships, Whether Van Nikek can prove his return of the king with brilliant results, let us wait and see.