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Middle-distance runner Cameron Myers has become only the eighth Australian to win a Diamond League final crown with victory in the men’s 1500m in Brussels.

The 20-year-old claimed one of the biggest wins of his career to date as he beat a star-studded field that included Olympic champions Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Cole Hocker to continue his own meteoric rise.

Myers timed a late burst down the home straight to perfection and dipped at the line to snatch victory in 3:30.14 ahead of Kenya’s Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech (3:30.18).

Ingebrigtsen, on the comeback trail after Achilles surgery in February, dictated the pace of the race and looked on course for a morale-boosting win before ​tiring on the last lap.

America’s Ethan Strand edged past the Norwegian in the final few steps to cross the line in 3:30.50 and round out the podium.

“I’m pretty relieved to be honest! It’s nice to get a win, I’m super pumped,” Myers said.​

“I was feeling good. I contemplated making a move on the back straight but I didn’t really need to, so I just waited as long as possible and a gap opened up and I was able to take it.

​“It’s pretty cool memorabilia to have a trophy like that.”

Pole vaulter Kurtis Marschall finished on the podium on Friday night after world record-holder and Olympic champion Armand Duplantis withdraw pre-competition.

​Marschall soared over 5.82m to finish in third place on countback behind Norway’s Sondre Guttormsen, while Germany’s Emmanouil Karalis claimed the event with a new meet record of 6.12m.

​“It’s another 5.80 and 5.80 doesn’t get enough credit,” Marschall said. “It’s still a hard bar to jump and if you do it when it counts, that’s what really matters.

​Lachlan Kennedy ran his fifth sub-10 second 100m of 2026 when flashing to fourth place in 9.99sec (+0.1), finishing just 0.02s off the podium.

​Racing from lane one, the Commonwealth champion returned to top form as the race was won by Jamaica’s reigning world champion Oblique Seville in 9.90s.

​“Under 10 seconds again in objectively not the best conditions,” Kennedy said. “The crowd was good, the field was good and it was a close race.

​“It’s high stakes and not good conditions, but they are the same for everyone else.”

​Discus thrower Matthew Denny was another Australian to finish one position shy of the podium as he ended his 2026 campaign with a 68.04m.

Denny’s throw was less than a metre short of the podium which was topped by Slovenia’s Kristjan Ceh with a meet record of 71.29m.

​Commonwealth champion Rose Davies also just missed the podium in the women’s 5,000m, clocking 14:37.47 in the race won by Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu in 14:35.20.

​Fellow Australians Georgia Griffith was sixth in 14:38.69 and Linden Hall finished in 10th with a personal best time of 14:40.62.