Olympic champion Wanyonyi runs 4th fastest 800 meters all-time in first major meet after Paris Games

Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi ran the fourth-fastest 800 meters time in history Thursday at the first major track meet after the Paris Games.

Wanyonyi clocked 1 minute, 41.11 seconds — 0.08 faster than his winning time in Paris two weeks ago — to tie Wilson Kipketer’s mark in 1997 that was a world record then. Only Wanyonyi’s fellow Kenyan David Rudisha has run the 800 faster.

It was a fast early start to the storied Athletissima meet as the global Diamond League circuit resumed after a pause for the Olympics.

Jakob Ingebrigtsen regained his authority in the men’s 1,500 — after a shocking fourth place in Paris — to beat Olympic champion Cole Hocker by more than two seconds.

In the men’s 200, Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo kept his form despite a return trip home to Botswana to win in 19.64 seconds easing into the line.

The standout performance was by the 20-year-old Wanyonyi, who surged past Marco Arop on the back straight and finished 0.61 clear of the Olympic silver medalist from Canada.

Wanyonyi was 0.20 off Rudisha’s world record of 1:40.91 set winning the first of his back-to-back Olympic titles in 2012 in London.

Ingebrigtsen’s winning time of 3:27.83 was a meet record in Lausanne though still would have been fast enough only for fourth place at the Olympics.

“For me, a lot of it has been mental including going home, taking some easy days and then getting back to work,” said Ingebrigtsen, who did win Olympic gold in the 5,000 . “Tonight’s race gave me good answers.”

Dina Asher-Smith won the women’s 100 clocking her season-best time of 10.88. That would have won a bronze medal in Paris where the British star failed to make the final.