Fresh off his silver medal at the Paris Olympics, Canada's Marco Arop returned to the track and finished second in the men's 800-metre event on Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland.
In a rematch of Paris, Olympic champion Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi was able to hold off Arop down the stretch, this time with a more sizeable margin.
Wanyonyi finished in a world-leading, and personal-best time of one minute 41.11 seconds in the non-official Diamond League event.
It was also the fourth-fastest 800m time in history. Arop, 25, ended his race in 1:41.72, and France's Gabriel Tual placed third in 1:42.30. WATCH | Arop crosses the line in 2nd: At the Paris Olympics, Edmonton's Arop stopped the clock in a Canadian-record time of 1:41.20.
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