Canada’s Shawn Barber finishes fourth in Diamond League pole vault

RABAT, Morocco — Canada’s Shawn Barber cleared 5.60 metres to finish fourth in the pole vault at the Rabat Diamond League meet on Friday.

Barber, who won the world championships in 2015, is coming off a Canadian championship victory last weekend in Ottawa that saw him set a meet record.

American Sam Kendricks cleared 5.86 to win.

Brittany Crew of Toronto threw 18.25 metres to finish fifth in the women’s shot put in her Diamond League debut. Germany’s Christina Schwanitz won with a toss of 19.40.

And Matt Hughes of Oshawa, Ont., ran eight minutes 13.13 seconds to finish fifth in the men’s 3,000-metre steeplechase. His time was less than two seconds off his Canadian record of 8:11.64 he set in 2013.

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Kenya’s Benjamin Kigen ran a world-leading 8:06.19 to win Friday’s steeplechase.

The Canadian Press