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Ian Chadband

Jess Hull breaks Australian mile record in London

Jess Hull has improved her own Australian mile record at the London Diamond League meeting. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

Jess Hull has gone record hunting again, smashing her own Australian and Oceanian mile marks but still having to settle for second best at a star-studded Diamond League meeting in London.

While Hull and high jumper Eleanor Patterson grabbed runners-up spots at the London Stadium to lead the Australian challenge in front of a 60,000 full house on Saturday, it also proved a landmark day for Newcastle's Rose Davies who obliterated her own national and Oceanian 5000m marks while finishing third.

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