A re-run of the Olympic males’s 1500m ultimate and the Duplantis vs Warholm 100m head-to-head are among the many highlights of this week’s star-studded occasion
They name it the two-hour Olympics. The Weltklasse in Zurich has been one of many prime grand prix conferences on the worldwide circuit for years. This week’s occasion – the penultimate Diamond League of 2024 – seems set to glitter as a lot as ever too.
Males’s 1500m – Olympic champion Cole Hocker takes on the minor medallists from Paris, Josh Kerr and Yared Nuguse, plus fourth-placed Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who has been in prime type because the Video games with a shocking world 3000m file in Poland final week. Elliot Giles, contemporary from a world street mile file, additionally runs, plus Niels Laros, Timothy Cheruiyot and extra. Set your alarm for 21:27 native time. Learn extra on the massive showdown right here.
Warholm vs Duplantis over 100m – this distinctive head-to-head sees the world 400m hurdles record-holder in opposition to the world pole vault record-holder. Their 100m skills appear properly matched however who will win this pleasant showdown? We’ll discover out on Wednesday night time on the Letzigrund Stadium. Extra on the massive head-to-head right here.
Karsten Warholm and Mondo Duplantis (Getty)
Pole vault high quality – the ladies’s occasion takes place on the principal prepare station on Wednesday (Sept 4), the day earlier than the principle Diamond League programme, that includes Olympic champion Nina Kennedy, Katie Moon, Sandi Morris, Alyshan Newman an Angelica Moser. The lads’s occasion with Mondo Duplantis, Sam Kendricks and extra is on Thursday (Sept 5).
Stacked ladies’s 100m – Olympic champion Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia takes on Brits Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita plus world champion Sha’Carri Richardson of america amongst others.
Dash hurdles showdowns – the ladies’s race on the Diamond League options Olympic champion Masai Russell, plus Deyynne Charlton, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Cyrena Samba-Mayela and Nadine Visser in an extra proof that the world’s prime hurdlers are by no means afraid to race one another. The lads’s race additionally options all of the Olympic medallists led by Grant Holloway.
Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Getty)
Ladies’s excessive leap – Olympic champion and world record-holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh has been one of many large stars of 2024 and he or she takes on Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson amongst others.
Males’s shot put – a top-class occasion sees the ever-consistent Ryan Crouser dealing with fellow American Joe Kovacs, Italian Leonaro Fabbri whereas Britain’s Scott Lincoln is within the line-up too.
Ryan Crouser (Getty)
Ladies’s 800m – no Keely Hodgkinson however Mary Moraa set a world 600m finest a number of days in the past and he or she is up in opposition to Olympic medallist Tsige Duguma plus Brits Jemma Reekie and Georgia Bell.
Males’s lengthy leap – A number of world champion Miltos Tentoglou will stat favorite however the Greek faces an excellent discipline that features Mattia Furlani of Italy, native favorite Simon Ehammer of Switzerland and Britain’s Jacob Fincham-Dukes.
Mattia Furlani, Miltos Tentoglou, Simon Ehammer (Getty)
Males’s 200m – look out for Letsile Tebogo to shine because the Botswanan Olympic champion is within the type of his life as he takes on Fred Kerley, Kenny Bednarek and Alexander Ogando.
There’s tons extra too comparable to a ladies’s 5000m that includes double Olympic champion Beatrice Chebet of Kenya, the boys’s javelin with Anderson Peters, Julian Weber and Julius Yego whereas Warholm goes within the 400m hurdles in opposition to Alison dos Santos.
Full entries and timetable right here.
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