Wednesday, December 25, 2024

London Diamond League: Paris 2024 athletes together with Noah Lyles compete earlier than Olympics

Caudery is constructing in direction of a shot at gold on her Olympic debut after claiming her first world title on the World Indoor Championships, and breaking the British file – that 4.92m clearance stays unmatched in 2024.

The 24-year-old comes up in opposition to joint world champions Nina Kennedy, of Australia, and American Katie Moon, whereas Switzerland’s Angelica Moser joined Kennedy in clearing 4.88m at final week’s Monaco Diamond League.

Heptathlon world champion Johnson-Thompson finalises her preparations earlier than looking for a primary Olympic medal by contesting the ladies’s lengthy leap, which additionally options British team-mate Jade O’Dowda and Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo.

There’s loads of British curiosity within the Emsley Carr Mile, with George Mills – set to double up over 1500m and 5,000m in Paris – Neil Gourley, Elliot Giles, Adam Fogg and Archie Davis all concerned.

Elsewhere, GB’s Alastair Chalmers goes up in opposition to Brazil’s former world champion Alison dos Santos within the males’s 400m hurdles, whereas the lads’s 3,000m contains Britons Ellis Cross, Jack Rowe, James West, Rory Leonard, Scott Beattie and Will Barnicoat.

People Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs go face to face in a males’s shot put that includes Scott Lincoln.

William Grimsey is joined by Olympic champion Mutaz Essa Barshim within the males’s excessive leap, and Bekah Walton contests the ladies’s javelin.

Dwelling athletes together with Eugene Amo-Dadzie and Imani-Lara Lansiquot might be in motion in British nationwide races earlier within the programme.

The day will even embody ambulant and wheelchair occasions because the Paris Paralympics strategy.

The wheelchair girls’s 800m options Britain’s seven-time Paralympic champion Hannah Cockroft, six-time Video games gold medallist David Weir is within the wheelchair males’s 1500m, whereas Sophie Hahn, winner of 9 world titles, contests the ambulant girls’s 100m.

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