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Molly Caudery leads British entries within the Doha Diamond League

Pole vaulter is joined by Amber Anning, Jemma Reekie and others within the Qatari capital on Friday

Molly Caudery will open her summer season season on the Wanda Diamond League in Doha on Friday (Might 16) when she takes on Olympic medallists Katie Moon of the US and Alysha Newman of Canada amongst others.

Caudery, the 2024 world indoor champion, faces a troublesome subject in Qatar which additionally contains Sandi Morris of the US.

A few months after profitable the world indoor 400m title in Nanjing, Amber Anning faces 2019 world champion Salwa Eid Naser, European indoor champion Lieke Klaver of the Netherlands and fellow Brit Laviai Nielsen.

Amber Anning (Getty)

Different Brits in motion embody Amy Hunt in a ladies’s 100m that sees a number of international gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica taking up fellow Jamaicans Natasha Morrison, Tia Clayton and Tina Clayton along with Swiss sprints star Mujinga Kambundji within the ladies’s 100m.

Jemma Reekie races within the 1500m in opposition to Kenyans Susan Ejore and Nelly Chepchirchir plus Adelle Tracey of Jamaica.

Lawrence Okoye is a part of a robust males’s discus line-up that features Matt Denny – the Australian who went No.2 on the world all-time record with 74.78m throw in Ramona in April – along with former world champions, Daniel Stahl of Sweden and Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia.

Lawrence Okoye (Getty)

Okoye lately improved the British report to 70.76m, additionally in Ramona.

Elsewhere the Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo returns to his No.1 occasion as he faces Aaron Brown of Canada and Individuals Courtney Lindsey and Kyree King plus US-based South African Shaun Maswanganyi.

All eyes might be on the boys’s excessive bounce, too, with Olympic excessive bounce champion Hamish Kerr as he takes on Qatari star Mutaz Barshim, the joint 2021 Olympic champion.

There may be additionally a top-class males’s javelin with Neeraj Chopra of India going through Jakub Vadlejch of Czechia, Anderson Peters of Grenada, Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobagho, Julian Weber of Germany and Julius Yego of Kenya.

Thea LaFond (Getty)

The ladies’s triple bounce, in the meantime, options Olympic champion Thea LaFond of Dominica and Olympic silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts of Jamaica, plus world lengthy bounce champion Ivana Spanovic of Serbia, however it is going to be lacking Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk after the Ukrainian was suspended for breaking anti-doping guidelines.

Entries, timetable and outcomes right here.

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